Conference: 2021-03-26

105 cases — 0 granted, 105 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-569 Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-exception religious-discrimination religious-gatherings strict-scrutiny (1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against religious gatherings by restricting t… 19.5
20-601 Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. Sixth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) attorney-general civil-rights due-process federal-appeals-court intervention judicial-procedure june-medical standing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a state attorney general vested with the power to defend state law should be permitted to intervene after a federal court of appeals invalidat… 16.0
20-567 Ohio, ex rel. Elliot Feltner v. Cuyahoga County Board of Revision, et al. Ohio Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) due-process equity-windfall government-seizure just-compensation property-rights surplus-equity takings-clause tax-delinquency When confiscating property to satisfy a delinquent debt, does it violate the Takings Clause for government to take property worth far more than what i… 13.0
20-984 Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Amici (1) cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal jurisdiction in another forum State when it sends a single cease-and-desist letter to… 11.5
20-690 Michael Sang Han v. United States District of Columbia Denied circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern… 10.5
20-251 Willie Gipson v. Louisiana Louisiana Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent Ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity state-collateral-review Teague-framework Teague-v-Lane Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the … 9.0
20-605 Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional Is there a "good faith defense" to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig… 9.0
20-730 Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction Whether United States Military personnel, while deployed on U.S. Naval vessels undertaking a U.S. diplomatic humanitarian assistance mission, can righ… 9.0
20-1081 Illinois Republican Party, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech pandemic-regulation political-speech religious-speech strict-scrutiny In Reed v. Town of Gilbert , this Court clarified that content -based restrictions are those that apply to particular speech because of the topic disc… 8.5
20-830 Washington v. Said Omer Ali Washington Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-determination sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… 8.5
20-831 Washington v. Endy Domingo-Cornelio Washington Denied Amici (3) 8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment graham-v-florida individual-proportionality juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines Whether Graham and Miller require an individual proportionality determination before imposing any sentence on a juvenile offender convicted in adult c… 8.5
20-998 Mama Jo’s, Inc., dba Berries v. Sparta Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit Denied Amici (1) all-risk-insurance all-risk-policy causation-expert construction-damage daubert-standard direct-physical-loss expert-testimony insurance-coverage The central question in this matter is what constitutes physical damage to property for the purposes of triggering coverage under an all-risk insuranc… 6.5
20-671 In Re Atul C. Shah Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy-court civil-rights discrimination due-process eeoc-investigation employment-discrimination first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure religion standing 1. The primary purpose of the Petition for an Extraordinary Writ is the exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Supreme Court's discreti… 6.0
20-1001 Columbia MHC East, LLC, et al. v. Melody Stewart, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment just-compensation mootness state-action takings The Northern District of Ohio Trial Court dismissed with prejudice, prior to the issuance of summons, the complaint seeking redress against official s… 5.5
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit… 5.5
20-1016 Michael Kosterlitz v. The S/V Knotta Klu, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied civil-procedure contract-formation contract-law false-arrest federal-rules-of-civil-procedure florida-law title-transfer uniform-commercial-code Under Florida law the tort of false arrest occurs when a person procuring an arrest provides false information to the arresting officer and the tort i… 5.5
20-960 Khue Nguyen v. Hai Phu Nguyen, as Administrator of the Estate of Thin Thi Ta, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied appellate-jurisdiction breach-of-contract civil-procedure immunity mediation mediation-immunity non-final-judgment summary-judgment tort-claims Whether an appellate court can take the act of refusal to settlement at mediation out of the mediation context to strip off the immunity from liabilit… 5.5
20-965 Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez California Denied 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as … 5.5
20-980 Veena Sharma v. Santander Bank First Circuit Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-crime judicial-review preclusion standing statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1. Whether the District Court and U.S. Appeals Court for the First Circuit decision of dismissing Petitioner 's claim without issuing summons to Res… 5.5
20-987 Spielbauer Law Office v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. California Denied appeal civil-procedure constitutional-taking due-process entry-of-judgment judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-rights statutory-interpretation takings 1. If a statute appears to reasonably permit the filing of a notice of appeal upon entry of order or entry of judgment, is it a denial of due process … 5.5
20-988 Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. v. Aaron Edmunds Tyson Third Circuit Denied accomplice-liability aedpa aedpa-review benefit-of-the-doubt cullen-v-pinholster due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions standard-of-review Under Pennsylvania law it is well-settled that to be found guilty of First Degree Murder as an accomplice, a defendant must have the specific intent t… 5.5
20M65 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20M66 Donald Dallas v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20-1080 Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demons… 4.5
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery? 4.5
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t… 4.0
20-1027 Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied Response Waived dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the… 3.5
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety For the purposes of protecting the health and safety of pedestrians on medians from encroaching traffic, and drivers from distractions caused by pedes… 3.5
20-1051 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al. District of Columbia Denied Response Waived appeal-procedure civil-procedure contempt discovery discovery-order foia-request intervenor judicial-review mandamus post-judgment-appeal writ-of-intervention 1. Whether a witness can seek a writ of mandamus and bypass the "disobedience and contempt route to appeal a discovery order" by becoming an interveno… 3.5
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity 1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta… 3.5
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where … 3.5
20-1087 Leonard Hartford Tunnell v. Public School Retirement System of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination erisa government-retirement-system government-retirement-systems retirement-equity-act spousal-rights Question not identified. 3.5
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judi­cial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci… 3.5
20-1101 Taniesheia Harden v. Comcast Corporation Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-U.S.C.-§-1981 42-usc-1981 burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-establishment court-of-appeals pleading-standard summary-judgment unsettled-law Is the grant of summary judgment proper when the movant does not meet its burden? 3.5
20-1105 Anthony Futia, Jr., et al. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process guarantee-clause justiciability legal-standing petition-for-redress standing state-constitution 1. Is Petitioners' Guarantee Clause claim justiciable? 2. Are Respondents obligated to respond to Petitioners' Petition for Redress of violations of … 3.5
20-1109 George C. Chatman v. Arrowhead Credit Union Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection due-process federal-law legal-process property-rights social-security 1. Whether we abide by the laws and the constitution of the United States in protecting our secured property Social security? 2. Whether the requirem… 3.5
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings A. Should Hurtado v. California be overruled? B. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Cons… 3.5
20-1170 James Ben Feinman v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act claim-preclusion class-action due-process in-personam injunction judgment party service-of-process 1. Is one bound by a judgment in personam in a class action litigation in which he or she is not designated as a party, is not a member of the class, … 3.5
20-1175 Sandra DeMuth v. Small Business Administration, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination federal-employment personnel-actions retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Does "shall be made free from any discrimination " prohibit personnel actions where either discrimination and/or retaliation are a factor? Does Title… 3.5
20-1179 William W. Cole, Jr. v. PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd., et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived comity court-procedure federal-appellate-split federalism forum-shopping judicial-comity state-constitution state-courts state-law-certification state-sovereignty Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition in Order to Resolve a Long-Standing and Decisive Split Among the Federal Appellate Courts Regarding the S… 3.5
20-1181 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland Maryland Denied Response Waived de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema… 3.5
20-1187 Leon Carmichael, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights contemporaneous-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-test sentencing-guidelines Question One: What additional objective and evidentiary evidence is required to satisfy "the prejudice test" that this Court articulated in "Missouri … 3.5
20-1193 Christopher G. Lee v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct 1. Can innocent, concededly non-sexual conduct of a minor, depicted in an image, be retroactively converted into the "use or employment" of a minor to… 3.5
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement In the present case, a man's cell phone was searched without a warrant and the trial court ruled that the phone was abandoned and that the Defendant h… 3.5
20-1205 Gazelle Craig v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin… 3.5
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … 3.5
20-1216 Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment 1. Whether the sufficiency-of-the-evidence standard under the Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979)… 3.5
20-6409 Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… 0.5
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ… -1.0
20-7243 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… -1.5
20-7268 Jason P. Briscoe v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab… -1.5
20-6093 Hany Sayed Abutaleb v. Mona Mohamed Abutaleb Illinois Denied Relisted (3)IFP 401(k) 401k-distribution asset-division discretion divorce-proceedings divorce-settlement equitable-distribution joint-assets judicial-discretion marital-assets property-division property-ownership Whether triai court did not abuse its discretion in awarding wife 75% of husband's 401{k)account although both are still having four joint assets plus… -3.5
20-6602 Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons New Hampshire Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights 14. What is best for E.B.. 15. Why the courts refuse to hear the wishes of E.B. a 13 year old child that is fully aware of the situation and knows wh… -4.0
20-6649 El Aemer El Mujaddid v. Andrew Brewer, et al. Third Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages damages-remedy due-process state-actors statute-of-limitations subpoena subpoena-abuse Does both 42 U. S. C. § 1983 and 18 U.S.C. § 1595 create a damages remedy against I. state actors for issuing, enforcing, adopting, aiding or abetting… -4.0
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri… -4.5
20-6919 Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion 1). Whether the court of criminal apeal's was invioaltion or not filing and ruling on all of this petitioner grounds of error that the Court of Grim… -4.5
20-6922 Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio Ohio Denied IFP brady-vs-maryland capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process evidence prosecutorial-misconduct When a capital ly sentenced defendant credibly demonstrates that (1) state actors have cont inually exhibited bad faith throughout the history of a … -4.5
20-6937 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole 1 Did a Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners writ of habeas corpus was dismissed as unauthorized and successive federal relief? 2 The Double … -4.5
20-6938 Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. Second Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -4.5
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention… -4.5
20-6950 In Re John Poullard Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment 1. Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision… -4.5
20-6951 Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence FORMAL REQUISITE OF AN INDICTMENT: THE INDICTMENT FAILED TO PROPERLY ALLEGE THE OFFENSE,AS WRITTEN IN THE TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.02. INSUFFICIEN… -4.5
20-6956 H. Denise Stuart v. Erickson Living Management, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights due-process elder-care employment employment-discrimination investigation-procedures retaliation termination whistleblower workplace-retaliation wrongful-termination 1. When Erickson Living Communities suspended me for nine days to investigate intentionally false accusations of elderly abuse and found no grounds to… -4.5
20-6968 Kenton Lance Light v. Texas Texas Denied IFP abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence tha… -4.5
20-6986 Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights Question not identified. -4.5
20-6988 Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois Illinois Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines This case presents an excellent vehicle for this Court to resolve a growing conflict in the Illinois Appellate Courts: Whether the seriousness of the … -4.5
20-6996 Delroy T. Booth v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law disability due-process judicial-review legal-precedent social-security standing statutory-interpretation Did that Defendant's criminal Trial Violate the Confrontation Clause when a Court Reporter Reading the out-of-court Certified Social Security letter D… -4.5
20-6997 Joe D. Bryan v. Texas Texas Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? If the criminal punishment of an i… -4.5
20-6998 Clara Lewis Brockington v. Ronald L. Havner, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP breach-of-contract civil-contract contract-breach contract-enforcement damages district-manager legal-remedy south-carolina-law storage-auction verbal-agreement written-contract 1/ Why did Danielle Jones, District Manager made a verbal contractual agreement with me to send her all of my payments, copy of contract and list of … -4.5
20-7342 In Re Christopher Vigliotti Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions SHOULD THE COURT ISSUE AN EMERGENCY WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REQUIRING RESPONDENT'S TO RELEASE PETITIONER DUE TO THE FACT COVID-19 AND ITS VARIANTS PRESE… -4.5
20-7349 In Re Bobby Mellard Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings Question not identified. -4.5
20-6363 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … -6.0
20-6443 Scott Myers v. Patrolman Rowell, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-section-1983 civil-rights false-arrest false-prosecution institutionalized-abuse malicious-prosecution municipal-liability 1. Don't the complete reversals affirm that malicious prosecution, inter alia, occurred and therefore requires, on the law, that the case be remanded … -6.0
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing The questions presented are 1. Does Rooker-Feldman* doctrine bar Petitioner's 42 USC 1983 US District Court claim where Petitioner pled a facial as o… -6.0
20-6912 Roy L. Rambo, Jr. v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process pretrial-restraint retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did this Court's holding in Luis v. United States, 578 U. S. 194 L. Ed. 2d 256 (2016) simply clarify a Federal civil asset forfeiture statute by deter… -6.5
20-6935 Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that… -6.5
20-7035 Rondell Slaughter v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure error exhaustion ineffective-assistance legal-concession oral-argument procedural-exhaustion state-court state-court-pleading I. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is exhausted when the state-court pleading asserted that appellate counsel rendered … -6.5
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42 U.S.C. §1983? Is 42 U.S.C. §1983 the pro… -6.5
20-7055 Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard QUESTION 1: Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that … -6.5
20-7057 Romario Waller v. Arkansas Arkansas Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement 1. Did the Trial Judge in case no 1995-CR-545 violate Petitioner 's 5th, 6th, 14th , Amendment rights when he sentenced Petitioner to a more than 20%… -6.5
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing THE JUDGMENTCS) IN THE NATTER OF CASE NO. 42SPIQ-2 DiRECTIY iNVOLUES A SUbSTANTIAL EUINO STATES PURSUONT TO N.C.G.S.7A-BOCI). HENCE, THE Said juDGNEUT… -6.5
20-7106 Mark Halper v. Linda Moore, et al. Colorado Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights colorado-courts due-process judicial-corruption legal-standing real-party-interest real-party-of-interest standing Whether the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the District Court, San Miguel County, CO were corrupt in failing to legally as… -6.5
20-7129 Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified. -6.5
20-7130 Kareem J. Cobbins v. Cherryle Hinthorne, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus illinois post-conviction standing 'Ibis Untied Sbshtf Supreme, Courf should kwer courte <hS +o bout much is expected °X tortshtufwrwl' ohm, AjiernJJvcb * CsOurT be Confident dnotdh . P… -6.5
20-7190 Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… -6.5
20-7195 Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence vaAV\ e.W\ £f +Vi<£ peVt-fvo \ne.c^ £-ovw{ '£,-V-tov r\ s (fi '^r\v€. SY<3i\r£ fouVeA fo pfovi A-€ VuvYvAVte. ViM-i fYi^s vY\eAi£-d\ 'CeCof As uik'« … -6.5
20-7200 Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review Under California law, premeditation requires more than just intent to kill; it requires "careful thought," as a "deliberate judgment or plan," carried… -6.5
20-7204 Shane Faithful v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… -6.5
20-7229 Wanda Tubbs v. Jeff Long, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-error constitutional-law due-process litigation-rights motion-to-suppress standing tennessee-courts 1.Did the Tennessee courts violate due process by failing to let Wanda Tubbs litigate a motion to suppress in an asset forfeiture case? -6.5
20-7247 Walter Eugene Powell v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -6.5
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution The fortcommitted Federal hule of Criminal Procedure 52 (b) Plain Error I. Bias and Abandonment of judicial role by Distict Judge Appellate Court fa… -6.5
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether, in affirming a district court's denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied this Court'… -6.5
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… -6.5
20-7259 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of th… -6.5
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Question not identified. -6.5
20-7270 Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner was deprived of his due-process of law, and a fair trial, where the trial court never orally read the jury instructions to the jury… -6.5
20-7272 Tyslen J. Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro… -6.5
20-7273 Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment iOhLtbtr flu pr&seci&.t'ofa thctcjfd to cl, dtftndanf that- he lO&tL'ld. rectrVe. h'-ft 5-cofence (f ht d:d not accept cl p{tQ_ tf-f fer cLto (td. h<… -6.5
20-7276 Russell Lawayne Montague v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process protective-order sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review supervised-release 1) Whether the district court ordered an unreasonably long 114-month prison sentence. 2) Whether the district court erred by finding Mr. Montague gui… -6.5
20-7278 Charles Dennis Friedman v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit A. Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision departs so vastly from the accepted course of judicial proceedings —by forcing a litigant to challenge a decis… -6.5
20-7283 John Larvie v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty my attoing didit leve me with Instrutions ot hou to propers appeal Nor cani contact. Aftorng doesid say muh so Ive boen for avhite and battted bore co… -6.5
20-7290 Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure This Court has held that when law enforcement officers are lawfully present within a private home to make an arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a pr… -6.5
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR… -6.5
20-7301 Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment Petitioner was convicted under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871, sections of the National Firearms Act that impose criminal penalties of up to 10 years' … -6.5
20-7305 Larry Daniel Harris v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation 1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… -6.5