Conference: 2018-09-24

606 cases — 2 granted, 604 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-96 Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Russell F. Thomas, Executive Director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response Waived dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce liquor-regulation liquor-sales residency-requirement residency-requirements retail-licenses retail-licensing state-licensing twenty-first-amendment wholesale-licenses wholesale-licensing Whether the Twenty-first Amendment empowers States, consistent with the dormant Commerce Clause, to regulate liquor sales by granting retail or wholes… 31.5
18-162 Elzie Ball, et al. v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived air-conditioning constitutional-remedies constitutional-remedy eighth-amendment heat-index judicial-relief plra plra-restrictions prison-conditions prospective-relief remedies The Question Presented is whether the PLRA's tailoring requirement prohibits a district court from ordering a prison to maintain a maximum heat index … 13.5
18-17 Rodney Keister v. Stuart Bell, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (2) 1st-amendment campus-speech civil-rights college-campus constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech public-forum public-sidewalk public-street sidewalk sidewalk-access sidewalk-restrictions Except in the unique setting of a military installation, this Court has never held that a public sidewalk running alongside a public street was anythi… 12.5
18-40 Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici… 12.5
18-54 William A. Dabbs, Jr. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Maryland Denied Amici (2) development-exaction dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process koontz-v-st-johns-river-water-management-district land-use land-use-development land-use-regulation legislative-exactions legislative-taking monetary-exaction nollan-v-california-coastal-commission permit-conditions property-rights takings takings-clause unconstitutional-conditions Whether legislatively proscribed monetary exactions on land use development are subject to scrutiny under the unconstitutional conditions doctrine as … 12.5
18-1 C. G. v. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, et al. New Jersey Denied federal-statute health-care-quality-improvement-act hospital-immunity immunity medical-reporting patient-care preemption professional-review state-law To what extent does the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ("HCQIA"), 42 U.S.C. § 11101 et seq. , preempt state laws governing a hosp… 10.5
18-174 Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. Nebraska Denied arbitrability-delegation arbitration arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility judicial-hostility-to-arbitration preemption state-law substantive-law "Congress adopted the [Federal] Arbitration Act in 1925" because "courts were unduly hostile to arbitration." Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 161… 10.5
18-175 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. California Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont 1. Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read, consistent with the Federal Arbitration… 10.5
18-83 Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice 1. Whether, in the context of a facial challenge to a federal-officer removal, a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, as … 10.5
18M17 Sealed Appellee v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None 10.5
18-130 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana Denied Response Waived direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-conflict summary-denial trevino-v-thaler Whether the Indiana Supreme Court correctly concluded that Indiana's procedures governing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised on … 8.5
18-144 Keith Byron Baranski v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility After being released from custody following a conspiracy conviction, Keith Baranski challenged his conviction by filing a petition for writ of error c… 8.5
18-160 Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-violation civil-rights-violations due-process first-amendment hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion pre-filing-order prosecutorial-acts prosecutorial-misconduct Did this Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion when acting as prosecutors of Kinney by issuing a global pre-filing review order only 22 days after … 8.5
18-179 John Goodman v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split (including the Florida appellate court of last resort … 8.5
18-189 Smartflash LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause covered-business-method-review due-process patent-eligibility patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers 1. Whether Administrative Patent Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") are principal Officers of the United States who must be appoint… 8.5
18-20 Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.… 8.5
18-43 Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? 8.5
18-10 Stephen J. Anderson, et ux. v. Gary L. Rainsdon, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit Denied appeal-time-limits appeals bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7-bankruptcy civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation time-to-appeal united-states-officer Whether a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee is "a United States officer or employee sued in an official capacity" for the purposes of Fed. R. App. 4(a)(1)(… 5.5
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction 1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co… 5.5
18-19 Republic of Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, et al. v. BAE Systems Solution & Services, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied arms-export-control-act civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-15 contract-law foreign-military-sales foreign-sovereign-immunities-act national-security sovereign-immunity united-states-contractors 1. Whether the court of appeals' blanket invalidation of contracts between United States contractors and foreign governments that relate to contemplat… 5.5
18-22 Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey Second Circuit Denied civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment 1. Whether the Magistrate Judge erred as a matter of law in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict when (a) both parties' experts agreed th… 5.5
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release … 5.5
18-24 Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company Seventh Circuit Denied appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco… 5.5
18-26 Pepi Schafler v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. Second Circuit Denied bank-securities character-defamation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud fraud judicial-bias judicial-misconduct standing stock-theft theft Whether the corrupt and criminal Bank of America Securities, now retitled as Merrill Lynch et a!, in conspiracy with liars, gangsters, criminals, and … 5.5
18-27 Estate of Juanita Jackson, et al. v. Rubin Schron Eleventh Circuit Denied all-writs-act bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction consent injunctive-relief judicial-authority jurisdiction non-core-proceedings permanent-injunction state-law-claims Can bankruptcy courts use the All Writs Act to expand their jurisdiction and authority beyond the confines of the Bankruptcy Code? And if so, can they… 5.5
18-28 Robert J. Balding v. Sunbelt Steel Texas, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied ada-protections adverse-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination family-and-medical-leave-act family-medical-leave-act fmla-rights pretext protected-leave retaliation workplace-retaliation Whether an employer violates an employee's FMLA or ADA rights by interfering with, retaliating against, denying accommodations, and taking adverse act… 5.5
18-3 Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Sixth Circuit Denied alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation 1) Labor Management Relations Act Section 302(e) grants federal courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of the statute. 29 U.S.C. § 186(e). The Cou… 5.5
18-34 Pablo San Martin v. Florida Florida Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen… 5.5
18-41 Micheline Baptiste v. Shrusan Gray Florida Denied access-to-courts bodily-injuries civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process florida-supreme-court free-speech government-redress judicial-review jurisdiction petition-clause petition-for-redress pro-se-petition standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether Florida Supreme Court holds authority to dismiss petition by Petitioner, the unrepresented party, to review orders of the Seventeenth Judicial… 5.5
18-45 David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C… 5.5
18-47 Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. Eleventh Circuit Denied extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce 1. What defines the "substantial effect on United States commerce", that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial… 5.5
18-6 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al. Oklahoma Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-sovereignty due-process federal-power federalism federalism-principles government-structure legal-remedy separation-of-powers state-jurisdiction state-sovereignty union Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereig… 5.5
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent This Court has jurisdiction to determine federal constitutional issues that have been incorrectly decided by State courts of last resort. Mr. Ross rai… 5.5
18-70 William H. Cosby, Jr. v. Janice Dickinson California Denied attorney-client attorney-speech attorney-statements california-court-of-appeal client-representation constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment first-amendment-protection free-speech milkovich public-accusations public-figure third-circuit Whether, contrary to the decision of the California Court of Appeal, an attorney's statement denying wrongdoing on behalf of a client who has been pub… 5.5
18-88 Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company Federal Circuit GVR certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure In light of SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate, and remand the Federal Circuit's decision… 5.5
18-90 Colonial School District v. Rena C. Third Circuit Denied abuse-of-discretion attorney-fees buckhannon-board-and-care-home buckhannon-rule catalyst-theory disabilities-education frivolous-litigation individuals-with-disabilities-education-act-2004 individuals-with-disabilities-education-improvemen pierce-v-underwood plenary-review settlement-offer Respondent, Rena C., filed a fee petition in district court. Finding that Rena C. "was not justified in ignoring and rejecting" Petitioner, Colonial S… 5.5
18-97 Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC California Denied clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics Whether a drug company which is medically monitoring the participants of its drug study has a duty under federal regulations to exercise its independe… 5.5
18M1 Father v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maine Granted None 5.5
18M10 Inyang Peter Oduok v. Julie E. Carnes, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M11 Carlton I. Charles v. Sandy McCain, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M12 Cynthia R. v. The Children's Aid Society New York Denied None 5.5
18M13 Tommie Lee Henderson v. VIP Taxi LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M14 Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States First Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M15 William Carl York v. Social Security Administration Fourth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M16 Claude Thelemaque v. United States Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M18 Melissa Black v. Larimer County, Colorado Tenth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M19 Daniel Jones v. Frank A. Sedita, III, et al. Second Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M2 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M20 Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M21 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M22 John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M23 M. E. D. v. New Jersey New Jersey Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M24 Luisa G. Montoya v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida Denied None 5.5
18M25 Bani Moreno v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M26 Jamillo Donte Spight v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M27 Jerome Curtis Garrett v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M28 Coleco Tayloe Best v. Timothy Kimble, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M29 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO, et al. Third Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M3 Jaelen Wright v. Thomas Nelson Community College, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M30 Edward Scott Phillips v. Dawn LeAnn Phillips Illinois Denied None 5.5
18M31 John Henson v. Darren Griem Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M32 Marlene Fearing v. United States Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M33 Jeffrey Lynn Chronister v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina Denied None 5.5
18M34 Hector Medina v. United States Second Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M35 Cheryl Lynn Jossie v. CVS Pharmacy Eleventh Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M36 Harvey Eugene Larson v. Barbara J. Wallace, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M37 Juan Carlos Ocasio v. Merit Systems Protection Board District of Columbia Denied None 5.5
18M38 Charles Howard, III v. United States Third Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M4 Walter L. Wagner, et al. v. United States Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M5 Kenton W. Stephens v. Alliant Techsystems Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M6 Barbara E. Brown v. Daven T. Wellman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M7 Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M8 Jason K. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maine Granted None 5.5
18M9 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18-191 John Cassidy v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-possession heller home-firearm-rights home-possession intermediate-scrutiny interstate-firearm-transfer mcdonald presumptively-lawful-restrictions scrutiny-standard second-amendment state-restrictions strict-scrutiny Private, in home possession of firearms and the 'core' of The Second Amendment's meaning post Heller and McDonald has been largely left open to the va… 4.5
18-46 City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney Second Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… 4.5
18-101 Patrick Jon Evers v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation Can false representations be "material" for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor … 3.5
18-102 Stacey White, et vir v. Joseph Foster, et al. New Hampshire Denied Response Waived animal-cruelty civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-discretion prosecutorial-discretion standing veterinary-malpractice victim-rights 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution gives victims of crimes committed by veterinarians standing to seek the same pro… 3.5
18-103 Nathalie Thuy Van v. Language Line LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived court-impartiality disqualification-requirement due-process fraud fraud-upon-court fraudulent-court-records impartiality judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-fraud procedural-irregularities seventh-circuit supreme-court-review void-orders I. Whether the Court of Appeals made a decision with respect to the disqualification requirement that conflict with past United States Supreme . Court… 3.5
18-11 Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… 3.5
18-111 Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as… 3.5
18-117 Brian Grimm v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review 1. When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, in accordance with Florida v.… 3.5
18-120 Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American … 3.5
18-123 In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights 1. In a case challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of legislative districts, may a district judge, sitting alone, decide a motion to … 3.5
18-126 Paul Grimstad v. Deschutes County, Oregon, et al. Oregon Denied Response Waived citizenship-privileges constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure oregon-appellate-courts right-to-petition self-representation state-court-procedure While appealing an Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals decision in the Oregon Appellate Courts, I, Paul Grimstad, have experienced several abuses of my c… 3.5
18-13 Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c… 3.5
18-131 Troy Lyndon v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority agency-enforcement civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion settlement-agreement Did the District Court err in allowing an agency of the United States to contest and withhold exculpatory evidence when prosecuting a civil enforcemen… 3.5
18-133 Teddy Moore v. Christopher Bramwell, et al. New York Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-arrest impartial-judiciary judicial-misconduct jury-trial malicious-prosecution state-court-jurisdiction state-court-review Whether the State Supreme Court of King County NY, The Supreme court appellate division second NY, and the Court of Appeal of the state of New York, v… 3.5
18-134 Jennifer Perkins v. US Airways, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) benefits-denial current-employment-status erisa health-benefits medicare-as-secondary-payer medicare-secondary-payer plan-documents summary-judgment unreasonable-denial-of-benefits Petitioner has been continuously employed as a flight attendant with Respondent US Airways, Inc. (US Air), a member of the flight attendants' union, a… 3.5
18-135 New Products Corporation v. Thomas R. Tibble, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-code-section-704 bankruptcy-trustee-duty estate-property estate-property-protection gross-negligence lien-valuation negligence property-abandonment property-damage secured-creditor secured-creditor-rights Does a trustee's duty to be accountable for all estate property continue for all estate property which the trustee has chosen not to abandon and is th… 3.5
18-137 Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection Is the application of the relevant personnel rules of the District of Columbia, including the Abolishment and D.C. Whistleblowers Acts (DCWPA) by the … 3.5
18-140 In Re Cliven Bundy Denied Response Waived attorney-admission civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech judicial-error legal-admission mootness ninth-circuit pro-hac-vice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions standing Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the erroneous denial of Mr. Larry Klayman's ("Mr. Klayman") admission pro hac vice in the U.S. District… 3.5
18-141 Allana Baroni v. CIT Bank N.A., fka OneWest Bank FSB, fka OneWest Bank NA Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11-usc-501 bankruptcy bankruptcy-creditor bankruptcy-procedure blank-indorsement burden-of-proof chapter-11 creditor creditor-rights deed-of-trust federal-rules-bankruptcy-procedure federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure promissory-note standing When a party to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case contends it can enforce the terms of promissory note and deed of trust, can it prove it is a "creditor" e… 3.5
18-145 Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… 3.5
18-146 Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived ' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children Does the harmless-error rule apply to clearly erroneous findings of fact if a district court expressly based its credibility determinations (and its u… 3.5
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO PERMIT… 3.5
18-155 James H. Brady v. Associated Press Telecom, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived accountability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-interference due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct media media-liability press-freedom standing takings 1. Was it wrong and a direct conflict with this Court when the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court Decision that stated that News Agencies ha… 3.5
18-159 Angela D. Clack v. United Services Automobile Association Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 9-usc-4 arbitration-agreement arbitration-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process eeoc-claims failure-neglect-refusal-to-arbitrate federal-arbitration-act federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction motion-to-compel standing statutory-trial title-vii Whether a federal court can exercise jurisdiction to compel arbitration based solely on the existence of an arbitration agreement, without a finding o… 3.5
18-163 James P. Teufel v. The Northern Trust Company, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived accrued-benefits age-discrimination compensation defined-benefit-plan disparate-impact disparate-impact-theory employee-protection erisa-anti-cutback-rule pension-benefits pension-plan-changes Does an employer violate ERISA's anti-cutback rule by amending its defined benefit plan in a manner that freezes the promised growth of previously-acc… 3.5
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity 1. Should the Court resolve the split of authority among the Circuits about whether and when the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporat… 3.5
18-180 Jesus E. Tirrez v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof disbarment disbarment-proceedings due-process equal-protection in-re-ruffalo professional-license professional-licenses quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-proceeding Rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of Texas decree that disbarment proceedings against attorneys are civil and that the burden of proof in those p… 3.5
18-190 Queen's University at Kingston v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process enablement inter-partes-review patent-invalidity prior-art Does the Federal Circuit's requirement that patent owners negate enablement of prior art in the first instance invert the statutory burden of proving … 3.5
18-193 John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation… 3.5
18-196 Francis Supeno, et al. v. Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Vermont Denied Response Waived administrative-penalty administrative-procedure appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process environmental-regulations fourth-amendment notice penalties property-access property-rights regulatory-criteria regulatory-enforcement 1. Whether the assessment of a penalty, in a proceeding entirely separate from and subsequent to a hearing on the underlying merits, constitutes a den… 3.5
18-199 Ken Liang v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doj-investigation due-process government-misconduct jury-trial jury-trial-waiver material-witness obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct reverse-sting Is it an Obstruction of Justice, when an individual obstructs an oppressive DOJ investigation, when, the alleged crime to be investigated was not a cr… 3.5
18-202 Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States First Circuit 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, by executing a pre-sentence waiver of the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence, implicitly waives his right to… 3.5
18-208 New Products Corporation, et al. v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure costs-of-compliance court-order court-sanctions discovery federal-rules-civil-procedure non-party-costs non-party-subpoena rule-45 sanctions subpoena subpoena-compliance (1) Whether, as the Sixth Circuit held, Rule 45(d)(2)(B)(ii) entitles a non-party to recover all "significant fees" it incurs (including attorney fees… 3.5
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation 1. Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding… 3.5
18-216 Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour… 3.5
18-219 Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Whether Judge Grimm deprived the Appellant of leave to re-open a case to engage in 18 U.S.C. § 1519 Sarbanes Oxley Concealment of his use of the prest… 3.5
18-221 Carl Mouton v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response Waived compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence WHETHER APPLICATION OF THE ARKANSAS RAPE SHIELD RULE AND STATUTE TO PREVENT MOUTON FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE OF A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ACCUS… 3.5
18-23 Edward R. Stolz, dba Royce International Broadcasting Company v. Federal Communications Commission District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process fcc fcc-ruling fifth-amendment interlocutory-judgment judicial-review mootness reversionary-interest telecommunications-act 1. Whether the FCC violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process when it enforced section 405(a) of the Telecommunications Act, which bot… 3.5
18-236 Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force (1) Whether under a qualified immunity analysis there existed clearly established precedent that taking down Weddle when he had surrendered, posed no … 3.5
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret After a full trial, the bankruptcy court rejected as unreliable the evidence purporting to assert a "lost asset" model of damages in a trade-secret mi… 3.5
18-264 New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… 3.5
18-30 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis In an application for a writ of error coram nobis should it be denied based on an unintentional time delay (where laches was not an issue) and the del… 3.5
18-31 Joel Beck v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-claims mortgage motion-to-dismiss pro-se pro-se-plaintiff procedural-dismissal rule-12(b)(6) standing state-law supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether a pro se Plaintiff's pleading of plausible state law claims, including an allegation that, if true, would stop a pending foreclosure of his… 3.5
18-32 Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc., et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-competitive anti-competitive-behavior antitrust antitrust-law clayton-act competition economic-harm illegal-activity market-competition market-power marketplace-presence monopolization predatory predatory-conduct predatory-pricing sherman-act unfair-competition 1. When is an illegal presence in the marketplace predatory, anti-competitive and threatens to harm competition and not solely competitors? 2. Does t… 3.5
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine. 3.5
18-4 Samuel Giancarlo, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived amendment amendment-request civil-procedure class-action dismissal due-process judicial-discretion litigation-delay manifest-injustice motion-to-dismiss pleading-standards procedural-errors securities-litigation standing Does manifest injustice result from the errors associated with the district court's dismissal of Petitioners' complaint, the errors of the appellate c… 3.5
18-44 Julia Kwok, et al. v. Mingo Energy, LLC Oklahoma Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment homestead homestead-property judicial-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure notice notice-requirements oklahoma-law oklahoma-power-of-sale-mortgage-foreclosure-act property-rights The question presented for review is whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosu… 3.5
18-5 Dennis Riley v. Ohio Washington Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the court of appeals erroneously ruled that a defendant is not entitled to impeachment or exculpatory evidence if he pleads guilty at any s… 3.5
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court This is a call for the Court to exercise its supervisory power over the lower courts: Specifically, this case seeks review of the Eighth Circuit Court… 3.5
18-52 Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise v. LWRC International, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-100 35-usc-281 patent-assignment patent-fraud patent-infringement patent-law patent-royalties patent-standing patent-uniformity The plain language of 35 U.S.C. § 100 (d) identifies a "patentee" as "to whom the patent was issued but also the successors in title to the patentee."… 3.5
18-53 Lance Dillard, aka Double v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial internet-access internet-publicity judicial-controls juror-misconduct jury-instructions prejudicial-publicity sixth-amendment Whether the judicial controls utilized in a criminal trial were so constitutionally inadequate to deter or prevent jurors from accessing prejudicial p… 3.5
18-55 Digital Ally, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law commercial-bribery government-procurement governmental-purchases noerr-pennington-doctrine robinson-patman-act sherman-act In a case of first impression, the District Court held that since the sales in question were to "governmental" purchasers, Noerr-Pennington immunized … 3.5
18-57 Gerald E. Vallejos v. Lovelace Medical Center, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity misprision-of-felony obstruction-of-justice section-1983 standing statutory-standing 42 U.S.C. § 1983, allows a person whose constitutional rights have been deprived to bring an action to redress the constitutional deprivation. Article… 3.5
18-58 Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by not suppressing the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure of the Appellant in violation of Appella… 3.5
18-59 Eduardo Pineiro Perez, et al. v. BP, P.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived class-action class-action-rule-23 district-court-dismissal docket-management federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure multi-district-litigation multi-plaintiff multi-plaintiff-lawsuits procedural-rights rule-23 shady-grove shady-grove-v-allstate supreme-court Based on a case management and administrative order, PTO 60, which permitted only single plaintiff lawsuits, the district court dismissed with prejudi… 3.5
18-60 Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota North Dakota Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause… 3.5
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S. C. §2254 where the child is suffering a s… 3.5
18-63 Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing Whether by failing to clarify and update internet widespread dissemination access guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual prop… 3.5
18-65 David Aronstein, et al. v. Thompson Creek Metals Company, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure corporate-misrepresentation disclosure disclosure-requirements due-process investor-communications material-omission materiality sec sec-disclosure securities-law securities-regulation securities-regulation-sec united-states-v-ohagan The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), through its regulatory releases under Item 303, has defined the circumstances under whic… 3.5
18-68 Marie Conforto v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-government judicial-discretion notice procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte 1. Whether an appeals court deciding a case sua sponte, without hearing or any other chance for the Appellant to respond, is a violation of due proces… 3.5
18-69 Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, … 3.5
18-71 Bernard T. Canete v. Barnabas Health System, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived age-discrimination civil-rights employment-act hostile-work-environment military-status military-status-discrimination national-origin-discrimination race-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether there was engagement in abuse of discretion and misapplication of the summary judgment standard at the District Court which was adopted by … 3.5
18-72 DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing 1. Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to su… 3.5
18-74 Danica Zovko, et al. v. National Credit Union Administration Board Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses banking-law civil-procedure credit-union d-oench-duhme-doctrine d'oench-duhme-doctrine evidence federal-law financial-regulation fraud liquidation ncuab statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations 1. Does this Court's holding in D'Oench, Duhme & Co., Inc. v. FDIC permit the NCUAB to ignore proper evidence, statutes of limitations, affirmative de… 3.5
18-75 Jian Long Dong, aka Jian Rong Dong v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General Second Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
18-76 Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors (1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs… 3.5
18-8 Samuel Cohen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing Question not identified. 3.5
18-80 Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence. Whether the Federal Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court… 3.5
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am 1. Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict. 2. Whether the Double Jeopardy Cl… 3.5
18-85 Pamela B. Stuart v. Catherine S. Ryan, et al. Florida Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-remedies due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights state-court-decisions state-courts takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause applies to the decisions of state courts, and, if so, under what circumstances may this Court review and remedy state judic… 3.5
18-87 Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. Minnesota Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute 1) Is a litigant denied due process in the primary sense of having an opportunity to present his case when a state's highest court overrules a consist… 3.5
18-91 Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability Whether, in cases where a defendant or its agent has created the dangerous condition that causes injury, a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case sho… 3.5
18-94 Augusta Thomas, Jr. v. Delmarva Power & Light Company Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-shifting civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-law mixed-motive race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Whether the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework should be applied at the summary judgment stage of a mixed-motive Title VII race discrimina… 3.5
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… 0.5
18-5065 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst … 0.5
18-5096 Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm 1. Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must, as the Sixth Circuit requires, "prove" with "scientific evide… 0.5
18-5330 Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review 1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… 0.5
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… 0.5
18-5472 In Re Alan James Hedrick Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013), permits a state court prisoner to rely on "actual innocence" as a gateway to pursue constitutional … 0.5
18-5041 Louis Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… -1.5
18-5043 Guy St. Amour v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… -1.5
18-5089 Kevin Khaaliq Beamon v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-upon-revocation sentencing-variance substance-addiction supervised-release upward-variance Whether a district court may impose a significant upward variance at sentencing upon revocation of supervised release on an individual who had never b… -1.5
18-5097 Antonio Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant t… -1.5
18-5111 Lynette Gregory v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum 1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… -1.5
18-5150 Gerardo Correa-Diaz v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -1.5
18-5173 Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay 1. Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of a… -1.5
18-5188 James Wilks v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… -1.5
18-5189 Glenvert Green v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… -1.5
18-5238 Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… -1.5
18-5242 Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l… -1.5
18-5269 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… -1.5
18-5273 Davian Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1) Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty ver… -1.5
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's… -1.5
18-5302 Terry Dixon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922 18-USC-922g 18-usc-922g1 carachuri-rosendo-v-holder crime-punishable-by-imprisonment criminal-firearm felon-in-possession prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-exposure underlying-felony 1. In a federal proceeding wherein the defendant is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), in d… -1.5
18-5304 Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an uns… -1.5
18-5317 Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… -1.5
18-5329 Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony 1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… -1.5
18-5363 Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… -1.5
18-5378 Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… -1.5
18-5385 Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights I. Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state resp… -1.5
18-5386 Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … -1.5
18-5392 Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … -1.5
18-5436 Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him fall outside the definition of interrogation because it is unlikely to elicit an inc… -1.5
18-5532 Galindo Jose Ruiz-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling bodily-injury causation causation-standard criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process foreseeability immigration mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Petitioner, GALINDO JOSE RUIZ-HERNANDEZ, was tried and convicted of transporting undocumented aliens within the United States. The District Court adde… -1.5
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? -1.5
18-5539 Derek W. Pelto v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof change-of-law insanity-defense right-to-testify burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance insanity-defense right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… -1.5
18-5547 Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)… -1.5
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Petitioner, BOBBY JOE Rosa, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm after the Government executed a search warrant at his purported … -1.5
18-5636 Edgar Searcy v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… -1.5
18-5642 Miroslav Fejfar v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-sci-prod-v-hebei-welcome-pharm asylum civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-criminal-procedure foreign-law immigration statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal Whether the plain language of the relevant statutes and the Due Process Clause prohibit extradition of an alien who has claimed in immigration court … -1.5
18-5658 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have even a "de mi… -1.5
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse This Court has held that persons on parole have a "lesser" expectation of privacy than the general public, due to the "special needs" of the state in … -1.5
18-5717 Anousone Savanh v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expert due-process expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense May a court exclude a defense expert in a criminal case for failing to possess qualifications that Federal Rule of Evidence 702 does not require, the … -1.5
18-5721 Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling To get tolling of the one-year deadline for filing a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must prove, inter alia, that he h… -1.5
18-5854 Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… -1.5
18-5239 Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio Ohio Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame… -3.5
18-5010 Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews California Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… -4.5
18-5012 Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments bec… -4.5
18-5018 Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida Florida Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution wh… -4.5
18-5019 Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection Why it was done Purposely ? Why Enforce Whistle Blower Protection ? I'm certain you will be hearing from him ( Edwin Gomes, Senator ) soon. Why it w… -4.5
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… -4.5
18-5025 In Re Derek Wardlaw Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings was a Treaty Versailles Violation? Why did intellectual Property fraud, and the occur harthips of unnecessasy bill. attainder aid detainer and unlawf… -4.5
18-5026 Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing T t- s 4PP(4(J S4 4C/x /V/J/ A64,Ji 7/7I6} b/JC// 7f -4.5
18-5030 Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority ThESE questions suggest to this Court, its interpretation of Abuse of the writ doctrine should not be contined to HAbeAS Corpus prOcEdures void on its… -4.5
18-5032 Ramon Vasquez v. City of Reading, Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process filing-deadlines habeas-corpus houston-v-lack judicial-discretion nunc-pro-tunc prisoner-filing pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal The Supreme Courts' precedent set forth in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988) dictates that a document is considered filed with the court at th… -4.5
18-5034 Jodi Anderson v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law banking child-welfare civil-rights criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federalism property-rights taxation Can we legalize Drugs in form of the D.I.C. Policy? Whereas we settle out of the 4th Amendment For as the Government can remain in their seats, Term … -4.5
18-5035 Sandra Grazzini-Rucki v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied IFP civil-procedure coerced-testimony constitutional-law defense-evidence due-process false-statements jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct restitution standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -4.5
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o… -4.5
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin… -4.5
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ… -4.5
18-5045 Vernon L. Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-housing freedom-of-speech retaliation standing takings Where is the EVICTION Order to EVICT Court Notice? When and Where was this eviction filed and forern sened?? Wht were lchschned Justices aidin th u … -4.5
18-5054 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… -4.5
18-5055 Mitchell Stevens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-exercise free-speech prison-policy religious-accommodation standing takings (1) whethoR the CouRt of Appeals RExedeRed A decision which conFlicts with this couRt 2nd decisioxs OF It's own CoaRt, whon It Ruld thAt 2 dismiss Al … -4.5
18-5059 David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when determining whether Certificate of Appealability should have been issued regarding th… -4.5
18-5060 Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… -4.5
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel in a second degree depraved indifference murder case violate the requirements of Strickland v. Washington by failing to investiga… -4.5
18-5069 William M. Uschock v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation mineral-rights natural-gas property-rights takings takings-clause contendts thot willtam M. Uschock which the Dunhim Rule in Pennsylvanla thaturel bas is not considorrd statesi wulike all mineral in Pennsyloomis e ot… -4.5
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1… -4.5
18-5077 Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act Did the trial court Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously abuse its discretion in dismissing the instant case bought by a multip… -4.5
18-5078 Bruce Pace v. Florida Florida Denied IFP arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… -4.5
18-5079 Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California California Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violate the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth, … -4.5
18-5081 Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida Florida Denied IFP binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict 1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… -4.5
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete… -4.5
18-5087 Peter Wilson v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing state-prisoners statute-of-limitations united states court of Appeals For The Ninth. circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of the united states court of Appeals For t… -4.5
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-… -4.5
18-5091 Kevin Don Foster v. Florida Florida Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … -4.5
18-5101 Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis Florida Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations Whether a Florida Court deprived Mr. Reilly of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by creati… -4.5
18-5102 Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing Whether the denial of a speedy trial was not a constitutional right afforded by the state and to LD speedy trial fourteenth amendments to the United S… -4.5
18-5103 Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili… -4.5
18-5109 Reggie Rankins v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation T1tOiS rep up oI\ +kt it' €ii ce P f S+l nhin 9, flc I Wi+4', 5+&3—ui — 72O LLCS SJiii.o (4fla) -4.5
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … -4.5
18-5124 Norberto Pietri v. Florida Florida Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… -4.5
18-5127 Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… -4.5
18-5133 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Stark County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP amendment certification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure forma-pauperis in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion manifest-injustice pro-se standing Dots the fact that the district court failed to state in writing its reasons for certifying that Petitioner seeking to proceed in pauperis could not b… -4.5
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Should Mr. Frederiksen continue to suffer and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction, when the lower state courts fail to compl… -4.5
18-5142 Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE EVIDENCE ACQUIRED DURING MR. HEXIMER'S ILLEGAL DETENTION IS/WAS INADMISSIBLE UNDER CLEARLY-ESTABLISHED LAW WHETHER THE 53RD DISTRICT MAGI… -4.5
18-5143 Robert Graham v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP admissibility batson-vs-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process fingerprinting fingerprinting-expert identification identification-testimony preliminary-hearing reliability trial-evidence witness-credibility QUESTION ONE: IS AN IN COURT IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEFENDANT AS THE ROBBER -ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL IN THE ABSENCE OF A DUE PROCESS HEARING -TO FIRST D… -4.5
18-5151 James G. Yahnke v. North Dakota North Dakota Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent constitutional-rights drunk-driving due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Constitolion, wheve, North Dakota State Trogper Taplied Consen t infoumed Petitianer of The Advisory and vequruted a Glood test, and Peitioner grerd b… -4.5
18-5154 Edward Vincent Ray, Jr. v. Jamilah A. Jefferson, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court ninth-circuit standing statute-of-limitations 1. whether Respondentcs), a "(ivil Attorney" employed by the City of Oakland, CA., whom Petitioner alleges Committed Fraud on the Court, and Petitoner… -4.5
18-5166 Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… -4.5
18-5167 Levar Brown v. California California Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation Law sstéz Farwe GUESS wo, CeLLed TWAt MAN: Nou 2eALLY waat 1p utes, oH DID IAS» AWE SALANGEYL wort THE Gun store fia Tow Home, ALse, A was. HANDED 7D … -4.5
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings 1. Given the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homici… -4.5
18-5175 In Re Terrence Matthew Brown Denied IFP actual-innocence exceptional-circumstances exculpatory-evidence false-information loan-application loan-applications mortgage-brokers mortgage-fraud subprime-lending subprime-mortgage underwriting-regulations underwriting-standards DOES PRESENT CASE DEMONSTRATE THAT SUBPRIME MORTGAGE LENDERS IN EARLY TO MID-2000'S SYSTEMATICALLY ABANDONED. UNDERWRITING REGULATIONS AND ENCOURAGED … -4.5
18-5176 In Re Winex Eugene Denied IFP actual-innocence article-iii career-offender case-or-controversy categorical-approach constitutional-review redressability residual-clause sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers standing standing-civil-procedure 1) Does Mr. Eugene's incarceration constitute a case involving substantial injury, whereby a controversy requiring Article III exercise of discretion … -4.5
18-5179 Ronnie Johnson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona WHETHER THE BLACK LINE DRAWN BY THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IN ASAY v. STATE, 210 S0.3d 1 (Fla. 2016), LIMITING THE RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF HURST v. FLORI… -4.5
18-5185 Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service 1. Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied to a person when the evidence prese… -4.5
18-5196 Jeffrey P. Corbin v. Federal Express, dba FedEx Fourth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights eeoc-charge employment-discrimination evidentiary-rulings retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether any of the district court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of discretion requiring reversal of a judgement. Whether … -4.5
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether in custody cases a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert. Is this an unconstitutional abuse… -4.5
18-5201 Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Reasonable jurists would determine that defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to: A) object to the introduction of… -4.5
18-5205 Tony D. Littles v. Trudie Roundtree Florida Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction property property-rights standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Question not identified. -4.5
18-5208 In Re Gregory Bartunek Denied IFP appeal civil-rights detention-order due-process habeas-corpus speedy-trial standing Question not identified. -4.5
18-5214 David R. McGinley v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentencing new-substantive-rules retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules supreme-court-holdings IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL ERROR THAT CONFLICTS WITH UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS WHERE STATE COURTS FOUND A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING STATUTE … -4.5
18-5215 Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings Did the 5th Cir. Ct. ignore that Det. Mends inferences identified petitioner as in co-possession of recent stolen property and thus implicated petitio… -4.5
18-5218 Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… -4.5
18-5227 Charles Vernon Harris, Jr. v. Dewayne Estes, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP None -4.5
18-5231 Richard Lloyd Odom v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. brain-damage capital-case eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment smith-v-texas strickland-prejudice strickland-v-washington tennard-v-dretke Question not identified. -4.5
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment 1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we… -4.5
18-5236 In Re Ferlando Esco Denied IFP ' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Respondents, and/or Judges, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to decide the m… -4.5
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework 1. Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an where (1) the state has removed ce… -4.5
18-5246 Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas Texas Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… -4.5
18-5248 Kitti Ruth Payne, aka Kitty Ruth Power v. Publishers Clearing House, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process property-rights standing takings this prperly constitoted tribonl as inquiry as to the amount of Componsstion to be modo Court Awrded that duo procss of law, thot is required by the F… -4.5
18-5256 Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court 1. Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the S… -4.5
18-5257 Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida Denied IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso… -4.5
18-5259 Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction To Be Confronted with The witnesces against Him: To have Compulsory Process For Obtaining Witnesses In His Favor? dbesordoes it Not guaranter In Our C… -4.5
18-5260 Mike McGlocklin v. FNU Blankenship, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis motions procedural-posture standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S MOTIONS AND REQUEST TO PROLEEΔ IN FORMA PAUPERIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND,THE PROCEDURAL POSTU… -4.5
18-5265 In Re Brandon Lee Denied IFP consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard 1. SHOULD THE STATE BE PERMITTED TO ISSUE TRUE BILL MISREPRESENTATION OF THE CHARGING INSTRUMENT FOR ALL CRIMINAL MATTERS PERTAINING TO INDIGENT DEFEN… -4.5
18-5270 Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation Did the Fifth Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability (COA) because Deem fail… -4.5
18-5278 Christopher Collings v. Missouri Missouri Denied IFP capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state Whether it violates th e Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time o… -4.5
18-5284 Bruce L. Small v. Florida Florida Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat… -4.5
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON … -4.5
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater… -4.5
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid… -4.5
18-5323 Robert Caldwell v. Texas Texas Denied IFP None -4.5
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Question not identified. -4.5
18-5334 Marlon Crawford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus illiteracy judicial-procedure non-english-prisoners prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation Whether equitable tolling may be extended to non-English or illiterate prisoners that lose access to courts as a result. -4.5
18-5335 Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance Virginia Denied IFP bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents Which policy did Kwon contract original policy? Kwon filed policy exhibit I page 002089-002 102 that Kwon contracted. Erie filed policy exhibit A pa… -4.5
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Shawn Johnson was arrested inmg, in self-defense for shoot in grz jjYj a, k4 wccu#'$ He has credible evidence that he is actually innocent of this cri… -4.5
18-5338 DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t… -4.5
18-5342 Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Question not identified. -4.5
18-5347 Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Was my Sixth Amendment U.s. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause vilated when the prasecution kept interruping during crass examinatio… -4.5
18-5356 Joaquin H. Ciria v. California Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-procedure,fraud,rule-60(b),actual-innocence, fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-mechanism rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition timeliness IF A FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, RULE 60(b) MOTION ("Rule 60(b)") IS THE CORRECT PROCEDURE FOR RAISING CLAIMS OF FRAUD COMMITTED UPON THE COURT?… -4.5
18-5360 Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and t… -4.5
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-5370 Thomas Juresic v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions Does a Department of Corrections (DOC) or sentencing court retain constitutional custody and personal jurisdiction over a person until the expiration … -4.5
18-5371 Michael Ellis v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (71h Cir.) of an unconstitu… -4.5
18-5372 James J. Bagwell v. Southern National Assets, LLC Georgia Denied IFP banking-rules bankruptcy civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure lien-priority misappropriation-of-funds tax-sale Whether the decisions of the lower courts erred by denying the pro se Petitioner his U.S. constitutional rights of equal protection and due process of… -4.5
18-5375 Christopher Henriquez v. California California Denied IFP aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… -4.5
18-5377 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-sentencing capital-sentencing,federal-constitutional-rights,w constitutional-waiver federal-constitutional-rights federal-rights hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding penalty-jury prospective-waiver voluntary-waiver 1. Can a defendant in a state capital sentencing proceeding voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive a federal constitutional right that was bo… -4.5
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived appellant of due process and a fair trial? Whether trial or appellate counsel rende… -4.5
18-5396 Calvin McMillan v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction An Alabama jury voted to sentence Petitioner Calvin McMillan to life in prison for capital murder. Circuit Judge John Bush overrode the jury's decisio… -4.5
18-5492 In Re David Louis Colson Denied IFP appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court 1. Is case which the State was party to, there was a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in the superior court of Arizona who usurped the power of the… -4.5
18-5543 In Re Andre David Leffebre Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Question not identified. -4.5
18-5577 In Re Adam D. Boylen Denied IFP civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation 1.) Whether petitioner, as a truck driver for an independent "person" Congress exclusively defined in the Clean Water Act to only mean any "source" an… -4.5
18-5580 In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing 1) How is it that Negroes, Blacks, Colored People,etcwbo were deemed three fifths of all other Persons pursuant to Art. (1) sec. (2) of the U.5. Const… -4.5
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT CAN BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR A SEPARATE, NEW AND DISTINCT CRIME WITH WHICH HE HAD NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND… -4.5
18-5001 John Theodore Hancock v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe- ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory lang… -6.5
18-5005 Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different? W… -6.5
18-5006 Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable… -6.5
18-5007 David Lemoe Tua v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial gang-enhancement insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct severance sufficiency-of-evidence trial-severance Whether the state court's refusal to sever Petitioner's trial from that of his codefendant and refusal to sever the gang enhancement allegations viola… -6.5
18-5013 Gina Brasher Langley v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure claims-process due-process equal-protection federal-tax government-response interest marital-tax-liabilities solicitor-general standing tax-refund tax-transcripts The United States Solicitor General waived his right to respond on 11-23-2015 in this Court's Case 15-6929 to the Petitioner's claim for refund for ta… -6.5
18-5014 Marcus Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… -6.5
18-5015 Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure A. Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure rule when the highest… -6.5
18-5016 George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… -6.5
18-5022 Marcus Kalani Watson, aka Kiki Seui, and Rogussia Eddie Allen Danielson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery force-clause sentencing-enhancement slight-force statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states In Stokeling v. United States, No. 17-5554, this Court has granted certiorari to resolve whether a state robbery offense that requires a purposeful us… -6.5
18-5023 Glenn Edwards v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENY PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR SUPRESS EVIDENCE USED TO OBTAIN SEARCH WARRANT VIOLATED THE PETITIO… -6.5
18-5024 William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing 1} Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation? [Alone before review.] 2} If a violation to access the court takes p… -6.5
18-5027 Mark O. Wright v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment 1. Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included… -6.5
18-5028 Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering Appellant was indicted for witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), which states someone is guilty if they "knowingly use intimidation, threate… -6.5
18-5029 Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt Are Directed Verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? Directed verdicts are disallowed in criminal trials and … -6.5
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O… -6.5
18-5033 Johnny L. Dawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… -6.5
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to … -6.5
18-5046 Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … -6.5
18-5047 Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea 1) Whether the district court Prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of a concerning his reasons for Wanting to withdraw his guilty plea … -6.5
18-5048 John W. Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery attempted-murder criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington WHETHER TAYLOR WAS DENIEO HIS RIGUT TO EFFECTIVE ASSITANCE EP TRIAL COUNSEL GURANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENOMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITNTZON? WHETHE… -6.5
18-5049 Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings 1) In USCA9 NO. 17-35696, Wells v. ReteRS, etal DOeS ORDER FILOD MAY25, 2018 and ORDOR FILED JanvaRy 24, 2018 comply with FedeRal Rulas of Appellate P… -6.5
18-5050 James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing I) Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of man government constructs know as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugat… -6.5
18-5053 Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error Whether it is time to revisit the harmless error standard when a defendant is deprived of his constitutional right to present a defense. -6.5
18-5056 Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… -6.5
18-5061 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu… -6.5
18-5062 Norman L. Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… -6.5
18-5063 Charles Byers v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP class-decision counsel-notification criminal-procedure-appeal-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall profitt-v-united-states recall-mandate right-to-appeal supreme-court-review wilkins-precedent wilkins-v-united-states Whether the Fourth Circuit erred In denying Petitioner's Motion To Recall Mandate When Counsel Failed to Notify Him of his Right to seek review from t… -6.5
18-5064 In Re Kenneth Gaylord Stokes Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdiction lower-court-decisions standing takings IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF, INCLUDING MANDAMUS, FROM THIS COURT FOR A CLAIM OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE WITH REGARD TO DOUBLE EX POST FACTO VI… -6.5
18-5066 Edward Vincent Ray v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine Whether Petitioners sentence of 38yrs 4mos., violates equal protection under the law because of the disparities in Californa sentences whether Ptiton… -6.5
18-5072 Jill M. Evans v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, should a defendant be entitled to credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline (USSG §3E1.1) if sh… -6.5
18-5073 Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… -6.5
18-5074 Clifton McLean, aka Little Clif v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 922(g)(1) 924(c) crimes-of-violence due-process entrapment firearm-possession hobbs-act interstate-commerce Under the Due Process Clause, did the trial court unconstitutionally deny Petitioner's request/motion for an entrapment instruction when the record co… -6.5
18-5076 Billy R. Melot v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing tax venue 1} Whether the 5" Circuit Decision is an intervening controlling Precedent that affects the Justiciability of Appellant's claims: 2) That without the… -6.5
18-5080 Derrick Pittman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carachuri-rosendo-v-holder career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-sentencing north-carolina-justice-reinvestment-act north-carolina-law post-release-supervision predicate-felonies sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guideline united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the period of post-release supervision mandated for offenders punished under the North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Act is part of the term o… -6.5
18-5082 Anthony Wayne Seda v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-5083 Rahman Fulton v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process extortion force-clause mathis-v-united-states mens-rea residual-clause statutory-interpretation Petitioner comes forth with Question base under Graham v. United States ; U.S., No. 16-6308, friend of the Court brief filed 10/28/16. To Be Held ThAb… -6.5
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search WAS THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO AFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN HIS FIRST DIRECT APPEAL OF RIGHT VIOLATED WHEN COUNSEL REFUSED TO BRIEF HIS FOURTH AM… -6.5
18-5086 Brian Keith Uzzle v. Lesley Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody custody-status double-jeopardy due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prosequy prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct re-indictment reindictment speedy-trial 1. Whether a state Court may benefit, gaming Ane advantage of a ceskact On ne Speedy Trial clock (ice indefinitely Post porin 9 prosecuticni, over Man… -6.5
18-5093 Stanley J. Caterbone v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cointelpro due-process mind-control obstruction-of-justice remote-neural-monitoring social-security-disability standing surveillance targeted-individuals Is the PRO SE PETITIONER'S STAN J. CATERBONE'S Claims of Victimization of U. S. Sponsored Mind Control A Reality or A Delusion? Has the PRO SE PETITI… -6.5
18-5095 Tron Lakey Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach force generic-crime generic-robbery minimal-contact minimal-force robbery robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states violent-crime Whether theft offenses requiring only minimal contact and no threat of violence satisfy the generic, contemporary meaning of robbery under the categor… -6.5
18-5098 Thaddeus Williams v. Cindi S. Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability district-court-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-tolling WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WAS. UNTIMELY; WHETHER THE BLANKET DENIAL OF. HIS MOTION FOR … -6.5
18-5100 Ras Rahim v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme Is Heflin, 358U.S. 415, 3 L. Ed. 2d. 407, 79 S. Ct. 451 (1959), still the controlling precedent? Herein, this court held that the text of 28 U.S.C. 22… -6.5
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex… -6.5
18-5107 Willard Quinn v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of "crime of violence" can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… -6.5
18-5108 Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… -6.5
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR … -6.5
18-5112 Benjamin Fredrick Charles Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-count due-process mandatory-minimum restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum upward-departure I. Whether a four (4) level upward departure for conduct underlying a dismissed count pursuant to USSG §5K2.21, bringing the defendant's sentence abov… -6.5
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering THE HALL COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CONTACTED THE GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (HEREIN AFTER G.B.I.) AND TOLD THEM NOT TO RELEASE MITIGATION… -6.5
18-5114 Nigel L. Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… -6.5
18-5115 Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute WHETHER THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT F TO DUE PROCESS EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW IN HOLDING THAT HIS PRIOR 1… -6.5
18-5116 Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD THE JUDGMENT BE VACATED IN LIGHT OF BUCK V. DAVIS, 137 SCT 759 (2017), WELCH V. UNITED STATES, 136 SCT 1… -6.5
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut… -6.5
18-5123 Eric Glenn Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof 1. Was Venue Proven To Convict Eric Glenn Parker Of Conspiracy To Commit RICO- In The Northern District Of Mississippi? 2. Was Venue Proven To Convic… -6.5
18-5125 Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro… -6.5
18-5126 Jamal Hamilton v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … -6.5
18-5129 Rodolfo Trejo v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting. Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… -6.5
18-5130 Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings da Ptionendment dup f lo ed hen a i ut ni 61983c on fion gound pant to FdR. Ci . Ro ( of Ro U.S.su C q m irmunitty? am the Ptione chnge ofde noica… -6.5
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M… -6.5
18-5136 Francisco Illarramendi v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-proceeding constitutional-liberty constitutional-property constitutional-property-rights constitutional-rights district-court inextricably-intertwined liberty-interests parallel-criminal-proceeding property-rights Can Article III Standing be denied to a Defendant in a civil proceeding who objects to District Court Rulings that directly affect the Defendant's con… -6.5
18-5138 Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied? Why did the state agency ignored all the veterans and minorities that… -6.5
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Dues Your Petitioner have a Constitutional Right to his Guilty Plea Hearing transcripts to perfect an appeal ? Does a Circuit Court Clerk have a cons… -6.5
18-5144 Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… -6.5
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment I. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), this Court invalidated, as inconsistent with the requirements of substantive due process, Texas's blank… -6.5
18-5148 Marcus Blalock v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW; WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE FROM A PREVIOUS APPE… -6.5
18-5149 Francisco Cubero v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc… -6.5
18-5152 Rodney Howard v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t… -6.5
18-5153 Arthur Wayne Kniffley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ball-v-united-states blockburger-test child-pornography criminal-conviction double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,child-pornography,fifth-amendment, double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,child-pornography, fifth-amendment mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing-discretion I. Whether a conviction for producing child pornography violates the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment because the defendant was previousl… -6.5
18-5155 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Question not identified. -6.5
18-5156 D'Angelo Battis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of… -6.5
18-5159 Allen Golden v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 aedpa suspension-clause aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus non-violent-crime non-violent-crimes suspension-clause DO THE ORDER ENTERED BY THE ELEVETH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ON AUGUST 29, 2017 AND MAGISTRATE JUDGE'S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION SO ORDERED AND REPORT… -6.5
18-5162 Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o… -6.5
18-5165 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ("The Court") ERR WHEN IT TOTALLY REFUSED TO ADDRESS SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT FOUND IN UNITED STATES V. MITCHELL, 463 U.S. 206… -6.5
18-5170 Ijaz Khan v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-determination citizenship-and-naturalization-fraud citizenship-status due-process evidence evidence-standard fraud immigration immigration-law jurisdiction legal-review marriage naturalization naturalization-fraud standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether there was evidence presented at trial that petitioner was lawfully signed to Shabsan before he became Naturalized? 2. Whether an authorize… -6.5
18-5171 Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. -6.5
18-5172 Samuel Isaac Marquez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brumfield-precedent brumfield-v-cain due-process fact-finding federal-law habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit state-court state-court-fact-finding 1. This Court in Brumfield granted federal habeas corpus relief, despite a lack of clearly established federal law, because the state-court decision r… -6.5
18-5177 Herman Majors v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… -6.5
18-5183 Christopher M. Holmes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony MEt, IF CURT -AppoatEd TRIAL CWNSEl ADMITTS ThAT ShE D NEyleCtEC To woNfeR nith client ABout Peremptory staikes befire oR durins peremptory Strike ses… -6.5
18-5186 Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing The lower courts deprived the Pro Se, Petitioner of Due Process and the disregard to address the limitations within the patent Claims as well as the v… -6.5
18-5187 Verissimo Tavares v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony 1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… -6.5
18-5192 Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal Question not identified. -6.5
18-5193 William Brown v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states crime-of-violence due-process federal-sentencing-law johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness Whether reliance on the "residual clause" of the "crime of violence" definition in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2), is… -6.5
18-5194 Teofil Brank v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… -6.5
18-5195 Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness 1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, WHEN PROSECUTOR MISSTATED LAW, MISSTATED TESTIMONY, AND MISSTATED EVIDENCE TO THE JURY? 2. WHETH… -6.5
18-5198 Ronald David Jones v. Grand Canyon University, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-courts obstruction-of-justice private-university service-of-process service-of-summons standing venue-change Why did the United States District Court For the Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division not rule on Plaintiff's Motion for Judgment when th… -6.5
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Is the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in error for ignoring this Courts mandates in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), where this Court has deter… -6.5
18-5203 Khalif Abdul Qawi Mujahid v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure-rules due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing appeals civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing The United SHAHES APpEaLS For The Cour of FOurth Z Cirauit ENE WhEN H! P3N3HNB B ERISION in CONFLiC dEiSiON OF YN other PHND SHHES Cout ADDEaLS ON the… -6.5
18-5204 Jose Luis Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ? WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… -6.5
18-5207 Omar Montoya v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circumstances-beyond-control criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,abuse-of criminal-sentencing,sentencing-guidelines,sentenci discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range timeliness Whether the District Court reversibly erred in Denying to Reduce and Appropriate Outcome when the Subsequent Sentencing Range has been Lowered by the … -6.5
18-5210 Robert A. Espinoza v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … -6.5
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation 1) When the subject of a police custodial interrogation is a child, should investigating officers be required to obtain an express waiver of Miranda b… -6.5
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Did the Eleventh circuit's panels conclusion that the District court did not err in allowing the flight instructions be brought to the jury as it was … -6.5
18-5216 Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination DOES THE PETITIONER HAVE A NONWAIVABLE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW? DIRECT APPEAL FROM HIS OR HER CONVICTION, AND ON THE MERIT OF H… -6.5
18-5219 Anthony Tyrone Campbell v. J. Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure administrative-remedies circuit-court-of-appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review litigation-reform prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did quH circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with ioth circuit court of Appeals decision where determining factor significantly substantiate … -6.5
18-5220 Roger A. Libby v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence adversarial-format due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner post-conviction scientific-evidence sixth-amendment strickland 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee an indigent Petitioner to the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of Counsel … -6.5
18-5221 Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… -6.5
18-5225 Junaidu Saljan Savage, aka James Kamara v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts-of-appeal in-camera-review pennsylvania-v-ritchie precedent prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ritchie standing Whether, under Pennsylvania U. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987), defendants requesting in camera review for potential required disclosures in accordance wi… -6.5
18-5226 Richard Lugo v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Appellate Counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to his direct appeal. -6.5
18-5229 Robert Adam Neuman v. Mark Nooth Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicts federal-law federal-law-analysis federal-law-review federal-review judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent ohio-v-reiner review state-court state-court-decision state-court-interpretation state-statute supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion, which determined that it could not review a state court decision that interpreted federal law because the stat… -6.5
18-5237 Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. New York Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional? Does the government have the right to take away my cause of action and substitute it with … -6.5
18-5240 Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the letha… -6.5
18-5241 Victor Maturino v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law commentary-amendments destructive-devices double-jeopardy due-process firearms firearms-possession guideline-commentary offense-level-increases rulemaking-authority sentence-enhancement sentencing-commission-process sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The Sentencing Guidelines in § 2K2.1 setting forth provisions concerning unlawful possession of firearms and specific offense characteristics provide … -6.5
18-5243 Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme… -6.5
18-5245 Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … -6.5
18-5247 James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DECISION IS OBJECTIVELY UNREASONABLE AS A MATTER OF DUE PROCESS, BECAUSE MCCRAY SENTENCING GUIDELINES OFFENSE VARIABLE[S] WA… -6.5
18-5249 Kristian Thomas v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP active-warrant arrest-procedure due-process failure-to-appear fourth-amendment law-enforcement misdemeanor-arrest misdemeanor-arrest-warrant misdemeanor-warrant probable-cause reasonable-caution warrant-confirmation Does not the Fourth Amendment require prudence or reasonable caution so that before exercising a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear, a w… -6.5
18-5250 Vincent Michael Marino v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-secrecy civil-rights document-disclosure due-process foia FOIA-access foia-exemptions foia-privacy-act Inadequate-search privacy-act Privacy-Act-amendment public-records Reimbursement-of-FOIA-fees search-fee statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation Ground One The District Court, Appeals Court for the Districtof Columbia Circuit committed reversible legal error, by improperly categorizing and misa… -6.5
18-5253 Dennis DeCiancio v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there… -6.5
18-5254 Matthew Young v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Is it an important issue of Law and Fact For the Purpose of Review at court when the highest court failed to uphold its own prior precedent case Law d… -6.5
18-5255 Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppress… -6.5
18-5258 Howell Miller v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH… -6.5
18-5261 Vester L. Patterson v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations Question not identified. -6.5
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari 1. WHETHER A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE PROPER REMEDY TO COMPEL THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO RULE ON HIS INDEPENDENT ACTION FRAUD ON THE COURT"T… -6.5
18-5264 Albert Jenkins, et al. v. WMC Mortgage, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-complaint amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process fraudulent-concealment futility-of-amendment lulling-and-fraudulent-concealment oral-contract service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations Whether it was error for the Honorable Brian F. Holeman, Associate Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court, to deny leave to submit an amended comp… -6.5
18-5266 Michael Ferguson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment (1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? … -6.5
18-5267 Arthur Waters v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Almost thirty years ago, this Court established the parameters of a protective sweep incident to an in-home arrest in Maryland v. Buie, 494 U.S. 325 (… -6.5
18-5272 Jacob Ben-Ari v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-5274 Manuel Vega v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP california-health-and-safety-code-11378 categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction divisible-statute drug-offense federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guideline mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-court-decision A prior drug conviction, if it is a federal "controlled substance offense," can increase a federal criminal sentence or result in an alien's deportati… -6.5
18-5275 Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment 1 Does Federal Courtdeferenceto an ex parte Judical Order, adapted from the Respondents Consolidaded Motion For Summary Judgment, resul incluims that … -6.5
18-5276 William Clark v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old? Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… -6.5
18-5277 Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 Whether the Executive Office of the President is required, as an agency of the Federal Government to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved… -6.5
18-5279 Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity 1. Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment was grossly negligent, thereby preclud… -6.5
18-5281 Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda… -6.5
18-5282 Perry V. Moss v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process equal-protection life-pension occupational-variant property statutory-conduct takings workers-compensation Question not identified. -6.5
18-5283 David McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus releif on an unlitig… -6.5
18-5286 Odere Suleitopa v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon… -6.5
18-5287 Luis Salas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? -6.5
18-5290 Ronald Long v. George Robinson, Administrator, Northern State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure corrections due-process parole presentence-report standing state-law 1) Did the N.J. State Parole Board deny Petitioner Due Process by conducting a parole hearing without having a mandatory presentence report? 2) Did t… -6.5
18-5291 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendme without any hearing 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bank-account bank-account-seizure civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment pretrial-seizure procedural-due-process seizure sixth-amendment Whether the pretrial seizure of petitioner's bank account, without any hearing, deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendment to the United Stat… -6.5
18-5293 George Anthony Autobee v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness 1. Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely because it … -6.5
18-5294 Herbert Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing 1. Did the Circuit Court error in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication giving a insufficen… -6.5
18-5297 Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified. -6.5
18-5299 Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts If the tIh exually? . Grounds for dismissal of my caseywere brought dn y trial by the district attorney due to the lack of widence. The Judge denied i… -6.5
18-5300 Gary Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Critical question in this case is Whether a trial Attorney Can Constitutionally Stipulate Elements of a charged Crime over the expressed objection… -6.5
18-5301 Cahlan Clay v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… -6.5
18-5305 Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served 1. commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate? 2. May a state's primary jurisdiction over an inmate only be … -6.5
18-5307 Andrew Wayne Hulen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-admissions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment garrity-v-new-jersey minnesota-v-murphy penalty-situation self-incrimination self-incrimination-clause sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Whether the Ninth Circuit's failure to analyze Petitioner's argument under the classic penalty situation addressed by this Court in Minnesota v. Murph… -6.5
18-5308 O'Neil Anthony Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines congressional-intent guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform upward-variance Whether a District Court Disregards Congressional Intent and Imposes an Unreasonable Sentence When it Applies an Upward Variance to the Advisory Sente… -6.5
18-5310 Walter N. Rhodes, Jr. v. Shane Baker, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation timeliness Question not identified. -6.5
18-5311 Jack Reid v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … -6.5
18-5315 Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Did the Lower Courts follow the precedence standards set by this US Supreme Court in Anderson V Liberty Lobby (106 S.Ct. 2505) since this was even one… -6.5
18-5319 Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… -6.5
18-5320 James MacDonald v. Martin Dori Singer, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-rules attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-the-court free-speech organized-crime professional-conduct right-to-fair-trial right-to-petition slapp slapp-law standing unequal-protection California's SLAPP Law, was written to protect LAWFUL petitioning activities. However, it is now protecting UNLAWFUL petitioning activities. In this c… -6.5
18-5324 Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d … -6.5
18-5326 Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment (1) Whether the District Court's "persuasive authority" test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 211 2017, and than less then rwo … -6.5
18-5328 Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen Washington Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment If a significant question of law under the constitution of the state of Washington or of the United States is involved. Did the trial court violate t… -6.5
18-5332 Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… -6.5
18-5336 Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING PETITIONER UNDER THE RESRICTIONS OF OV-1 AND OV-2 [OF THE MICHIGAN SENTENCING GUIDELINES] IN VIOLATION OF HIS … -6.5
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Strickland doctrine, as applied by the Tenth Circuit, requires retroactive application to convictions that became final before Strickland … -6.5
18-5340 Roger Wilson v. Federal Correctional Institution at Cumberland, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-rules-standing-jurisdiction-due-p access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5341 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5343 Roger Wilson v. McKeesport Police Department, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-5344 Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-accountability jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions Question not identified. -6.5
18-5345 Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection fabricated-court-order free-speech standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5346 Roger Wilson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5348 Gary Clack v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance … -6.5
18-5349 Tyron Young v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… -6.5
18-5350 Carroll Erman Crider v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment indictment-notice jurisdiction notice standing statutory-violation #1 .Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err when it didn't determine that Crider was entitled to relief to vacate the judgment when the statute of Virgi… -6.5
18-5351 Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Under the modest standard for a certificate of appealability, is it at least debatable that the state court unreasonably ignored both Borhan's jus… -6.5
18-5353 Juanita L. Berry v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and… -6.5
18-5357 Michael C. Redifer v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-legislation criminal-procedure due-process kastigar-doctrine law-of-the-case rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents Does the Rules Enabling Act, 28 USCS § 2071 et seq., preclude a Court from invoking the law of the case doctrine against a defendant in a criminal pro… -6.5
18-5358 Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment 1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY DECIDE DISPUTED FACTUAL ISSUES AND DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE; AND DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY AGREE WIT… -6.5
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant If a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense of a higher level charge, does the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit retrying… -6.5
18-5362 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions (1) Could binding authority from the Ninth Circuit's published opinions in United States v. San Juan-Cruz, 314 F.3d 384 (9th Cir. 2002) and United Sta… -6.5
18-5364 Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DENIAL OF AUSTIN'S PETITION UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2254 FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPU… -6.5
18-5365 Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether Michigan v Tyler, 436 US 499, Michigan v. Clifford, 464 US 287 (1984) authorizes firefighters and police to unreasonably withhold sustenance a… -6.5
18-5368 Gabriel Werdene v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity I. Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jur… -6.5
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a… -6.5
18-5373 Otis Sykes v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… -6.5
18-5374 Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. … -6.5
18-5380 Luis Lopez v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo circuit-court-split criminal-history drug-offense massachusetts-state-court massachusetts-state-district-court maximum-imprisonment maximum-term-of-imprisonment moncrieffe sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-court-conviction Does a prior conviction in a Massachusetts state district court for which the defendant was actually exposed by law to a maxim um term of imprisonm en… -6.5
18-5381 Aslam Handy v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process eeoc federal-reserve financial-crisis financial-misconduct free-speech job-discrimination sovereign-immunity whistle-blower Why has the Federal Reserve still not been asked to open its books to find out who exactly they have been giving backdoor help since 2001 that lead to… -6.5
18-5383 James Rodney Shuman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca controlled-substances-act drug-offenses due-process mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states vagueness void-for-vagueness WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA), SPECIALLY 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), IS CONTR… -6.5
18-5389 Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant WHETHER: THE DISTRICT COURT SHOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED ALL OF THE FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE BASED UPON THE FOUND TO BE CORRUPTED OFFICIALS AND THE ILLE… -6.5
18-5390 Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance (1) Several United States Courts of Appeals have suggested that the use of defendants' uncharged, unproven conduct in deciding their sentences may vio… -6.5
18-5394 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment In Petitioner's jury trial on federal drug offenses, the district court allowed a prosecution witness to testify to out-of-court statements made by a … -6.5
18-5397 Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… -6.5
18-5404 Craig Cooper v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey stare-decisis (1.) UNDER ThE DOCtRINE Of STARE dECISS All TRIbUNAl EXERCISINg iNFERIOR juRiSdiCTiON ARE REQUIiREd tO fOLlOW dECISION of COURTS EXERCISINg SUpERIOR j… -6.5
18-5405 Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… -6.5
18-5406 Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether this court should grant this petition for a writ of certiorari to consider whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the p… -6.5
18-5407 Mladen Mitrovic v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… -6.5
18-5408 Norberto Serna v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… -6.5
18-5409 In Re Daniel Riley Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A 1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… -6.5
18-5414 Keith William Deichert v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… -6.5
18-5416 Ramal Hammond v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP amnesia burden-of-proof competency criminal-procedure defendant-amnesia due-process dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states mental-capacity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-competency When the evidence of guilt is far from overwhelming but cannot be rebutted without information that only the defendant would know, but due to amnesia … -6.5
18-5417 David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via, the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution? Plaintiff… -6.5
18-5419 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis even though granted by the state courts and the Northern District Court. Was petitioner erroneous… -6.5
18-5421 Sheila L. Gaines v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-appeal administrative-law arthritis civil-rights disability disability-benefits due-process employment medical-evidence medical-records social-security standing VUHY Lnould JudGes Hidhatthe Medical ExPerT Adina P.Livitin ANSwered No to tWO Questins of Me Not beint Able to wurk chrsaD 4hrsao - Due to her Advanc… -6.5
18-5423 Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions Whether under 8 U.S.C. §1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), inadmissible aliens who are Asylum Seekers include immigrant victim who is not an applicant for, or is not … -6.5
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … -6.5
18-5427 Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony 1. Whether witness testimony, on more than one occasion, reveals that a rape was committed during a kidnapping, by someone other than the defendant, c… -6.5
18-5430 James Davis Bennett, et ux. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-defense deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment estelle-vs-gamble federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure medical-care prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs summary-judgment 1. The Question before the Court is Whether the Eight Amendment under Estelle vs Gamble allows a Court to create a Constitutional Defense to an admitt… -6.5
18-5431 Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5433 Helen Atkins v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HER RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN THE TRIAL COURT OVERRULED HER OBJECTION TO PROSECUTOR'S CLOSING ARGUMENT AND WAS THE PETIT… -6.5
18-5438 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification I. Is an out of court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable when the police twice showed the victim the same distorted image … -6.5
18-5439 Adam Longoria v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states non-elemental-facts occasions-different sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states violent-felony Under the ACCA, can a sentencing court rely solely on non-elemental facts to infer that a defendant's temporally overlapping and related offenses were… -6.5
18-5444 Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… -6.5
18-5445 Jason Lee Pyles v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 aggravated-assault arkansas-statute armed-career-criminal categorical-approach due-process eighth-circuit johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states-2015 physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony L Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erroneously held that Arkansas aggravated assault on a family or household member … -6.5
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Question not identified. -6.5
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou… -6.5
18-5458 Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process. Whether Mr.… -6.5
18-5461 Keith Henderson v. Minnesota Minnesota Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim minnesota-supreme-court newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief state-district-court timeliness When a defendant has been denied an evidentiary hearing, has his right to due process been violated when the evidence he presented has to be construed… -6.5
18-5462 Alfonso V. Senior, Jr. v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discretionary-review exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition right-to-counsel state-court-remedies Has a habeas corpus petitioner who was unrepresented in his state post conviction proceedings, in a state which refuses to appoint counsel for such pr… -6.5
18-5466 Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.? WHETHER THE TRIA… -6.5
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light … -6.5
18-5469 Chad Allen Dorton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? -6.5
18-5470 Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … -6.5
18-5471 Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness The Ninth Circuit Court of Appealls (9th) did not follow rules being Federal Rules of Appeallete Procedure 'and precedent caselaw. By either ruling or… -6.5
18-5473 Justin Michael Credico v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" After a colorable attack was made to the government's case-in-chief evidence, an audio forensics expert was provided to the petitioner, causing the go… -6.5
18-5474 Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… -6.5
18-5480 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony 1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… -6.5
18-5482 Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-distribution motion-for-acquittal possession-with-intent-to-distribute presumption-of-innocence sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the Presumption of Innocence and Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process are violated when the district court denies a motion for acquittal … -6.5
18-5483 Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all … -6.5
18-5484 William N. Washington v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO RECALCULATE ALL DAYS OF CUSTODY FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL JUDGMENT, AND ONLY AWARDED CUSTODY CREDITS FROM … -6.5
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the Lower Court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer… -6.5
18-5490 Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo… -6.5
18-5497 Timothy Edmun Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-history double-jeopardy drug-distribution federal-sentencing felony-possession occasions-different sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions serious-drug-offense 1. Is Oklahoma's crime of drug distribution a "serious drug offense" under the ACCA when state law defines "distribution" to include "transport with i… -6.5
18-5500 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-framework statute-of-limitations Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) should have been granted to consider whether a federal prisoner's failure to file a timely amended 2255 m… -6.5
18-5508 Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… -6.5
18-5510 Quincy Andre Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by … -6.5
18-5511 Michael John Tarvin v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence false-imprisonment innocence-claim standing successive-petition INtRodUCtION Of The Mississiapi CRime Lab, ShaRt OfINAResutS FiRMed , JON INCONCUSIVE RESUtS IN. The ple SsG- Female Rectal Swab PN eRolcoicalCxamiNat… -6.5
18-5515 Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mr. Salemi a certificate of appealability with a summary order using boiler plate language. Did the Eleve… -6.5
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… -6.5
18-5520 James Morris Sellers v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act conclusion constitutional-provisions drug-offenses index prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-precedent table-of-contents Question not identified. -6.5
18-5521 Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS? … -6.5
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition whether the United Stater District Court of Northern California abused ito discretion by construing Pettioners Federal Rules of Civ.l Procedure Rule 6… -6.5
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for filing to file a motion for continuance to … -6.5
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the rule pronounced in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), barring the sentenci… -6.5
18-5526 Michael P. Lough v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? -6.5
18-5527 Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense 1. The Fourth Circuit contends in its decision that the Appellant failed to establish that the alleged Brady violation was material. Is the decision b… -6.5
18-5528 Brian Thurman v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution when it increased his sentence… -6.5
18-5535 Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence 1. Does the Prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution include disclosure of… -6.5
18-5536 Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants The petition is an opportunity for this Court to clear up several issues related to search warrants on cell phones. The questions presented include: (… -6.5
18-5541 Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax? -6.5
18-5542 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur Whether when, an Appellate court vacates a forfeiture order on direct appeal 'having found only partial of the District Court's trial order was valid … -6.5
18-5550 Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation In United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828 (1987), this Court held that a defendant may not be convicted of illegal reentry after a prior order o… -6.5
18-5552 Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… -6.5
18-5554 Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… -6.5
18-5555 William Womack v. Landan Adams, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment A. WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS JURISDICTION TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS DECISION IN GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT PURSUANT… -6.5
18-5556 Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations 1. Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when It allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad… -6.5
18-5559 Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER THE STATE OF OREGON'S IMPOSITION OF A TRUE LIFE SENTENCE UNDER A THREE STRIKES SENTENCING RECIDIVIST ENHANCEMENT STATUTE IS A MISCARRIAGE OF J… -6.5
18-5561 Jose Nieves-Galarza v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-career-act johnson-v-united-states new-york-penal-law new-york-penal-law-160.15(1) new-york-robbery-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement serious-physical-injury third-circuit violent-felony violent-force For a prior conviction to qualify as a predicate for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Criminal Career Act, it must be for an offense that is a "vi… -6.5
18-5564 Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… -6.5
18-5565 Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties 1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG… -6.5
18-5574 Christina Jay Acker v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing #1- SHOUZD THE ASSISTANT AHDRMLYS GLUERAL OF ARIZDWA .. i.E. MICHAEL CDTTERIED ANS KELLY MDRRISSEY BE ALADWED TO DSE CAANBE BF DENUE FROM STATE TO FEL… -6.5
18-5576 DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine (1) Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 Unconstitutional on its face, as applied to Petitioner, and when read in conjunction with other laws becaus… -6.5
18-5579 In Re Brent Cole Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law common-law-right constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment justice petition-clause right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing 1. Is a court's refusal to allow an accused person any opportunity to be heard by themself and counsel a substantive violation of due process, common … -6.5
18-5585 Karen Mackey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search I. The Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's vehi… -6.5
18-5588 Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant I. Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a "warrant … -6.5
18-5593 Maurice Mitchell v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 Whether the District Court committed error by failing to sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement of the sentence under USSG sectio… -6.5
18-5598 John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is or should have been presumed correct. And whether Petitioner sustained his burden of over… -6.5
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a… -6.5
18-5604 Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas… -6.5
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal… -6.5
18-5606 Hagop Demirjian v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… -6.5
18-5607 Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness 1. Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the ev… -6.5
18-5613 Ladina Sykes v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … -6.5
18-5614 Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… -6.5
18-5615 Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated… -6.5
18-5617 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3142 18-usc-3156 bail bail-denial constitutional-violations crimes-of-violence detention detention-order due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention speedy-trial IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO DEFINE ALL CHAPTER 110 CRIMES OF 18 UNITED STATES CODE (18 U.S.C.), IN PARTICULAR § 2252, AND 2252A, AS … -6.5
18-5620 Mario Zuniga v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime I. Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… -6.5
18-5624 Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… -6.5
18-5630 Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… -6.5
18-5638 Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. California Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su… -6.5
18-5640 Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… -6.5
18-5644 Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… -6.5
18-5646 Syrus Martin v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. -6.5
18-5647 Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed … -6.5
18-5651 Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment 1. Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question? 2. Did… -6.5
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson 1. Evidence upon which the jury may rely in convicting a defendant must come through qualified sworn witnesses, not through a colloquy with a venirepe… -6.5
18-5654 Willie Lee Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … -6.5
18-5663 Curtis Lee Dale v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … -6.5
18-5667 Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… -6.5
18-5671 In Re Kenneth Simpson Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U… -6.5
18-5673 Eugene Smalls v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -6.5
18-5675 David Pate v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT? -6.5
18-5678 Lee Andrew Paul v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's opinion in Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 881 (2014), which held that … -6.5
18-5679 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel Was not William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment Right to counsel when the trial court refused to appoint a lawyer for him at the hearing at wh… -6.5
18-5680 Reginald McGee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-procedure indictment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-colloquy sentencing-enhancement violent-felony I. The district court reverisbly erred when it determined that the defendant's prior conviction for aggravated assault was a violent felony qual ifyin… -6.5
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t… -6.5
18-5684 Alejandro Verduzco-Rangel v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony controlled-substance deportation drug-trafficking immigration-law immigration-nationality-act mens-rea statutory-interpretation Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen is subject to mandatory removal if convicted of an "aggravated felony." The list of aggravated… -6.5
18-5685 Clifton Patterson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… -6.5
18-5686 Dwight Mundle v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… -6.5
18-5693 Arlow Antone Kay v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … -6.5
18-5696 Curtis Croft v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama opportunity-to-present-evidence sentencing-discretion split-of-authority Whether Illinois has misused the broad discretion allowed the states by endorsing a deferential, exclusive "backwards-looking" examination of the "col… -6.5
18-5699 Chuck Wayne Boyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 3553-factors 3582-modification criminal-sentencing discretion inmate-progress judicial-discretion post-sentence-history pre-sentence-history sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines usg-amendment-782 When considering a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C.§ 3582 and U.S.S.G. Amendment 782, does the court abuse it's discretion by not explaining the rea… -6.5
18-5701 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-circuit-dismissal sentence sentencing-appeal writ-of-error-coram-nobis DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL WHEN ITS DISMISSAL RESTS ON A BOILERPLATE ORDER STATING ONLY THAT 'PETITIONER'S APPEAL LA… -6.5
18-5706 Hugo Islas-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-100.4 8-cfr-100.4(a) 8-usc-1325 8-usc-1325(a)(1) administrative-law administrative-regulation entry federal-code geographic-designation immigration immigration-law port-of-entry statutory-interpretation Whether immigration officials "designate[d]" geographic areas or physical port facilities for "entry" in 8 C.F.R. § 100.4(a) for purposes of 8 U.S.C. … -6.5
18-5708 Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings WHETHER PETITIONER HAS BEEN DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R… -6.5
18-5709 Paul Allen Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN… -6.5
18-5710 Alejandro Amor v. United States, ex rel. Juan Pena, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP double-jeopardy eighth-amendment election-of-remedies estoppel excessive-fines false-claims-act materiality res-judicata restitution seventh-amendment Whether the False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729-33 (FCA), estoppel provision violates the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution. Whether as a result of t… -6.5
18-5725 Alfred Thomas v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… -6.5
18-5729 Juan Diaz, Jr. v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process sanctions standing subpoenas Question not identified. -6.5
18-5731 Heather Jo Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard DID THE LOWER COURT ERR IN ITS DECISON TO DENY RELIEF WHERE THIS COURT HAS RECOGNIZED THAT ROBBERY/BURGLARY FALL INTO THE CATEGORY, THAT FALLS UNDER T… -6.5
18-5736 Joshua Moses v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiplicitous-indictment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Prosecutor's conduct in charging petitioner with a multiplicitous indictment to gain a tactical advantage so infected the trial with unfai… -6.5
18-5739 Terril Kinchen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… -6.5
18-5740 In Re Mark Clark Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process relief separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether U.S.S.G. Amendment (790), a retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, calls into serious question the Seventh Circuit … -6.5
18-5744 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default Why do the fed.District Courts and the 11th Cir. Court of Appeals apparently agree that I have only stated that petitioner's indictment is simply "Fla… -6.5
18-5745 Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment SSUE (1) Did the Honorable Judge James S. Moody Jr. violate Mr. Molina's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in conjunction vith the due process cla… -6.5
18-5748 Rory Allen Meeks v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment QUESTION I: Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions: - In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… -6.5
18-5751 William Burke v. Georgia Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'? In this instance, the State adjusted the charges, and by ex… -6.5
18-5752 Randall B. Causey v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition? -6.5
18-5754 Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… -6.5
18-5756 Shondolyn Rochelle Blevins v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-instructions I) Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's 2 USC. 2255 Motion without an Evidentiary hearing? Has the denial of a… -6.5
18-5757 Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing I. THIS COURT SHOUID CONSIDER WHETHER PETONER FARLY PRESENTED HIS CLAIMS AT EACH LEVEL OF THE STAIE'S COURS FOR FEDERAL REVEW. A.PETITIONER HAS CEARLY… -6.5
18-5759 Daniela Castellanos v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates investigative-procedures officer-conclusions-opinions privacy privacy-invasion probable-cause wiretap-warrant wiretapping wiretapping-procedures-18-usc-2518 1. Whether the facts required to establish probable cause, Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S., 238, 103 S. Ct. 2317 (1983), include conclusions and opinions … -6.5
18-5766 Jian-yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-standard campaign-contribution campaign-contribution-violation campaign-finance civilian-affairs civilian-law-enforcement domestic-security-act jurisdiction-removal military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus-act prosecutorial-misconduct third-amendment Briefly, an Agent of Defense Criminal Investigation Service of the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Defense obtained the search and sei… -6.5
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… -6.5
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed sentencing rec… -6.5
18-5778 Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay WHETHER PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES AGAINST HIM WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR PROVIDED TESTIMONIAL HEARSAY STATEMENTS… -6.5
18-5780 Peter Vincent Capra v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of… -6.5
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing WHETHER FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 22 IS APPLICABLE TO FEDERAL PRISONERS WHO ARE PROCEEDING UNDER STATUTES 28 U.S.C. § 2241 AND 28 U.S.C. § … -6.5
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition… -6.5
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitle A Pro Se Defendant the right to have (1) discovery conducted on his claims of gove… -6.5
18-5795 Luis Antonio Ibarra v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause double-jeopardy felon-in-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea statutory-interpretation I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to establish that the bright line "Blockburger" double jeopardy test accepted in Dixon is the one a… -6.5
18-5822 Charles O. Keene v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split In criminal cases, where a defendant's conviction is based on eyewitness identification, this Court has found that it was the likelihood of misidentif… -6.5