| 18-450 |
Utah Republican Party v. Spencer J. Cox, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
candidate-selection expressive-association first-amendment political-parties political-party standard-bearer state-regulation viewpoint-discrimination |
As a private expressive association, "[a] political party" enjoys a general First Amendment right "to choose a candidate-selection process that will i… |
23.0 |
| 18-801 |
Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation |
Whether the phrase "[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings" in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in… |
22.0 |
| 18-704 |
Ross Abbott, et al. v. Harris Pastides, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campus-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth qualified-immunity standing vagueness |
1. Whether a student and student organizations
investigated for possibly violating a public
university's regulations governing on-campus
speech hav… |
16.5 |
| 18-364 |
Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding historic-preservation public-funding religious-status status-based-discrimination trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-precedent |
1. Whether using generally available historic preservation funds to repair or restore a house of worship constitutes a "religious use" that falls outs… |
15.0 |
| 18-555 |
Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands |
Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever… |
12.5 |
| 18-384 |
Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act |
Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates. |
11.5 |
| 18-684 |
Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment |
Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
11.0 |
| 18-648 |
Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea |
Whether in 1989 a law-enforcement officer violated a plaintiff's substantive due-process rights merely by recklessly gathering "unreliable" evidence i… |
9.0 |
| 18-1009 |
United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection |
The question presented is whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the … |
8.5 |
| 18-840 |
Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability |
1. Can supervisors be liable for the constitutional violations of their subordinates even if the supervisor is not directly "personally involved"?
2.… |
8.5 |
| 18-862 |
Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing |
May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense? |
8.5 |
| 18-365 |
The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
church-state-separation constitutional-rights establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding government-grants historic-preservation religious-discrimination religious-neutrality standing status-use-distinction |
Does the categorical exclusion of active houses of worship from a competitive government grant program advancing the secular interest of historic pres… |
8.0 |
| 18-534 |
Well Luck Company, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law customs-classification customs-law explanatory-notes general-rules-of-interpretation hts-heading-1206 hts-heading-2008 legislative-intent nesoi prior-statutory-construction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tariff-classification trade-classification |
Whether the panel disregarded legislative intent and prior statutory construction to improperly use the General Rules of Interpretation and the Explan… |
5.5 |
| 18-746 |
County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit disregarded this Court's clear directives on remand and whether, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, a plaintiff's injuries res… |
5.5 |
| 18-815 |
T. B., Jr., By and Through His Parents, T. B., Sr., et ux. v. Prince George’s County Board of Education, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
child-find child-find-requirement disability-accommodation educational-decline educational-rights forest-grove-school-dist-v-ta forest-grove-school-district-v-ta individuals-with-disabilities-education-act parental-requests procedural-violation special-education special-education-supports |
1. Under this Court's decision in Forest Grove School Dist. v. T.A., 557 U.S. 230 (2009), may a disabled student who was, for a period of years, depri… |
5.5 |
| 18-819 |
Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin |
Illinois |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition |
Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un… |
5.5 |
| 18M105 |
Nathaniel Caldwell, III v. Roberto Roberts, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M106 |
Latefah Shampine v. Claire Lee, et al. |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M107 |
Wallace Dixon Cox, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M108 |
David R. Dyson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M109 |
Richard Katz v. National Board of Medical Examiners, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M110 |
Jennifer A. v. Gregory M., et al. |
New York |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M111 |
John W. Lebron v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether ge… |
4.0 |
| 18-6845 |
Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity |
The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al… |
4.0 |
| 18-1011 |
Iveth Rodriguez Lopez v. ReadyOne Industries, Inc. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause which then preempts incompatible state law - civi commerce-clause contract-interpretation employment-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce preemption supremacy-clause supreme-clause texas-arbitration-act |
The Texas Supreme Court has held the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has preemptive effect over incompatible state law when the parties have agreed the … |
3.5 |
| 18-1018 |
Andrew Bennett, et al. v. Jefferson County, Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-ii article-iii-review bankruptcy-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness federalism municipal-utilities plan-of-adjustment ratemaking-authority sewer-user-rates standing takings tenth-amendment |
1. May the doctrine of equitable mootness bar an
appeal to an Article III Judg e of a Plan of Adjustment
providing for ratemaking enforcement authorit… |
3.5 |
| 18-1021 |
Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts |
I.
WHETHER AN OBJECTION IS REQUIRED TO PRESERVE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR AN ALLEGED PUBLIC TRIAL VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN RELY UPON A S… |
3.5 |
| 18-883 |
Joaquin Ledesma-Conchas v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
3.5 |
| 18-885 |
Bennie Kennedy, et al. v. Schneider Electric, fka Square D Company |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-455 case-consolidation civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleadings standing summary-judgment supervisory-power |
Whether or not this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning which affirmed th… |
3.5 |
| 18-920 |
Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation |
Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru… |
3.5 |
| 18-927 |
Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness |
1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio… |
3.5 |
| 18-967 |
Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power |
A. Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of
her constitutional right to a jury trial when it
massaged the facts in violation of Rule 56 and , … |
3.5 |
| 18-977 |
John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) |
Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal … |
3.5 |
| 18-6807 |
Larry M. Slusser v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
0.5 |
| 18-6306 |
Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes |
1. When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male an… |
0.0 |
| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
-1.0 |
| 18-7645 |
Alhan Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7669 |
Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
-1.5 |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
-1.5 |
| 18-7699 |
Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 18-7712 |
Andre Mims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
-1.5 |
| 18-5355 |
Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law |
Petitioner Sanders, contends the Ninth Appellate District Court, Cause # 09-10-00047--CR, Beaumont, Texas, Erred by ruling the Trial Court of Polk Cou… |
-4.0 |
| 18-5989 |
Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 18-6038 |
Carlos D. Villavicencio v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction nolle-prosequi prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial statute-of-limitations |
Whether the prosecution (State of Florida) after Petitioner has been arrested in Dade County, Florida "Miami" and charged with two counts of First-Deg… |
-4.0 |
| 18-6239 |
Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 |
Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff, who diligently sought favorable termination according to the requirements of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.C… |
-4.0 |
| 18-6509 |
John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention |
(1ST QUESTION ) MR TEDESCO'S COMPLAINT WAS DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE AN IN IT'S ENTIRETY.
(2ND QUESTION) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND WAS DIS… |
-4.0 |
| 18-6517 |
Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 18-6575 |
Finess Edward Stokes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendments due-process standing state-constitutional-rights |
Regarding The mailbox Rule, PRISONER'S Congress Intent to be Taken literal stating when 'deemed timely ohen filed Chanded overeto pRison AothoRities) … |
-4.0 |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
-4.5 |
| 18-6869 |
Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force … |
-4.5 |
| 18-6916 |
Troy Lincoln Powell v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment |
1) DOES THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY ON A SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL DEFENDANT VIOLATE THE FIFTH, SIXTH, EIGHTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS? |
-4.5 |
| 18-7190 |
Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court |
1. Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due process rights, guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and un… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7218 |
Samuel Berhe v. Johnson Oleseha |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7220 |
Pashtoon Farooqi v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness |
Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7221 |
Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims fo… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7223 |
Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation |
IF THE STANDARD UNDER BAREFOOT. V. ESTELLE, 463 U.S. 89.3 (1983) FOR PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF A STATE WRIT PETITION REQUIRES THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE PETIT… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7890 |
In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-5057 |
James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness |
Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagbys' claims… |
-6.0 |
| 18-5120 |
Kenneth P. Nelson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent property-rights standing takings |
whether the District court. Abused it's athority by Allowing NoN-tsating, NoN-examining consultants evidence to ALJ. clearly showed a defectine analys… |
-6.0 |
| 18-5578 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority |
1.) WIETHER THE UNDISPUTED AND CLEAR VIOLATION OF AN APPELLANTS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL .ON DIRECT APPEAL IS AN EXCEPTIONAL… |
-6.0 |
| 18-5704 |
Robert Austin v. District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice rule-60b6-motion |
DOES THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT ERROR IN DENYING A RULE 60(b)(6) MOTION FOR NOT SHOWING A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN THE UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION … |
-6.0 |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ®
By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
-6.0 |
| 18-6291 |
Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness |
-Is the issue 'j accordingly of great import to potentially thousand's of prisoners similarly situated and does if have significant impact on the publ… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6365 |
Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction |
IS it Wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett in her home or her mother's home? Michigan is a non… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6376 |
Adem Albra v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence free-speech higher-education retaliation standing |
Did the Public College take away the Petitioner's right to earn a living in whatever vocation he chooses, indirectly, by expelling him, twice, for bei… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6661 |
Bryan Christopher Samuel v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-issues court-of-appeals delayed-opinions due-process first-impression-issues habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers jurisdictional-issues petition-for-certiorari petition-for-rehearing procedural-delay timeliness |
1. Whether the federal courts below, in attempts to avoid constitutional and jurisdictional issues in a habeas corpus-type case, abused their discreti… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6676 |
Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud |
1) WHETHER, MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO BE TRIED ON CHARGES ACCEPTED BY A GRAND JURY, AND MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WERE VIOL… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6780 |
Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 |
Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to … |
-6.0 |
| 18-6841 |
Robert K. Stewart v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment true-bill |
(1)
As used in an indictment, is the name ofthe
defendant, the date of the affense, And the rame of
the County, where the ALLeged offense Was committe… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6941 |
John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment |
I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and
the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7295 |
Earnest Barnes v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama National-Consensus parole scientific-evidence |
WHETHER EIGHTH AMENDMENT'S PROTECTION ESTABLISHED IN GRAHAM AND MILLER SHOULD BE EXPANDED BEYOND AGE CUTOFF AT EIGHTEEN TO PROHIBIT MANDATORY LIFE IMP… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7316 |
Alice Annette Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis leave-to-proceed motions pending-motions |
Where circuit court stated, "[w]e grant Appellants leave to proceed in forma pauperis and deny their other pending motions[,]" Petition Appendix (Pet.… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7319 |
Charles J. Greene v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-pleading causality causation civil-procedure civil-procedure-pleading-standards civil-procedure-pleading-standards-discovery-causa civil-rights discovery discovery-standards due-process employer-liability federal-rules heightened-pleading-requirements judicial-review pleading-standards |
Whether the court of appeals' decision, purporting to follow the principles elucidated by this Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 19… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7339 |
Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment |
Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7362 |
Roy O. Daniels v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
focusing on the core legal dispute I cannot identify a clear legal issue being raise I cannot provide a meaningful set of key terms. M in order to receive a more helpful response. As p making it difficult to extract a concise statemen the 'Question(s) Presented' section does not prov civil-rights collateral-attack due-process finality jurisdiction plea-bargain |
1) DO the PRINCIPLES OF FINALITY COUNT any mORE'ESPECICLLY IN a CASE WHERE HE FOUNDATZONAL TERMS of a"SPECZFICALLY AGREED APON NEGOTZATED FOR CUSTOM P… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7402 |
Robert Shapiro v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial |
What Des th Unite States Cnstifution er omean efrine timeliness referred toby right to a criminal proseation, the an impartal jory of the state and di… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7405 |
Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness |
I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7415 |
Anthony James Scott v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law alcohol-regulation civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation local-ordinance preemption procedural-rules state-constitution statutory-provisions transportation-of-alcohol |
Whether an officer, could have regsonably entertained a good faith belief a bocal ordinance trohibitins the transtortation of alcohol in Public was la… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7479 |
Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification |
I. Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts? |
-6.5 |
| 18-7511 |
Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7538 |
Jeffrey Russo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations suspension-clause |
A motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is considered timely if filed within one year of the date on which "the right asserted was initially recognized by the… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7541 |
Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7544 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice 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 |
| 18-7545 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
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 |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7560 |
Marcus Leland Freeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED BY MISCONSTRUING
THE PETITIONER'S MOTION BASED ON BUCK vs. DAVIS
BY FAILING TO APPLY THE CORRECT LEGAL ANALYSIS
STANDARD… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7561 |
Juan Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing |
#1
Whether constitutionel rights proteat agains t Crininal
Whether or Constifution of the United States or
Congross protect us daint asbitiery dction… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7563 |
Lynce P. Foster v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution |
WHETHER COUNSEL WERE INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT REPRESENTING PETITIONER ACCORDING TO A COUNSEL GUARANTEED TO THE PETITIONER BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNI… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7566 |
Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate
of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7611 |
Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware |
Delaware |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority |
Whether the lower Court and the Supreme Court of Delaware erred and abused their discretion in regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and F… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7612 |
Nathaniel Bowens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7616 |
Rodrigo Tovar Pupo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-issue constitutional-issues criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel offense-enhancement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
If Appeals Court erred by not considering the grounds raised by Appellant and denying his appeal disregarding the Constitutional issues raised by Appe… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7627 |
Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri |
Was the petitioner Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizures?
Was the petitioner Fourteenth(14th) Amendment rights violated … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7632 |
Abraham Grant v. Wendy Kelly, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion speedy-trial standing state-court-decision |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7649 |
Sergeyi Bazar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty |
1. When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7660 |
LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment |
The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, O.C.G.AS/-H Enactment of Code, a felory - If these were"Enacted" in violatin of the Georgia Constitotion 201, … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7663 |
Randy Jason Ford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act assault dangerous-weapon display-of-weapon force-clause iowa-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation threatened-use-of-force |
When an Iowa "assault" is accompanied only by the "display" of a dangerous weapon, does the "displaying" provide the "threatened use of force" such th… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7668 |
Patricio Paladin v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7674 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
CourT To Federal CourT?
2) CaN A state Habeas Corpus, Filed by A"state PrisoNer
CONTract Housed iN Federal PrisoN (withiN the sTarte) be
Removed To Fe… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7675 |
Eric Hayes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial/rejection that reasonable jurists would not debate the District Court's determination that Mr. Hayes convictions we… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7678 |
Alfonso Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel |
Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
Whether t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7682 |
Stacie Demers v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7707 |
Antonio Anguiano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-act defense-counsel defense-function due-process independent-counsel judicial-control sixth-amendment structural-error |
As a matter of first impression: whether, in upholding structural error flowing from judicial control over the defense function under the Criminal Jus… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7711 |
Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit |
Does the "good faith" exception to the ex clusionary rule apply to uphold a search
of a residence, where there is no nexus between the residence and a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7715 |
Jose Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 |
Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7717 |
Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether the trial court committed plain error pursuant to Rule 52(b) by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the preamendment 1B1.3 version of t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7740 |
Esequiel Joel Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility certificate-of-appealability due-process government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1. Whether It Was Error to deny Rcdriguez A Certificate of Appealability, to Pursue His Sixth Amendment Claim on Appeal, Where He Demonstrated Ineffec… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7742 |
Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation |
Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" via pure "spec… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7745 |
Alrick A. Evans 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 |
| 18-7750 |
Ronald Morrobel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault categorical-approach firearms-trafficking possession-of-firearm sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal categorical-approach crime-of-violence due-process felony-possession firearm-trafficking florida-aggravated-assault sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That The Petitioner Was An Armed Career Criminal When State Law Clearly Defined Florida Aggravated … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7759 |
Travis Buckner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment
Rights to assistance of counsel by the denial of his Motion to Continue his
tri… |
-6.5 |