| 20-843 |
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. Kevin P. Bruen, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of New York State Police, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (89)Relisted (4) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-prohibition handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense standing |
Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit ordinary law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense. |
101.0 |
| 22O153 |
Texas, Plaintiff v. California |
|
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (12) |
None |
|
38.0 |
| 20-827 |
United States v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Relisted (5) |
cia cia-contractors civil-procedure classified-information discovery discovery-proceedings executive-privilege foreign-proceedings national-security state-secrets-privilege |
Whether the court of appeals erred when it rejected the United States' assertion of the state-secrets privilege based on the court's own assessment of… |
32.5 |
| 20-804 |
Houston Community College System v. David Buren Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
censure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-speech legislative-speech local-government member-conduct standing |
Does the First Amendment restrict the authority of an elected body to issue a censure resolution in response to a member's speech? |
14.0 |
| 20-748 |
PHI Air Medical, LLC v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
air-ambulance air-carriers airline-deregulation-act mccarran-ferguson-act medicare-rate preemption rate-regulation workers-compensation |
1. Whether the ADA preempts a state workers' compensation system that limits the prices an air-ambulance company can charge and collect for its air-tr… |
13.5 |
| 20-1137 |
California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials v. Tom Torlakson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
disfavored-treatment federal-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause government-discrimination ninth-circuit-precedent recurring-issue religious-exercise religious-liberty substantial-burden |
Whether the Free Exercise Clause permits the government to single out a religion for disfavored treatment so long as it does not "substantially burden… |
12.5 |
| 19-1194 |
Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called "Mindes test," or whether claims … |
11.5 |
| 20-837 |
Tua Mene Lebie Bakor v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
None |
|
11.5 |
| 20-1145 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
Denied |
|
appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction |
1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing
Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same
duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … |
10.5 |
| 20-953 |
Michael D. Ellis v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
choice-of-law civil-procedure erisa federal-courts insurance-contract insurance-contracts preemption state-law |
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, expressly saves certain state laws from preemption. For those state laws that are saved… |
10.5 |
| 20-908 |
SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. M&T Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
conservatorship federal-agency foreclosure foreclosure-bar property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and, if so, whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside.… |
9.0 |
| 20-940 |
Alaska v. Sean Wright |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction |
When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
7.0 |
| 20-819 |
Duy T. Mai v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-ban juvenile-commitment juvenile-justice mental-health second-amendment standing |
Can the Second Amendment tolerate a lifetime firearm ban on Mr. Mai, a mentally healthy, stable, and law-abiding individual, because of a juvenile inv… |
6.5 |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
(1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota… |
6.0 |
| 20-756 |
Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court |
May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o… |
6.0 |
| 20-820 |
Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness |
Is evidence the rule of law a part of our constitution?
Does the court have the right to choose who benefits from the constitutional protections?
Is… |
6.0 |
| 20-1132 |
DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony |
Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme… |
5.5 |
| 20-1146 |
Pamela Smith v. PacerMonitor, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act conspiracy deprivation-of-rights due-process emotional-distress res-judicata rule-60 standing |
1. Whether the process petitioner received in this
case is sufficient to satisfy the substantive and
procedural due process standard.
2. Whether "R… |
5.5 |
| 20-1147 |
Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f… |
5.5 |
| 20-1150 |
Shelby L. Haynes, et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
agreement common-fund common-fund-rule equitable-lien erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary non-contractual-claims plan-administrator retroactive-application retroactivity |
1. Can an ERISA plan fiduciary assert equitable
lien by agreement claims against persons with
which it has no agreement?
2. Can the undisclosed condi… |
5.5 |
| 20-1169 |
William Albert Haynes, III, et al. v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consolidated-cases final-judgment hall-v-hall procedural-catch-22 standing timely-appeal |
Did the Second Circuit err in ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the Petitioners' appeals in three of seven consolidated cases, which were fil… |
5.5 |
| 20M70 |
Etenat Zegeye v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M71 |
Arnold King v. Edward Klem, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M72 |
Montana Department of Public Service Regulation v. MTSUN, LLC |
Montana |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20-766 |
David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office recusal standing |
Can States Statues Judges or Attorneys violate that State's Constitution, the Federal Constitution and Federal laws, pertaining to conflict of interes… |
4.0 |
| 20-907 |
SFR Investments Pool 1, LLC v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights conservatorship due-process federal-agency federal-statute foreclosure property-interest quiet-title separation-of-powers standing takings |
1. Whether the FHFA's structure violates separation of powers and, if so, whether its conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be set aside.… |
4.0 |
| 20-931 |
Wynship W. Hillier v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure agency-declaration agency-records civil-rights classified-records judicial-review privacy-act summary-judgment terrorism |
1. Shall summary judgment be awarded in favor of an agency in a suit under the Privacy
Act to compel notice of the fact of the existence of records pe… |
4.0 |
| 20-1226 |
Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development |
Whether, consistent with the constitutional right to present a defense, a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely p… |
3.5 |
| 20-1259 |
Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause |
1. Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims in light of the Seventh Circuit's application of … |
3.5 |
| 20-1264 |
Fusion IV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dba Axia Pharmaceutical, et al. v. Anne Sodergren |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause compounding-quality-act drug-quality-and-security-act drug-regulation fdca-preemption federal-outsourcing-facilities federal-oversight federal-preemption outsourcing-facilities state-licensing state-licensing-requirements |
Whether 21 U.S.C. §353b of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act "FDCA" (the "Compounding Quality Act" which is part of the "Drug Quality and Securi… |
3.5 |
| 20-1278 |
Johlen Johnson, et ux. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violation deed-of-trust due-process foreclosure non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights severability statutory-interpretation takings |
Does the prevailing Opinions of the Arizona Deed of Trust Scheme produce a constitutional violation, and therefore provide this Court with good cause … |
3.5 |
| 20-1292 |
Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation |
Congress in 2008 amended the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, expanding some key sections and admonishing courts to const… |
3.5 |
| 20-1296 |
Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent |
Does precedent in the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which allows defendants to raise affirmative defenses in a motion for summar… |
3.5 |
| 20-1338 |
Li Li v. J.C. Penney Company, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
363-motion asset-sale bankruptcy-code chapter-11 equity-committee good-faith good-faith-requirement standing sub-rosa-plan |
(1) Whether the lower courts erred in authorizing the sale of J. C. Penney ' s crown jewel assets pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 363 under an impermissible s… |
3.5 |
| 20-1341 |
Volvy Smilowitz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bribery civil-rights election-fraud election-statute federal-elections federal-oversight state-elections state-law travel-act voter-fraud voting |
1. Title 52, Section 10307(c), proscribes certain wrongful conduct in
connection with voting and registering to vote. By its express terms,
Section 10… |
3.5 |
| 20-1344 |
Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation |
1. Can the IRS/United States government/Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis ) on t… |
3.5 |
| 20-1350 |
Go New York Tours, Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anticompetitive-conduct antitrust antitrust-conspiracy circumstantial-evidence civil-procedure parallel-conduct pleading-standards plus-factors section-1 sherman-act twombly |
1. Whether a plaintiff must allege evidence of "plus factors" in addition to parallel anticompetitive conduct in order to plead an antitrust conspirac… |
3.5 |
| 20-1352 |
Alexander Christian Miles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-waiver collateral-attack collateral-attack-waiver contract-interpretation contract-law judicial-interpretation plea-agreement plea-colloquy |
Whether oral pronouncements by the court or the government at a plea colloquy which clarify the extent of an appellate and collateral attack waiver in… |
3.5 |
| 20-1366 |
Jesus Gomez-Arzate v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment attenuation civil-rights consensual-encounter consent consent-to-search due-process fourth-amendment standing traffic-detention unlawful-extension |
In 2015, this Court decided the case of Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) [135 S.Ct. 1609, 191 L.Ed.2d 492], limiting the scope of traff… |
3.5 |
| 20-1371 |
Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel |
1. Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel. |
3.5 |
| 20-889 |
The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing chilled-speech civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action standing |
Fundamental in this Court's Article III jurisprudence is the principle that the federal courts are open to hear federal claims for declaratory and inj… |
3.5 |
| 20-6359 |
Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
0.5 |
| 20-6668 |
Christopher Zamarripa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity |
Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove… |
0.5 |
| 20-6756 |
David Ray Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime |
1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys… |
0.5 |
| 20-7225 |
Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado |
Colorado |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver… |
0.5 |
| 20-7431 |
Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing |
Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or her self pro se, should no issues conce… |
-1.5 |
| 20-7544 |
Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous where reasonable jurists could disagree as to whether D… |
-1.5 |
| 20-7591 |
Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
-1.5 |
| 20-6799 |
Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness |
Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence… |
-4.5 |
| 20-6876 |
Leon Tollette v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d) eleventh-circuit federal-habeas-review harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Whether, on federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), a federal court may refuse to "look through" to the last reasoned state court decision, a… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7184 |
Mitchell Wagner v. Archie D. Scarborough, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-complexity legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing |
IS if A Violation of The Petii Loner 's Cons fI futioNA L
Rims To Counsel WhEN APPelle Te Court FaILs To
Recognize an Already Approved and accepted … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7191 |
Curtis Shuler v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 20-7196 |
Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7201 |
Jerry Neil Alfred v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel successive-petition trial-counsel |
WHETHER DOCTRINE OF EQUITABLE TOLLING COULD BE PROPERLY INVOKED AND ULTIMATELY APPLIED BY DISTRICT COURT TO RENDER AN OTHERWISE UNTIMELY CLAIM THAT EX… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7211 |
In Re Jeremy L. Dale |
|
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-procedure poverty redress |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 20-7212 |
Kareem Davenport v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court |
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-4.5 |
| 20-7219 |
Cedric C. Westbrook v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court |
Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surmou… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7222 |
Ian Lamonte Cormier v. Riverside County District Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-access judicial-review standing |
How Can (Witness Case Be Dismissed from Proper Remedy If This Court Look at Response to the Central District's Dismissal (Pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6)) (… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7233 |
John Dan Bumphus, Jr. v. Unique Personnel Consultants, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit abuse its jurisdictional standard of review, by allowing a District Court judge to nega… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7236 |
Vincent E. Boyd v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability court-procedure due-process legal-representation pro-se-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right standby-counsel |
Should courts have to clearly define, on the record, the proper role of standby counsel in the proceedings? In other words, should courts engage in a … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7239 |
Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review |
Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence? |
-4.5 |
| 20-7245 |
Jeremy Kerr v. John Collier, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Henry County |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process notice notice-of-proceeding procedural-due-process receiver-appointment state-court substantial-right substantial-rights |
Does a State Court violate an individual's right to procedural due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when it issues … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7248 |
Jonathan Lee Page v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law court-limitation criminal-procedure independent-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection primary-offense primary-offenses trial-procedure |
1. Whether counsel was ineffective when he failed to timely object to the lower court expressly limiting the independent act jury instruction to the p… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7249 |
Derrick Miles v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification |
1). Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim, where his murder conviction must be reversed, where his convictio… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7264 |
Graham Jay Sonnenberg v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
adverse-effect brady-material conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel |
Whether the prophylaxis of Cuyler should be extended to define the term "adverse affect" to establish a demonstration test involving actual conflicts … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7271 |
Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
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-4.5 |
| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-6.0 |
| 20-6796 |
Simon A. Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
Whether Trial Counsel failure to object a factual withholding with Guilty modifications in two (Pharenteticals) of Jury instructions, prevented Juror'… |
-6.0 |
| 20-6801 |
Mauro C. Palacio v. B. Sullivan |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts standing |
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| 20-7115 |
Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and… |
-6.0 |
| 20-7292 |
Matthew Lee Staszak v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2251 18-usc-2423 due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct section-2251 section-2423 |
I. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT AND INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL VIOLATES DUE PROCESS WHERE NO … |
-6.0 |
| 20-7227 |
Marcus Conner v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process prejudice-factor pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict in the federal
and state courts over recognizing that lengthy pretrial incarceratio… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7315 |
Ursula Owens v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability |
Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7331 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default |
Whether the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. United States.
Whether petitioner's request for counsel was ineffe… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7332 |
Justin Laster v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity standing takings unidentified-issue |
Why would the United States Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit express conduct that has so far departed the accepted and usual course of judicial proce… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7334 |
Raymond E. Carr v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada civil-rights employment perceived-disability record-of-disability rehabilitation-act |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-7347 |
Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional |
WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW TO DETAIN A PERSON UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A STATUTE THAT CLASSIFIES THE OFFENSE A CAPITAL FELONY WHERE… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7401 |
Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure |
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-6.5 |
| 20-7442 |
Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden |
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-6.5 |
| 20-7454 |
Delwyn Manuel v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
WHETHER PETTTIONER IS ENTTTEO TO bE RESENTENED
TO 30 YEARS
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-6.5 |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7505 |
Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court |
DID THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA VIOLATE
CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW AND PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FAILED … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7511 |
Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition |
1. May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district c… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7543 |
Victor Real-Alomar, aka Toston v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment ninth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-detainee waiver |
A. Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of nonapplicability of a waiver of appeal in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the gover… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7547 |
Saloman Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent |
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| 20-7548 |
David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-7554 |
Eron Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction speedy-trial |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-7563 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution |
QUESTION ONE: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AN ORDER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND/OR STAY OF EXECUTION OF THE REMAINING UNLAWFUL SEN… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7564 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation |
Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim Titled Or Styled As:
Ground Four - Argued as Ground Tw… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7586 |
Phillip Blough v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure |
A common-sense extension of the right to a trial by jury is the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions. Here, the tr… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7593 |
Fernando Clarke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute |
Fernando Clarke was charged with, inter alia, two counts of transporting child pornography. At trial, the government witnesses testified that Mr. Clar… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7594 |
Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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-6.5 |
| 20-7597 |
In Re Gary Peel |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue a dispositive decision upon Gary… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7598 |
Marcellus Thomas v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-7603 |
In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion |
The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7608 |
Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3161 diligent-preparation due-process government-motion speedy-trial-act trial-continuance |
Whether the district court violated the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, et seq., when it granted the government's motion to continue the trial eve… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7619 |
Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7624 |
Jeremy Randolph Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ashcroft-v-free-speech-coalition constitutional-rights due-process electronic-devices fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech internet-monitoring supervised-release united-states-v-holena |
1) Do theoconditions of petitioner's supervised release requiring
petitioner to have his probation officer's prior approval to own,
purchase, posses… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7635 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner |
When the Warden Court's understanding of the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a Conclusion feed date in its den… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7636 |
Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default |
Mr. Barnes case raises a pressing issue of national importance: Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony on th… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7639 |
Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7640 |
Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit |
Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is procedurally invalid because the Panel failed to consider, and overlo… |
-6.5 |