| 18-217 |
Randall Mathena, Warden v. Lee Boyd Malvo |
Fourth Circuit |
Granted |
Amici (13)Relisted (9) |
collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rule criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in concluding—in direct conflict with Virginia's highest court and other courts—that a decision of this Court (Montgomery) … |
27.5 |
| 18-285 |
Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability |
Because the exclusionary rule should be "our last resort, not our first impulse," Hudson v. Michigan, 547 U.S. 586, 591 (2006), all the Courts of Appe… |
16.0 |
| 18-617 |
Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. Steven Maizes, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrability arbitration-agreement bilateral-arbitration burden-of-proof class-arbitration delegation delegation-doctrine standard-arbitration-rules standard-of-review |
1. Must a party overcome a higher burden to show that an arbitration agreement delegates to the arbitrator the power to decide the availability of cla… |
16.0 |
| 18-661 |
Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal |
Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr… |
16.0 |
| 18-420 |
United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui… |
15.5 |
| 18-6135 |
James K. Kahler v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
15.5 |
| 18-472 |
Behr Dayton Thermal Products LLC, et al. v. Terry Martin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-conflict civil-procedure class-certification courts-of-appeals federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-certification issue-classes predominance predominance-requirement rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) rule-23(c)(4) |
Whether plaintiffs, having failed to demonstrate that common issues predominate over individual issues as to their cause of action under Federal Rule … |
15.0 |
| 18-451 |
Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. |
Hawaii |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing |
Phyllis Young, a retiree, rents three bedrooms in her family home using the name Aloha Bed & Breakfast to make ends meet. She welcomes everyone as gue… |
14.0 |
| 18-716 |
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Respondents invested in a Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in another Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in a Brazilian corporation, whi… |
14.0 |
| 18-601 |
John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand |
1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.… |
13.5 |
| 18-530 |
Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law |
1. In ordinary trust and property disputes does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admiss… |
11.0 |
| 18-545 |
First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a state court may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant unless the conduct giving … |
11.0 |
| 18-234 |
Guadalupe Chaidez Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discretionary-function-exception due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-tort-claims-act intentional-torts law-enforcement-proviso sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Federal Tort Claims Act's law enforcement proviso, 28 U.S.C. § 2680(h), waives the United States' sovereign immunity for "[a]ny claim" arising out… |
10.5 |
| 18-689 |
Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court |
When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du… |
10.5 |
| 18-760 |
Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards |
(1) Whether, consistent with Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2466 (2015), a Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim brought by a pret… |
10.5 |
| 18-906 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant |
The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis… |
10.5 |
| 18-911 |
Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing |
1. Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the… |
9.5 |
| 18-461 |
Raquel Hinojosa, et al. v. Petra Horn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act citizenship-claim due-process immigration judicial-review passport passport-denial rusk-v-cort standing |
Whether 8 U.S.C. §§1503(b)-(c) preempts judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of the denial or revocation of a passport for a United … |
9.0 |
| 18-499 |
Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings |
Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci… |
9.0 |
| 18-503 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel |
Qualified immunity, to many observers, has transmogrified into absolute immunity. Lawyers from across the ideological spectrum joined in remarkable am… |
9.0 |
| 18-539 |
George T. Hawes v. Daniel P. Reilly |
Rhode Island |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-law court-jurisdiction due-process full-faith-and-credit full-faith-and-credit-clause interstate-litigation judicial-procedure jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction standing |
1. Did the Supreme Court for the State of Rhode Island violate the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section… |
9.0 |
| 18-576 |
Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing |
1. Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet, 137 S. Ct. 9112 (2017) the proper civil remedy for an "ov… |
9.0 |
| 18-596 |
Marie Neba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines senten… |
9.0 |
| 18-907 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant |
Vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by the courts to "punish" Kinney to the detriment of the environment. Punishment occurs even though Kinn… |
8.5 |
| 18-908 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct separation-of-powers standing takings vexatious-litigant whistleblower |
The vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by state and federal courts to "punish" Kinney. Similar types of punishment have been imposed on lis… |
8.5 |
| 18-950 |
LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort |
The question presented is whether, and if so under what circumstances, the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions brought by… |
8.5 |
| 18-994 |
Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… |
8.5 |
| 18-292 |
Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
7.5 |
| 18-699 |
Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter |
This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea… |
7.5 |
| 18-659 |
Mostafa Masomi v. Mehrandokht Madadi |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
alimony civil-procedure civil-rights divorce divorce-law due-process fifth-amendment human-rights procedural-due-process religious-divorce |
Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when a judge denies a hearing or a trial in a civil (divorce) case, and as a result the petitioner was forced … |
6.0 |
| 18-1064 |
In Re Octavious DeMont Williams |
|
Denied |
|
21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial |
Whether petitioner's constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the fundamental right that a jury find him guilty of all elements… |
5.5 |
| 18-442 |
Jesse R. Benton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH… |
5.5 |
| 18-606 |
Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements |
The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") requires that candidates for federal elected office report certain disbursements to the Federal Election Co… |
5.5 |
| 18-656 |
Johnathan Hall, Director, Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole v. William O. Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 experienced-criminal-defense-attorney experienced-criminal-trial-attorney federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-decision uncounseled-defendant waiver |
Was federal habeas relief improperly granted when, without basis in this Court's clearly established precedent, the federal court disregarded the dete… |
5.5 |
| 18-763 |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review |
Whether, to remove a juror for alleged misconduct during deliberations, a district court must determine that there is no possibility that the allegati… |
5.5 |
| 18-834 |
Farzana Sheikh, et vir v. San Joaquin General Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
28-usc-636 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief judicial-procedure magistrate magistrate-referral standing |
A federal court's "obligation" to hear and decide a case that implicates Constitutional and Civil Rights is "virtually unflagging". Parallel state-cou… |
5.5 |
| 18-835 |
Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity |
Suffolk Superior Court and Transcription Services are claiming 11th Amendment Sovereign State Immunity as though it is an absolute bar from a civil ac… |
5.5 |
| 18-845 |
Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts |
Jane Doe, at 18 and recently her high school's valedictorian, was raped in a lonely motel room after she passed out from drinking alcohol at Pastzaios… |
5.5 |
| 18-848 |
Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment |
1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected,
without a hearing, Petitioner's claim that counsel
was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to
w… |
5.5 |
| 18-880 |
SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing |
1. Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology … |
5.5 |
| 18-886 |
Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology |
Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv… |
5.5 |
| 18-887 |
California Trucking Association v. Julie A. Su |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
california-labor-commissioner employment-classification federal-aviation-act federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act labor-commissioner motor-carrier motor-carrier-preemption motor-carriers owner-operator owner-operator-contracts owner-operators preemption transportation-deregulation transportation-industry workforce-exclusion |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding the FA does not preempt California's interference with contractual agreements between motor carriers and owner-op… |
5.5 |
| 18-890 |
David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… |
5.5 |
| 18-901 |
Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in
part the judgments of the trial court by not
performing the constitutionally mandated factualsuf… |
5.5 |
| 18-905 |
Mastrogiovanni Schorsch & Mersky, P.C., et al. v. Edward Mandel |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy comity comity-federalism due-process federalism receivership state-court-jurisdiction state-property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Fifth Circuit has ignored long standing rules of comity mandated by Federalism by invading the exclusive subject matter jurisdiction of a Texas st… |
5.5 |
| 18-909 |
Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings |
Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, from pursuing her claim —e… |
5.5 |
| 18-910 |
City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board |
California |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based |
Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35… |
5.5 |
| 18-922 |
Abraham M. Fisch v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees client-rights criminal-defense-attorney criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeiture sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
(1) What is the appropriate standard of review to be employed when a court orders the forfeiture of attorney's fees to the State?
(2) Does a criminal… |
5.5 |
| 18M112 |
Rahim Alfetlawi v. Paul Klee, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M113 |
In Re Twelve Grand Jury Subpoenas |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M114 |
Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M115 |
Keith B. Webb-El v. Hugh J. Hurwitz, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M116 |
Felix A. Price v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18-1075 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's… |
4.0 |
| 18-497 |
Jean Coulter v. Cathy Bissoon, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal rule-of-law separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant |
Have the Courts' refusal to recuse and noncompliance with criminal/civil statutes, Case Law and their Code of Conduct and the Rule of Law - resulted i… |
4.0 |
| 18-586 |
Jack R. Koch v. Adam Estrella, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction final-judgment jurisdiction state-court statute-of-limitations supplemental-jurisdiction |
Is it lawful for the state courts to create a final judgment from within the federal court files when there is no entry of a final judgment and then h… |
4.0 |
| 18-611 |
John J. Tatar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-claim burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection frivolous-claims rule-of-law tax-evasion tax-refund |
Did Petitioner—Tatar when he filed his Form(s) 843, Claim(s) for Refund concerning the tax years 1996 through and inclusive to 2010, with the Responde… |
4.0 |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
4.0 |
| 18-6265 |
Samuel Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 |
Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously -convicted felon, as is routine ly d… |
4.0 |
| 18-6667 |
Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confession criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence impeachment impeachment-use-waiver medicare-fraud plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 substantive-evidence united-states-v-mezzanatto |
Does the impeachment-use waiver doctrine established by the Court in United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, for plea-related discussions permit th… |
4.0 |
| 18-6671 |
Jimmy David Malone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
4.0 |
| 18-6771 |
Johny Gardner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation 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. |
4.0 |
| 18-702 |
Rajeshwar Singh Yadav, et ux. v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discrimination pro-se-rights property-rights standing takings |
"Am I a second class citizen? 2. Are subjections of pro se party to government's willful discriminatory behavior "Constitutional"?
Is judiciary's bel… |
4.0 |
| 18-1001 |
Casey Brandon Sibley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth-vagueness strict-scrutiny subjective-intent true-threat |
Whether the First Amendment requires proof of a speaker's subjective wrongful intent in order for speech to be deemed a "true threat" subject to crimi… |
3.5 |
| 18-1003 |
Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference |
Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t… |
3.5 |
| 18-1016 |
Lloyd Gene Beam v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution judicial-impartiality judicial-impartiality-standard-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application state-collateral-review teague-retroactivity teague-v-lane watershed-rule watershed-rules |
1. Was the new standard from People v. Stevens,
498 Mich. 162, 869 N.W.2d 233 (2015), for determining
whether a trial judge exhibited improper partial… |
3.5 |
| 18-1029 |
Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing |
Can a "Non-Party" of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a "Party" as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, … |
3.5 |
| 18-805 |
Eric S. Strohmeyer v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure clear-error due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss standing standing-doctrine surface-transportation-board third-circuit transportation |
Was it clear error for the Third Circuit to fail to address the issue of whether the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") had the jurisdiction to rend… |
3.5 |
| 18-865 |
Giovanni Vella v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
3.5 |
| 18-870 |
Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to
be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was
violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc… |
3.5 |
| 18-876 |
Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 |
1. Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to o… |
3.5 |
| 18-889 |
Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law |
1. Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural due process of law, of their federal constitutionally-protected liberty inte… |
3.5 |
| 18-912 |
AmeriCare MedServices, Inc. v. City of Anaheim, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
active-supervision antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure commercial-market-participant commercial-participant federal-antitrust-law market-competition municipal-services preemption regulatory-capacity state-action-doctrine state-action-immunity |
1. A state statute governing ambulance services allows one type of competition displacement. Is a municipality that is not authorized by that statute … |
3.5 |
| 18-915 |
Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search |
whether producing identification without being requested to justifies search for weapons several minutes later;
whether overt submission to and facil… |
3.5 |
| 18-925 |
A-1 Premium Acceptance, Inc. v. Meeka Hunter |
Missouri |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-agreement arbitrator civil-procedure contract contract-law contract-validity dispute-resolution due-process federal-arbitration-act integral-term judicial-review section-5 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statement in an arbitration agreement that a specific arbitrator is to be utilized is an integral term that prohibits application of §5 of t… |
3.5 |
| 18-934 |
Cynthia Prosterman, et al. v. American Airlines Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-enforcement antitrust-pleading civil-procedure combination-conspiracy due-process pleading-standards rule-12b6 sherman-act twombly twombly-standard |
Since this Court decided Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), Circuits are split as to its interpretation and Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) dismi… |
3.5 |
| 18-939 |
Dinora Ortega-Morales v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
3.5 |
| 18-947 |
Michael S. Barth v. Township of Bernards, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-timeliness appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals court-rules due-process ex-parte ex-parte-motion in-camera-review judicial-misconduct misconduct procedural-rules |
Whether if a member of the Court of Appeals sends a party a "racist" mailing of a court initiated letter, whether intentional or unintentional, does a… |
3.5 |
| 18-951 |
T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion |
Whether this Court should grant Petitioner's certiorari for because the Supreme Court of Texas denied Petitioner's Petition For Review and Motion For … |
3.5 |
| 18-955 |
Alberto Fernandez v. School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-standard garcetti-v-ceballos public-employee restatement-of-agency scope-of-employment |
1. For purposes of First Amendment freedom of speech for public employees, whether scope of employment is a threshold question to be resolved before c… |
3.5 |
| 18-985 |
BMP Family Limited Partnership, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code katz-v-united-states neece-v-irs non-party-clients preemption privacy right-to-financial-privacy right-to-privacy standing summons-privacy tax-summons |
The issue is whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party c… |
3.5 |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro… |
3.5 |
| 18-988 |
RPD Holdings, L.L.C. v. Tech Pharmacy Services, dba Advanced Pharmacy Services |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-assumption asset-valuation assumption-and-assignment assumption-assignment bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-sale bankruptcy-trustees collateral-attack executory-contract finality-of-bankruptcy-sales patent-law patent-license |
This case raises two important issues of first impression under the Bankruptcy Code: what happens to an undisclosed executory contract —frequently a v… |
3.5 |
| 18-997 |
Oliver Williams, et al. v. The National Gallery, London, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction property-rights sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction takings wrongful-possession |
Is a sovereign's, or its instrumentality's, refusal to return property wrongfully held a taking of rights in property in violation of international la… |
3.5 |
| 18-6319 |
William Shane Reid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) whe… |
1.0 |
| 18-6979 |
Lewis Carnell Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-offense culpable-negligence deference federal-circuit-courts federal-courts mens-rea sentencing-enhancement state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal offense with a mens rea of "culpable negligence" qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
0.5 |
| 18-6989 |
Jessie Lee Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity 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,… |
0.5 |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
0.5 |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
0.5 |
| 18-7428 |
Harry Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
0.5 |
| 18-5969 |
Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error … |
-1.0 |
| 18-6310 |
LeShawn Lawson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
First, whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop, while no … |
-1.0 |
| 18-6377 |
Rashad Woodside v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing where the reasons for the sentence are stated in open court aft… |
-1.0 |
| 18-6481 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary |
DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP?
IS THE DUE P… |
-1.0 |
| 18-6550 |
Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
-1.0 |
| 18-7396 |
Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review |
The Anti-Te rrorism and Effe ctive De ath Penalty Act (A EDPA) re quires a f ederal habe as
corpus c ourt to g ive substantial defe rence to the findi… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7519 |
Daltonia Duncan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody … |
-1.5 |
| 18-7723 |
Randy Dempsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7783 |
Todd Eugene Cannady v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code california-penal-code-211 categorical-approach commentary crime-of-violence johnson johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
1. Can California robbery under California Penal Code § 211 be a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, where Johnson invalidated the residual clau… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7784 |
Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation |
Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7804 |
Denandias Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement 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,… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7862 |
Vincent Beatty, aka Jamaal Beatty, aka Vincent Daward Beatty, aka Mozzi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advisory-guidelines criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance sua-sponte upward-variance |
Whether a sua sponte upward variance sentence is reasonable where the advisory Guideline range accurately reflected the defendant's conduct and prior … |
-1.5 |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7910 |
Richard Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
-1.5 |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
-2.5 |
| 18-5781 |
Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing |
SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER A FEDERAL PRISONER CAN RAISE A SENTENCING ISSUE UNDER 28 U.S.… |
-2.5 |
| 18-6819 |
Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity |
1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")… |
-3.0 |
| 18-6272 |
Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing |
Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo… |
-4.0 |
| 18-6388 |
Ruby Blackmon v. Eaton Corporation |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
-4.0 |
| 18-6688 |
Stephen D. Leonard v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dade-county due-process public-defender public-leader restitution right-to-counsel standing universal-declaration-of-human-rights |
1. Did the State Court Violate the Court Ordered Rehearing on January 29, 2018?
2. Did the State Court Presiding Judge Violate the Court Order allowi… |
-4.0 |
| 18-6533 |
Anthony Lewallyn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's opinion in Nichols v. United States, can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the dis… |
-4.5 |
| 18-6612 |
James Pinkney v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bi armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach force illinois-robbery-statute statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether the Illinois robbery statute categorically requires the use of force called for by this Court so as to qualify as a "violent felony" under the… |
-4.5 |
| 18-6913 |
Lamar Sowell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation 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 |
| 18-6914 |
Daniel Rojas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime |
I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
-4.5 |
| 18-6927 |
In Re Jerry Urbina |
|
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining retroactivity rule-11 sentencing-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT HOLDING IN HUGHES V. UNITED STATES (CITATIONS OMITTED), THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING PETI… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
-4.5 |
| 18-7224 |
Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct |
I. Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7242 |
Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016). |
-4.5 |
| 18-7246 |
Harold Shawgnessy Sims v. King, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process sentencing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7257 |
Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing |
The Pivotal Guestion here is, diol the olenial of Petihoner's Oral request for in camera review of the prosecution's Star woitness personnel file, ole… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7258 |
Clayton Thomason v. Joy Jackson, et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
-4.5 |
| 18-7259 |
Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
DID THE PETITIONER GIVE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE SUCH CLAIMS 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?.
DID TH… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7261 |
Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appealability appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits motion-to-reconsider procedural-error rule-60(b) |
Since denial of the prejudgment Rule 60(b) motion in habeas did not address merits of attorney dishonesty (fraud-on-the--court) did lower court clearl… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7265 |
Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure |
I.
Is a motion for a directed verdict an
objection that preserves an issue for and
mandates de novo
review?
Petitioner answers,
"Yes."
Respondent has … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7271 |
Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony |
The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by rul… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7273 |
Shaidon Blake v. Brian Fish, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights denial-of-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence standing |
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-4.5 |
| 18-7279 |
Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague |
Is a federal question raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller exceptio… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7280 |
Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule |
WAS PETITIONER, AN INDIGENT PRETRIAL DETAINEE, PREVENTED FROM CHALLENGING PRETRIAL CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT BY THE IMPROPER ASSESSMENT OF A STRIKE UN… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7281 |
Olandio Ray Workman v. John Vandermosten, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-charges indigent-defense legal-mail medical-care prison prison-conditions right-to-counsel standing |
(1) "Did The DisTricT COurT in GrEEnVille SOuTh Carolina denie me due process when They denied me appointed Counsel when They
(2) "Is iT Lawfull for … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7283 |
Angel Bartlett v. Kalamazoo County Community Mental Health Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corrective-programs discriminatory-practices due-process false-imprisonment false-reporting false-reports mental-health mental-health-confinement probate religious-discrimination torture-allegations weapons-of-mass-destruction |
IS it illegal or wrongful for Community Mental Health to be holding Angel Bartlett in corrective programs even when there is no open probate to hold A… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7285 |
Brenda J. Burch v. Atlanta City Court, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corruption due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct local-government state-courts state-government |
I have not been justified. I want Equal Protection under the laws, there have been much corruption under the Practice of Oath under the Staff and the … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7288 |
Jamie Rozelle Harrison v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing statutory-provisions takings |
HAVE SERIOUS DIFFEBENCES RAISEO INTHIER SOUBTOE LAU QUESTIONS WERE BAISED INREGARD TO BOTH COUBT OELAW. HE TBIALCOURT RETAINS THEDISCRETIOH 1 To DiSMi… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7290 |
Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing |
(I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL.
I). RI… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7291 |
Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial |
Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7299 |
Leon Tony Parker, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice counsel-withdrawal court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-resolution motion-to-substitute motion-to-substitute-counsel motion-to-withdraw record-keeping right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion trial-fairness |
The Petitioner sought to withdraw counsel because of a legitimate conflict in counsel's representation; and then, two months later, sought to substitu… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7301 |
J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review |
THE COURT EALS ERRED BY EMPLOYING AN UNCONSITITUTIONAL STANDARD TO REVIEW THIS PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATION DECISION.
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7302 |
Angel Bartlett v. Stephen Gorsalitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations hate-crime judicial-abuse peonage retaliation witness-tampering |
Was it illegal or wrongful for Stephen Gorsalitz and the Kalamazoo Courts to frame, Set up and destroy Angel Bartlett when she first had her kids? 18 … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7314 |
Deontae Thomas v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias newly-discovered-evidence standing summary-judgment |
Whether Procidura Due Prociss of LeW
Mandated An Evidentiary htaring
On
Newly DisLovered Evidincd Claim.
Petitioner was denied A detached
3Y34m
Whethe… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7315 |
James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination |
L. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WITN OBLINK AGENC
___ MS. TENNTE ROWEN, DENTED P TONER HIS DUE PROCESS OF LAV
On [UTIONAL RIGHTS AY R NG TO ALLOW HIM AN I… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7318 |
Jesus Gomez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries |
Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteen… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7324 |
Roberto Gil v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony |
Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police - earning twenty percent only in the event of arrest, forfeiture, and favora… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7328 |
Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7332 |
James Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he never progressed beyond the first grade level and dropped out of third grade a… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7334 |
Jesse R. Perez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7335 |
Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Err by denying a Certificate of Appealbility (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of th… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7336 |
Jonathan Henry Hill v. Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit affidavit-standard civil-procedure conviction due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence one-year-limitation post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations |
Can a Habeas Petitioner rely on an affidavit as newly discovered evidence when the affidavit is submitted more than one year after a conviction? |
-4.5 |
| 18-7342 |
Robert Gross v. Jeanine Dannatt |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-rights consent-judgment constitutional-rights due-process family-law full-faith-and-credit prenuptial-agreement statute-of-frauds texas-family-code |
Can a Texas Court refuse to give full faith and credit and not honor a Pennsylvania Court Order?
Does an oral consent to judgment waive a Prenuptial … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7349 |
Kevin Hicks v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
-4.5 |
| 18-7353 |
Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
-4.5 |
| 18-7357 |
David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar |
(1). Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 19… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7363 |
Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing |
If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented. &
If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denie… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7364 |
Brandon M. Chambers v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
court-interpretation grammar grammatical-construction judicial-deference judicial-discretion legislative-intent punctuation state-court statutory-analysis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
That responsibility/power does a State District court have in interpreting a provision of a statute, and when interpreting a statute to determine legi… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7366 |
Frederick Gray v. Patricia Sorrels, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions |
THGMSELUES ARE MST ARMS OF THE STATE AMO THE STATE OR
DEPARTMENT WAS NOTLIST GD AS A DEFEUOANT
EO EEE E DT
PLAINTIFF CRAY WMEN WE REFUSED TS MEDICATE… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7370 |
Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations |
1 Sal He COU. 7 hear His wht of Chir ar j Lama Wy
2 ror a Le lificate f peceh ply CO Ala to he hes 4
s |Lonnlersts under Lederal Kules ot Lvil froce… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7373 |
Warren Ray Patton v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief |
1. Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected du… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7381 |
Anthony C. Hernandez v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing medical-license professional-discipline regulatory-agency standing |
Quostions of piocedone due prot vilations in prison discpinary hearing, of not allowirg
friendlt wttness to attend perJury, factoal d putes.
Quetions… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7382 |
Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect |
Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7386 |
Oscar Armando, aka Oscar Armando Sarres Mendoza v. Gerald Wayne Whitfield, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights classification due-process grievance property-rights retaliation standing takings |
To. Assistant Warden milbern.
1.J. Did you or didyou not signed on The
ConFiscation Form
dated
AUgust04-2016
2.) Did you knew that The petitioner has
… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7398 |
Kerry Kruskal v. Peter Sprunt |
New Mexico |
Denied |
IFP |
amended-complaint association-ditch-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights contested-issues due-process issue-preclusion motion-to-reconsider pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation property-dispute property-rights sanctions standing stored-water-rights summary-judgment surface-water-rights warranty-deed water-rights |
In this case- Was the district court correct to adversely rule on Sprunt's summery judgment motion when there were so many legitimate contested issues… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7399 |
Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error |
THE SENTENCING CURT ERRED IN APPLYING INCORRECT OFFENSE GRAVITY SCORES IN VIOLATION OF APPELLANT'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BASED UPON THE UNPROVEN WEIGHT O… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7403 |
Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations |
1. In the State of Missouri,can a license pharmacist redunciently practice medicine as to aphysicia±. duties of professional judgment and proform phys… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7406 |
Benjamin James Boatman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error drug-induced-psychosis due-process heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel |
Mr. Boatman alleged that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct, develop, and present readily available evidence of a drug-induced psych… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7407 |
Azaniah Blankumsee v. Circuit Court of Maryland, Washington County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence immunity injunctive-relief standing |
Q1) Did The lower Caurr ecc ia Qrantiag Ato se lute
Trictonity to All deFendaocts, befFocuw aad re SSing nis Claims
fac indenetive Calic&, ara (a fine… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7416 |
Javier Solis v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington hearsay hearsay-exception jury-instructions jury-interpretation police-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence truth-of-the-matter-asserted |
A POLICE OFFICER TESTIFIED TO MATTERS OF WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE DIRECT KNOWLEDGE INCLUDING A BOLO BULLETIN.
SHOULD "TESTIMONIAL" OR "NON-TESTIMONIAL" … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7422 |
David Lee Williams v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction louisiana-supreme-court right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation |
Is defendnt entitled to relef where he was constuctively denied counsel duing trial?
Is ndnt ied to whhewas cnuctivy dend counsel duina his one and o… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7425 |
Jovan Cooper v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7429 |
Adam Lee Lopez v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment coercion constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-rights police-interrogation self-incrimination suspect-waiver |
Whether officers may, when a suspect mentions a desire to wait for an attorney, follow up a reading of the Miranda warnings with soft persuasion and e… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7435 |
James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7438 |
Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands |
Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an "Honorable" member of the legal profes… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7442 |
Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision – that the "beyond the reasonable doubt" standard does not apply to the critical and prerequisite finding by Okla… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7457 |
Charles Edward Case v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7458 |
Samuel Lewis Taylor v. Michael Miller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment access-to-court access-to-courts cell-search civil-rights discovery due-process prison-conditions property-rights retaliation |
Whether or not 1983 civil rights discovery material confiscated from petitioner's cell during cell search and disposed of denied access to the court?
… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7459 |
Michael J. Greene v. William O. Huffman, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice sentencing standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process juvenile-justice standing state-law |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-7460 |
Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court |
In claim one and two, did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record.
In claim 3(A), did trial counsel fail to investigate criminal acts a… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7464 |
Carlton E. Gary v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence |
I). Dr. Merin, had not made contact with a witness to the Criminal charges. The Credibility of her report would have been considered proper.
2). Can … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7465 |
Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
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-4.5 |
| 18-8080 |
In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
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-4.5 |
| 18-8098 |
In Re Christopher Hanson |
|
Denied |
IFP |
due-process government-interference habeas-corpus pcra plea-agreement post-conviction-relief-act statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions timeliness |
WHETHER APPELLANT HANSON'S PCRA'S WERE TIMELY UNDER 42 Pa. C.S. § 9545(b) DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE AND REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS.
WHETHER AP… |
-4.5 |
| 18-5428 |
Restituto D. Barraquias v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.0 |
| 18-6245 |
Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing |
(1) Whether Raymond Luker was negligent.
(2) Whether it was a refusal at trial to accept proffered admissible evidence, not the granting of the motio… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6321 |
Josephloc T. Nguyen v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adverse-employment-action causation civil-rights employment-discrimination mixed-motive protected-activity retaliation title-vii |
Whether Title VII's retaliation provision and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that an employer would n… |
-6.0 |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7065 |
Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a de… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7384 |
Michael Deuschel v. USC Faculty Dental Practice, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada-accommodation ada-requests-for-accommodation court-reporter disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-access multiple-disabilities pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-petitioner record-on-appeal |
Whether the trial court denials of ADA requests for accommodation from in forma pauperis pro se Petitioner with multiple disabilities, receiving multi… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7248 |
Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search |
Is a trial by jury a necessary right of the litigant in any civil matter before a federal Court where the legal conclusion remains unresolved when bot… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7312 |
Danny D. Tran v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process in-re-gault ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-confession juvenile-rights postcard-denial strickland-standard williams-v-taylor |
MAY THIS COURT'S DECISION IN STRICKLAND V. WASHINGTON AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL?
MAY THIS COURT'S DECISION IN IN R… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7343 |
Alberic Israel, on Behalf of Minor Children A. I. and E. I. v. City of North Miami, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings |
WHETHER MANIFEST MJESTICE has OcCURRED
IN COURTS MIS-CONSTROING OF ApPiAbE
STATOTE
OF LiMTFATIONS BAR ON TiME LIMiFATIONS OF
PREVOUS E ON E)
CLiNS DE… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7359 |
Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing |
Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7380 |
Ricardo Glover v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge liberty prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-constitution |
In 1879, the Honorable Justice Strong speaking for this Court in Ex pane Commonwealth of Virginia, 100 U.S. 339 (1879), stated that "when a prisoner i… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7389 |
Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE FEDER… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7401 |
Robert Shapiro v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause due-process federalism free-speech general-welfare standing takings taxation |
and collect
Com Congress sall hav ower to lay
Tades, Dutres, Imposts and
Excises, to pay tre depts
and proride for the common Defence and welfare of t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7411 |
David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 allen-v-mccurry civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-claims due-process failure-to-state-a-claim federal-petition haines-v-kerner parole-board section-1983 |
The Petitioner first filed a state court declaratory judgment action claiming that the state Parole Board had (1) made an ex post facto change to paro… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7423 |
Rodney Washington v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-discretion criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-profile double-standard due-process ex-post-facto legal-precedent perjury retroactive-application statute-of-limitations |
A. tha Ga counk OF Aoviple Vecisind 12 CooMict wir heer
US. Cova o& PAQuns Weses Vrak naz simian mud Slike | pael
Meo One Vwrked Sates Supreme eouck w… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7441 |
James L. Wheeler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing |
1) Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Ker… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7480 |
Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7483 |
Robert John Frank v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings |
1. DUAL CONVICTIONS FOR FAILING TO MEET A MINOR FOR UNLAWFUL SEX AND SOLICITATION AND USE OF COMPUTER FOR CHILD EXPLOITATION AND UNLAWFUL USE OF A TWO… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7492 |
Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee, Jr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7508 |
Patrick Brooks v. Pinnacle Financial Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consumer-protection due-process foreclosure home-rescission jesinoski-v-countrywide-home-loans res-judicata rescission supreme-court-precedent truth-in-lending-act |
Whether, where the right to foreclose is extinguished as a matter of law by federal statute and as clarified in a unanimous Supreme Court decision, an… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7517 |
Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights |
Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7521 |
Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure |
Whether a defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of trial… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7525 |
Delexsia Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 |
Should the analysis utilized in, Old Chief v. United States, 519 US 172, 179; 117 S.ct 644, 651 (1997), for supression of prior bad acts in relation t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7535 |
Timothy S. Chalfant v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process judicial-review social-security standing |
DID THE SOCIAL SECURITY ALJ ERROR IN FAILING TO ADDRESS MR. CHALFANT'S IMPAIRMENTS THAT HE REFERENCED AT LENGTH DURING THE ORAL HEARING? IS THIS GROUN… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7577 |
Roland Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7586 |
Zachary T. Frey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation post-sentencing-case-law post-sentencing-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally vag… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7592 |
Zane Hubbard v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-procedure due-process fair-procedure government-action judicial-review legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
(1). In CoNTROVERSIEs /NVOLVING TRENSON AND LEVy By
The UiiTeo SnTEs GovernmeNT AwD WiTuiN One STiE WiTH
SoTE GoreRnMieNT AGAiNsT One Orr MoRE OF lres… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7606 |
Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7617 |
Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7626 |
Gregory Haynes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error |
Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial when the trial court made multiple comments that reflected… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7628 |
Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 |
Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.0 Code # 242. and/or in… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7634 |
Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony |
I) Reasonable jurists could debate whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim in violation of Evid.R. 803(4) denied A… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7672 |
Lester Moody v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 18-7684 |
Raynard Reginald Brown v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process patent standing takings |
Did the court of Appeals of Virginia error on
the court refusing the
petition for appeal? |
-6.5 |
| 18-7687 |
Dre'Shawn Markuise Lee v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus institutional-confinement pro-se state-court-appeals statute-of-limitations timeliness |
For an inmate confined in an institution in Prose wher does their Federal Habeas Petition clock begin tò run once the Supreme court of therr State has… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7689 |
Frank James v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations |
THE CRIMINAL JUDGMENTS AND CONVICTIONS THAT ARE BEING UTILIZED FOR INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT ARE OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND THEREFORE BARRED BY THE FLOR… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7697 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io |
Whether inmates who file a postconviction under Iowa Code 822 in the Iowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7698 |
Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver |
DOES TRIAL COUNSEL WAIVE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW OF AN ERRONEOUS RULING ON EVIDENCE IF COUNSEL CHOOSES NOT TO OBJECT TO THE RULING WHE… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7702 |
George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching |
Whether the state court or United States court of appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled b… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7705 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens |
Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure through the Fourteenth Amendment on Due Process of Law a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7706 |
Syed Nazim Ali v. Interactive Brokers LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing civil-rights corporate-law corporate-laws corporate-representation due-process fair-justice judicial-procedure legal-representation legal-standing pro-se-litigation shareholder shareholder-exception shareholder-rights standing |
Whether the district court erred by dismissing the case on the grounds that the Petitioner who is the sole owner and shareholder of the corporation di… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7720 |
Howard Webber v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7722 |
Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation |
Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a
merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth
Circuit… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7727 |
Gregory Hatt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7734 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County |
Iowa |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
I. DID THE STATE OF IOWA VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS 5th, 6th, & 14th AMENDMENT'S CONFRONTATION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO BE PRESENT DURING A CRITICAL STA… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE
AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7736 |
Robert Davis v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-counsel criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance legal-review procedural-due-process questions-of-fact questions-of-law standing state-court state-court-review |
Did the State's highest court fail to lawfully review the questions of law in Petitioner's application prior to denying him permission to appeal his c… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7738 |
Kukia R. Farrish v. Navy Federal Credit Union |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consumer-financial-protection-bureau consumer-protection credit-card-agreement credit-report credit-reporting damages debt-collection digital-forensics document-manipulation due-process electronic-evidence evidentiary-standards federal-credit-union financial-regulation judicial-review procedural-integrity |
The Cone Financal Protectin BueaCFPBad recenty fined Navy Federal Crodit Union for28M, for unlawful collections practicées which is what my claim is a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7741 |
Robert Sills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7746 |
Joseph Davis v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure |
Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a "ruse" under Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1, 4 (1990), thereby rendering the use of evi… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7748 |
James Freeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims |
Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7751 |
Brian Bolton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines welch-v-united-states |
Whether the governments arguments are incorrectly that the Supreme Court's ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 s. ct. 2551 (2015), is "procedural-… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7754 |
In Re Archie Cabello |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-procedure pleadings right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation rule-11 self-representation |
Does a trial judge have any duty to ensure that a defendant's right to counsel of choice is protected?
When a defendant asserts his right to self—rep… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7758 |
Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges |
Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?
Has Mary Cummins been deprived of due process by use of a retired Texas v… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7760 |
Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1
This Court held that a court of appeals exceeds its subject-matter jurisdiction when the appellate court bypasses the certificate of appea… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7762 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legitimate-penological-interests penological-interests prison-regulation prison-regulations prisoner-rights |
1. What minimum showing of proof must prison officials establish on the record, to meet their initial burden of proof, in demonstrating that a prison … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7763 |
Charles Dereck Adams v. Department of Defense |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power administrative-procedure age-discrimination civil-rights discrimination discrimination-abuse-of-power disparate-treatment disparate-treatment-discrimination employment-discrimination extortion mspb-quorum-bias prohibited-personnel-practice vera-vsip-denial vera-vsip-hearing-fairness vera-vsip-weapon veraivsip |
Unlawful VERA Retirement Denial
Whether Awarding VERAIVSIP to others in MDA and even in my own office, and not awarding it to me, is okay or even leg… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7764 |
Marcellus French v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review |
DID THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHERE THE COURT AFFIRMED THE APPELLATE COURT'S RULING THAT THE USAGE OF HEARSAY WITHIN THE PETITIO… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7765 |
Burgess Massey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states new-york-robbery residual-clause retroactivity second-or-successive-habeas sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
1. Whether the New York State offense of robbery in the third degree is a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7768 |
Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to "due process" for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to res… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7769 |
Demetrius Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching |
Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7776 |
Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7777 |
In Re Jaron Brice |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Will the writ of mandamus to be issued to Justice for the Fourth Circuit define the U.S. Court of Appeals the Fourth Circuit in the case entitled Sano… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7778 |
Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy |
Government prosecutors strategically decided to subdivide their
prosecution of petitioner's ongoing New York city enterprise into two parts. The
first… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7779 |
Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm |
Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7781 |
Juan Ramone Lopez v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-misrepresentation age-misrepresentation-at-arrest age-of-majority birth-certificate birth-date-verification civil-rights constitutional-privilege criminal-procedure due-process evidence foreign-national habeas-corpus juvenile-offender standing state-courts |
SHOULD A PERSON'S MISREPRESENTATION OF HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST OR THE PERSON'S BIRTH COMPLETE ERASE HIS DATE OF BIRTH IN A COURT OF LAW?
II… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7792 |
Anthony Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-violation brady-violation-disclosure circuit-court-split constitutional-disclosure constitutional-due-process due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit-decision second-or-successive successive-habeas-petition |
Whether The Second Circuit's Decision That Petitioner's Second-In Time Brady Claim Is Successive Conflicts With Applicable Decisions Of This Court?
W… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7799 |
Joel Stephen Cutulle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights democratic-society due-process fair-hearing integrity judicial-integrity judicial-review legal-protection reliability standing territorial-jurisdiction |
What due process protection is afforded a citizen within the territorial boundaries of the United States who brings a claim before a court of law seek… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7800 |
Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7801 |
Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7802 |
Michael Hopson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy |
Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7812 |
Raheem Wilcox v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adverse-inference adverse-inference-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-rule-3:13-3 discovery discovery-rule due-process evidence new-trial-factual-predicate new-trial-standard post-conviction-relief pre-indictment-destruction pre-indictment-destruction-of-evidence retroactive-application teague-v-lane |
The question in the case is whether, the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in State v. W.B that clarified discovery rule 3:13-3, holding that the pr… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7814 |
William E. Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings |
I. (i) WHETHER COUNSEL. RENDERED INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO OBJECT
TO THE DRUG QUANTITY CALCULATION IN THE PSR, USED THREATS TO CORCE
PETITIONER T… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7817 |
Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus |
Courts often reject Batson claims where the prospective juror at issue has a relative with a criminal conviction, a reason that has a disparate impact… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7818 |
Marcos Castaneda v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSONS AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS CAUSE, IN ABSENCE OF A SIGNED FORMAL COMPLAINT?
WHETHER M… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7830 |
Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution |
Question 1. To determine "same offense" in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7836 |
Michael Travis Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) is … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7838 |
William Floyd Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is a general inte… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7839 |
Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1.Did the Fourth:CuEcuit:Coutt 6 1f, appeals in dismissing 1.the district Court case, violated petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process to redress the… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7840 |
Tommie H. Telfair v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissal-without-merits due-process miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent wiggins-v-smith certificate-of-appealability due-process fundamental-rights judicial-discretion merits-review miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence wiggins-v-smith |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION
IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF
APPEALABILITY (COA) WHERE JURIST OF REASON COULD
DISAGREE WITH … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7841 |
Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry |
I. Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.0 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two co… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7842 |
Brian Michael Burton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence |
Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted when the abusive tactics of the Government acting in concert with a Confid… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7843 |
Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability, where petitioner presented clear factual evidence, supported b… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7844 |
Malcolm Jarrel Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7846 |
Reginald Hough v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances |
Based on the totality of the circumstances was there probable cause for the search warrant to issue?
Is it permissible for a lay witness to offer tes… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7848 |
Darrel Fisher v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 18-7849 |
Jesus Pacheco Estudillo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights direct-appeal effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing facts procedural-due-process relevant-facts sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation |
Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right To The Effective Assistance was Violated When Counsel Failed to File A Direct Areal.
Whether The COurt Err… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7858 |
Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness |
Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7871 |
Earl Vennings, Jr. v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 18-7874 |
Richard Booze v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection separation-of-powers standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-7878 |
John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence |
WHETHER the interpretation of conspiracy in the FourthCircuit
is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth
Amendment departing from t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7880 |
Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Are the elements of 18 U.S.C.§ 924 C satisfied if a unloaded Firearm and drugs and the unloaded Firearm of the crime? O does this constitute Title 18 … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7882 |
Christopher M. Gates v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force |
A. Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or "Terry stop," where there is a risk to officer safety.
B. Whethe… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7883 |
Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing |
1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7884 |
Paula Villalva-Patricio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pertinent-information right-to-testify sixth-amendment testify translation-of-proceedings |
1. Whether the Defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when Appellant wished to testify or otherwise introduce pertinent information and … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7886 |
Akeen Ocean v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), occur only in cases where the government has expressly di… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7898 |
Latwang Janell Reid El Bey v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion right-to-be-heard standing temporary-restraining-order |
1) Did Judge MILTON F. FITCH, TR. err by denying the petitioner the right to a hearing and the opportunity to be heard when the petitioner filed for a… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7900 |
Jorge Ernesto Blanco-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal guilty-plea immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-citizen-defendant padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining plea-colloquy supervisory-power |
In the Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), this Honorable Court held that a criminal defense lawyer is ineffective when the lawyer fails to advi… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7903 |
Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error by continuously granting the Attorn… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7905 |
Christopher A. Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indiana-v-edwards medical-condition medical-resuscitation medication mental-competency pro-se-representation self-representation |
"Does a higher standard exist for measuring competency to represent oneself at trial, than for competency to stand trial, in a case wherein a criminal… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7913 |
Travis Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) before determ… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7914 |
Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed when instead of describing any reliable and corroborated facts about drug … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7915 |
Arthur Sean Warner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-locational-elements categorical-approach categorical-match categorical-matching criminal-statute-interpretation descamps descamps-v-united-states federal-statute mathis mathis-descamps-standard mathis-v-united-states school-property state-criminal-statute state-statute |
Did the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court Of Appeals findings result in a decision that was(1) Unreasonable in light of the evidence present… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7918 |
Rutilio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-924 abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive statutory-interpretation substantive-error sufficient-but-not-greater-than-necessary |
I. Whether the District Court Committed substantive error when failed to impose a sentence that was sufficient but not greater than necessary to compl… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7920 |
Harold A. Habeck, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,mandatory-minimums,d criminal-sentencing discretion drug-offense drug-offenses firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums predicate-crime sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
"Whether; Dean v. United States, 581 U.S. (2017) permits a district court the discretion to consider less than the mandatory sixty month consecutive s… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7922 |
Thomas Isaac LaFleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-registration firearm-definition national-firearms-act second-amendment staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-freed weapon-classification |
Did the Eleventh Circuit court of Appeals error in denying the Petitioner's SubjctMatter Jurisdiction claim, where the charging documents statute [26 … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7927 |
Tyrone Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington townsend-v-burke |
Petitioner presents the question whether his 'trial counsel provided ineffective .assistance of: counsel as required by 'the Sixth Amendment to' the C… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7930 |
Richard S. Button v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
filing-date habeas-corpus legal-interpretation motion-amendment postconviction-relief procedural-rules relation-back standard-of-review state-law timeliness |
DO THE PROCEDURAL RULES IN EFFECT AT TIME OF FILING, GOVERN WHETHER AN APPLICATION FOR STATE POSTCONVICTION RELIEF IS PROPERLY FILED?
WHAT IS THE STA… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7947 |
Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty did Garden have t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7954 |
Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan |
Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7960 |
Andracos Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets |
I. This court has previously addressed the constitutionality of pretrial restraints and seizures of untainted substitute assets, holding that the unta… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7968 |
Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute |
WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T… |
-6.5 |
| 18-7969 |
Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT?
PETITIONER ANSWERS - YES.
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7983 |
Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation |
1) May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly … |
-6.5 |
| 18-7993 |
Ronald Bedford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor |
Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service ("USPS") to haul mail is a person… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8033 |
Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
ISSUE #1: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PETITIONER
WAS UNREASONABLY SUGGESTIVE CAUSING
PLAIN ERROR PP. 5-12
ISSUE 42: THERE WAS PLAIN ERROR WHEN THE
PROS… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8100 |
Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
WheTher Senica Franklin's ConvicTion
and Sentence should be reversed, and set asick
based upon newly
discovered
evidence.
SeDica FRanKlin's ConviCTiOn… |
-6.5 |