Conference: 2019-10-11

221 cases — 0 granted, 221 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
18-1276 Andrew Levert v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… 14.5
18-1545 Tracy Guerin v. Mickey Fowler, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) constitutional-law due-process eleventh-amendment pension-transfer property-rights public-pensions retrospective-application state-authority state-immunity statutory-benefits takings takings-clause 1. If a State's statutorily created pension system allows government employees to transfer their accumulated pension contributions into a different pe… 13.0
18-1509 Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Rahinah Ibrahim Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure bad-faith civil-rights due-process foreign-national government-lists government-misconduct national-security ninth-circuit no-bad-faith no-fly-list standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in vacating the district court's finding of no bad faith in the government's conduct in this novel litigation brought … 11.0
19-41 Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit Denied circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … 10.5
19M54 John Doe 1, et al. v. Federal Election Commission District of Columbia Presumed Complete None 10.5
18-1162 P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ… 9.5
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing First Amen… 9.5
18-1438 Caleigh Wood v. Evelyn Arnold, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 1st-amendment compelled-speech curriculum establishment-clause First-Amendment free-speech Lemon-Test lemon-v-kurtzman preferential-treatment public-school Public-School-Curriculum public-schools religion Religious-Freedom religious-practices For the past several decades, courts have struggled to determine when public schools may permissively teach about religion and when public schools cro… 9.5
19-301 Republic of Kazakhstan v. Anatolie Stati, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived arbitration civil-procedure confirmation-proceeding due-process foreign-arbitral-award foreign-arbitral-awards foreign-sovereign-immunity fraud fraud-defense new-york-convention public-policy sovereign-immunity Exercising a right guaranteed to it by the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, th e Republic of Kazakhs… 8.5
18-1531 South Carolina v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1) administrative-law civil-procedure department-of-energy environmental-law environmental-policy federal-jurisdiction nuclear-energy ripeness separation-of-powers standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that South Carolina lacked standing to ch… 6.5
18-1522 Doe v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) adverse-spousal-testimony adverse-testimony compelled-testimony criminal-investigation document-authentication document-compulsion document-production fifth-amendment grand-jury spousal-privilege witness-testimony Whether a grand jury witness may invoke the privilege against adverse spousal testimony where the target of the grand jury investigation is the witnes… 6.0
18-277 Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit Rehearing Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO This petition presents a conflict between the incentive to invent, as the Constitution provides for, and the breadth of patent-eligible subject matter… 6.0
18-1534 Staci Harrington, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied None 5.5
19-147 Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay I. Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a "reasonable probabilit… 5.5
19-155 Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey Fifth Circuit Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… 5.5
19-171 In Re Jack R. Finnegan Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity guaranteed under the Constitution, and of Due Process and Eq… 5.5
19-188 Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton A search of a medical clinic pursuant to an administrative search warrant that resulted in the doctor being detained for three to four hours under cir… 5.5
19-189 Miles Christian-Hart v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Florida Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud judicial-procedure mortgage-litigation standing summary-judgment trial-rights On April 7, 2015, in a frenzied Florida rocket docket at which 50-60 contested and uncontested cases presented for trial, a judgment of foreclosure wa… 5.5
19-190 Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees Third Circuit Denied benefits-withholding discovery erisa erisa-plan erisa-plan-benefits indebtedness legal-relief lien money-judgment set-off third-circuit 1. After Third Circuit had affirmed an Order in favor of an ERISA plan by recharacterizing it as a monetizing of a lien rather than a personal money j… 5.5
19-195 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation 1. Has California 's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court 's holding in Wilson v. Seiter [501 U.S. 294 (1991)]. (Regarding 8th Ame… 5.5
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f… 5.5
19-42 North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia Denied article-iii article-iii-standing federal-agency-orders federal-energy-regulatory-commission natural-gas-act parens-patriae procedural-rights quasi-sovereign-interests standing state-litigant state-standing If a court of appeals finds a State litigant failed to demonstrate injury-in-fact that is traceable to the challenged action and redressable by the co… 5.5
19M52 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska Presumed Complete None 5.5
19M53 Louis B. Parron v. Michael Herbert, et al. Second Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
19M55 Derron Ronzay Pittman v. DAL Global Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
18-9399 Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to Ter… 5.0
19-327 Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. Ohio Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop This dispute turns on the proper interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a jurisdiction where citizens are entitl… 4.5
18-8739 Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o… 4.0
18-8826 Omar Christopher Miller v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … 4.0
19-165 Daniel T. Morgan v. Sheri A. Morgan Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) alimony-contract appellate-court contract contract-interpretation due-process en-banc judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation overrule same-case No court has addressed this case's question: Whether it is due process of law for an intermediate appellate court, not en banc, to overrule its decis… 4.0
19-167 Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri Missouri Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership 1. Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant … 3.5
19-176 R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … 3.5
19-187 Kalim A. R. Muhammad v. AT&T, Inc., et al. Alabama Denied Response Waived arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-construction contract-immunities due-process equal-footing equal-protection federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge state-courts QUESTION 1: Does it violate the Federal Arbitration Act or otherwise undermine "equal footing" and contract immunities when State Courts construe the … 3.5
19-198 Adriano Kruel Budri v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived commercial-motor-vehicle fifth-circuit-guidance logging-time on-duty-not-driving on-duty-time protected-activity surface-transportation-assistance-act transportation-regulations 1) Whether the Panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit has provided legal guidance about the safety related issue of logging time for repa… 3.5
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing 1. Whether Armand Roos ' participation as Plaintiff 's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Pro … 3.5
19-219 Joan Demarest v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the Registered Holders of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived citizenship citizenship-determination court-jurisdiction diversity diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-removal mortgage-investment-trust real-estate-investment-trust real-estate-trust removal trustee In Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, 136 S.Ct. 1012 (2016), this Court ruled that, for diversity, a real estate investment trust was a citizen … 3.5
19-244 Isaacson/Weaver Family Trust v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure class-action common-fund common-fund-settlement fee-shifting lodestar lodestar-method securities securities-law 1. Do this Court's decisions defining "a reasonable attorney's fee" in fee-shifting cases also constrain a district court's discretion in awarding "re… 3.5
19-249 Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers Is the grant of an employee stock option a "sale" of a security under the Securities Act of 1933? 3.5
19-260 Candice Lue v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1981 civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc eeoc-charge employment-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-retaliation retaliation section-1981 title-vii workplace-harassment Do Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 protect a Black employee from retaliation for taking a stance against being stereoty… 3.5
19-271 Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time Should this Court grant, vacate, and remand because the court below did not interpret 49 C.F.R. 234.225 in the manner that Kisor requires? Should FRA… 3.5
19-275 Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights 1. Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to "equal and universal suffrage"? 2. Do we have the right to be governed by whom we el… 3.5
19-310 Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement (i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of … 3.5
19-313 Neringa Venckiene v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived atrocious-procedures-or-punishments constitutional-limitations due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-law-political-offense-exception international-law judicial-review political-offense political-offense-exception state-department terrorism war-like-insurrection A. In Ornelas v. Ruiz, 161 U.S. 502 (1896), the Court addressed the so-called "political offense" exception to extradition, relating the phrase to act… 3.5
19-321 James Mills v. City of Covina, California, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-tolling plaintiff-rights section-356 standing statute-of-limitations Does section 356 of the California Civil Procedure Code, which tolls a statute of limitations during any period that a plaintiff is legally prevented … 3.5
19-322 The Medical Center at Elizabeth Place, LLC v. Atrium Health System, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-jurisprudence antitrust-law competitive-restraint competitive-restraints joint-venture joint-ventures per-se-rule per-se-violation procompetitive-rationale rule-of-reason sherman-act sherman-act-1 summary-judgment When assessing the legality of competitive restraints imposed by joint ventures, this Court's antitrust jurisprudence recognizes that overly lax enfor… 3.5
19-326 Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure 1. Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants w… 3.5
19-328 David Brennan v. White County, Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response Waived alcohol-regulation civil-rights due-process governmental-purpose highway-system local-option-law private-clubs rational-basis-review social-science-evidence substantive-due-process 1. Is Arkansas' local option law, which social science research shows is ineffective at reducing alcohol consumption and actually increases DWI fata… 3.5
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… 3.5
19-341 Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting Applying "ordinary principles of contract law," this Court held that collectively-bargained retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by "explicit t… 3.5
18-9343 Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio… 1.0
19-5383 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… 0.5
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione… 0.5
19-5565 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… 0.5
18-9359 Emmanuel Diaz v. New York New York Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri… 0.0
18-9277 Melvin Scott Morman v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… -1.0
18-9360 Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… -1.0
19-5744 Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret… -1.5
19-5767 Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,… -1.5
19-5771 Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… -1.5
19-5777 Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… -1.5
19-5785 Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… -1.5
19-5788 James Nunley, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? -1.5
19-5793 Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… -1.5
19-5813 Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? -1.5
19-5838 Glenn Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis… -1.5
19-5877 Damion D. Faulkner v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… -1.5
19-5883 Richard Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity I. Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a "Substantial Preliminary Showing" That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing … -1.5
19-5909 Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search Whether the "good faith" exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. -1.5
19-5922 Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? -1.5
19-5941 Roger Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of… -1.5
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? -1.5
18-7647 Lynn Smith, et vir v. Manasquan Savings Bank New Jersey Denied Relisted (3)IFP association codes-of-judicial-conduct first-amendment judicial-conduct new-jersey new-jersey-state-court political-speech revised-code-of-judicial-conduct rules-governing-the-courts-of-the-state-of-new-jer standards-of-behavior state-courts Codes of Judicial Conduct and related sources of authority provide standards of behavior for judges and others within the New Jersey state court famil… -3.5
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has again violated the standard for determining whether a Certificate of Appealabi… -4.5
18-9564 Brian Suniga v. Texas Texas Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 1) Tennard v. Dretke, 542 U.S. 274 (2004) disavowed any requirement of a nexus between evidence introduced in mitigation of sentence in a death penalt… -4.5
19-5014 Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States Third Circuit GVR IFP affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel Question not identified. -4.5
19-5025 Isaac Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez 1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti… -4.5
19-5027 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review 1. Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, in the first instance, whether Cox is entitled to relief… -4.5
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard 1. Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doublydeferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? 2. May a … -4.5
19-5423 Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault ISSUE NUMBER ONE: Appeal Counsel only raised one point of error. It was a question regarding the Complainant. That she had been ISSUE NUMBER TWO: App… -4.5
19-5424 Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana Montana Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word "effing" violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments. -4.5
19-5428 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel under STRICKLAND v. WASHING… -4.5
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i… -4.5
19-5439 MacKendy Strachan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-sanctions due-process federal-review judicial-review legal-mail legal-procedure prison standing Question not identified. -4.5
19-5442 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure 1. What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this gre… -4.5
19-5443 Kent Vu Phan v. R. Brooke Jackson, Judge Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing None -4.5
19-5452 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico First Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-weighing fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing 1. Judge McGiverin wrote, a final judgment and opinion not based on the weigh of the facts, as he wrote, and that is an unsupported conclusion, and I… -4.5
19-5454 Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor (1) Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts… -4.5
19-5456 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit GVR IFP anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… -4.5
19-5462 Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias WAS THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVE INFERENCE THE GOVERNMENT WAS WAS THERE GROUNDS FOR A OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR MY ARREST WAS THERE HOSPITAL RECORD… -4.5
19-5467 Tyrone Murray v. Wanda Collins, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process factual-allegations grievances motion-to-dismiss prison prisoner-rights pro-se retaliation standing I. Whether a pro se inmate complaint in a "Conspiracy to Commit Murder lawsuit must contain"specific facts" andlor is Subjected to a "1 Complaint stag… -4.5
19-5470 Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 I WHETHER THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT FOR OAKLAND COUNTY DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE DECISION OF BR… -4.5
19-5471 J. A. M. v. New Jersey New Jersey Denied IFP 5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel 1. Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during i… -4.5
19-5476 Anthony L. Williams v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. California Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-defense default-judgment due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-employment-opportunity-commission standing supreme-court-precedent 1. Despite Uniformity of Case Law attending, did the Lower Court© make an aseantien ia thi© east ia denying Statutory Default Judgment to Petitioner i… -4.5
19-5477 Brian Keith Waugh v. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital District of Columbia Denied IFP amended-complaint civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review interests-of-justice medical-malpractice mental-capacity notice notice-pleading rule-15c statute-of-limitations The Medical Malpractice Amendment Act of 2006 makes a distinction between D.C. Code § 16*2802 and D.C. Code § 16*2804. Under D.C. Code § 16*2804, the … -4.5
19-5482 Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB New Jersey Denied IFP constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure 1. Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors, in a foreclosure pendency, (a new defendant, in an ongoing lit… -4.5
19-5484 Geoff Edwin Murphy v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP attempted-homicide constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process federal-claims forfeiture jury-instructions legal-procedure state-court-rule state-trial-court 1. THE STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVED APPELLANT OF HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY INSTRUCTING THE JURY ON JUSTIFIABLE ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE 2. THE STATE COURT … -4.5
19-5485 Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent The Decision Of The Arizona Supreme Court Violates Brown -v- Plata 131 S. Ct. 1910(2011) -4.5
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations three monthsextraordinary Circumstance if counsel filed AEdP^' s limitations period expired? duoare Of the AtoP Als lima motion,1s it an after the … -4.5
19-5494 Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI… -4.5
19-5495 David Gray v. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts assault civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process excessive-force federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-procedure prisoner-rights retaliation standing Petitioner has had three (3) plus two 42. U.S.C. §1983 Civil Actions dismissed under the 3 strikes provision of 28 U.S.C.§1915(g), latest 42 U.S.C.§19… -4.5
19-5502 David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints WHY WAS I TASED IN A RESTRAINT CHAIR WITH ONLY ONE ARM LOOSE OUT|OF THE RESTAINTS.WHY IS THIS A LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INMATES, WHY IS THERE NOT A LAW A… -4.5
19-5506 Darrel R. Fisher v. J. Doe Eighth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity jurisdiction standing Can a federal court's judge just make-up his own rules that implementation of violate civil, constitutional and all legal rights and privileges protec… -4.5
19-5507 David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. California Denied IFP 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech As part of the #Resist movement, the California Attorney General instituted a policy of arresting his Republican political opponents and banning them … -4.5
19-5518 Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP §2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment DOES THE DISTRICT COURT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DISMISS §2254 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION AS SUCCESSIVE WHEN IT WAS CLEARLY NOT SUCCESSIVE? DID THE DISTRICT… -4.5
19-5520 Terry G. Watson v. Nathan B. Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit Dismissed IFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights due-process ethnic-discrimination ethnic-origin federal-statutes human-rights political-prisoners religious-conscience 1. Did the USCA8, err, by not addressing the fundemental issues of civil rights under 42 USC § 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986; Bivens or the Federal… -4.5
19-5525 Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law Is this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe … -4.5
19-5534 James W. Royster v. Virginia Virginia Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing state-courts statutory-interpretation 1. Petitioner filed two (2) Motions with the Henrico County, Virginia Circuit Court Per Virginia Code section(s) 8.01-428(D) and 19.2-227, upon the gr… -4.5
19-5537 Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court 1. Did the Trial court err When it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended indictment ? Cih.3t.38. RRY.7). 2. Oid the court of Appeals err b… -4.5
19-5542 Robert Maloy v. New York New York Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTION(S) P… -4.5
19-5544 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Overtlle Denton Thompson's petition for discretionary review and thereby fail to a… -4.5
19-5545 Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan Michigan Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder WHETHER MR. WHEELER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY THE TRIAL COURT'S… -4.5
19-5546 Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant 1. Does a defendant who has been handcuffed ,informed that there is a indictment for his arrest ,questioned by the arresting officer ,asked by the ar… -4.5
19-5547 Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right tocautonomy uhen his cousel abandoned petitioner's claim of hot guilty uhen cousel … -4.5
19-5552 Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada Nevada Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER? DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P… -4.5
19-5555 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search Specifically, Chicago Police Department Badge No. JAA4 1A0eS, which was used to arrest the Petitioner was created and issued without any Statutory aut… -4.5
19-5564 Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment 1. Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve disp… -4.5
19-5572 Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit GVR IFP 18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to… -4.5
19-5585 Aljulah Cutts v. New York New York Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-retroactivity carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jones-v-united-states procedural-default real-time-tracking retroactivity stored-communications-act warrant-requirements 1. Whether Congress intended for an order under the Stored Communications Act to be sufficient to authorize real time tracking of cell phone generate… -4.5
19-5599 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts? -4.5
19-5602 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question No. 1: Did the court of appeale error by cenging a kertificate a BPR0 whether the cistrc Pehtover's fecleral hebees petton Ome uwclerTatle 2 … -4.5
19-5604 Robert Linzy Bellon v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP None -4.5
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance … -4.5
19-5619 Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing 1) Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY COMMISSION HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the … -4.5
19-5620 Damien Hyde v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence non-defendant-witnesses substantive-evidence witness-testimony 1. Does the admission of Coerced Statements by Non-defendant Witnesses deprive a defendant of Due Process of law, when they are used during trial as s… -4.5
19-5625 Clyde M. Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied IFP None -4.5
19-5943 In Re Nathan Wayne Smith Denied IFP antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act congressional-power constitutional-convention constitutional-limitations federal-criminal-statutes habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Whether habeas corpus relief in this Court is warranted on the claims the federal criminal statutes charged in the district court below are unconstitu… -4.5
19-5964 In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. Denied IFP 18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c… -4.5
19-6014 In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law (1). What branch of law authorizes the State of Arizona to apply and slave label of a Black )40 any person , of African descent after 1865? (2). Are … -4.5
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… -5.5
18-8422 Johnny M. Young v. Alabama Alabama Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-law standing state-courts supremacy-clause WHETHER DENIAL OF IN FORMA PAUPERIS BY THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT ON FEDERAL RIGHTS OF ACCESS TO THE COURTS? THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION … -6.0
18-9038 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure Petitioner Questions the Trial Court's Failure Concerning Post 618, Property of Petitioner's Shoes as Qualified Moving and His Rights to be Handicappe… -6.0
19-5440 Lena McCollum v. Hubert Peterkin, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP accrual civil-procedure civil-rights concealment constitutional-rights due-process executive-knowledge illegal-entry law-enforcement procedural-violation search-and-seizure search-warrant standing CAUSE FOR THE EVENT, WHOSE WRONGDOING WAS CONCEALED AND UNACCESSIBLE UNIL A LATER TIME ME T WI E NEE T I UNTIL A LATER PERIOD IN TIME ? -6.5
19-5503 Patricia Gill v. Mercy College, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech harassment judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation standing state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Plaintiff does not feel that the court of appeals decision does not reflect the whole truth in this case. The appeals decision states that Plaintiff i… -6.5
19-5511 Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv… -6.5
19-5533 Juliet Baird Alexander Aubain de Sabrevois v. Alan J. Perry, et al. First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district free-speech judicial-conduct legal-issue libel libel-law maine maine-jurisdiction standing Has judicial conduct in the federal district of Maine reached a cellarage to be gazed at only across the barriers of libel law? -6.5
19-5557 Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention Did The U.S. District Court of Arizona err in dismissing Josiah English I to state a claim in his civil Rights action, in view of the extraordinary ci… -6.5
19-5558 Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame… -6.5
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim 1.) Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. … -6.5
19-5573 Monte Whitehead v. Greg Marcantel, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1997e civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection first-amendment grievance-process physical-injury prison-litigation-reform-act redress-of-grievances standing 1. Do Federal Statutes 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) & (e) abridge the First Amendment rights of prisoners by requiring them to meet certain standards before t… -6.5
19-5576 William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR P… -6.5
19-5583 Evgeny Ryzhov v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
19-5584 Christopher Isaac Simmons v. Grissom, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-waiver due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure prisoner-rights standing vexatious-litigant Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly revoke Appellant's In Forma Pauperis (IFP) Status under 28 U.S.C. 1915(g) where Heat Risk prisoner clearly made al… -6.5
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th… -6.5
19-5593 Elven J. Swisher v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
19-5594 Tina Davis v. Texas Children's Hospital Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eeoc-rights employment-discrimination employment-law judicial-disqualification recusal standing summary-judgment ten-amendment The Court review[s],the district court 's decision granting the summary judgment under Rule 60 (b) for abuse of discretion A. The Notice of Appeal o… -6.5
19-5607 Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION. THE FEDERAL CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (6TH AMEND.)(was violated). DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT. RIGHT TO EFF… -6.5
19-5610 Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curi… -6.5
19-5621 David Green, Jr. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cat's-paw-negligence cats-paw civil-rights due-process eeo-retaliation eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure merit-systems-protection-board retaliation title-vii 1. Whether the court of appeals erred when it upheld a district court opinion that conflicted with decided Supreme Court case law for EEO retaliation … -6.5
19-5655 Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire 1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER? 2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE … -6.5
19-5656 Armando J. Mena v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy presumption presumption-of-regularity silent-record standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637 (1976), in concluding that a state court could reasonably presume from a silent… -6.5
19-5658 Eric C. Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel standing state-collateral-review state-post-conviction-proceedings state-proceeding this court to answer whether the due process clause requires appointment of counsel to those prisoners where state collateral review is the first oppo… -6.5
19-5681 Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … -6.5
19-5688 L. D. R., a Minor, By His Mother and Guardian, Roshonda R. Wagner v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
19-5690 Seth DiSanto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP campbell-v-state constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal rule-3.172(g) strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by ruling DiSanto's lawyer was not ineffective by failing to bring to the attention of the trial c… -6.5
19-5702 Tony D. Walker v. Green Bay Correctional Institution Health Services Unit, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-of-remedies frivolous-claims prison-conditions prisoners-rights procedural-hurdles standing statutory-interpretation I. WHETER 28 U.S.C.3 1915(S) s OVERBROAL, UNCONSTUTIONAL, AND INVALID WHERE CONSRESS HAS ENAETEd THE STAIUNE THAT INTENTIONALLY CHILLS ANd VIOLAIES IN… -6.5
19-5705 Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review Does Counsels failure to on the record d the pee and pos-V infLannc^bf>£-Cs dor the petitioners ike specific objections todbe report and reccommendqt… -6.5
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings 1. If the courts are to regard the Constitution and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, is it the Constitution, and n… -6.5
19-5729 Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel Flowers was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary based on an incident where two men robbed a massage parlor that had a history of prostitutio… -6.5
19-5731 Angel Mesa Madueno v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro… -6.5
19-5739 Duane Pope v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Nebraska Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto privileges-and-immunities separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-doctrine The U.S. Supreme Court's recent affirmation of the "separate sovereigns" , 139 S.Ct. 1960 (2019), raises U.S. doctrine in Gamble v. U.S. , a number of… -6.5
19-5741 Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… -6.5
19-5742 Robert Gene Rand v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … -6.5
19-5746 Howard Griffith v. New York New York Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review 1) Procedural Default is the failure to follow state appellate procedures which bars federal review of the case in the absence of showing cause for an… -6.5
19-5747 Jamall Gibson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… -6.5
19-5757 Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate… -6.5
19-5758 Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes "other than their truth" ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation? -6.5
19-5761 Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Question not identified. -6.5
19-5766 Tham Bui v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c… -6.5
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing 1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH… -6.5
19-5772 Sergio Saldivar Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault-statute california-penal-code conscious-disregard-of-risk criminal-intent force-clause general-intent physical-force specific-intent statutory-interpretation violent-felony California state courts have authoritatively construed the state statute punishing assault with a deadly weapon, California Penal Code $ 2a5(a)(1) and… -6.5
19-5774 Patrick O. Neiss v. Montana Montana Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment holland-v-united-states jury-instruction jury-instructions net-worth-prosecution particularity presumption-of-innocence probable-cause reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure 1. In Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 125 (1954) this Court recognized the "inherent risk" of the use of circumstantial evidence, but held tha… -6.5
19-5778 Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent 1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i… -6.5
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? and Whether Petitione… -6.5
19-5781 Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. When the Government has agreed not to use a defendant's statements except to refute a defense at trial, may the Government only use those proffer s… -6.5
19-5782 Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory I. Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole a… -6.5
19-5791 Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. Georgia Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re… -6.5
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights. (2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… -6.5
19-5795 Jacob D. Lickers v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER THE GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE APPLIES WHEN AN AFFIDAVIT SUPPORTING A SEARCH WARRANT HAD BEEN TAINTED BY EVIDENCE OBTAINED … -6.5
19-5798 Lonnie Bernard Davis v. John Hancock Mutual Funds Accounts First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing Question not identified. -6.5
19-5801 Emory Chiles v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? -6.5
19-5810 Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the… -6.5
19-5811 Joe Edger v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity conflict constitutional-rights contract-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-process due-process government-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Does the phrase "cited in the affense of conviction" mean "information used in a partriular count of an indictment or information that initiat the … -6.5
19-5812 Mitchum Pastor v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … -6.5
19-5814 Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington Twelve days after Mr. Mesta's appellate brief was filed, the Oregon Supreme Court took review of a legal principle that was at issue in Mr. Mesta's ca… -6.5
19-5818 Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession-reliability corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment miranda-rights parole-revocation supervised-release Hearings to revoke federal supervised release allow defendants to be sentenced to a new prison term based on findings of fact by only a preponderance … -6.5
19-5819 Arthur Rathburn v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness I. DID THE GOVERNMENT FAIL TO PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTIONS BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT? II. WAS PETITIONER RATHBURN DENIED HI… -6.5
19-5825 Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify 1. Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosec… -6.5
19-5831 Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention Prison on Counts that wee"Dismissed" did the Leave do file a Petitien for Weitot state Habess Cocpus? In which Retitioneris showiag that his Aeticle S… -6.5
19-5833 Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas Kansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Question A: Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's Constitutional Due Process Ri… -6.5
19-5835 Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? -6.5
19-5837 Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search 1. Was Petitioners guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable Search and Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a wa… -6.5
19-5842 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations WHERE IT CAN BE SHOWN THATTHE ORDER TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER IS NOT LIMITED IN SCOPE TO STAND ON A VALID GUILTY PLEA SUPPORTED BY THE EFFECTIVE … -6.5
19-5844 James Arthur Ross v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-error due-process evidence expert-testimony precedent pro-se-litigant standing summary-judgment Did the District Court error in determining that a 9th Circuit Appellate ruling from almost two decades ago in Bahrampour v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 97… -6.5
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland v. Washing… -6.5
19-5853 Jambulat Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process extortion judgment-of-acquittal physical-possession property-transfer scheidler sekhar statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent takings I. This Court has held in Sekhar and Scheidler that, to be guilty of extortion, the defendant must take physical possession of the victim's property. … -6.5
19-5854 Sabrina D. Davis v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP and SCRCP(South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-bias precedent standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent time-for-service CAN THE SOUTH CAROLINA COURTS IGNORE PRECEDENT SET BY THE US SUPREME COURT THAT CLEARLY STATES THAT TIME FOR SERVICE CANNOT BE REDUCED AND PRODUCE CON… -6.5
19-5856 Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification QUESTION #1: In a " Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," as to a retroactively applicable amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Gu… -6.5
19-5857 Jonathan P. Flom v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur I. Whether the Order of Dismissal with Prejudice as an Acquittance provides preclusive and legal force, requiring Vacatur; Whether various violations … -6.5
19-5861 Louise K. Saine v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer When can Rule 35 be used error? Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies? What is th… -6.5
19-5866 Jason Loera v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement 1. Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating th… -6.5
19-5870 Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … -6.5
19-5871 Patrick Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-crime federal-law guidelines-interpretation mandatory-minimum offer-to-sell preparatory-action sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantial-step tenth-circuit-precedent 1) Did the district court error in increasing Havis base offense level based upon its belief that the Commentary to &4Bli2 appropriately includes atte… -6.5
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error 1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg… -6.5
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial 1. Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information that cost defendant a three-point sentencing reduction for acceptance… -6.5
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli… -6.5
19-5878 Darries Leon Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti… -6.5
19-5884 Kevin Carson v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h… -6.5
19-5888 David Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with multiple decisions of this Court, that the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extorti… -6.5
19-5890 Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation Where there was no risk of witness intimidation for most, if not all, of the Commonwealth's witnesses for the final three days, did the judge deprive … -6.5
19-5891 Donte Island v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m… -6.5
19-5895 Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as… -6.5
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BECAUSE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO ARGUE 4th CIRCUIT PRECEDENT REGARDING THE MEANING OF C… -6.5
19-5911 Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does the "saving clause" of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a Congres… -6.5
19-5918 Brandon Kyle Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal idaho-v-garza ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-rule prejudice-standard presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington After trial and again after sentencing, Brandon Thomas requested that his attorney appeal the criminal judgment. Counsel's advice consisted of "if you… -6.5
19-5928 Marcos Santiago v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… -6.5
19-5938 Jason Bo-Alan Beckman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-counsel criminal-procedure due-process errors-and-omissions errors-and-omissions-policy forfeiture-rights luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Can the Government circumvent Luis v United States , 578 U.S. ___, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) protections by using a civil proceeding to freeze untainted… -6.5
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES v. SWOPES , 892 F.… -6.5
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove… -6.5
19-5975 Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … -6.5
19-5983 Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… -6.5
19-6008 David W. Tippens v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… -6.5