Conference: 2020-06-04

102 cases — 1 granted, 101 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
18-1401 David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. Fifth Circuit Granted CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… 36.5
19-875 OTO, L.L.C. v. Ken Kho, et al. California Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-proceeding arbitration-agreement civil-litigation federal-arbitration-act preemption procedural-protections state-law substantive-unconscionability unconscionability Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts a State from invalidating an arbitration agreement as substantively unconscionable on the ground that it … 19.0
19-863 Agusto Niz-Chavez v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) None 15.0
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing This petition involves a putative nationwide class action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), in which respondents … 13.5
19-1054 Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1) cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto… 11.5
19-685 Edward George McGregor v. Texas Texas Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility cross-examination due-process false-testimony materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the materiality of false testimony knowingly used by the prosecution determined by asking whether the jury would have convicted the defendant had t… 11.0
19-1084 Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… 10.5
19-889 Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force 1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta… 10.0
19-1042 Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b… 9.0
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D… 9.0
19-747 Francisco Lopez Gamero v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) None 9.0
19-997 Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission Seventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… 9.0
18-7575 Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision that was: based o… 7.5
19-855 Lenin Lugo v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in opinion fo… 6.5
19-623 Shrinivas Sugandhalaya LLP v. Balkrishna Setty, et al. Ninth Circuit GVR Relisted (2) arbitration-agreement civil-procedure equitable-estoppel federal-arbitration-act foreign-arbitration foreign-arbitration-agreement foreign-defendant new-york-convention nonsignatory standing stay-litigation 1. Does the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permit a nonsignatory to an arbitrati… 6.0
19-1182 Smith Land Company, et al. v. Shawn A. Herhold, et al. Ohio Denied clean-water-act corps-of-engineers-permit due-process isolated-wetlands nonpoint-source notice-and-hearing standing supremacy-clause wetlands 1. Whether a state, which lacked stand-alone jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344(g), at the time 0.014 of an acre was overfilled, c… 5.5
19-1190 Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. South Carolina Denied adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing 1. Upon discovering through DNA testing that the presumed son of the deceased was in no way a child or a relative of the deceased but had been unoffic… 5.5
19-1200 Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio Ohio Denied 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search GIVEN A TRAFFIC STOP MADE BY THE STATE TROOPER, WHO WAS THE "DOG HANDLER" INVOLVED, WAS ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING HIS TICKET WRITING, WHEN… 5.5
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U… 5.5
19-901 Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. Third Circuit Denied causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… 5.5
19M140 Julian Marin Gutierrez v. United States Eighth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con… 4.0
19-1180 Robert Radcliffe, et al. v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-actions class-counsel conflicts-of-interest due-process fair-settlement legal-representation material-conflict rule-23 settlement-fairness Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 permits class counsel whose interests are in material conflict with those of the class to represent the class so long as th… 3.5
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in In re Ruffalo, fail to… 3.5
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud In this case THE PETITION for that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of' "Complaint in this actio… 3.5
19-1205 Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments 1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within … 3.5
19-1219 Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. Washington Denied Response Waived ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat… 3.5
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting With respect to the surviving spouse class members whose retiree-spouses died on or after January 10, 2005 (after expiration of the 1998 contracts) ("… 3.5
19-1239 Jackson Ridge Rehabilitation and Care, et al. v. Rhonda Meadows Ohio Denied Response Waived concurrent-jurisdiction employee-benefits erisa exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction interference retaliation statutory-interpretation Whether ERISA claims for retaliation and interference are enforced through 29 U.S.C. §1132(a)(1)(B), as decided by the Ohio Supreme Court and the Fift… 3.5
19-1240 Myron Hubbard v. Missouri Department of Mental Health Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1251 appellate-review civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction retaliatory-action supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction void-judgment void-judgments Whether the Court of Appeals and District Courts breached its duty, departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding and is of such … 3.5
19-1271 Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier Texas Denied Response Waived absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding. 3.5
18-6172 Sherman Edward Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP access-to-courts binding-precedent categorical-approach circuit-procedure crime-of-violence due-process due-process-access-to-courts eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petitions I. Prisoners must file a petition with the Court of Appeals for permission to pursue a second or successive habeas or 2255 petition. Most such petitio… 3.0
19-6355 Eric Mack v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t… 0.5
19-7076 Cedrick Ponder v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… 0.5
19-7472 Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? 0.5
19-7527 Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing In the Eleventh Circuit, law established in a published, three-judge panel order issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) in the context of an applicati… 0.5
19-7153 Ronald Johnson v. Missouri Missouri Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining 1) Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance, when ple… -1.0
19-7637 Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … -1.0
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac… -1.5
19-8431 Ciro Cruz-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdictional-challenge notice-to-appear removal-order removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Ciro Cruz-Lopez, like many noncitizen defendants, was ordered removed by an immigration judge after being served a document titled "notice to appear" … -1.5
19-8440 Katherine O'Neal v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment In determining whether constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless, should a reviewing court focus on whether the error contributed … -1.5
19-8463 Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… -1.5
19-7148 Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… -2.5
19-7506 David Andrew Hunt, Lusion Yoshua Rice, and Dendrick Demond Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-usc-2244 binding-precedent due-process ex-parte federal-courts supervisory-authority I. Did the court of appeals deprive the Petitioners of due process of law by giving binding precedential weight to a prior panel's expedited and unapp… -2.5
19-7672 Donte Deshawn Alston v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Relisted (4)IFP access-to-courts due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus prior-panel-precedent prior-precedent-rule pro-se second-or-successive I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Prior-Precedent Rule violates due process when the precedent is based on a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 app… -3.0
19-5990 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent By Denying the Petitioner the right to appeal based on a minor defect in his NOTICE OF APPEAL, did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with th… -4.0
19-7692 R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services Pennsylvania Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co… -4.0
19-7451 David Keith Rogers v. California California Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review Question not identified. -4.5
19-7469 Olga Palamarchuk v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied IFP escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U… -4.5
19-7872 Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs Fourth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine 1. Whether the court should have assist this prose litigate with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to … -4.5
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim. 2. Whether the Fifth Circuit… -4.5
19-8134 James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider Denying of plaintiff prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections housed in private prison … -4.5
19-8138 Jeanette Woolsey-Ross v. James Woolsey, et al. Virginia Denied IFP child-support civil-rights due-process interstate-commerce social-security standing How is the Equal Protection clause violated against a non-custodial Parent in this Federal Interstate TITLE IV-D Social Security ACT Case? How is the… -4.5
19-8153 Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit Dismissed IFP civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses PETITIONER IS A STATE PRISONER ALLEGING FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS FOR RETALIATION AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISON STAFF. PET… -4.5
19-8157 Brian Richardson v. Joshua Moore Fifth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies Question not identified. -4.5
19-8159 Jeffrey Ramirez v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-time-bar due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-rules time-bar (1) When is it permissible for application of the time bar of AEDPA, without due consideration of the evidence provided throughout a diligently pursue… -4.5
19-8164 Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied IFP brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence Whether or not the Lower Court committed a manifest err of law in finding that "counsel's extensive litigation concerning the two seized boxes demonst… -4.5
19-8166 Anthony Williams v. Muhammad Naji, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process health-care hepatitis-c imminent-danger medical-neglect prison prison-healthcare standing 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS- MADE BY THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT REGARDING IMMINENT DANGER. AND DOES HEPATITIS-C CREATE I… -4.5
19-8170 Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina North Carolina Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Question not identified. -4.5
19-8176 Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama Alabama Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error WHETHER THE STATE OF ALABAMA MAY IMPOSE A STATE PROCEDRURAL BAR RULE TO PRECLUDE A STRUCTURAL ERROR CLAIM. -4.5
19-8179 In Re Harold Wayne Nichols Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions 1. When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenti… -4.5
19-8182 Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona Arizona Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -4.5
19-8183 Jose Nogales v. California California Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol… -4.5
19-8185 Floyd Dewaine Scott v. California Ninth Circuit Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1] Did the California State Superior Court,Los Angeles County, Compton Branch violate the Petitioner's Due Process ,Sixth Amendment Rights,and Eighth… -4.5
19-8195 Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… -4.5
19-8198 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-circuit injunction standing 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unpublished opinion and judgment issued on February 26, 2020 that the District Co… -4.5
19-8201 James R. Householder v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Why did the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Western District, Docket No. 474 WAL 2018, not answer any of my questions? 2. Because of the accusers'… -4.5
19-8202 Linda Gough v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights-act employee-classification employment-classification equal-pay-act fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor outside-sales-exemption title-vii-civil-rights-act wage-and-hour-law Whether Bankers Life properly classified Gough as an independent contractor and not an employee? Whether the "outside sales" exemption applies to Lin… -4.5
19-8203 Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: WAS PETITIONER'S PLEA AGREEMENT VIOLATED, AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL… -4.5
19-8205 In Re Jonathan E. Brunson Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-review WHETHER MR. BRUNSON'S RIGHT TO DISCOVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE IS STILL ENFORCEABLE (Id. AT 41)? WHETHER THE STATE GOVERNMENT STILL HAS THE OBLIGATION … -4.5
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment I. Should the State Courts be allowed to hide behind an alleged procedural bar when clearly the record of the case and the Petitioner's prima facie cl… -4.5
19-8210 Peggy Gordon v. Holy Cross Hospital Germantown, Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
19-8213 Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment 1. Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding that causes the material facts of an ineffective assistance cla… -4.5
19-8225 In Re Faramarz Mehdipour Denied IFP all-writs-act certiorari-timeline due-process equitable-powers exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief prison-lockdown pro-se pro-se-petition standing supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified. -4.5
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition If a laymen criminal defendant has presented the general and operative facts supporting Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment claims in the United S… -4.5
19-8475 In Re Tarvares James Watson Dismissed IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTIONS RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT ? 2) WHETHER PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL RENDEREO INEFFECT… -4.5
19-7403 Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution 1. Judgment based upon criminal violations of State and United States Constitutions and Laws, by Law Enforcement, Prosecution; Qualify for Habeas Corp… -6.0
19-8165 Tanya Winters v. Industrial Commission of Arizona, et al. Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-benefits medical-cannabis veterans-benefits x <vx*x^c<A c'o'iV ^uoo-«- oP ^P(jvyor le^\ f. VhAI 0-50 ^5\4uxJi crvor^AA^ben^-Vs"? 4\k1 Wri^tCv^<■ >' varj''i— rcyA CjlV'atA ^ ?x'/ VnO ■x -6.5
19-8174 Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Massachusetts Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi 1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den… -6.5
19-8186 Leroy Staton v. Superintendent, Lee Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bill-of-attainder criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel sexual-assault I, WHETHER DEFENDANT IS NOT GUILTY AS THERE WAS NO RAPE AND THEREFORE NO MURDER TO COVER-UP A NON-RAPE, RESULTING IN A CONVICTION WHICH NO RATIONAL JU… -6.5
19-8189 Jose E. Ramos v. Connecticut Connecticut Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure dispute-resolution due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-compliance ripeness-doctrine standing 1. Must all future or pending proceeding(s) in the Case, Come to a halt if the Jurisdiction of the trial court be decree the issue(s), as called into … -6.5
19-8217 Blake Jones v. McKee Foods Corporation Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery evidence pleadings summary-judgment May Defendant ignore evidence provided a purpose? Summary of Judgement. IS the word of the Phintiff to be believed? -6.5
19-8245 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process standing takings Question not identified. -6.5
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing I. Mental Incompetency The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced for commission of an offence as long as such inc… -6.5
19-8270 Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process 1. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily disbarred the Petit… -6.5
19-8297 Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (Issue added by the State Attorney General on Appeal not heard in post conviction court used to affirm appeal failing to address the claims below). Th… -6.5
19-8301 Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain Question #1: In Hohn v. United States , 524 U.S. 236, 253 (1998), this Court held that it has authority and jurisdiction to review denials of applicat… -6.5
19-8311 John D. Dalen v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. South Carolina Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process foreclosure securitization standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Was Petitioner denied his Constitutionally "protected Common Law Right to a trial by jury, and his right to due process of law as a result of the c… -6.5
19-8319 Tarvares James Watson v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-challenge wrongful-conviction WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION RESULTED IN THE CONVICTION OF ONE WHO IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT? -6.5
19-8322 Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation "Whether the U.S. District Court and the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals, have abused their discretion by failing to accept Petitioner's timely amended § … -6.5
19-8362 Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct WHETHER THE POLICE MAY RELY OF UNSUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE TO ABSOLVE THEM OF BAD FAITH INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL EVIDENCE? WHETHE… -6.5
19-8363 Daniel R. McClain v. Kenneth Sharp, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel post-conviction-relief prison-conditions 1) Why are alleged time limits excuses berg erroneaus le misused to disrtss abunclant matlérs of reversable error, and promote extraordinary asurpatio… -6.5
19-8371 Angelo Ham v. Warden Williams Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings Question not identified. -6.5
19-8379 Herbert Burgess v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT DENIED HERBERT BURGESS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE. TRIAL IN VIOLATION OF ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT… -6.5
19-8422 Todd Lee Glenn v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… -6.5
19-8437 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction 1) Whether, Wilson's Warraantless Arrest and Detention WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE violates the Fourth Amendment , NOT ONLY when it precedes, but also wh… -6.5
19-8447 Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process 1. Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishnent when she excessively sprayed me with Chemical Agent directly in t^e eyes while … -6.5
19-8451 Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … -6.5
19-8453 John Christopher Dobbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court federal-rules firearm-possession judicial-findings presentence-report rule-32 sentencing-guidelines When a defendant disputes that he has committed a Cross Reference crime, does Rule 32(i)(3)(B) require the district court to make specific findings ab… -6.5
19-8467 Juan Petis McLendon v. United States District of Columbia Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-without-prejudice due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandatory-review speech-trial-act standing statutory-interpretation stricklands-prejudice Does a failure to obtain a dismissal without prejudice under the Speedy Trial Act constitute "Strickland prejudice," when the mandatory language of Ti… -6.5
19-8468 Janice M. Shufford v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility This case presents two issues. First, did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court and hold that it did not err in prohibiting the defense… -6.5
19-8469 Viengxay Chantharath v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 career-offender collateral-review criminal-procedure drug-convictions first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactive-application sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act (FSA-2018) "altered "the statutes: 21 U.S.C.§ 841(a) (1)(b)(1) (A)-(B) also (C) for the prior drugI. con victions that qua… -6.5