| 19-1057 |
Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called "community caretaking" where the alleged danger to the co… |
18.5 |
| 19-1137 |
Tennessee, By and Through the Tennessee General Assembly, et al. v. Department of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coerce-state-pay-federal-program commandeer-state-funds commandeering constitutional-coercion federal-commandeering federal-government federal-program legislative-standing medicaid-funding separation-of-powers standing state-funds state-legislature state-sovereignty |
1. Whether both chambers of a state legislature, acting together, have institutional standing to sue the federal government when the federal governmen… |
17.0 |
| 19-1186 |
Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha… |
16.5 |
| 19-1272 |
Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy |
Whether under the doctrine of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases, as the Fi… |
16.5 |
| 20-5 |
Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification |
Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been "completely nullified," Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)? |
15.5 |
| 19-1284 |
Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (2) |
anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 |
Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b… |
15.0 |
| 20-355 |
Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that "notified of the infringement" and "such notice" under §287(a) refer only to communications from th… |
14.5 |
| 19-1434 |
United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer inferior-officers patent patent-and-trademark-office principal-officer principal-officers standing uspto |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
13.0 |
| 19-1458 |
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection |
The Appointments Clause requires principal officers
to be appointed by the President with the advice and
consent of the Senate, but permits inferior o… |
13.0 |
| 19-1291 |
Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte |
"Since qualified immunity is a defense, the burden of pleading it rests with the defendant." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980). Nonetheless, t… |
12.5 |
| 20-10 |
Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix |
Whether, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p… |
12.5 |
| 20-148 |
Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis |
Three of the Petitioners require daily administration of medical cannabis to live. Despite classifying it a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Subst… |
12.5 |
| 19-1452 |
Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
12.0 |
| 19-1085 |
Shannon Deasey, et al. v. Daniella Slater, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
7th-circuit 9th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law closely-analogous constitutional-rights due-process legal-precedent ninth-circuit qualified-immunity seventh-circuit sufficiently-analogous |
This petition presents the question whether, for purposes of qualified immunity, a merely "sufficiently analogous" case is enough to show that the law… |
11.0 |
| 20-159 |
John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation |
Does a State's workers compensation statute
violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota
residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently
ba… |
9.5 |
| 20-280 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 all-writs-act criminal-financial-penalty criminal-sentencing final-conviction post-conviction-remedy retroactive-decision unauthorized-penalty unauthorized-sentence |
Does the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, afford a post-conviction remedy for the correction of a criminal financial penalty that is unauthorized by s… |
9.5 |
| 19-1378 |
Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination |
Is the Federal Circuit affirmation of the patent damages now incorrect in light of the change of circumstances created by cancellation of all patent c… |
9.0 |
| 20-313 |
Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret |
(1) Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, clai… |
8.5 |
| 20-327 |
BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas |
Under the Due Process Clause, courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants only when the plaintiff's claim arises f… |
8.5 |
| 19-1280 |
Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare |
The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when… |
6.0 |
| 19-1352 |
Western Oilfields Supply Company, dba Rain for Rent v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
administrative-inspection due-process fourth-amendment mine-safety mine-safety-and-health-act msha msha-inspector walkaround-rights warrantless-inspection |
In Donovan v. Dewey, this Court held that the warrantless inspection scheme in the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 ("the Mine Act") does no… |
5.5 |
| 19-1433 |
Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. |
Utah |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change |
Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both … |
5.5 |
| 19-1456 |
KK-PB Financial, LLC v. 160 Royal Palm, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
asset-sale bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-court-discretion bid-procedures debtor-asset debtor-estate debtor's-estate discretionary-power higher-better-offer higher-bid maximize-value-estate private-sale public-bid-procedures sale-maximization |
Does a bankruptcy court abuse its discretion when it cancels public bid procedures and approves the private sale of a debtor's principal asset, even t… |
5.5 |
| 20-114 |
Michael Edward Bufkin v. Scottrade, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-law arbitration-dispute civil-procedure compelled-arbitration due-process finra foia-request judicial-procedure standing statutory-interpretation tax tax-controversy |
1. Was it error to compel FINRA arbitration of this "tax" dispute?
2. Was it error to refer anything to the un-consented-to magistrate?
3. Was it ab… |
5.5 |
| 20-125 |
Iron Stone Real Estate Fund I, L.P., et al. v. Stephen Ratner, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure direct-action due-process judicial-dissolution limited-partner limited-partnership partnership-law party-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Whether the procedural due process rights of a limited partner are violated when that limited partner is not named as a party in a direct action broug… |
5.5 |
| 20-131 |
Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia |
Following a precedential decision sustaining an Appointments Clause challenge, does a court have discretion to apply the decision in pending cases whe… |
5.5 |
| 20-144 |
Spencer Savings Bank, SLA, et al. v. Lawrence B. Seidman |
New Jersey |
Denied |
|
bank-secrecy-act civil-liability customer-privacy financial-crimes financial-institution non-disclosure-obligation state-court-liability statutory-scheme suspicious-activity-report |
A recent decision from a New Jersey appellate court (which the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to review) joins a growing number of decisions across… |
5.5 |
| 20-165 |
Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing |
Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook "friends"? |
5.5 |
| 20-227 |
Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment |
In PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, this Court carefully examined the important question of when, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an otherwi… |
5.5 |
| 20A35 |
Miriam Haydee Arana-Molina, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M25 |
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M26 |
Joseph W. Lattisaw v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M27 |
Ammar I. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20-232 |
Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion expert-testimony eyewitness-identification holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina state-rule |
Whether this Court's decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006), clearly establishes that a defendant's due process right to present ev… |
4.5 |
| 20-318 |
Equal Means Equal, et al. v. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
1-usc-106b article-iii article-v constitution equal-rights-amendment standing |
1. Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is now the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because three-fourths of the States have ratified it… |
4.5 |
| 19-1004 |
Robert James Jaffe v. Brad Sherman, United States Congressman |
Ninth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
certiorari-review checks-and-balances civil-rights congressional-oversight due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-fraud judicial-misconduct summary-dismissal supervisory-power supreme-court-discretion void-judgment |
(1) Congress delegated the US Supreme Court justices the discretion to choose the petition for certiorari cases they will grant and Congress has direc… |
4.0 |
| 20-124 |
Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
1) Whether the District court erred by dismissing
Potitoners $2254 as Untimely (dee Wo. Lad 2) Which conklicts
with decisions of other appellate court… |
3.5 |
| 20-135 |
Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-USC-101 Administrative-Procedure-Act Appointments-Clause Due-Process Leahy-Smith-America-Invents-Act patent-eligibility Patent-Eligible-Subject-Matter patent-trial-and-appeals-board ultra-vires |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
3.5 |
| 20-141 |
Howard Bloomgarden v. National Archives and Records Administration |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-decision exemption-6 freedom-of-information-act government-criticism government-employment personal-privacy public-disclosure |
Where an Assistant United States Attorney was terminated for misconduct and has continued to cite his former government service in public letters crit… |
3.5 |
| 20-154 |
Wayne P. Byzon, et ux. v. PNC Bank, National Association, Successor by Merger to National City Bank |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response Waived |
act-6 act-6-of-1974 act-91 act-91-of-1983 foreclosure foreclosure-procedure homeowner-assistance homeowner-assistance-settlement-act mortgage-company mortgage-notices notices sheriff-sale |
1. WHETHER THE MORTGAGE COMPANY'S ACT 6 OF 1974 AND ACT 91 OF 1983 NOTICES WERE ADEQUATE?
2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN NOT APPLYING THE HOMEOWNER AS… |
3.5 |
| 20-168 |
Paul W. Nusbaum, Jr. v. Marsha R. Nusbaum, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-determination arrearages child-support federal-regulations judicial-review public-assistance separation-of-powers spousal-support |
1. Whether, where the obligee of child support payments is not receiving, and
has not received, public assistance, the federal and state governments h… |
3.5 |
| 20-175 |
Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation |
Does a litigant forfeit an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not in a … |
3.5 |
| 20-178 |
Anne Prafada v. Mesa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-to-defraud due-process educational-law equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech standing supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy to defraud are preempted, when the Educational federal statutes touch a field in which the federal… |
3.5 |
| 20-185 |
Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-appointment judicial-review judicial-selection maryland-law race-discrimination standing |
Was the United States Constitution violated
when the highest court in Maryland supported the
lower courts' decisions to [i] apply federal statutory
di… |
3.5 |
| 20-196 |
Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
None |
|
3.5 |
| 20-211 |
Barry Rosen v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
airspace-system civil-procedure due-process injury-in-fact national-airspace-system pro-se-litigant public-use-airport separation-of-powers standing statutory-rights |
Federally-certificated Pro Se pilot, and aircraft owner, domiciled at a federally-funded airport, was denied standing by both the District Court and N… |
3.5 |
| 20-223 |
Michael P. O'Donnell v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Pursuant to Sup. Ct. R. 14(l)(a) Petitioner respectfully presents the following four questions for review. Petitioner also respectfully states the "St… |
3.5 |
| 20-228 |
ESIP Series 2, LLC v. Puzhen Life USA, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause arbitrary-and-capricious art-iii-court due-process inter-partes-review patent statutory-jurisdiction thryv-precedent |
1. Whether Board decisions that are arbitrary
and capricious, exceed the Board's statutory
jurisdiction from the start, and are made by
administrative… |
3.5 |
| 20-252 |
Gannett Co., Inc., et al. v. Ryan Larson |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response Waived |
defamation fair-report-privilege falsity-element first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-statements media-reporting public-concern |
"[W]here a newspaper publishes speech of public concern, a private-figure plaintiff cannot recover damages without also showing that the statements at… |
3.5 |
| 20-259 |
Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination |
Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp… |
3.5 |
| 20-335 |
Maryland Reclamation Associates, Inc. v. Harford County, Maryland |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-variance due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights takings-clause |
After a quarter century of continued litigation and a 2018 adjudication on the merits, a Maryland jury awarded petitioner $45,420,076. in damages for … |
3.5 |
| 20-338 |
Johnny Clyde Benjamin, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit controlled-substances-act criminal-indictment federal-district-court furanyl-fentanyl indictment jurisdictional-defect statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION
Federal district courts have their jurisdiction limited to violations of laws of the
United States. During the per… |
3.5 |
| 20-345 |
Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing |
Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder… |
3.5 |
| 20-346 |
D. Ashley Pennington v. Beattie I. Butler |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-termination first-amendment fourth-circuit public-defender qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standing |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit, consistent with this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should have exercised jurisdiction and c… |
3.5 |
| 20-5060 |
Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act… |
-1.0 |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5540 |
Ugunda Giovanni Sanders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy-charge constructive-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct |
The Government charged Sanders with a conspiracy taking place
on June 28, 2017. When Sanders pled guilty the Government
reserved the right to charge h… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5543 |
Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 20-5548 |
James Michael Hood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-predisposition digital-inducement digital-relationships due-process entrapment entrapment-defense law-enforcement-sting minor-enticement predisposition sting-operation |
Whether, when the government has induced a person to break the law and the defense of entrapment is at issue, the government need only show that its i… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5549 |
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration |
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
-1.5 |
| 20-5560 |
Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
(1) Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside in… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5580 |
Kyle Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery |
Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5654 |
Aaron Jose Acuna-Duenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process illegal-reentry immigration-court-jurisdiction immigration-law judicial-jurisdiction pereira-precedent pereira-v-sessions removal-orders separation-of-powers |
Whether, in light of Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), the immigration court issuing orders of removal against each petitioner lacked juris… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
-1.5 |
| 20-5666 |
Cristian Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility advisory-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range |
1. A defendant who enters a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement that includes a purported inducement that he will receive an acceptance of respon… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5669 |
Christopher Paul George v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with t… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5706 |
Mark Berg v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
I. When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party (as… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5709 |
Rickey Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
-1.5 |
| 20-5710 |
Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
-1.5 |
| 20-5720 |
Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
-1.5 |
| 19-8246 |
Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure |
1. Whether the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Visiting policy violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act of 2000, U.S.C.… |
-4.0 |
| 19-8588 |
Robert Donelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link |
Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between… |
-4.5 |
| 19-8831 |
Eric Reid v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire |
Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992). |
-4.5 |
| 19-8903 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-claim criminal-appeal culyer-v-sullivan due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-proceedings public-defender strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in determining Gibson's conflict of interest claim should be analyzed under Strickland v. Washington rather th… |
-4.5 |
| 19-8904 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor |
1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where coun… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5089 |
William Kirkpatrick, Jr. v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254e1 capital-inmate-rights capital-punishment colloquy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings waiver waiver-of-rights whitmore-v-arkansas |
Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Whitmore v. Arkansas in upholding a capital inmate's waiver of the right to proceed absent a colloquy demonstrat… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5119 |
Wayne Powell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
1. Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5249 |
Marlon Blacher v. California |
California |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Does the circumstances presented and detailed by STATEMENT OF THE CASE portion of the present Petition for a Writ of Certiorari warrant issuance of th… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5254 |
Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor |
DID the COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA IWA l court i)£MV
MR.13ROWU H'S COMSTltTUTIbWAL RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL ON Ttffc
MVSOEIAEAMOR CHARGES OP ReCJ&WtWC STOLEN… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5256 |
Travis Jackson Marron, aka Abdul Mu'min v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-precedent due-process judicial-ruling judicial-rulings jurisdiction legislative-law legislative-laws standing subject-matter-jurisdiction virginia-supreme-court |
"Marron " prays this Honorable Court will hear his extraordinary case about
the errors of the lower courts when they violated Appellants ' Constitutio… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5260 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5261 |
Michael Fred Houston v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability |
1) Does under the totality of the circumstance, is the in-court identification reliable even though the confrontation procedure was suggestive?
2) Di… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5266 |
Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board |
Louisiana |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability |
1. Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5269 |
Amadeo Valls v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error |
(1) WHETHER Due process prohibits Florida from excluding Hews rea .instruction from Burglary CHARGES or WHETHER IT IS STRUCTURAL ERROR For Trial court… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5270 |
Keith Allen Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
circumstantial-evidence corpus-delicti delayed-prosecution due-process motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal witness-unavailability |
Can the Charlotte County Court of Florida deny a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal, when the State did "not" prove Corpus Delicit of 2"d Degree Murder … |
-4.5 |
| 20-5277 |
Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure |
(1) Is Joseph Thompson Jr. Being denied his 13th, 14th, 15th The United States District Court For Eastern District of Louisiana, and United States cou… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5282 |
Alla A. Zorikova v. Realvest, Inc. |
Missouri |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial falsified-facts foreign-corporation judicial-discretion missouri-statutes usurious-interest weight-of-evidence |
Did Circuit Court denied Petitioner's Constitutional right for fair Trial by entering judgment against the law, weight of evidences and facts?
Did So… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5288 |
Eugene Peter Schuler v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-faith contract-law extrinsic-fraud fraud intentional-omission legal-authority omission statute-of-limitations voidable-agreement |
k. WHETHER CONTRACT LAW IDENTIFIES THAT AN AGREEMENT CAN BE SUED "BAD FAITH" AND MADE VOIDABLE BY EITHER EXTRINSIC FRAUD OR, ANOTHER INADVERTENT OMISS… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5297 |
Demarius Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness |
2. Can unconfronted testimonial hearsay be used to secure the admission at trial of other unconfronted testimonial hearsay?
3. Did the state fail to … |
-4.5 |
| 20-5298 |
Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5310 |
Benjamin Franklin v. Glenna S. Blair |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech freedom-of-association judicial-review presumption-of-intent presumption-of-reasonableness procedural-due-process standing |
FOUND SEVErAl argUAbE ClAMS UNdER thE R.L.U.I. P.A.?
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C AND E; CouD the Court see PresumptioN of intent to the Respondent
Blair's
Contributor… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5318 |
Dimitri Rozenman v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
bad-faith brady-violation disclosure-requirement due-process evidence-preservation tampering youngblood-standard |
1. Whether the United States District Court ("U.S.D.C. ") erred in its finding that, in order to obtain relief under Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 5… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5322 |
Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska |
Alaska |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures |
1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fourteenth Amendment rights to fair an… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5332 |
William David Bush v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism preemption public-health-emergency quarantine-powers state-authority state-police-powers tenth-amendment |
Where the State of California's Health and Safety Code, openly declares supremacy in codified authority to the articles and rights guaranteed in law b… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5333 |
Norman Paul Blanco v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law california-penal-code civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-convictions judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
Aunder parole consideration arficle under I vection 32 of california prparition fonmater whnvilenfe constitution sentence
ner th p atn ith febny atte… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5674 |
In Re James Ward |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance … |
-4.5 |
| 20-5691 |
In Re Freeman Berry |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority plea-agreement |
the inherent right to bind this Petitioner and other Defendants to a guilty plea contract it drafted. Does the United States Government retain contain… |
-4.5 |
| 20-5761 |
In Re Antonio M. Bogan |
|
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability collusion constructive-possession due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness retaliation |
Whether habeas corpus relief is being denied where (a) the State of Illinois failed to prove the substantive demerits of constructive possession — Mr.… |
-4.5 |
| 19-7624 |
Jerome Shaw v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process
Rights when it erroneously found that the Government had
sustained its burden of proof … |
-6.0 |
| 20-5228 |
United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing |
Under False Claims Act, may a relator proceed pro se, or must he hire an attorney? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5237 |
Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter |
(1) Was he denied equal protection of the law ? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5271 |
Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5305 |
Ronnie Smith v. New York State Child Support Processing Center, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-support child-support-garnishment erisa erisa-exemption federal-pension federal-pension-funds garnishment income-protection intergovernmental-tax-immunity statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the statutes 29 UCS Section 1001 et seq., ERISA insulated Petitioner 's federal pension funds in a account which is not taxable exempt from… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5307 |
Rebecca H. Gallogly v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-responsibility civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure due-process expungement probation property-rights |
1. Is it a Constitutional deprivation to put a person found not guilty on community supervision or probation for the charge! or, to permit states to a… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5313 |
Melquan Tucker v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felony-penalties home-protection second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny takings |
Whether New York's Penal Law § 265.01-b(1) is unconstitutional as applied where it imposes criminal, felony penalties when citizens fail to ask for th… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5328 |
Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony |
A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts
of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws"
duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5330 |
Layne Aucoin v. Andrew Cupil, Lieutenant, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force muhammad-v-close prison-discipline prisoner-rights sixth-amendment |
Do the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749 (2004), foreclose a federal court from dismissing an inmate 8th Am… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5331 |
Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation |
In a 15 U.S.C. § 1 controversy claiming industry, law, attorney, group boycott, can District and Appellant Courts, one after the next, deny a citizen … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5350 |
Jordan Duke Venable v. City of Phoenix, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process prison-mail qualified-immunity |
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-6.5 |
| 20-5352 |
Shawn Woodward v. Mohammed Ali, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review standing |
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-6.5 |
| 20-5354 |
Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio and Brady violations, and insufficient evidence plain on the fa… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5370 |
Luis Guillen v. Russell Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S PETITION IS TIMELY AND/OR THE ONE YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN PETITIONER'S CASE ARE EQUATABLY TOLLED UNDER HOLLAND V. F… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5371 |
Keith Lemont Farmer v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5374 |
In Re Amro Elansari |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process |
1. Does the failure of the Third Circuit - and other courts - to consider the Plaintiffs substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5381 |
Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge |
DO I HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PETITION FLORIDA'S JUDBCIIAL QUALIFICATION COMMISSION, TOE GOVERNMENT, HIM WRITING, FOSS A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5401 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection federal-forum judicial-abstention pro-se-litigation standing |
When the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court's abstaining from ruling on Sundy's independent claims despite Sundy bein… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5421 |
Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation |
1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY
PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. §
895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)?
2. … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5430 |
Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard |
1. Was there sufficient evidence of utter "utter disregard for human life" to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction?
2. Should addition… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5447 |
John David Wilson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct speedy-trial |
DOES A PROPEPL FUEO DE MAND SPEEDY FOr TRAL AOPUIES TO A STATE PRISON,HEUD WITHOUT BAIL IN A UNTH JAIL , APPUES TO E STATE STATE PRIsoMee. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5458 |
Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5464 |
Dwayne Banks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process habeas standing |
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-6.5 |
| 20-5476 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity |
1.) Whether a police officer's reason for acting , in at least
some circumstances , should factor into the Fourth Amendment
inquiry?*
2.) Whether t… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5477 |
Elvis Henry Idada v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment |
Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5482 |
Marvin Arido Sorro v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law fourth-amendment judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-challenge procedural-rights standing |
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The. PeAvPiooer Access ToTbe. Coords and Id
Siofe a Claim When il Departed From The
Accepted and U… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5487 |
Jerome Adams v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing |
Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5496 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5498 |
John Silvia, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-performance client-representation criminal-procedure discovery evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence expert-consultation expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel subpoena witness-interview |
This case raises the question of whether an attorney can be found to
have rendered effective assistance of counsel where he failed to review a
signifi… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5510 |
Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNING PROVISIONS IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT CASE LAW, IN RE GODDARD, 170 F.3d 43541999), HAS UNLAWFULLY CREAT… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5513 |
Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5524 |
Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution |
Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel by denying an Appellant/Defendant the opp… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5530 |
Tony Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5533 |
Gayle McNamara v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
A defendant who has shown that the district court mistakenly deemed applicable an incorrect, higher Guidelines range has demonstrated a reasonable pro… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5534 |
In Re Marcos Antonio Blancas |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-3231 breach-of-agreement congress-powers congressional-powers district-court-jurisdiction government-agreement government-breach subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER BY REASON OF THE GOVERNMENT BREACHING AN AGREEMENT IT EXECUTED WITH MARCO ANTONIO BLANCA, THE DISTRICT COURT EFFECTIVELY LOST SUBJECT MATTER J… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5535 |
Randy Platt v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender common-law common-law-definition elements-clause physical-force robbery robbery-statute sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
In Stokeling v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2029), this Court reviewed whether Florida's robbery statute required a level of force necessary to qual… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5542 |
Devin M. Kugler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-limitation due-process juvenile-adjudication life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-precedent sexually-violent-person |
Whether this Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which prohibits life sentences for juveniles, prevents a court from civilly c… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5552 |
Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Reeve Kelsey, Judge |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-prejudice due-process non-legal-entity procedural-due-process standing state-court |
Does a state court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it issues a Default Judgment against a non-legal entity?
Does a … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5553 |
Joseph E. Lawrence v. Montana |
Montana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-misconduct public-records standing state-accountability subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Are the Montana Supreme Court, Montana Attorney General and Montana's lower courts obligated and/or accountable to abide by the express provisions… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5554 |
Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter ju… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5555 |
Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Duri ng the early morni ng hours, a shooti ng took place in a parking lot of an
apartment compl ex. The crime scene was large. There were a lot of she… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a
"complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5564 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S REFUSAL TO CONDUCT A FULL RESENTENCING WITH THE DEFENDANT PRESENT RENDERS THE P… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5568 |
Alex Alberto Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5569 |
Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5571 |
Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine |
Maine |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard |
(1) Whether, to obtain a search warrant authorizing the search of "any," "all" or "unknown" persons likely to be found at a residence believed to be u… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5574 |
Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5575 |
In Re Van Lawson Williams |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-standard due-process standard-of-proof successive-proceedings |
Whether a secondary appeals court has disregarded clear controlling law and abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion for leave to proceed … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5576 |
Sarina Ann Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), carries a base offens… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5577 |
Malik Timbers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement |
I.
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED
WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT
TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE
SENTENCE-AP… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5583 |
Gregory D. Crosby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Diel TE TRIALend APleals COoM ERRED
NOT AOWING
witen
meniToned
iRiaL
dURING 1BW
4 |
-6.5 |
| 20-5586 |
Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5587 |
Zachary Joseph Love v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain |
In a habeas corpus proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 originating from a federal district court, where facts have not been established on the record to… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5590 |
Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5596 |
Kevin Dean Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does Beckles U. United States, U.S. —, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017) foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5597 |
Rory Swenson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black |
May speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence be criminalized as a "true threat" unprotected by t… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5599 |
Michael W. Greenwell, Sr. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 20-5601 |
Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Does the conflict of the particularity required in computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5603 |
Michael A. Glover v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. DID THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURTS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S
5TH & 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN
THEY FOUND THE PETITIONER … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5604 |
Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine |
Under this Court's decision in United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993), does a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the governme… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5606 |
Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence |
During a hearingr.ori: a Motion to Suppress Evidence, when
the State fails to carry it's burden of proof, is the
remedy suppression of the evidence?… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5611 |
Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-convictional relief counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5612 |
Anthony Roy Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines |
Is the Court prohibited from calculating a sentences which were imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument as separate sentences in ac… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5614 |
Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness |
Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5615 |
Michael Gordon v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire |
1. When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, does a voir dire inquiry focusing on whether the po… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5620 |
Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery |
The Hobbs Act defines extortion, in relevant part, as requiring the wrongful use of violence or fear in order to induce a person to consent to part wi… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5622 |
Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY
TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5625 |
Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Petitioner was not entitled to issuance of a certificate of appealability? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5628 |
Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months"
in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5636 |
Miguel Figueroa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5637 |
Limmia Page v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop |
Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5644 |
Jonathan Limary v. Maine |
Maine |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5648 |
Damien Guidry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by
the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for
second firearms… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5652 |
Daniel L. Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5653 |
Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5656 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement |
In a criminal conspiracy case, does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in the case have participated in an overt act in furthe… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5658 |
Martin Racioppi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5660 |
Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing |
WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION DOES NOT… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5661 |
Monty Marcellus Shelton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5668 |
Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5670 |
Henry Horace Givins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
-6.5 |
| 20-5673 |
In Re Ricardo Watkins |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cares-act civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-management due-process home-confinement medical-conditions prison-conditions prison-safety |
WHETHER RICARDO WATKINS SHOULD BE RESEASED TO HOME CONFINEMENT
UNDER THE CARES ACT OF MARCH 2020, BECAUSE OF HIS UNDERLYING,
DEBILITATING MEDICAL COND… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5681 |
Ryan K. Sumlin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 20-5685 |
Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
(1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5687 |
John Oliver Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review petition-dismissal standing suspension-clause timeliness |
1. Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petition as untimely.
2. Whether dismissal of the petition violated the Suspension Clause. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5688 |
Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination |
Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5692 |
Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error? |
-6.5 |
| 20-5695 |
Tony DuPree v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings |
(1). Is the Florida Supreme Court correct in saying it lacks jurisdiction where Petitioner is bringing Actual Innocence claim, Newly Discovered Eviden… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5704 |
Leonard Borden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process factual-statements guideline-application preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-hearing |
does a defendant have an obligation to prove the facts in the PSR are inaccurate or untrue after the defendant objects to the factual statements and t… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5711 |
David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5721 |
Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5726 |
In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-process mandamus standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5727 |
Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5737 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment |
Whether, at petitioner's trial for sex trafficking—in which the government's case rested on evidence of the defendant's conduct as a procurer of prost… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5743 |
Johnny Melendez v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5744 |
Antonio Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights expectation-of-privacy private-property search-and-seizure standing |
Petitioner Miller objected to an unlawful search of a rental car in his driveway. The District Court held that Miller did not have standing because th… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5745 |
Bradley William Monical v. Christina Towers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process government-employees governmental-powers judicial-review legal-standards park-county-orders qualified-immunity statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-5749 |
Elijah Hart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application |
Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
-6.5 |
| 20-5756 |
Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights |
After a diagnosis and an assigned test in Weill Cornell hospital, petitioner Chen Xu's eight years old son urinate blood for two weeks. The hospital t… |
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