Conference: 2019-02-15

463 cases — 2 granted, 461 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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18-260 County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (3) clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection 1. Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as … 63.5
18-966 Department of Commerce, et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (52)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-decision agency-decision-making census discovery executive-branch standing 1. Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census … 63.0
18-443 Bobby James Moore v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay … 15.5
18-377 Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees 1. Whether states are barred by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from imposing PAC-status, with its resulting entity-based burdens, on gro… 15.0
18-462 Bobbie Gunderson, et vir v. Indiana, et al. Indiana Denied Amici (4) beach-access equal-footing equal-footing-doctrine great-lakes high-water-mark land-ownership navigable-waters ordinary-high-water-mark property-rights public-rights state-boundaries state-sovereignty territorial-sovereignty union-admission Under federal law, on admission to the Union a state takes title to lands underlying navigable waters, up to the "ordinary high water mark." On the se… 14.5
18-747 Sonja Ritter v. Lois Brady, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (4) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-chapter-7 bankruptcy-trustee chapter-7 chapter-7-liquidation judicial-precedent lien-stripping lien-valuation secured-claims stare-decisis statutory-interpretation unsecured-claims The question presented is whether Dewsnup v. Timm , 502 U.S. 410 (1992), should be overruled . 14.5
18-306 Steven M. Larrabee v. United States Armed Forces Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) active-duty civil-rights civilian-status court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-status separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember. 2. Whether, if so, the Constitution limits the jurisdictio… 14.0
18-404 The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. Colorado Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access defined by this Court in a series of cases culminating in Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior… 13.0
18-444 Montana v. Ronald Dwight Tipton Montana Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) calder-v-bull criminal-prosecution dna-evidence ex-post-facto sex-crimes statute-of-limitations stogner-v-california In Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), this Court held that a California statute that revived timebarred prosecutions for sex-related child ab… 12.0
18-546 Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact… 12.0
18-99 Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search (1) Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment? (2) In the alternative, did the Fi… 11.5
18-265 Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court A. Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of coun… 11.0
18-446 City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency First Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit (1) Do the Clean Water Act and NPDES rules require a "causation" demonstration beyond a "mere possibility" to impose more restrictive effluent limitat… 11.0
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t… 10.5
18-410 Corey D. Yates v. United States District of Columbia Denied brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process evidence-suppression federal-state-courts-split materiality preserving-brady-doctrine prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-diligence suppressed-evidence Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he did not know of the evidence suppressed by t… 10.5
18-423 Christopher Barrella v. Village of Freeport, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure golden-rule-argument jury-instructions liability liability-determination new-trial standing May a lawyer tell the jury to render the verdict they would want if they were in the shoes of a party or another person with an interest in the case? … 10.5
18-697 Tony Von Carruthers v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied argersinger-v-hamlin capital-case capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Does depriving a criminal defendant of trial counsel against his will, without at least the warnings and voluntary waiver required by Faretta, violate… 10.5
18-712 Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit Denied amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme… 10.5
18M92 Erik Lindsey Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied None 10.5
18M98 A. R. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Granted None 10.5
18-903 Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies "adequate" and "complete" even though … 9.5
18-861 WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar 35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting… 9.0
18-752 Edward Taupier v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response Waived civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… 8.5
18-789 Cecilia M. Hylton v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 26-usc-183 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process hobby horse-activity-taxation horse-related-activities per-curiam-decision section-183-hobby-loss tax tax-law taxation unpublished-opinion 1. Is petitioner denied due process of law when the court of appeals failed to timely advise her whether oral argument (which each party requested) wo… 8.5
18-884 Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia West Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… 8.5
18-406 Aaron J. Schock v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine immunity legislative-immunity non-justiciability pendent-appellate-jurisdiction rulemaking-clause separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause I. May a member of the Legislative Branch immediately appeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss an indictment on the ground that it violates the… 8.0
18-548 Adorers of the Blood of Christ, United States Province, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit Denied Amici (2) administrative-procedure agency-action federal-energy-regulatory-commission judicial-review natural-gas-act religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act standing The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects the free exercise of religion by prohibiting the government from substantially burdening a perso… 7.5
18-692 Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art 1. This Court has long held that "no patent can issue for an invention actually covered by a former patent, especially to the same patentee." Miller v… 6.5
18-695 Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity by defining clearly established law at too high a level of generality ra… 6.5
18-703 University of Southern California, et al. v. Allen L. Munro, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1) arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-scope erisa erisa-arbitration-agreement erisa-claims erisa-fiduciary-duty erisa-plan-participant fiduciary-duty plan-participant standing statutory-interpretation trust Whether an agreement to arbitrate "all claims" that an ERISA plan participant "may have" against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-du… 6.5
18-393 Aura Moody v. National Football League Second Circuit Denied Relisted (2) ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURTS DISMISSAL OF THE COMPLAINT AND THE CIRCUIT COURT'S AFFIRMATION OF SAME DEMONSTRATED THE FAILURE OF THE COURTS TO PROPERLY … 6.0
18-399 John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury Because of the numerous, fundamental and pervasive errors and omissions committed by the district court, and because the court of appeals affirmed the… 6.0
18-569 Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang California Denied Relisted (2) appeal child-custody civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fraud judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularities rule-8.57 Does due process require reversal of the dismissal where the court fraudulently concealed dismissal and knowingly dismissed the appeal with false grou… 6.0
18-295 Alexander Alimanestianu, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied due-process eminent-domain espousal fifth-amendment foreign-affairs foreign-state international-law just-compensation property-rights takings Horne v. Dep't of Agriculture, 135 S. Ct. 2419 (2015), holds that the Fifth Amendment imposes a categorical duty upon the government to pay just compe… 5.5
18-392 Aaron M. Richardson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying defendant's request to suppress C… 5.5
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Petitioner owns bonds issued by Respondent, the Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority ("HTA"). The bonds are secured by a lien on toll revenu… 5.5
18-580 Nu Image, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement declaratory-relief fraud fraud-claims intentional-misrepresentation labor-management-relations-act negligent-misrepresentation subject-matter-jurisdiction textron-lycoming Do federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Section 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a) over a complai… 5.5
18-597 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation 1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total… 5.5
18-652 Oussama El Omari v. Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority, et al. Second Circuit Denied amendment-of-complaint breach-of-contract commercial-activity-exception federal-common-law-immunity federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-15(a)(2) foreign-sovereign-immunities-act fraudulent-scheme fraudulent-smear-report fraudulent-smear-scheme government-instrumentality retaliation smear-campaign u.s.-citizen us-citizen us-citizen-employee us-citizen-employment Whether federal common law immunizes a foreign rul Whether leave to amend the complaint should have b I. Whether the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2), applies to an otherwise immuneforeign go… 5.5
18-681 Chinyere U. Nwoke v. Consulate of Nigeria Seventh Circuit Denied 28-usc-1603 28-usc-1605 commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception diplomatic-immunity foreign-service fsia fsia-28-usc-1603 fsia-28-usc-1605(a)(2) missing-passports passport-issuance proper-service-28-usc-1608 service-of-process sovereign-immunity Whether the practice of Respondent, CONSULATE OF NIGERIA, NY, that requires consulate officials to leave the New York Consulate office to advertise an… 5.5
18-687 Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands Denied chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's s… 5.5
18-691 Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. Missouri Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees … 5.5
18-721 Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit Denied certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a … 5.5
18-727 Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona Arizona Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a natural life sentence to (1) appointment… 5.5
18-744 Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t… 5.5
18-749 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan Michigan Denied conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… 5.5
18-751 Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators Inc. v. Francisco Bates, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied civil-rights due-process employee-polygraph-protection-act executive-branch-review executive-power federal-contractor federal-contractors judicial-review polygraph polygraph-examination security-clearance standing 1. Whether the Employee Polygraph Protection Act ("EPPA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2001 et seq., which prohibits private employers from directly or indirectly re… 5.5
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr… 5.5
18-754 David A. Ramirez v. Walmart North Dakota Denied civil-rights discrimination due-process employee-termination employment employment-law labor labor-rights protected-activity retaliation workload-allocation workplace-dismissal Why did the Walmart lawyer tell the court that this was a protected activity? In serial dismissals, as a protected activity, do statutes allow that t… 5.5
18-758 Johnnie C. Ivy, III, et al. v. H. Thomas Moran, II Sixth Circuit Denied civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process life-insurance ownership-claims predeprivation-hearing property property-rights receivership standing vested-interest vested-interests viatical-investment Petitioners are investors, or survivors of investors, who purchased shares in the death benefits of an individual, Mr. Jordan's, life insurance polici… 5.5
18A554 Mohan A. Harihar v. US Bank NA, et al. First Circuit Denied None 5.5
18A692 William J. Golz v. Benjamin S. Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tenth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M100 RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC Federal Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M101 Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey New Jersey Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M102 Thad Thompson v. Nolan Uehara Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M91 Theresa S. Romain v. Kimberly O'Connor, et al. New York Denied None 5.5
18M94 In Re Robert K. Hudnall Presumed Complete None 5.5
18M95 Richard Morales v. United States Second Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M96 Eric Golden v. Randy Pfister, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied None 5.5
18M97 Floyd Eugene Matthews v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied None 5.5
18M99 Grace S. Wong v. Jay J. Lubetkin, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Third Circuit Denied None 5.5
18-6157 Sealed Appellee v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver Whether, under the rules governing the construction of plea agreements and in light of due process fairness considerations, sentencewaiver provisions … 4.5
18-622 Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal discovery discovery-order first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-conduct judicial-review mohawk-industries mootness privilege supervisory-power (1) Whether the court of appeals' decision to exercise jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a discovery order rejecting a claim of privilege… 4.5
18-823 ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations Whether evidence of "secondary considerations" (e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented invention) is less important, functioning at … 4.5
18-878 Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation Whether, in order to satisfy the mental state requirement of "knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know" that removal or alteration of copy… 4.5
18-413 David R. Bosch v. Arizona Department of Revenue Arizona Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 26-usc-6103 26-usc-6103(d) administrative-procedure agreement-on-coordination-of-tax-administration due-process federal-authority federal-law information-sharing non-federal-agency privacy-act recipient-agency state-tax statutory-interpretation tax-administration May a, "non-federal," / "recipient agency," (as defined in the Privacy Act of 1974) purport to act under authority of 26 U.S.C. § 6103(d) pursuant to … 4.0
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the … 4.0
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal The questions presented are ripe for the Court's guidance on at least four unresolved or underdeveloped aspects of civil litigation, namely conflict i… 4.0
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Premise of the Question: A Federal Judge is a Board member and Board advisor of a major social organization. The defendant in a case being heard by th… 4.0
18-6385 Jeffrey Bernard Beeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule residual-clause sentencing-challenge statutory-interpretation In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… 4.0
18-669 Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a District Attorney, who in his private law practice represented, and received hund… 3.5
18-700 Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation Delaware Denied Response Waived constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Whether it is a violation under the Constitution 5th and 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Under the Law Clauses that the Delaware Super… 3.5
18-705 Wendell Griffen, Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pulaski County, Arkansas v. John Dan Kemp, Chief Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived all-writs-act civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-1983 due-process jurisdiction mandamus motion-to-dismiss non-final-order standing writ-of-mandamus In this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a divided panel of the Eighth Circuit purported to exercise jurisdiction under the All Writs Act t… 3.5
18-707 Marie A. Becton v. Social Security Administration, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
18-713 Stuart Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby drawing-inferences-in-favor-of-nonmovant. genuine-issue-of-material-fact procedural-rules tolan-v-cotton adickes-v-s-h-kress-co anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure due-process genuine-issue-of-fact inference-drawing nonmovant-evidence procedural-rules summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton I. Whether the U.S.A.'s failure to "respond" and the Magistrate Judge's failure to "deem admitted" in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent … 3.5
18-717 PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation (a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… 3.5
18-718 Geoffrey M. Young v. Sannie L. Overly, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud immunity judicial-review party-accountability political-parties standing statutory-interpretation If the decision in Rosenberg v. Republican Party of Jefferson County, 270 S.W2d 171 (Ky. 1954) is not overturned, will the Republican and Democratic P… 3.5
18-720 Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness On summary judgment: 1. Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly … 3.5
18-724 City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture 1. Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny th… 3.5
18-731 Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution I. Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment c… 3.5
18-734 Daniel G. Szmania v. E-Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-dispute jurisdiction-challenge ninth-circuit-review procedural-error property-rights res-judicata standing trustee-sale Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (Ninth) error when not enforcing a ruling of the U.S. District Court Western District of … 3.5
18-736 Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA New Jersey Denied Response Waived civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to pro… 3.5
18-741 Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi… 3.5
18-743 White Oak Realty, LLC, et al. v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived agency-action agency-authority chevron-deference congressional-authority federal-contracts property-rights public-projects regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-conditions 1. Where a statute directs an agency to carry out and pay for a federal project for public benefit without granting express authority to regulate priv… 3.5
18-748 Richard McKinley Wilson, Jr. v. Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue of Stafford County, et al. Virginia Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process international-law jurisdiction legal-recognition nation-state property-law sovereignty standing taxation In this case the Petitioner officially proclaimed his true nationality by repatriating back to his newly reestablished nation state. Provisions of the… 3.5
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings As the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney were not acting as advocates for the people when they permitted Petitioner's co… 3.5
18-767 Ancient Coin Collectors Guild v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment archaeological-objects burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture cultural-property due-process export-control import-restrictions prospective-application unesco-convention 1. Did the courts below violate the Guild's 5th Amendment Due Process Rights when they authorized the forfeiture of the Guild's private property witho… 3.5
18-768 In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg from Minnesota to the Syngenta MDL for "pretrial proceedings" is a "judicial usurpation of power [and] a cle… 3.5
18-769 Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris I. The question presented is whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court, having properly before it… 3.5
18-770 Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p… 3.5
18-771 Pedro Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-sanctions due-process employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss pro-se sanctions 1. Whether review is warranted because the Court of Appeals affirmed a sanction of $61,605.25 in attorney's fees against a pro se Plaintiff for an all… 3.5
18-775 Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction For No. 18-6346, the question is whether the order is void which committed administrative error, a nonjudicial act by not issuing summons to defendant… 3.5
18-777 Jorge Bueno-Muela v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Following this Court's decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), three circuit courts of appeals have held that a failure to disclos… 3.5
18-780 Lisa Marie Kerr v. Marshall University Board of Governors, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6)-motion academic-deference civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process first-amended-complaint first-amendment leave-to-amend savings-statute sex-discrimination sexual-orientation sexual-orientation-discrimination Under the Civil Rights Act, is sexual orientation discrimination unlawful "on the basis of sex," and/or "because of.. . sex," as held by the Second an… 3.5
18-787 Robert Lee Rhoe, II v. Montgomery County Office of Child Support Enforcement Maryland Denied Response Waived 13th-amendment child-support civil-rights dna dna-rights due-process economic-enslavement liberty paternity-testing property takings thirteenth-amendment Does MCOCSE and the Maryland Courts have jurisdiction and legal authority to intervene on behalf of a foreign person illegally present in the United S… 3.5
18-791 Kyle James Moesch v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-rights douglas-v-california due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 357 (1963), this Court held that prisoners are entitled to counsel on their as-of-right direct appeal because … 3.5
18-794 Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… 3.5
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must… 3.5
18-796 Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing Did the Western District Court erred in not allowing ALL parties to respond to the original complaint? Did the Western District Court erred in not al… 3.5
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years as frivolous, per , the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or is it an international case of enforced disapp… 3.5
18-804 Wanda McClure Dry, as Administrator Ad Litem for the Estate of Laurence R. Dry v. Christi Lenay Fields Steele, et al. Tennessee Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process estate-administration notice notice-requirement personal-service pro-se-litigant rule-25 rule-4 rule-5 service-of-process Does Rule 5 service by mail to a deceased pro se party satisfy the due process requirement of notice and opportunity to be heard prior to the taking o… 3.5
18-806 Jodi C. Hohman, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure federal-court financial-privacy-act fourth-amendment john-doe-summons jurisdictional-discovery limited-liability-company right-to-financial-privacy-act sovereign-immunity The questions presented are i) whether at least some types of limited liability companies may be considered a "person" and thus a "customer" under the… 3.5
18-808 Kirk E. Webster v. Patrick M. Shanahan, Acting Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process intelligence-agency retaliation settlement whistleblower Should a settlement agree be rendered legally invalid if the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Associate General Counsel Jack W Rickert, used … 3.5
18-818 Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration Whether the statutory requirement that the petitioner show his criminal case was dismissed based on innocence or grounds consistent with innocence as … 3.5
18-820 Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal Whether lower courts can blatantly disregard U.S. Supreme Court, Eleventh Circuit and sister circuit precedent law, ignore landmark cases, disrespect … 3.5
18-825 Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding that the state-created danger doctrine is not clearly established law and in failing to apply it, whe… 3.5
18-826 Kenneth Shelton v. Anthonee Patterson Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived church-autonomy first-amendment hosanna-tabor hosanna-tabor-v-eeoc intra-church-disputes intra-church-litigation jones-v-wolf judicial-scrutiny leadership-succession neutral-principles religious-dispute serbian-eastern-orthodox-diocese-v-milivojevich Whether this Court should clarify Jones v. Wolf and Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C., given the doctrinal uncertainty and unpredictability reflected in incon… 3.5
18-828 Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations The case involves application of the "separate accrual rule" to commissions earned by the Petitioners and collected each month by the Respondent from … 3.5
18-833 Brandi K. Stokes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure geneva-conventions international-law judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-review subject-matter subject-matter-characterization subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-obligations united-states-courts Whether a United States Court of Appeals may rely upon the subject matter characterizations of a lower court to avoid jurisdiction to review a claim f… 3.5
18-839 Pablo Colon v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time? 3.5
18-841 Michale Anthony Hoffman v. Florida Florida Denied Response Waived airport aviation-authority civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment forum-analysis free-speech non-public-forum public-forum public-sidewalk public-street standing Whether the shoulder of a public street, owned by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, but approximately one mile from the Jacksonville International … 3.5
18-846 David Allen Anderton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la… 3.5
18-850 David Altstatt, Sr. v. Melinda Fruendt, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived arbitration blind-vendors compensatory-damages eleventh-amendment randolph-sheppard-act sovereign-immunity When States voluntarily choose to participate under the Randolph Sheppard Act, and consent to arbitration of blind vendors' grievances, do the states … 3.5
18-851 Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … 3.5
18-856 Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department Maryland Denied Response Waived accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland? Where a state age… 3.5
18-857 Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override… 3.5
18-858 James McCullars v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small … 3.5
18-860 Larry Edward Parrish v. Board of Professional Responsibility Tennessee Denied Response Waived arbitrary-punishment civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech lawyer-sanctions professional-conduct recusal-motion sanctions standing 1. Should the judgment of the Tennessee Supreme Court below be reversed because the Tennessee Supreme Court arbitrarily punished Petitioner/lawyer as … 3.5
18-863 Tralvis Edmond v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… 3.5
18-864 John Tatum, et ux. v. The Dallas Morning News, Inc., et al. Texas Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection defamation first-amendment free-speech milkovich-precedent milkovich-v-lorain omnicare-v-laborers opinion opinion-piece opinion-speech Whether this Court's decisions in Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. and Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers Dist. Council Const. Industry Pension Fund hold that … 3.5
18-872 Dariusz Dolacinski, et ux. v. Bank of America Florida Denied Response Waived circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consent-fraud due-process final-judgment foreclosure foreclosure-sale fraud jurisdiction-challenge service service-defect service-of-process standing If the Consent to final judgement in writing or otherwise never existed and was falsely and/or fraudulently presented to the Court by the Respondent's… 3.5
18-874 Houston Auto M. Imports Greenway, Limited, dba Mercedes-Benz of Houston Greenway v. Mark Zastrow, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment certificate-of-compliance declaration-under-penalty-of-perjury due-process eminent-domain land-use property-rights supreme-court-rule-33.1(d) supreme-court-rule-33.1(h) takings word-count Question not identified. 3.5
18-902 Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application An application for a writ of habeas corpus should be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings t… 3.5
18-931 David Christopher Hesse v. Jason Kane Howell Texas Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-process civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process false-arrest legal-procedure prosecutorial-immunity state-law-immunity texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code wrongful-incarceration 1. Are acting as a witness by swearing to facts, abusing process and committing crimes, acts that are foreign to the duties of a prosecutor? If so, is… 3.5
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition This petition concerns the proper standard for evaluating whether a Rule 60(b) motion "alleges" a proper claim for relief from a habeas judgment, and … 0.5
18-6011 Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes (1) Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires, as a necessary prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants under domestic law based on determinatio… -1.0
18-6061 Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute I. In a direct criminal appeal, is it a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals r… -1.0
18-6096 Michael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… -1.0
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit I. Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while … -1.0
18-6185 Jason Beckman v. Florida Florida Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding factfinding jury-factfinding juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-factors miller-v-alabama sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Petitioner Jason Beckman, a juvenile at the time of the offense, was convicted of first-degree murder. Because he was a juvenile, he received an indiv… -1.0
18-6187 Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship 1) Did the appeals court err affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization pursuant citizenship application when the Su… -1.0
18-6212 Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e IF A DEFENDANT DID TRY TO PERSUADE THE COURT OF APPEALS TO CHANGE ITS BINDING PRECEDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, WOULD THE DEFENDANT BE ABLE TO SEEK RELI… -1.0
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel… -1.0
18-6679 Donate Graham v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing forfeiture-doctrine giles-v-california intent witness-procurement Whether the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause encompasses acts of wrongful witness procurement done by alleged co-conspir… -1.0
18-7084 Anthony Steven Young v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 1. What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence … -1.5
18-7088 Oscar Raul Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. -1.5
18-7095 Miguel Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant Rigid legal rules are ill-suited'" to an analysis of probable cause. Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 232 (1986) (citation omitted). Did the Court of … -1.5
18-7102 Curtis D. Huling v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence mens-rea mental-state physical-force recklessness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 voisine-v-united-states Section 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines raises the offense level for a "crime of violence" or "controlled substance offense" commi… -1.5
18-7103 Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance 1. Whether the "official restraint" doctrine precludes the possibility that that a defendant can be illegally "found in" the United States, for purpos… -1.5
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… -1.5
18-7145 William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due … -1.5
18-7180 Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… -1.5
18-7181 Antonio Amar White v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment because the district court's factual findings, based on dismissed conduct, provided the leg… -1.5
18-7184 Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to an application by an Assistant United States Attorney, and not a… -1.5
18-7192 Lavell Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… -1.5
18-7197 Johnnie O'Neil Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence generic-robbery minimal-force no-threat-of-violence no-violence robbery sentencing-guidelines split-among-circuits statutory-interpretation Whether theft offenses requiring no more than minimal force and no violence or threat of violence categorically constitute generic "robbery" for purpo… -1.5
18-7214 Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… -1.5
18-7230 Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Where Counsel Advised Ashley that if He Made an Open Plea to th… -1.5
18-7264 Joel E. Miller v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzales-v-oregon jury-instructions medical-malpractice medical-practice medical-practitioner prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care united-states-v-moore Because many controlled substances have medical uses, the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA") authorizes doctors and other medical practitioners to issu… -1.5
18-7294 Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches Where a police officer initiates a stop of an individual pursuant to Terry v. Ohio and pats down the outer clothing of the individual and feels an obj… -1.5
18-7307 Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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
18-7393 Rodrigo Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… -1.5
18-7421 Torrence Allen v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… -1.5
18-8023 A. R. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Florida Granted Response WaivedIFP None -1.5
18-6374 William Carl Welsh v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… -3.0
18-5621 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata Does fraud vitiates every judicial proceedings, if so, did the Fourth Circuit Court's decision [at App. 1] affirming the district court's reasons base… -3.5
18-6409 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference Question 1 In Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), this Court announced that where a state court issues a summary denial of a habeas petitioner… -3.5
18-5200 Kerry Kruskal v. Allan Meltzer, et al. New Mexico Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collection-fees contract contract-dispute due-process judgment-lien punitive-damages standing takings trust-account Should Kruskal be entitled to a full release for paying off the entire judgment lien on 10/1/2015 On 10/1/2015, when Kruskal entirely paid off the ju… -4.0
18-5425 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. New York Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing 1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272 2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out… -4.0
18-5584 Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson in (2011).. Nine years after Robinson v. Solano cty., 248 F. 3d 1007(9th Cir. 2002) was unconstitutio… -4.0
18-5628 John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona Arizona Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent 2. Did Arizona State Reviewing Courts refuse to determine trial court's intentional Plain Error abuses of discretion to be perjurous ruling proved by … -4.0
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review (1) DID THE SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA ERR WHEN IT REVERSED THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA'S RULING AND AFFIRMED THE JUDGEMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT? (… -4.0
18-5722 Keith Robert Lugo v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedures-act board-of-prison-terms constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-offender juvenile-parole parole senate-bill-261 some-evidence standard-of-proof Whether the Board of Prison Terms Violated Senate Bill 261 for Failing to Apply the Legally Correct Standard of Analysis; and, in Doing so, Failed to … -4.0
18-5742 Solomon David Roberts v. Florida Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.? Pe… -4.0
18-5888 Jared Morrison v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitation constitutional-violations deferred-adjudication due-process habeas-corpus mcquiggin-perkins mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice schlup-v-delo Question #1: Whether a Mcquiggin v. Perkins 133 s_ct 1924'(20,13) actual innocence gateway past the AEDPA 1-year limitation period default can be deni… -4.0
18-5931 John Laschkewitsch v. Legal & General America, Inc., dba Banner Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contestability-period contract due-process incontestable-period-violation insurance insurance-authorities insurance-contract insurance-policy-contract manifest-disregard perjury-fraud-on-court policy-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitation unfair-claim-settlement unfair-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-practices unfair-trade-practices Whether LGA can rely on a policy never issued or produced by either party, changed absent the policy owner's written consent; and Hurni, Enelow, Stewa… -4.0
18-6055 Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority I. Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion that confl… -4.0
18-6106 James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified. -4.0
18-6134 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion dismissal due-process federal-claim legal-action procedural-issue standing summary-judgment Thogh th ort Fo FAic to Peosece Becous Pettonkn CoulD Not COME op with thet5ooe, whew oft prisoNERs whe May Havk 5O0 COULD PUL FORWAA HSOO.D ANd AAUE … -4.0
18-6168 Soon Young Kim v. California California Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing If You will be clear at below mention by my petition of 39 pages, what would You do against such jurists, tremendous crimes as the National matter!? … -4.0
18-6526 In Re Masao Yonamine Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights district-court exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus personal-liberty state-writ unlawful-detention void-judgment writ-of-mandamus POINT I PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 USC 2241(a)(c)(3) SUBMITTED AGAINST THE PERSON(S) WHO HOLDS PETITIONER IN WHAT PETI… -4.0
18-6942 Monserrate Zapata v. PECO Energy Company Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-regulatory-commission government-regulation pleading-standards property-rights smart-meter standing state-actor utility-regulation utility-service utility-shut-off Whether judges may make findings of fact at the pleading stage in dismissing claims for "failure to state a claim." Whether the District Court erred … -4.0
18-6009 Emile Myrthil v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force 1. Is "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018)… -4.5
18-6269 Matthew Clayton Lloyd v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence extortion force-clause intimidation johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states physical-force sentencing-review weapon-enhancement I.Is federal bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which can be accomplished by "intimidation" or "extortion" a crime of violence as defined … -4.5
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … -4.5
18-6336 Chamontae Walker v. United States District of Columbia Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty This petition raises an issue on which courts are divided: is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty disclose evidence favorable to the… -4.5
18-6563 Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States First Circuit Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… -4.5
18-6588 Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… -4.5
18-6608 William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… -4.5
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit… -4.5
18-6741 Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis? -4.5
18-6766 David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions (1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio… -4.5
18-6773 Tito Knox v. David Plowden Fourth Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity 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
18-6802 Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) requires prosecutors to provide their actual reasons for striking jurors. The prosecutor here provided reasons … -4.5
18-6803 Anthony McNeil v. Mr. Grim, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure-rules-12-b-6-motion-to-dismiss civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment-free-speech standing arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial statute-of-limitations Question not identified. -4.5
18-6805 Jose Rodriguez v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions penal-code-187a principal reasonable-doubt Allege "INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE" is FEDERAL QUESTION, Petitioner Mr. JOSE RODRIGUEZ, is not the PRINCIPAL Jury Instructions for count one and two, P.C. … -4.5
18-6815 Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing QUESTION 1: IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN… -4.5
18-6835 Ricardo Enriquez Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP benefits civil-rights due-process eligibility prison statutory-limits workers-compensation INNOCEN PRISIONEN FOR PASE ARNEST SOSER: STATE Workers Compensation for Accident oured IN TD or for Soter and Pain is Posible in'TOC = Under, Comoonsa… -4.5
18-6837 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Inaffective Assistance of… -4.5
18-6840 John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause AMEVDMEST DOUBSLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE BAR BETRAL WGEO, UPON DIRECT APPEAL, THE COOLCLUSLOH OF THE APPELLATE COURT IS; OVERLVELMING EUIDEHCE DUES HOT SURPO… -4.5
18-6850 Steven Madina Esparza v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 court-appointed-counsel discretionary-review equitable-tolling federal-courts finality-of-conviction gonzales-v-thaler gross-negligence habeas-corpus look-through-presumption ylst-v-nunnemaker I. Under GONZALES V. THALER, 565 U.S.134(2012), does a Petitioner's conviction become 'Final" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) (A), 30 days afte… -4.5
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search DOES THE ACT OF ACCESSING ANY INFORMATION FROM A CELLULAR PHONE WITHIOUT A WARRANT CONTRAVENE THIS COURT'S DECISION,.. THE UNITEO STATES SUPREME COURT… -4.5
18-6876 Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 … -4.5
18-6877 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity 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
18-6884 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment After invalidating one of four (4) aggravating factors found by the jury, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reweighed the remaining aggravating c… -4.5
18-6885 Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment With the decision to classify testimonial or non-testimonial statements per Crawford v. Washington 124 S.t 1354 as to whether Confrontation clause app… -4.5
18-6888 Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik Ninth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -4.5
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Where there exists intra and inter-circuit splits among the federal courts of appeals on a question of exceptional importance concerning "structural e… -4.5
18-6901 Enoch D. Hall v. Florida Florida Denied IFP advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… -4.5
18-6902 Scott Mansfield v. Florida Florida Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … -4.5
18-6928 Asia Johnson v. Christopher Wylie, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights compensation data-misuse data-privacy data-protection due-process facebook-litigation government-surveillance personal-information privacy privacy-violation social-media standing third-party-access Asia Johnson v Christopher Wylie case number 2-18-cv-00415 Was submitted for possible dismissal stating that this action is frivolous or malicious. F… -4.5
18-6929 Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights climate-change constitutional-crisis due-process environmental-law equal-protection gender-discrimination political-feud racial-discrimination restoration Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth case number 2-18-cv-00611 Was submitted for possible dismissal as frivolous pursuant. -4.5
18-6930 Asia Johnson v. Jacob Rothschild Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-6931 Asia Johnson v. Rothschild Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-6932 Asia Johnson v. German Aerospace Center Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process environmental-protection free-speech housing-crisis pro-se-petition public-health standing sunlight-access takings Question not identified. -4.5
18-6933 Asia Johnson v. Children Youth and Families Third Circuit Denied IFP child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process negligence pro-se-litigation standing state-agency-liability summary-dismissal Was ordered to Dismiss my complaint summarily affirmed lower court decision -4.5
18-6940 Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court (1) Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Faretta "clearly established," for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), that a request for self-represent… -4.5
18-6950 Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… -4.5
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Question 1. Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional … -4.5
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law 1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una… -4.5
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure 1.If arbitrary government intrusion violates the fourth amendment by means of unlawful detention with out probable cause, can thgt intrusion be used t… -4.5
18-6960 Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Question not identified. -4.5
18-6962 In Re Walter E. Kostich Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements Question #1), Whether, the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case, in the absence of a statutory required signed "… -4.5
18-6966 Tina L. Wagoner v. New York New York Denied IFP abuse-of-power civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct pauperis-exclusion standing state-action state-actor-immunity state-actors Pauperis exclusion from both State and Federal Constitutional rights is of extreme importance to the estimated ninety percent of this nation's active-… -4.5
18-6976 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon This Courts precedent in United States V. Di xon, 509 U.S. 698 (1993) reached the question of whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a lesser -in… -4.5
18-6977 James Edward Mitchell v. California California Denied IFP california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation DOES THE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN CALIFORNIA VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHERE IT FAILS TO CONVEY THAT THE "DI… -4.5
18-6987 Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review I. Does The Failure OfThe Arlansas Department. Of Correction To Pay Equitale Remuneration To Its Inmate Population Equate To Mader Day Slavery? II. D… -4.5
18-6990 Elena Sturdza v. United Arab Emirates District of Columbia Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion court-procedure due-process guardian-ad-litem incompetence incompetent-person judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-representation standing The affirmative answer to the following questions constitutes the proof that both US Courts have drastically departed from the accepted and usual cour… -4.5
18-6991 Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges. Consequently, char… -4.5
18-6998 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina South Carolina Denied IFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 81797 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who c… -4.5
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction The District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide whether Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state Court act… -4.5
18-7001 In Re Michael Kennedy Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction free-speech habeas-corpus pleadings standing The united States Court of Appeals imposed sanctions against a prisoner without proof of and certified document of petitioner signature or sworn or wi… -4.5
18-7002 Clifton Stanley Diaz, Jr. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority District of Columbia Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law damages default-judgment due-process employment judicial-review legal-procedure motion reinstatement remand standing statutory-interpretation U.S. COURT OF APPENCS FOR TNE D.C. CIRAMIT D.D NOT RESPOND TO THE MOTION SEEKING MONETARY DAMAGES BECAUSE THE COURT WAS REVIEWING THE ORDER FICED FIVE… -4.5
18-7014 Muriel Collins v. Alan B. Epstein, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-hearing civil-rights code-of-conduct criminal-justice due-process employment employment-dispute last-chance-agreement retaliation termination termination-procedures whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-termination Why was Plaintiff issued disciplinary actions for following Defendants Kimberly-Clark Chester PA LLC. And Kimberly-Clark Corp. Code of Conduct and abs… -4.5
18-7018 Luis Santos LaGaite, Jr. v. James Foley, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 3-strikes 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-fairness magna-carta standing 1. IS THE 3 STRIKES PROVISIONS OF 28 USC SECTION §1915 (G) IS IN VIOLATION OF THE MAGNA CARTA 3 DUE PROCESS RULING OF DANGER OF IMMINENT SERIOUS BODIL… -4.5
18-7025 Tyree Marquez Burt v. California California Denied IFP coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure Under long standing precedent from this Court, although a trial judge may instruct a deadlocked jury about its duty to deliberate, it cannot coerce a … -4.5
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Question not identified. -4.5
18-7031 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis standing THE PETITIONER'S COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE PETITIONER'S MOTION TO PROCEED ON FORMA PAUPERIS ON APPEAL? DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DI… -4.5
18-7041 Mark P. Donaldson v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan Denied IFP administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cms-compliance due-process federal-preemption federal-regulations hearing-rights medicaid medicaid-regulations preemption procedural-due-process state-agencies supremacy-clause Whether Mr. Donaldson's procedural due process rights afforded him under Medicaid including 45 C.F.R. 155.530 (a), (b)(1) - (3) have been violated by … -4.5
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application, if any, of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to P… -4.5
18-7047 Anthony Casanova v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination DID THE TRIAL COURT'S ADMISSION OF ANTHONY CASANOVA'S CUSTODIAL CONFESSION DEPRIVE HIM OF HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINST COMPELLED SELF-INCRIMINATI… -4.5
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes "an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim" in state court? Does Stone v. Powell apply when a case is … -4.5
18-7056 David Leonard Johnson v. California California Denied IFP california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery I. IS THE CRIME OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF ROBBERY, AND IF SO, WAS THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE. TO INSTRUCT ON RECEIV… -4.5
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Question not identified. -4.5
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct 1. DID THE COMMONWEALTH COMMIT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT WHEN IT INTENTIONALLY WITHELD VARIOUS FORMS OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE IN VIOLATION OF THE 14TH AMEN… -4.5
18-7075 Patrick Martinez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Texas courts found no ineffective assistance of counsel in this criminal case where the Petitioner, Sergeant Patrick Martinez, rejected a pretrial ple… -4.5
18-7081 Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a prisoner to challenge a di… -4.5
18-7085 Larry A. McGhee v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP affirmative-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-constitution free-speech jurisdiction public-education standing state-constitution WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FINDING THAT PETITIONER FAILED TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF PURSUANT TO MCR 6.508 WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIV… -4.5
18-7090 Leonardo T. Morales v. Florida Florida Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-writ-of-certiorari supreme-court-precedent "Whether the Florida Supreme Court dismissal of mandamus conflicts with this court's decisions in Schlagenhaufv. Holder, 379 U.S. 104, 110, 85 S. Ct. … -4.5
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… -4.5
18-7124 Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search In Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 35, 41 (1996) Justice Ginsburg, in a concurring opinion, discussed the need to evaluate both the reason for an initial … -4.5
18-7247 In Re Dennis Roger Bolze Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining Question not identified. -4.5
18-7286 Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness One area where free speech is under significant attack is within this country's school system, where perhaps the most vulnerable class of individuals … -4.5
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment 1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and … -4.5
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)… -4.5
18-7526 In Re Robert Heffernan Denied IFP criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair… -4.5
18-7528 In Re Keith E. Doyle Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings A. Re: The State District Court Judge Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create v… -4.5
18-5537 Alla Opengeym v. Heartland Employment Services, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights complaint-procedures employment-policies hostile-work-environment retaliation whistleblower-protection civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection hostile-environment retaliation 1. Whether nyf employer's policies and complaint paocedukes are pRObu!fom hostile WORKing a environment of employee and hee community? 2) Whether the… -5.5
18-6164 John B. Laschkewitsch v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-limitation contestable-period due-process estoppel federal-rules-of-civil-procedure insurance insurance-contract precedent precedent-review rule-60a statutes-of-limitation Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Court; unanimous U… -5.5
18-6228 John Laschkewitsch v. American National Life Insurance Company Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure contestability due-process estoppel insurance-authorities insurance-contestability insurance-contract insurance-law precedent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation unfair-and-deceptive-trade-practices unfair-claim-settlement Whether Hurni, Enelow, Stewart and Pickering contestability precedent from this Court; American Trust Co. and Chavis precedent from the NC Supreme Cou… -5.5
18-5538 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… -6.0
18-5591 Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing Whether HONORABLE Judge DAN A POLSTER Judicial Immunity is IMMUNE FROM BY NOT RECUSING HIMSELF when petitioner discovered Judge Polsten was personally… -6.0
18-6003 David Kavandi v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. California Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-dismissal california-supreme-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process failure-to-file hospitalization illness-and-hospitalization procedural-fairness statutory-right-to-appeal Did the California Supreme Court violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution or the statutory right to appeal when it dismissed the petiti… -6.0
18-6020 Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals Each and every point is stated within the petition for writ of certiorari. Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (… -6.0
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, and MARYLAND RULE 4-242(c), requires… -6.0
18-6273 Antoine Davis v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… -6.0
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Iaskime Jesse cooleyur For a Total investigation. Then you Hon Jodge will Fine out That I. worked in The same placr That other employer worked some OF… -6.0
18-6386 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal due-process emotional-distress gross-negligence motion-to-dismiss reconsideration standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the case for further p… -6.0
18-6486 In Re Steve G. Hernandez Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment (A) WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN: Trial counsel Quintino did not Investigate and Properly examine the FR… -6.0
18-6630 In Re Taquan Gullett Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandamus ministerial-duties standing Question not identified. -6.0
18-6652 Michael Carlton Lowe v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Minnesota Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion due-process federal-question habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-interest standing Did the district court abuse its discretion by answering a federal question on petitioner's liberty interest in a state court? Did the district court… -6.0
18-6743 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing is theRookerLFeidrñandoctrine constitutional when it fails, "to protect individual rights under the Constitution. . . the purpose of the U.S. Supreme … -6.0
18-7249 John Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U. S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. §… -6.0
18-6779 Guy Heffington v. Pamela Puleo, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation property-rights Whether Guy Heffington, the son of Joan Farr f/k/a Joan Heffington, was denied due process of law under the Fifth Amendment, the right to an attorney … -6.5
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing Did the second panel, assigned to hear the appeal, err in denying Muckle's motion to remand the case or recuse itself because it concerns the appearan… -6.5
18-6799 Maurice R. Nash v. Wachovia Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law civil-rights color-of-state-law congress congress-authority constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority legal-jurisdiction state-law Do the United State Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Los Angeles, California 90012, Case Number LA02-30368TD, Acting under the Color of th… -6.5
18-6836 Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the… -6.5
18-6849 Steven James v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards This case presents two questions of national importance concerning the federal constitutional rights of juvenile homicide defendants (like Steven Jame… -6.5
18-6857 Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing 1. Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? -6.5
18-6883 Stan J. Caterbone v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights congressional-hearings constitutional-rights due-process government-conspiracy government-experimentation government-oversight mental-illness military-training mind-control whistle-blowing Did the United States of America err in not granting a juris prudential exception. See 28 U.S.0 §§ 1291, 1292 in order to avoid having to consider the… -6.5
18-6886 Vinita Johnson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-6887 Michael A. Wilson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-6903 Curtis McLaurin v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application - a co… -6.5
18-6909 Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm… -6.5
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d… -6.5
18-6925 Warren Tarver v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTHEENTH AMENDMENT FOR A PERSON TO BE DETAINED FOR AN OFFENSE THAT IS LEGISLATIVELY DESIGNATED A… -6.5
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts denial is contrary to this Honorable Supreme Court's holding in Boykin v. Alabama in the Plea matter. Whether the lower cour… -6.5
18-6944 Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel 1. Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of in… -6.5
18-6946 Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas Texas Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity Constitutionally, when a presentencing waiver of appeal is not bargained for in exchange for an agreed upon sentence, can that waiver be knowingly and… -6.5
18-6954 Steven Scott Wells v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis fingerprint-evidence forensic-evidence judicial-review scientific-methodology Does a fingerprint expert's testimony that two fingerprints "match" have any evidentiary value if the expert provides no explanation for that conclusi… -6.5
18-6957 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON AUGUST 20, 2018 WI… -6.5
18-6958 Benjamin D. Velayo v. John Talamayan, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine… -6.5
18-6975 Roy Arlen Van Nortrick v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process duress duress-inducements-promises involuntary-statements judicial-error jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Van Nortrick is guilt. … -6.5
18-6978 Ronald Fermin Mascarena v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rights right-to-speedy-trial speedy-trial state-rights The question of law, thar I would ask the UnITED STATES SUPREME COURT, tO COnSIdE, OvR the MOnTAnt STTE SUpREME CONT, is -WeRe my RonALO MAscarenn's "… -6.5
18-6982 Jerry Walden v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing, where due to Guideline application error, the district court incorrectly applied the more severe c… -6.5
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio… -6.5
18-6997 T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel 1. May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to c… -6.5
18-7003 Jose Jesus Ramirez v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights congress constitutional-law due-process federal-courts impeachment separation-of-powers standing PeTitione to be impeached with four contictions in lightof the facts festified that only two Convictions Would be alloved for inmpeachant and in light… -6.5
18-7006 Gordon C. Reid v. Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis plra prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes I. Whte oe lprcisnmnt to "malicousness" Under the PLRR, 28 U.SC8 1915te (2), whereit is prisoner conplaint fom, enrelted to ony any chaim agoinst the … -6.5
18-7011 John S. Myzer v. George W. Bush, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure final-order personal-jurisdiction prejudice-standard service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a district court dismiss a case with prejudice that has not begun? Should a delay of many years between the dismissal of a case and a Fed.R.Civ.P… -6.5
18-7015 Joe Ann West v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity federal-employee federal-employee-discrimination free-speech judicial-misconduct standing Was petitioner a FE denied United States Citizen's Constitutional 1 Amendment Rights when denied by the judge the right to be speak, submit evidence, … -6.5
18-7019 Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden Nevada Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile… -6.5
18-7024 Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence - post-trial - without notice are unco… -6.5
18-7034 Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from mandatory life without parole sentences? -6.5
18-7040 Adam L. Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-codes court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing state-codes state-courts Is Americas state courts allowed have concurrent jurisdiction with federal courts and state court judges allowed facilitate correct procedures cause w… -6.5
18-7043 Coleman Tuton v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus —but not to any particular piece of lugg… -6.5
18-7046 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedures-act agency-regulations article-iii article-iii-courts article-iv congress due-process notice-and-comment possessions rule-making territories territories-and-possessions united-states-possessions united-states-territories 1. Is Congress required to establish Article III courts in the United States Territories and Possessions? 2. Under the APA, and its definition of "ru… -6.5
18-7049 Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Was. Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case? Can the State escape their Eighth Amendment Duty … -6.5
18-7054 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… -6.5
18-7055 Brenda White v. Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital, et al. Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, due-process judicial-discretion medical-malpractice race race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctors, … -6.5
18-7057 Marcus Jermaine Royston v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 3582-motion 3582(c)(2) amendments-750-782 career-offender criminal-sentencing drug-offense guidelines-2d1.1 guidelines-amendment hughes-v-us sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Does this Court's ruling in the case of Hughes V. U.S., 584 U.S. 2018, No. 17-155, apply to a career offender seeking reduction in his sentence by way… -6.5
18-7058 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention 1169 to 16p o4 I for 15 months on a over lou loved D fodlony, for an individual who has no docrnte insturxes of violence, ond no history of flight 9 d… -6.5
18-7062 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then dis- allowing it, i… -6.5
18-7064 Thomas W. Mackenzie v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis incarceration indigent-status legal-materials legal-proceeding poverty prison-law-library redress Question not identified. -6.5
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment The first question for the Court is, in light of the Guidelines' development into the de facto range of punishment in all but a very small percentage … -6.5
18-7071 Chad Preston Brewer v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm or Ammuni… -6.5
18-7073 Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves… -6.5
18-7080 Yusufu Danmola v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution? Are The People Prohibited Liberty Of Usage of the Uniform Commercial Co… -6.5
18-7082 Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal I. May collateral estoppel ever be applied offensively against a criminal defendant, to bar him from relitigating an issue resolved in a previous case… -6.5
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether, when the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, found that "both the threat of fees and the threat of potential sanctions created a conflict … -6.5
18-7086 Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… -6.5
18-7087 Daniel Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement. The Te… -6.5
18-7089 Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel Whether Petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel to which he was constitutionally entitled when trial counsel failed to present readi… -6.5
18-7093 Deidre Holmes Clark v. Allen & Overy, LLP New York Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-stability first-amendment free-speech psychiatric-evaluation sexual-harassment standing Whether a sexual harassment motion can be dismissed, solely on the basis of her right to free speech. Whether a requirement that a sexual harassment … -6.5
18-7100 Brian Simmons v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether, petitioner's justification defense was lost amoungest the volume of prosecutors use of false or perjured testimonies that went uncorrected. … -6.5
18-7104 Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not … -6.5
18-7106 Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… -6.5
18-7107 Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the 6th Amendment Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally, willfully and knowi… -6.5
18-7109 Tshombe Miller v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution Is "carbon copy" charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… -6.5
18-7111 Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri… -6.5
18-7112 Brien O. Hill v. Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment hostile-work-environment reasonable-accommodation standing summary-judgment title-vii Whether the elements for the hostile work environment claim in this cause have been raised to a standard of violation of Title VII SEC. 2002e-2. [Sect… -6.5
18-7114 Earle D. Williams v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), as applied to … -6.5
18-7116 Lonnie Anthony Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act curtis-johnson-v-united-states denard-stokeling-v-united-states edwin-deshazior-v-united-states florida-statute florida-statutes johnson-definition physical-force second-degree-murder violent-felony At issue in this matter is whether second-degree murder in Florida is a "violent felony" within the meaning of the elements clause of the Armed Career… -6.5
18-7117 Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010), by ruling t… -6.5
18-7119 Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive? Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… -6.5
18-7120 Carlos Zuniga Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-d constitutional-right district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60-motion rule-60(d) standing successive-claim Whether a Rule 60(d) motion challenging only the District Court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing presents a successive claim within the meanin… -6.5
18-7121 Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements was states failure to subpoena victim to grand jury for first hand knowledge,but relied on known fabricated police reports and testimony of officer im… -6.5
18-7122 Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program, 28 C.F.R §54510-11, voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation? Does the … -6.5
18-7125 Refaat F. Abul Hosn v. Department of State, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP admitted-mistakes authority authority-regulation breach-of-contract civil-rights contract diplomatic-immunity foreign-sovereign-immunities fsia immunity international-law iraq-invasion legal-authority political-doctrine regulatory-compliance The Decision of Siege and Invasion of Iraq created changes in Laws Authority, Immunity FSIA ,Political Doctrine This is a Fact .The respondents Admitt… -6.5
18-7126 Ishmael Abdullah v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … -6.5
18-7127 Christopher French v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate? May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… -6.5
18-7128 Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review 1. Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury by addressing the question of whether it is an unreasonable a… -6.5
18-7129 Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States (138 S.Ct. 2206, 2217, 2220 (2018)) regarding cel… -6.5
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? Whether Lott was denied a constitutional right… -6.5
18-7133 Paul Burks v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … -6.5
18-7134 Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and… -6.5
18-7141 Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? -6.5
18-7142 Evelyn Talley v. Pride Mobility Products Corporation, et al. North Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process full-and-fair-trial negligence privileges-and-immunities product-liability trial-on-merits Are state courts required to allow a plaintiff in product liability case alleging negligence a full and fair trial on the merits under the privileges … -6.5
18-7143 Derian Eidson v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… -6.5
18-7147 Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… -6.5
18-7148 Austin Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial 1. Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD") triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? 2. When there is no evi… -6.5
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression (1) Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later … -6.5
18-7154 John Visconti v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a "distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock," the question expressly left open in Boulwa… -6.5
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute I. Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, Such As: (1) A Vague Statute … -6.5
18-7162 Muna Osman Jama v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech freedom-of-speech material-support peaceable-assembly terrorism vagueness Does section, 18 Usc § 2339B(a) [material support of foreign terrorist organization(s)] impose an unconstitutionally vague provision in times of peace… -6.5
18-7163 Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search DID THE DEFENDENTS VIOLATE THE PLAINTIFFS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? Does the 4th amendment protect authorized custodians of a private rural residence … -6.5
18-7167 Cornelius Tyrone Kirsh v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender insufficient-evidence involuntary-statements reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kirsh Is guilt Reasona… -6.5
18-7169 Steve L. Wright, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole meaningful-opportunity-for-release ongoing-offense retroactivity sentencing-mitigation term-of-years term-of-years-sentence Whether, in imposing sentence for an ongoing offense, courts must consider juvenile conduct as a mitigating sentencing factor? Whether, in imposing s… -6.5
18-7176 Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense that can be committed by causing fear of har… -6.5
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness This Court explained in Evans v. Chavis, 546 U.S. 189 (2006), that a habeas corpus petition filed in a California appellate court within 30 to 60 days… -6.5
18-7178 David Kinh Duc Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review civil-procedure district-court due-process injustice judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-construction-error statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-clark THE CIRCUIT COURT SHOULD HAVE GRANTED MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BECAUSE THE COURT ERRED IN THEIR PREVIOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTE IN THE UNITED STA… -6.5
18-7183 Christopher Jude Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP consequential-damages criminal-law criminal-valuation damages enhancements evidence legal-damages property-damage restitution restitution-order sufficiency-of-evidence valuation A. Whether there was sufficient evidence that the value of the items at the time that Mr. Martin damaged them was over $1,000? B. Whether Mr. Martin … -6.5
18-7185 Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… -6.5
18-7186 Corey Ian Weidner v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-rule post-conviction-review state-law state-post-conviction-proceedings strickland-standard WHETHER, WHEN A STATE POST-CONVICTION COURT DECIDES THAT COUNSEL DID NOT NEED TO TAKE SOME ACTION UNDER STATE LAW TO BE EFFECTIVE, THE STATE COURT DEC… -6.5
18-7189 George Leslie Manlove v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR'S CALCULATED, SUSTAINED, AND IMPROPER USE… -6.5
18-7193 Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician When determining the weight given to the medical opinion of a treating doctor who has stated that an applicant for social security benefits on the bas… -6.5
18-7194 Brandon Lee Colbert v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment A United States Department of Justice investigation concluded that law enforcement in defendant's community systemically engages in racist police prac… -6.5
18-7195 Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… -6.5
18-7196 Edward Allen McElroy v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… -6.5
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Question not identified. -6.5
18-7199 Adelmo A. Fauntleroy v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1). Did the Court have sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict the petitioner under the Sixth Amendment by the U.S.A. 2).Was the low… -6.5
18-7200 Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo 1. Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense—even when no ne… -6.5
18-7205 In Re Arthur O. Armstrong Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether Petitioner was deprived of liber… -6.5
18-7206 Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente, 412 U.S. 218, 222 (1973) on the ground that that it is inconsistent with the reaso… -6.5
18-7207 In Re Andrew Johnston Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-7209 Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level. Whether a federal court may us… -6.5
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that were… -6.5
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. DISTRICT AND APPELLATE COURTS VIOLATED CASTRO V. UNITED STATES, 124 S.CT., BY REFUSING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY… -6.5
18-7215 Salih Zeki Uces v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights Whether, the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment, where it upheld the district court decision to constructively amen… -6.5
18-7216 Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… -6.5
18-7222 Winifred Jiau v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m… -6.5
18-7227 Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth… -6.5
18-7228 Dashawn D. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release 1. WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY STATEMENTS AS EXCITED UTTERANCES. 2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY STATEMEN… -6.5
18-7229 Telisa De'Ann Blackman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-claim brady-giglio-napue brady-rule burden-of-proof exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-writ giglio-claim giglio-rule napue-claim napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petitions Should a prisoner be substantively disadvantaged by having to meet a higher burden of proof on her Brady/Giglio/Napue claims because the prosecution h… -6.5
18-7231 Mark J. Avery v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… -6.5
18-7238 Antron Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… -6.5
18-7239 Daniel P. Cannon v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit 1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… -6.5
18-7240 Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… -6.5
18-7243 Javier Rojas-Cisneros v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus notice-and-warning pro-se standing DID THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY SIDESTEPPED THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUA SPONTE INDICATIVE RULING ORDER ACKNOWLEDGING ITS M… -6.5
18-7245 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony Question not identified. -6.5
18-7251 Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-7253 Eugene E. Forte v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-disobedience civil-rights collateral-bar-rule constitutional-order criminal-enforcement due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent unconstitutional-orders walker-v-birmingham Should this Court reverse Walker v. City of Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307, 87 S.Ct. 1824, 18 L-Ed.2d 1210 (1967) on the ground that the collateral bar rule… -6.5
18-7254 Alvin E. Thomas v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error In Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 1911-12 (2017), this Court left open the question of whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel… -6.5
18-7255 In Re Andre Barnes Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure courts due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction parties relief standing 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including prohibition from this Court, to protect the privilege of a Loyal Citizen and Natrual Person f… -6.5
18-7256 Amin De Castro v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop A police officer "seizes" a person under the Fourth Amendment if he makes a request that a reasonable person would not feel free to refuse, and the pe… -6.5
18-7263 Gerald Patmon v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon eleventh-circuit enumerated-offenses georgia-assault-statute gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbreadth sentencing-guidelines state-statute statutory-interpretation The question presented by this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously affirmed Mr. Patmon's sentence under USSG § 2… -6.5
18-7266 Dymond Charles Brown v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing Did the United States Sentencing Commission exceed their statutory authority under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, in Amendment 268, by replacing 1… -6.5
18-7267 Mashawn Greene v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-rights cooperating-witness criminal-trial criminal-trials due-process false-testimony government-witnesses prosecutor-duty prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution requires that prosecutors bear the burden of preventing and correcting false or misle… -6.5
18-7268 Christopher Berry v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-filing-requirements due-process federal-law federal-procedural-rules newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-litigant standing third-circuit-court Did the holding of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law in … -6.5
18-7269 Larry Allison v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no trial resulting in a conviction has been held? 2. Will this Co… -6.5
18-7270 Antonio Bryant v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence I). Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant. 2o18 IL App (50) I43578-U. is contradictory tothis Court's decision sufficien… -6.5
18-7272 Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was, admitted erroneously because it was not inextricable intertwined with the charges in the indictm… -6.5
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INTRODUCED AND ATTACKED A STRAWMAN ARGUMENT[ARGUMENT NOT RAISED BY APPELLANT] IN IT'S ORDER/OPINION AS A BA… -6.5
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program 1. WHETHER THE MOST HONORABLE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS' ADEQUATE CIVIL DETAINEE TREATMEN… -6.5
18-7278 Briand Williams v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198… -6.5
18-7282 Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… -6.5
18-7284 Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statut… -6.5
18-7287 Lamont LaPrade v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense. 2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… -6.5
18-7289 Peter D. Bommerito v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-policy ballot-initiatives civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-policy state-legislation 1. SHOULD THE PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF INCREASINGLY SEVERE CR… -6.5
18-7292 Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence? Did the Eighth Cir… -6.5
18-7293 Neil Walker v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue 1. WHERE THERE ONLY BEED ONE PRONOCNIEMENT IN COURT, WHAT SENTENCE IS THE LEGAL SENTENCE, NATURAL LIFE, OR 5? 2. DID THE COUDT HAVE TURISDICTION TO P… -6.5
18-7296 Demetrio Cisneros v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute knowledge of the specific contraband being imported? -6.5
18-7297 Donnie Howard v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being "sure" or "positive" of guilt … -6.5
18-7303 Joel Rivera v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility WHETHER ROSEMOND V. UNITED STATES, 134 S.Ct. 1240 (2014), WAS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AND APPLIED BY THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WHEN IT UPHELD M… -6.5
18-7304 Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes s… -6.5
18-7305 William Hilts v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constituti… -6.5
18-7306 Michael Martin Steele v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… -6.5
18-7308 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-agent jury-instructions photographic-evidence pro-se-defense prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Question not identified. -6.5
18-7309 Kevin Balfour v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment Right … -6.5
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea… -6.5
18-7313 Lewis Templeton v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. … -6.5
18-7320 Nehemiah William Ford v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-7323 Robert Willis v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… -6.5
18-7327 Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the offense that Mr. Johnson… -6.5
18-7329 Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns … -6.5
18-7330 Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense as guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution enco… -6.5
18-7333 DeShawn Maurice Moffett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-adjudication standing writ-of-certiorari Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals apply an incorrect standard when denying Petitioner's Request For a Certificate of Appealability (COA), and fur… -6.5
18-7340 Eric Dillon v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… -6.5
18-7341 Roderick V. Burton v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-juri civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
18-7344 Tony Dickinson v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error I. Whether this Court Should Resolve the longstanding Conflict among Federal Courts over whether the Fifth Amendment Delay caused by the government as… -6.5
18-7345 Mario Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518(9) burden-of-proof due-process exclusionary-mandate mens-rea notice statutory-interpretation wire-intercepts In the case, as in hundreds of cases over the years since the enactment of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which … -6.5
18-7346 Mark Raymond Ford, aka Dred, aka Benjamin Lee Green, aka Donald Wray v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-sentencing due-process retroactive-rule retroactivity sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation united-states-v-booker I. Whether The Lower Court Denial Of Modification Of Sentence Under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2) Based On A Mandatory Guidelines Range Departure's Sentence V… -6.5
18-7348 Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … -6.5
18-7350 Rafael Flores-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-7351 Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… -6.5
18-7352 Giovanni Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce 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
18-7355 Michael R. Haynes v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review opinion order record standing When record[ p.3 Opinion and order 4/14/17] show Respondents deviated from[APPENDIX A Ex 126 p..6 -ORS 163.105(2)(b)(4)(1985), Ex 105 p.15'7] due proc… -6.5
18-7356 Jack Gossett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony Did the testimony of a government agent, having not been tendered as an expert witness after interpreting and explaining events that he DID NOT observ… -6.5
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… -6.5
18-7361 John Edward Gibbons v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
18-7365 Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing 1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment? 2. Do… -6.5
18-7367 Darwin Markeith Huggans v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lee-v-united-states legal-standard misinformation sixth-amendment In light of this court's decision in Lee v. United States, 198 L. Ed. 2d 476 (2017) was the lower court required to address an evidentiary hearing whe… -6.5
18-7371 Nicole Johnson v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt stolen-property Petitioner snatched a patron's purse at a McDonald's restaurant, and a jury convicted her of robbery and receiving stolen property (the getaway pickup… -6.5
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding, that in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under AEDPA, a court may indulge "post hoc rationalization"… -6.5
18-7375 Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" by purely mere… -6.5
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WIT… -6.5
18-7387 James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… -6.5
18-7388 David Romo v. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-802(44) 21-usc-841 categorical-analysis categorical-approach congressional-intent due-process felony-drug-offense recidivist-clause recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… -6.5
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… -6.5
18-7391 Gadiel Romero v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment kidnapping kidnapping-offense offense-level ransom-demand sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines I. Is it proper for a sentencing court to apply the substantial 6-level increase to a defendant's offense level contemplated in Section 2A4.1(b)(1) of… -6.5
18-7400 Damion Sleugh v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility Does the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications end once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at trial?… -6.5
18-7417 Omari Robinson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement 1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? -6.5
18-7418 Derrick T. Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement? Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… -6.5
18-7419 Fausto Becerra v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… -6.5
18-7420 Joe Ray Alires v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… -6.5
18-7424 William Felix Vail v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-code criminal-evidence doctrine-of-chances due-process forensic-evidence physical-proof presumption-of-innocence presumptive-evidence reasonable-doubt Did the Stale offer sufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? Should the State have been allowed to offer evidence via the Doctri… -6.5
18-7432 Cornell W. Barber v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… -6.5
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns… -6.5
18-7463 Sherwin V. Koyle v. Sand Canyon Corporation, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence perjury public-policy rule-of-law In the present case before the Court, the question is asked if a federal judge or justice condones the following items: I) a fraudulent misrepresentat… -6.5
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment This petition presents the questions of whether reasonable jurists can debate the following issues: 1. Whether the erroneous jury instruction given i… -6.5
18-7467 Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… -6.5
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability? 2. Could a reasonable jurist … -6.5
18-7484 Nimon Naphaeng v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A STANDARD BURDEN OF PROOF TO ESTABLISH WHETHER A MONETARY LOSS AND ITS AMOUNT IS A… -6.5
18-7496 Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an "affirmative defenses' rather tha… -6.5
18-7501 GwanJun Kim v. Grand Valley State University, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure complaint dismissal due-process evidence factual-findings jurisdiction marshal service-of-process standing summons time-limits This Court has a jurisdiction QUESTION defraud I The judge and panel "erroneous factual findings"' Kim I, that On March 28, 2011 the U.S. Marshal Ch… -6.5
18-7506 Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to… -6.5
18-7512 Ronald Jackson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent as Iweffective and to resolve dis agreements about the Spe cific Legal question D0 Attempt murder oN A Polide officer Carry A mandatory Ferearmerhanc… -6.5
18-7515 Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption 1. Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) —that structures with traditional characteristics associated with churches or synagogues are places used pri… -6.5
18-7518 Kevin Holt v. J.A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-cfr-chapter-1-2-61 federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-judicial-system first-impression good-time-credits life-sentence military-prisoner military-prisoners military-prisoners-life-sentence presumptive-release sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-4206 title-18-usc-4206a Should the Supreme Court of the United States hear this case that presents a substantial issue of first impression in the Federal Judicial System that… -6.5
18-7555 Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction 1. Are State prisoners governed by Dodd v. United States, 545 U.S.353 (2005) which governs the activation of the limitations period for newly recogniz… -6.5