Conference: 2018-11-02

96 cases — 0 granted, 96 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
18-18 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al. Fourth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b… 17.5
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … 10.5
18-121 James Rothery, et al. v. Lou Blanas, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-licensing discretionary-permit due-process equal-protection law-enforcement-exemption licensing-discretion second-amendment self-defense self-defense-rights standing takings (1) Does California's general prohibition to carry a loaded handgun outside the home, coupled with an arbitrary and capricious licensing scheme for ci… 9.0
18-125 Miriam Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc. Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ada church-governance civil-rights employment-discrimination first-amendment grussgott hosanna-tabor ministerial-exception non-discrimination non-discrimination-policy religious-institution waiver waiver-doctrine Does the definition of "religious institution" in the two prong test for "ministerial exception" in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sch.… 9.0
18-296 Amado Diaz v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 8.5
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether, In The Context Of An Automobile Search, Dwellers In Multi-Family Homes Have A Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy In The Areas Surrounding Thei… 8.5
18-259 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Derrick Wheatt, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-deadline due-process indemnification motion-to-amend qualified-immunity settlement-agreement standing state-actors wrongful-conviction 1. Whether the Court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner City Defendants Qualified Immunity defense when it became implicated during Discovery… 5.5
18-262 Xiu Jian Sun v. Stephen Mullkoff Second Circuit Denied civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights divine-directive divine-intervention doctrine-and-covenants due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-action legal-standing religious-doctrine religious-freedom spiritual-claim spiritual-messenger standing widow-parable The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows Lord god of host Jehovah s… 5.5
18-278 Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. New York Denied civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection 1. Are men in America becoming a discriminated class, and if not, are historically prejudiced fathers in domestic relations courts nevertheless entitl… 5.5
18-282 Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. Georgia Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 1) If Pickering and its progeny are applicable to cases involving off-duty public employees who are speaking to matters of public interest which are n… 5.5
18-286 Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. California Denied administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers In 2010, Petitioner Abhijit Prasad was investigated by Defendants' California child welfare agency, who told Prasad he was reported to the Child Abuse… 5.5
18-290 Eugene Martin LaVergne, et al., Appellants v. United States House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia Denied None 5.5
18A365 Ellis Keyes v. Edison Banks Sixth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18-314 Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… 4.5
18-275 Patricia Smith, et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived benghazi civil-procedure civil-rights dc-circuit defamation federal-court-procedure federal-courts government-immunity hillary-clinton motion-to-dismiss sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction substitution substitution-of-defendant westfall-act Did the DC Circuit err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ("District Court") substituting the United State… 3.5
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders for disclosure of … 3.5
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not… 3.5
18-299 Ross Harry Briggs v. Charles E. Rendlen, III, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii bankruptcy bankruptcy-court civil-procedure claims-allowance creditor-debtor creditor-debtor-relations due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction separation-of-powers Whether a federal claim pending before an Article I bankruptcy judge and intertwined with the bankruptcy but resolvable outside the claims allowance p… 3.5
18-325 Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver Pursuant to Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), the Fourth Amendment is violated where law enforcement intentionally or recklessly includes false… 3.5
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Amor Medina Del Rosario and Elvie Canlas Del Rosario, the Petitioners, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issue… 3.5
18-346 Estate of Jason Allen Smallwood v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction implied-contract implied-in-fact-contract jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar scheuer-v-rhodes sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation tucker-act veterans-benefits 1. In the face of Scheuer v. Rhodes, whether the trial court could have properly determined that the Estate's complaint must fail? 2. Whether 38 U.S.… 3.5
18-371 George M. Wang v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 additional-features alice-corp-v-cls-bank inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus patent-application patent-claims patent-community patent-eligibility patent-protection phonetic-symbol-system useful-invention Whether the claims of the very useful invention contain "additional features" embodying an inventive concept that makes the invention patent-eligible. 3.5
18-388 Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence In Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999), this Court held that The United States Patent Office must support rejection with substantial evidence. See… 3.5
18-411 Cindy Omidi v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 31-usc-5317 31-usc-5324 civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture jurisdictional-basis money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation structuring 1. Does 31 U.S.C. § 5317 give a district court authority to enter a personal money judgment against a person who has violated only 31 U.S.C. § 5324(a)… 3.5
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered … 3.5
18-5393 Shane McMahan v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… 0.5
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him at trial violated Bryant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment r… -1.0
18-6139 Julia Monique Frias v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights government-delay judicial-review prejudice pretrial-incarceration reduced-sentence sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-sentence tenth-circuit I. Whether a defendant's lost opportunity to seek a reduced state sentence under state law can constitute prejudice under Barker? II. Whether to show… -1.5
18-6184 Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se… -1.5
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement. -1.5
18-6205 Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), thereby … -1.5
18-6280 Thomas Gilmore Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion revocation state-conviction state-court-conviction supervised-release I. Whether a district court's decision to revoke a term of supervised release that is based upon a previous state court conviction which is being chal… -1.5
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether or under what circumstances the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's refusal to answer law enforcement questioni… -4.5
18-5105 Atnafu Ras Makonnen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Whether in its supervisory jurisdiction over the Courts of the United States, and based upon this Court's clear precedent and the facts of record, thi… -4.5
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied … -4.5
18-5303 Maurice Mason v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-decision jury-recommendation ohio-death-penalty ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment A capital sentencing jury in Ohio has the responsibility of finding that one or more statutory aggravating circumstances were proven to exist beyond a… -4.5
18-5435 Martin Michael Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-felony I. Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation," a violent felony under the elements clause u… -4.5
18-5827 Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction-28-usc-1292 sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity statutory-interpretation title-i Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issue an Order that conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 1292 by denying Petitioner's appeal? Did… -4.5
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… -4.5
18-5862 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing Whether a prisoner has a constitutional right of access to the courts to litigate civil claims unrelated to his/her sentence or conviction? -4.5
18-5864 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws Can State actors and stite Court Violate the due process and equal protection clanses of the United States Constitution and the sfate's own enumerated… -4.5
18-5873 Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing IF w,rri- -'jcE o nFa IVrrk PQ ¶1 voLe Qti AJ EwAV1O(44L cfl riLe EiJ ' CkLLA'-G Lo$ F o!t1 poJc WILL P/WoLf S20 \4A41 rllpi~ T?-fL , ALL, ,f1o'ru… -4.5
18-5820 Augustus Hebrew Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'freedom-of-information" ' 'public-records" ' 'standing" ' 'state-government' civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether dismissal of an meritorious criminal action one because petitioner poverty makes it impossible to pay filing fees is constitutional permissibl… -6.0
18-6156 Hector Medina v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… -6.0
18-6163 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals, by affirming the lower Court's denial of this Petitioner's 28 USC 2255 Motion, fail to preserve his Fourth Am… -6.0
18-6229 Josh A. Wairi v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi 1. Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States, 543 U.S. 22… -6.0
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? In light of Johnso… -6.0
18-5816 Keith L. Nash v. Richard J. Bishop, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process incarceration jurisdiction medical-care prison standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-5878 Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cert I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights due-process executive-power legislative-authority prison-conditions prison-operations regulatory-compliance regulatory-oversight standing 1. Did the punishment which a criminal conviction entails deprive the petitioner of his First Amendment Constitutional Right to the Freedom of Speech?… -6.5
18-5897 Arthur Braddy v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO CORRECT THE TRIAL COURT'S IMPOSITION OF A MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCE … -6.5
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction? Whether the withheld … -6.5
18-5961 Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent Ground One The District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible lega… -6.5
18-5962 Theadene Mattis v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings When police know that a "confidential informant" being used to secure a search warrant is a suspect's spouse, is the failure to note the spousal relat… -6.5
18-5986 Damon L. Caldwell v. Stanley Payne, Superintendent, Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing realistic-opportunity resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants who had previously been illegally sentenced to mand… -6.5
18-6037 Raul S. Zavala v. Hector Rios, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions damages-claim due-process federal-courts mail-restrictions prison prison-mail prison-officials prison-regulations standing I. WHETHER ZIGLAR v. ABBASI, 137 S.Ct. 1843 (2017). PRECLUDES A MONEY DAMAGES CLAIM UNDER BIVENS v. SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARC… -6.5
18-6040 Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing Does The Petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right? Cognizable on 28 use 2254 and Uudr 28 Usc 225314)(2)?. Does a … -6.5
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report I. Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea in light of a psychiatric report… -6.5
18-6088 Joseph Burris v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… -6.5
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Under Brady v. Maryland, is the prosecution and the DEA required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA … -6.5
18-6138 Lance Fox v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… -6.5
18-6141 Damian O'Neil Towne v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure government-objection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review notice-of-appeal sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-miscalculation untimely-notice-of-appeal THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A GROSS MISCALCULATION OF THE SENTENCING GUIDELINE RANGE SHOULD BE CORRECTED WHE… -6.5
18-6149 Christopher Polk v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole parole-hearing resentencing resentencing-proceeding 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… -6.5
18-6155 Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision to deny the renewed motion for a new trial and in refusing to conduct… -6.5
18-6159 Charlise Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated? Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u… -6.5
18-6161 Terrance Lombard v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLY THE CLEAR ERROR STANDARD BY CONSIDERING FACTS ADDUCED AT TRIAL, BUT NOT CONSIDERED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE … -6.5
18-6165 Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings… -6.5
18-6169 Tracy L. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… -6.5
18-6178 Joseph A. Clark v. Eileen Ramey, Superintendent, Jefferson City Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… -6.5
18-6180 Brian Deronceler v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER… -6.5
18-6186 Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance I. WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DENIAL OF A I MOTION FOR SEVERANCE BY ALVIN BENITEZ FROM CODEFENDANT MANUEL GUEVARA WHERE GUEVARA … -6.5
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu… -6.5
18-6190 Simone Swenson v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-v-united-states brady-v-maryland brady-violation deference-to-district-court due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment-dismissal judicial-deference judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error supervisory-powers 1. Did the Fifth Circuit enter a decision in conflict with Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619, 638 n.9 (1993), by reviewing the district court's order… -6.5
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument? -6.5
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts 1. Whether a claim made in th e habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invoke s the same constitutional protections, but labeled di… -6.5
18-6198 Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… -6.5
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383… -6.5
18-6206 Jason Randall Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence 1. Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarr… -6.5
18-6208 Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… -6.5
18-6209 Kenneth Edward Werbach v. University of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-6213 Victor Garry Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-6215 Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… -6.5
18-6216 Musonda Mulenga v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review 1. Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.C… -6.5
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… -6.5
18-6225 Scott Mitchell Bummer v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment hearing-absence indefinite-retention motion-to-suppress personal-property telephonic-conference unreasonable-search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure Whether, during a three-day hearing, the Petitioner's absence from a telephonic conference on the second day violates his right to due process. Wheth… -6.5
18-6226 Roderick K. Forest v. Jason Lewis, Superintendent, Southeast Correctional Center Missouri Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-montgomery miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-hearing resentencing 1. Does the Eighth Amendment, as interpreted in Miller and Montgomery, require juvenile defendants, who had previously been illegally sentenced to man… -6.5
18-6240 Darryl Johnson v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c… -6.5
18-6241 Edward Jewell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… -6.5
18-6242 Billy Wayne Locke v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights takings civil-rights compensation due-process property seizure takings The Fed. gavetnmant The RighT am cF My Property Thay hale posgessicy search Mnarrawt anod The Fedigou Deny Thet S For TaTe p2k.18820 waS GM AT.F. AgN… -6.5
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court I. WHETHER THE STATE TRIAL COURT AND APPELLATE COURT ERRONEOUSLY DETERMINED THAT THE FEDERAL DOUBLE JEOPARDY PROTECTION BARRING REPROSECUTION AS A RES… -6.5
18-6266 Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness When conducting their substantive reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as t… -6.5
18-6267 Denise Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo 1. Whether, when the defendant and government disagree as to whether a specifically identified document constitutes a "statement" under the Jencks Act… -6.5
18-6268 Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure 1. IS llcir. Court of Appeals required to conduct a factual deternination baring review of his constftutional claims ? 2234 petition without making a… -6.5
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker (1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review? (2) What is the proper… -6.5
18-6277 Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… -6.5
18-6279 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 elements-of-crime federal-regulation federal-regulations federal-rule-11 guilty-plea jurisdiction rule-11 statute-of-conviction statutory-elements wire-fraud Could a guilty plea, accepted in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, support a conviction, when the conduct to which a defendant admit… -6.5
18-6282 Iseal Dixon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … -6.5