| 18-483 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (15) |
14th-amendment abortion civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection fetal-remains medical-regulation |
1. Whether a State may require health care facilities to dispose of fetal remains in the same manner as other human remains, i.e., by burial or cremat… |
31.5 |
| 18-658 |
Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (11)Relisted (11) |
civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights |
Boyertown Area School District by policy authorizes some transgender students to use high school locker rooms and restrooms that match their subjectiv… |
26.5 |
| 18-1206 |
Lynda Like, et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure condemnation eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction immediate-possession judicial-power land-condemnation natural-gas-act preliminary-injunction private-companies private-property-rights takings |
The Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. § 717f(h)) delegates to certain private companies the ordinary eminent domain power: that is, the power to bring a cond… |
12.5 |
| 18-1022 |
Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
I. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
misapplied established federal law when it held that
the State's failure to disclose threats and promis… |
10.5 |
| 18-891 |
Sally Jim v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-interpretation due-process federal-indian-law income-taxation indian-tribes self-governance taxation treaty-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty |
Whether treaties with Indian tribes must be construed consistent with that tribe's present-sense understanding of the treaty.
Whether the Miccosukee … |
9.0 |
| 18-895 |
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
general-welfare-benefits gross-income income-tax-exclusion indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act indian-general-welfare-benefits statutory-interpretation tax tax-interpretation tribal-general-welfare-exclusion-act tribal-welfare |
The 2014 Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act states that, for income tax purposes, "[g]ross income does not include the value of any Indian general w… |
9.0 |
| 18-1325 |
Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial |
Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges… |
8.5 |
| 18-803 |
Wendy B. Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, fka SmithKline Beecham Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
clinical-trials drug-labeling drug-manufacturer fda-regulations impossibility-preemption labeling-changes preemption truthful-risks unilateral-labeling-changes unilateral-warning wyeth-v-levine |
Does federal law prevent a drug manufacturer from enhancing its label to reflect truthful risks revealed in its clinical trials when the relevant FDA … |
6.0 |
| 18-867 |
Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court |
Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece… |
6.0 |
| 18-965 |
Donald Sullivan v. Robert Wayne Pugh, et ux. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial north-carolina oath-of-office summary-judgment |
Whether or not the presiding judge in the lower court, the judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina and the justices of the North Carolina Sup… |
6.0 |
| 18-1225 |
Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement |
1. Whether a deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for the former client violates said attorney's due process rights … |
5.5 |
| 18-1231 |
Xiu Jain Sun v. Philip O. Ohene, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights divine-intervention due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation judicial-remedy jurisdictional-challenge legal-authority legal-confrontation mandamus mandamus-request mandarin-chinese-interpreter religious-doctrine religious-freedom separation-of-powers spiritual-petition standing statutory-interpretation |
Lord god of host sent the messenger through angel said to spiritual Adam: "take him (her) to the law to confront it." (fE ftl?. (fli) !
Attorney for … |
5.5 |
| 18-1235 |
Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction |
1) Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based s… |
5.5 |
| 18-1236 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
|
amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure mandamus standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether Petitioners' due process right was violated when the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied their petition for writ of mandamus within no tim… |
5.5 |
| 18-1242 |
Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. |
Washington |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law |
Whether a contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's rights to due process when they ignored subpoena duces tecum, and failed to comply with ar… |
5.5 |
| 18-937 |
Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
California |
Denied |
|
actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment |
What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six… |
5.5 |
| 18A296 |
Carolyn Barnes v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M162 |
Samuel Randolph, IV v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18M163 |
Erik Benham v. David R. Hagen |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 18-7139 |
James Castleman Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
4.0 |
| 18-1238 |
Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Progressive Credit Union, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights consolidation contempt court-compel-discovery court-procedure discovery discovery-rights discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression judicial-bias judicial-misconduct res-judicata share-certificate-dispute standing stock-share-dispute |
In Case Index number CV-030309-13/QU, Petitioner had submitted letter from President of Cornmunicar Inc. Pasquale Freni, to David Kosher, General coun… |
3.5 |
| 18-1261 |
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma v. Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-indian-law former-reservation gaming gaming-purposes indian-gaming-regulatory-act land-acquisition reservation-exception tribal-jurisdiction trust-lands |
Whether the "former reservation" exception permitting lands acquired by the United States in trust for an Oklahoma Tribe after the effective date of t… |
3.5 |
| 18-1263 |
Jason Brian Braun v. Department of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-error civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-petition standing status-conference transfer venue venue-transfer |
When a district court has erred and it's brought to their attention in contrast of that information a case continues to progress forward without corre… |
3.5 |
| 18-1264 |
Ronald Clark Fleshman, Jr. v. Volkswagen, AG, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law citizen-suit class-action-settlement clean-air-act defeat-devices emissions-standards epa epa-regulation state-implementation-plans statutory-interpretation vehicle-emissions vehicle-importation |
1. Can the Environmental Protection Agency
revise clear statutory terms of the Clean Air Act to
allow the importation, sale, and use of motor
vehic… |
3.5 |
| 18-1271 |
Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal |
In pleading a breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA, is it sufficient for a plaintiff to allege a deficient decision-making process indirectly through … |
3.5 |
| 18-1302 |
Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 … |
3.5 |
| 18-1305 |
Timothy O'Neill v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure erroneous-interpretation hoover-precedent job-description judicial-review long-term-disability plan-administrator sixth-circuit social-security-disability stare-decisis stare-decisis,civil-procedure,due-process,appeals, |
Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS for the SIXTH CIRCUIT wrongfully and grievously apply the doctrine of STARE DECISIS in upholding the decision o… |
3.5 |
| 18-1310 |
Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts |
Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia… |
3.5 |
| 18-1314 |
Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether… |
3.5 |
| 18-1322 |
The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, et al. |
New York |
Denied |
Response Waived |
animal-cruelty establishment-clause executive-branch free-exercise judicial-branch legislative-branch mandamus separation-of-powers standing writ-of-mandamus |
1. Can the New York State Judicial Branch refuse to issue a writ of mandamus when the executive branch defies the legislative branch;
2. Can the New … |
3.5 |
| 18-1324 |
Moses Watts, Sr., et ux. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eminent-domain equal-protection ex-parte ex-parte-order judicial-procedure pro-se property-rights severance-damages takings |
1. Whether petitioners were denied due process of law by an ex parte Circuit Court order enabling an electric utility to seize, without service of not… |
3.5 |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
3.5 |
| 18-1370 |
Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci… |
3.5 |
| 18-923 |
Carol Coghlan Carter, Next Friend of A. D., C. C., L. G., and C. R., et al. v. Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Indian Affairs, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act damages declaratory-relief due-process mootness prospective-relief retrospective-relief standing title-vi |
Whether claims for declaratory and damages relief to redress past injuries under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. SS 2000d2000d-7, … |
3.5 |
| 18-7652 |
Brian Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017). |
-1.0 |
| 18-7961 |
David Martinko v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absurdity-doctrine battery battery-continuous-course-of-conduct continuous-course-of-conduct criminal-offense criminal-offenses criminal-offenses-absurdity-doctrine-legislative-s criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine legislative-supremacy statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the "Absurdity Doctrine" be limited or abandoned in criminal offenses altogether in order to protect legislative supremacy?
II. When states… |
-1.0 |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
-1.5 |
| 18-8794 |
Ricky Raymond Ball v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-explanation manifest-injustice plea-agreement plea-bargaining supervised-release |
1. Whether Mr. Ball can be held to his waiver under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(b)(1)(N) when, rather than informing Mr. Ball of the extent to which he was wa… |
-1.5 |
| 18-8795 |
Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal |
Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause? |
-1.5 |
| 18-8819 |
Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial 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… |
-1.5 |
| 18-8913 |
Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 18-8998 |
Juan Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation |
I. Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation?
II. Whether, if a showing of governmenta… |
-1.5 |
| 18-7437 |
Damilola Animashaun v. William Schmidt, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 18-7856 |
In Re John Peyton Alexander |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act commutation-and-reduction-of-sentence due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue parole-revocation sentence-expiration successive-writ suspension-clause time-sensitive |
1. Since, in the drafting of the AEDPA, the U.S. Congress omitted successive-writ exceptions for a prisoner in state custody seeking federal habeas co… |
-4.0 |
| 18-7865 |
Svitlana Drozdovska v. Seminole County, Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-compliance civil-rights county-responsibility due-process federal-funding florida-law florida-state-law legal-remedy local-government-liability sidewalk-maintenance work-order |
I humbly request a new trial which will be in accordance with the law. The nature of their order was their final decision finding in favor of Seminole… |
-4.0 |
| 18-7500 |
Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime |
Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7536 |
Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire |
In jury selection for the second trial in this case, the State used 7 of its 12 peremptory challenges on African-Americans, removing only 5 of the 23 … |
-4.5 |
| 18-7581 |
Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 |
Question 1
The majority of the federal appeallate circuits conclude that § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to adjudicte a claim of actual innocence… |
-4.5 |
| 18-7599 |
Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure |
Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8202 |
Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
I. Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when t… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8389 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. The Eleventh Circuit did not focus on the state habeas court's actual reasons for rejecting Petitioner's claim that trial counsel's inadequate inve… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8453 |
Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled
regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8487 |
Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant pursu… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8488 |
Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment |
I was arrested and put in the jail (hole) on Oct. 25, 2016, for an altered ink pen with the APPERANCE OF DRUG RESIDUE, that was found on the top bunk,… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8505 |
William L. Burrell, Jr. v. Patrick Loungo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations convict-leasing human-trafficking judicial-immunity judicial-immunity-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 slavery |
Should this great court reconsider the doctrine of Absolute Judicial immunity and allow judges to be liable under section 1983 via a qualified immunit… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8513 |
Mark Halper v. Gladys Passes |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure-standing civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-precedent court-of-appeals debt-repayment due-process gift gift-vs-loan judicial-misconduct legal-standing loan property-rights standing supreme-court-ruling |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court, Colorado Court of Appeals and the District Court, San Miguel County, CO were corrupt in failing to legally assess … |
-4.5 |
| 18-8515 |
E. Drake v. Murphy, Austin, Adams, Schoenfeld, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
choice-of-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-personal-jurisdiction civil-rights contract contract-law due-process fraud fraud-claims internet internet-commerce internet-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction websites zippo-standard |
Petitioner is a consumer, who was seeking reliable transportation. Even though the Petitioner have pled that he first noticed the subject vehicle, a 2… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8517 |
Roderick Jermaine Hall v. Sprint Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust civil-rights consumer-protection contract-disclosure contract-law disability-rights disclosure-requirements due-process false-advertising federal-regulations network-management service-limitations telecommunications telecommunications-law |
COURT HAS Jurisdiction 28 USC 1331: FEDERAL QUESTION
Sprint fail to disclose information on any documents or website that has Sprint logo or Public No… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8529 |
Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment |
Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8530 |
Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 18-8546 |
Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8547 |
Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice |
Mr. Biggs alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the defense of diminished capacity. The facts and evidence in the record… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8554 |
Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction legal-standing parental-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Can Petitioner be brought into a state superior court to be ordered to pay child support for a minor she had no legal rights to and no visitation righ… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8557 |
Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during
the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved
in… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8562 |
Joseph Charles Tice v. Rupert Markley Dennis, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conditional-freedom criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole standing |
Did Rupert Martley Dennis Jr depard Prom theaccepted and
usual course of the Judicial procecdings?
Did the Us, District Coort of South Cardina fail i… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8563 |
Melvin Grayer v. James Filliyaw, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101. civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Why under the prison, liligation Reporm Ket, pursuant to 28U.SC 9150) State tht any couit moy authere te the finding oftheir deision Challeng "Baugh" … |
-4.5 |
| 18-8565 |
Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
IF A TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO OBJECT TO THE OMMISION OF A REQUIRED INSTRUCTION FROM THE JURY CHARGE RAISES THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON DIRECT APPEAL, WH… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8569 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
In 1988, before DNA was widely available as a forensic tool, Melvin Bonnell was convicted and sentenced to death. Trial testimony established that blo… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8572 |
Christopher Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings |
1. Whether there i8 wilthin the minimum requirements of due process, a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in olation proceedings, … |
-4.5 |
| 18-8573 |
Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing |
Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued.
… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8578 |
DeMarius L. Williams v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was petitioner guilty of unlawful possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance proved or not proved beyond reasonable doubt where he posse… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8588 |
Francis O. Rossy v. Sgt. Lupkin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
asylum-state civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extradition extradition-liability habeas-corpus prison-litigation-reform-act procedural-challenge standing |
1. WHEN A PETITIONER CHALLENGES HIS EXTRADITION, ARE THE DEFENDANT-RESPONDENTS TOTALLY EXEMPT FROM LIABILITY, ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW OF THE PENDING HABEAS… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8595 |
Charles Kenneth Wallace, Sr. v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process filing-deadline free-speech legal-procedure mailbox-rule petition-timing standing takings |
DID WE 44 Sego-Ghi deny CEertkelatr AS
emtimels ) whew vuder malbex rule is
, timely hifed ?
J3 s7 THE sone/76e JATTY. CEVERALS
DpeTy ge PRESS 7HS C… |
-4.5 |
| 18-8598 |
Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing |
Should the courts be required to uphold laws that are created, by Congress, to specifically protect the rights of underprivileged, federally protected… |
-4.5 |
| 18-9057 |
In Re Miles Kaufman |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Can The Respondent just not follow any and all Court Orders.
Can just let an Indigent Mentally ill person rot in prison.
Can The lower Courts do as … |
-4.5 |
| 18-8061 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit |
Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability? |
-5.5 |
| 18-8956 |
Jordan M. Jucutan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fraud global-war-on-terror prosecution-tolling repose statute-of-limitations time-barred-offenses wartime-suspension wartime-suspension-of-limitations wartime-suspension-of-limitations-act |
Does the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act permit a prosecution, otherwise time-barred, for offenses not involving fraud against the United States… |
-5.5 |
| 18-7433 |
Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status |
1.I AM A ALONE IRANIAN REFUGEE STATUS MY ENGLISH IS NOT GOOD, I WITHOUT RIGHTS TO COUNSEL FOLLOW JUSTICE TO TOP LEVEL IN U.S.A. IF SUPREME COURT DOES … |
-6.0 |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Under Which Standard of Review This Case Shall Be Determined Actual Innocence Injective Assistance of Counsels, The AEDPA Limitations, or After Guilma… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7701 |
Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial |
Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a "structural error"—requiring inter alia a new trial—… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7766 |
Rishawn Lamar Reeder v. Cecelia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alibi-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-presentation eyewitness-testimony gunshot-residue impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense surveillance-video trial-counsel witness witness-testimony |
Did the court erred in finding trial counsel ineffective for failing to present the Spartanburg Regional Hospital security surveillance camera video
… |
-6.0 |
| 18-7970 |
Ricardo J. Calderon-Lopez v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
-6.0 |
| 18-7868 |
Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two, Inc., dba Marsh's Sunfresh Market, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure discovery-order dismissal due-process judicial-discretion lesser-sanctions prejudice procedural-fairness sanctions |
Whether the district court is required to provide the sanctioned party with adequate due process before dismissing the lawsuit?
Whether the imposed s… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8511 |
Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Emily Johnson Piper, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention administrative-appeal breast-cancer breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-rights medicaid medicaid-benefits |
Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court erred by concluding in In re Victoria and Stephen Carlson (A18-1578, Minn. 2018)--in conflict with the decision of… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8551 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness |
Whether or not, the Court of Appeal, state of Arizona, Correctly denied Appellant's Motion To Dismiss, his Appeal, Submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8552 |
Herman Gaines v. Brad Busnardo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-treatment procedural-rights standing statutory-provisions |
$3.000 pay an expert to provide the affidarit. Is it unconstitutional violation of the De Process Clause to exclude indigent priners from pursving neg… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8555 |
Randal Floyd v. Michael Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees deliberate-indifference due-process fraud indigent indigent-appeal prisoner-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-access-to-cou |
WETER A PRISONER AS PLAINTIFF STILL HAS STANDING ON A DELI8EATE INDIF?E1ENCE CLAIM WHEN THE DEPENDANT DY FRAUD DEFAULTS THEIR OBLIGAT[0N3 TO FORHRRD P… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8605 |
Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8663 |
Donald E. Mallory v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cestui-que-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-immunity incarceration judicial-review standing takings vested-property vested-property-rights |
IS A PRE-1933 PRIVATE U.S. CITIZEN AND CESTUI QUE TRUST WHO IS NOT AN ENEMY, ALLY OF AN ENEMY, OR FOREIGN NATIONAL PRECLUDED FROM SUING THE U.S. GOVER… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8667 |
Donald James Anson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance |
DOES AN APPELLATE COURT ERR WHEN IT DISMISSES AN APPEAL, BECAUSE "IT LACKS AN ARGUABLE BASIS IN LAW OR FACT" WITHOUT FIRST PROVIDING THE PETITIONER AN… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8701 |
Arthur O'Derrell Franklin v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa constitutional-claim eighth-amendment graham-v-florida habeas habeas-corpus juvenile-offender parole parole-process rehabilitation |
1. May a state court resolve a federal constitutional claim by treating an AEDPA habeas decision of this Court as a ruling on the merits when this Cou… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8732 |
Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview |
1. Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations, which included, the child's description of a hopeful fri… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8750 |
Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal |
Must a judge who had a improper ex parte communication with the prosecuting team off-docket, with no in camera review, and directed the prosecuting to… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8758 |
Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement |
Can the government justify a search under the inventory search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement if no inventory log is created? |
-6.5 |
| 18-8760 |
James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony |
(1) Is a sentence as a career offender (com) unvalied se valid when a fone violent ors conviction, (Kloada attery on Law en Mv Licey), LO au by wily o… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8769 |
Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review |
1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REVIEW AND REVERSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S OPINION HOLDING AN APPELLANT IS WITHOU… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8791 |
Danny D. Bissonette v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-indian-law habeas-corpus indian-law prosecutorial-jurisdiction state-sovereignty treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
1. Did the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Pennington County. South Dakota error when it failed to set-aside the Judgment of Conviction, once it was… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8793 |
Larry Burstein v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-proportionality constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing drug-crimes drug-dealing drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment elderly-defendant elderly-offenders non-violent-crime non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER A FORTY-EIGHT (48) MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A FIRST TIME NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, SIXTY-NINE (69) YEAR OLD GRANDFATHER, IS UNREASONABLE, VI… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8796 |
Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion |
This Court holds that when a habeas petitioner alleges facts that are outside the courtroom, and if proven, those facts entitle a petitioner to relief… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8797 |
Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent when … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8807 |
Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8811 |
Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred in failing to Grant Petitioner King relief As to the denial of Suppress the search warrant Execute… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8817 |
Michael Clark v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bradley-v-fisher civil-rights color-of-law common-law-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech judicial-immunity nixon-v-warner standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Northern District and Second Circuit Courts
violated the Clark Family First Amendment and Common Law
Rights related to the two fraudulent cour… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8827 |
David McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8828 |
Dante Overby v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overreach plea-bargaining speedy-trial |
DOES THE GUILTY PLEA INDUCED BY AN "ILLUSORY PROMISE" VIOLATE THE 6th AMENDMENT?
WHERE THE GUILTY PLEA WAS RULED INVOLUNTARY, BUT THE COURT FAILED TO… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8832 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. Darrin Harmon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights custody district-court due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief illegal-custody jurisdiction legal-procedure standing warden-authority |
Whether the district court 'illegally' suspended Habeas Relief(s) for Annamalai Annamalai and or did not dispose of Annamalai Annamalai's habeas relie… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8847 |
Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt |
I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport
cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating
witnesses who are not credi… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8854 |
Steve Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account |
Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance that tainted all counts, caused by the confluence of the governnn… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8860 |
David Clum, Jr. v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,habeas-corpus,pro-se,a equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-litigation sixth-amendment supervisory-powers |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment-Due Process Rights of the Petitioner by applying different standards and meth… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8866 |
Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders |
This Court has never upheld the findings in United States v. Von Behren, 822 F.3d 1139 (10th Cir. 2016), in which the Court of Appeals held that compe… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8869 |
Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an "error" under the plain error t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8870 |
Douglas Taylor v. Terrizina Jones |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing |
Whether Douglas Taylor's constitutional rights under the provisions of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution was viol… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8873 |
Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental |
Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8882 |
Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
Did the Clerk of the U.S. … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8889 |
Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process initial-appearance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic |
The question of whether an initial appearance can be a critical stage is a case of first impression on this Court. Criminal defendants from every Stat… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8895 |
Kevin Watkins v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel civil-rights conflicted-jurors conflicts-of-interest criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection open-trial |
Is a defendant's right to an open trial violated when an attorney observing the trial and was asked to assist with defendant's appeal, was barred from… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8896 |
Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Lo Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreasona… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8909 |
David Lee Gentles v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1385 constitutional-violation evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-search law-enforcement-limits posse-comitatus-act search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence |
Should a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1385), serve as foundation for suppression of fruits of the resulting illegal searc… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8910 |
Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION ONE: WHY DO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT?
QUESTION TWO: WHY DO THE … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8912 |
Cirilo Flores v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prejudice strickland-v-washington voluntary-and-intelligent-choice voluntary-plea |
(1) WHETHER OR NOT THE GUILTY PLEA ENTERED WAS LEGAL WHENPETITIONER DID NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND, KNOW OR INTELLIGENTLY ACCEPT VOLUNTARY THE GUILTY PLEA A… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8915 |
Jonathan Zepeda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver |
As matters of first impression:
Whether a n individual 's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prose… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8917 |
Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
(1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8924 |
William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b |
1. Does this Court's decision in Gonzalez v. Crosby completely foreclose a habeas petitioner from obtaining Rule 60(b) relief arising from a demonstra… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8928 |
Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing |
1o- Whether a warrantless entry and seavch, where the totality
of the circumstances;including facts undermining any obsectively
veasonable beliet that… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8929 |
In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have considered Petitioner's timely filed Amended Certificate of Appealability and Motion to Expand the A… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8931 |
Tajie Coleman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8932 |
Vickie L. Sanders v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8935 |
Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings |
Does the Fourth Circuit's Local Rule 34(b) and Preliminary Briefing Order, which require COA applicants to file a brief that will become the merits-br… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8940 |
Anson Chi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions retaliation standing |
Should defendant Cproceeding se pro a in forma criminal case) pauperis given in a be the record on appeat of in a second Copy his her direct order to … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8943 |
David Raphael Concepcion v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure |
WHETHER THE HOLDING OF THIS COURT IN MARYLAND v. BUIE, 494 U.S. 325, 110 S.Ct. 1093 (1990), TO PROTECTIVE SWEEPS APPLIES ALSO INCIDENT TO ARRESTS MADE… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8948 |
Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. At Sentencingthe District Court calculated a higher oftense tevel than the plea to the united states Constitution?
2. Angel morates-De Jesus agree… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8949 |
Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power |
Did the eleventh circuit court of appeals enter a decision in conflict with decisions of other court of appeals (U.S.C.A.) on the same important matte… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8952 |
Boris Murphy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Courts error in denying petitioners 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest and… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8957 |
Scott Matthew Goss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process federal-courts sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines weapon-possession |
1. May a court accept a mere allegation of possession of a weapon as satisfaction of the Government's initial burden of proof requirement supporting t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8961 |
Dion Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion blackledge-v-allison civil-rights district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearing-discretion habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ins-v-phinpathya plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rose-v-lundy sixth-amendment standing unsworn-statements |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether the District Court abused it's discretion by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing by relying upon the unsworn statements … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8964 |
Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8965 |
Olusola Olla v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness |
1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8968 |
Emmanuel Mathis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8980 |
Raheem D. Louis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 18-8985 |
Michael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that "extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances" conflicts with this Court's mandate "that … |
-6.5 |
| 18-8995 |
Maurice Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement |
1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8997 |
Troy Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-standard post-conviction-relief |
The Post Conviction Court erred when it failed to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Petitioner's Motion for Post Conviction Relief based upon a "Brady… |
-6.5 |
| 18-8999 |
Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135
S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c),
t… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9001 |
Steven P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud |
In Louisiana, the only body of law regulating state campaign finance expenditures (a) a political campaign The holding of a public office is vaguely d… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9003 |
Ariel Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession |
1. When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration attached to her objections to a
Presentence Report, which denies certain key required elements of the … |
-6.5 |
| 18-9006 |
Donald Ray Boles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which created a carve-out to the rule later adopted in Apprendi v. New… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the
same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had
erred in its … |
-6.5 |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
-6.5 |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9027 |
Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. S 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9028 |
Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors |
Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Seventeen (17) Constitutional Violations of gross structural errors?
Did… |
-6.5 |
| 18-9056 |
Calvin D. Fox v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious attorney-privilege constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel-misconduct due-process equal-protection florida-bar florida-bar-trust-accounting-rules legal-privilege trust-accounting |
The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that:
"No State shall. . .deprive any person of life, l… |
-6.5 |