Conference: 2021-05-27

99 cases — 0 granted, 99 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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20-915 Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. Ninth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in breaking with its own prior precedent and the findings of other circuits and the Copyright Office in holding that 17 U… 28.5
20-1223 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Gail L. Ingham, et al. Missouri Denied Amici (10) civil-litigation civil-procedure consolidation due-process jury-consolidation jury-instructions plaintiffs prejudice trial-procedure 1. Whether a court must assess if consolidating multiple plaintiffs for a single trial violates due process, or whether it can presume that jury instr… 20.5
20-1044 Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security v. Joyce Ramsey, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) None 16.0
20-578 Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7) deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… 13.5
20M69 Ashton R. O'Dwyer, Jr. v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete Response RequestedRelisted (2) None 11.0
20-1493 Stephen Nichols v. Wayne County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-forfeiture constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights due-process municipal-policy municipal-seizure neutral-judge prompt-hearing property-deprivation vehicle-rights 1. Whether due process requires municipalities, after seizing a vehicle in the name of civil forfeiture, to provide the vehicle owner a prompt hearing… 10.5
20-885 Next Energy, LLC v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Illinois Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment hydraulic-fracturing mineral-rights oil-and-gas permit-moratorium property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings shale-oil shale-oil-leases takings Petitioner, Next Energy, LLC, commenced acquiring blocks of five-year oil leases in 2011 to drill high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (horizon… 9.0
20-1464 Rahul Ramesh Joshi v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-breach government-misconduct judicial-review plea-agreement resentencing sentencing WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT CONSTITUTED A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, WHICH REQUIRED REMAND FOR A DE NOVO RESENTENCING? 8.5
20-1342 In Re Titus L. Radcliff Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings (SIMULTANEDUS CONTTESTED CLAETM) LABELED B)CASE 13-5186 WAS THIS 1-9-2OIS LETEL SUPPOSE TO BE THE AASWEL FROM THE FIFUG PASD FEE FU WHIEH MY CASE WITS… 6.0
20-955 Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment DID THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS JUSTICES ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION, CREATE MANIFEST INJUSTICE, SUBSTANTIALLY ERR, PR… 6.0
20-1318 Vincent W. Shack v. NBC Universal Media, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied bivens-action civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-agents governmental-immunity qualified-immunity Does the law afford the means to prevent and redress alleged civil right abuse by public officers and agencies? " The court allowed the use of United … 5.5
20-1325 Wesley Perkins v. John Lipscombe, Judge, County Court at Law No. 3, Travis County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied administrative-rules civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration consent-doctrine due-process ex-post-facto jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation transportation-code Statutory Challenge 1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional, " as applied? / Pleading standard 2. Was dismissal abusive? Compelled Arbitration … 5.5
20-1347 Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada Nevada Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a… 5.5
20-1358 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Fourth Circuit Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment 1. Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourt… 5.5
20-1367 Ethan Johnson Spruill v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-law miranda-warnings right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Is the admission at trial, over objection, of Petitioner's statement error that lies beyond any possible fairminded disagreement when: (1) the Petitio… 5.5
20A144 Richard Bruce DeBenedetto v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20M80 Thomas Nathaniel Allen v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20M82 Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20M83 Wilmar Rene Duran-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
20-1023 Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. Pennsylvania Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness 1. a. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional? b. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutionally Vague? 3. Were Coulter's Due Process Rights violated?… 4.0
20-656 Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the … 4.0
20-6802 Noel Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… 4.0
20-1336 Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability Petitioner Denis Quinette was violently attacked by a jailer at the Cobb County Jail who had a terrifying history of violence and inmate abuse.1 Despi… 3.5
20-1348 True Harmony, et al. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-rights disqualification due-process federal-constitution federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-disqualification (1) Whether 28 U.S.C. §455 disqualifies a federal court judge for lack of impartiality to a reasonable observer in a federal civil rights and fraud ac… 3.5
20-1353 Allen Glenn Thomas v. Tekle Girma Abebe, et al. Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process forgery fraud fraud-claims judicial-procedure property-deed 1) The Question Presented is an important one in the evolution by statutes and United States Constitution, lst;5th;14th Amendments,the Bill OF RIGHTS … 3.5
20-1365 In Re Arno P. Kuigoua Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination employment-law retaliation summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether in a case like this one, where the petitioner was denied on appeal his motion to remand his civil suit for jury trial, claiming six counts of … 3.5
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review under the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112-29, 125 Stat. 284 (2011), the "A… 3.5
20-1397 Li Wang v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
20-1398 Jerome I. Katz v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Third Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
20-1404 Kenyon J. Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cumulative-error-doctrine due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure fraud misconduct witness-tampering 1. Whether the Respondent/Defendant can use direct evidence of threats, intimidation, coercion, fraud, and witness tampering to deprive a petitioner o… 3.5
20-1407 Orwa Ali Al-Saadoon, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 3.5
20-1413 Debra M. Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association Massachusetts Denied Response Waived constitutional-constraints delegation-of-authority due-process equal-protection foreclosure housing-court land-court mortgage-backed-securities servicer-responsibilities state-action takings Question not identified. 3.5
20-1437 Optimum Services, Inc. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior Federal Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-action bid-protest contract-disputes-act court-of-federal-claims government-contracting judicial-review standard-of-review termination-for-convenience I. Is an agency's termination for convenience of a contract for voluntary corrective action in response to the filing of a post-award bid protest in t… 3.5
20-1440 David Abram Anaya v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability Whether this Court's decisions clearly establish that a defendant can show he was prejudiced by his counsel's deficient performance causing him to rej… 3.5
20-1446 Patricia LaCourse, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lt. Colonel Matthew LaCourse v. PAE Worldwide Incorporated, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived boyle-v-united-technologies civil-procedure death-on-high-seas-act death-on-the-high-seas-act discretion-in-contract-performance government-contractor-defense jury-trial maritime-law summary-judgment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in extending the federal common law "government contractor defense" established in Boyle v. United Technologies Corp.,… 3.5
20-1488 Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge, on de novo review of objections to a magistrate's report, to refuse to consider a motion to cert… 3.5
20-1503 Robert C. Laity v. Kamala D. Harris District of Columbia Denied Response Waived 12th-amendment article-ii constitutional-eligibility executive-office judicial-review natural-born-citizen quo-warranto standing standing-doctrine usurpation The U.S. Constitution requires that a President and Vice-President of the United States be a "Natural Born Citizen" of the United States pursuant to A… 3.5
20-1528 Lawrence Doby Wilson, aka Amin A. Rashid v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived actual-innocence appeals coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fifth-amendment 1. Whether The Court Of Appeals In A Coram Nobis Proceeding Denies A Criminal Defendant Due Process Under The Fifth Amendment To The United States Con… 3.5
20-1546 Bellflower Unified School District v. Fernando Lua, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process fape idea individualized-education-program local-educational-agency ninth-circuit parochial-school reassessments special-education unilateral-private-placement 1. Is the District of Residence the responsible Local Educational Agency for providing reassessments, and coordinate provision of special education, t… 3.5
20-1547 Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… 3.5
20-7005 Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW IN ALLOWING THE DISTRICT COURT TO SUMMARILY DISMISS PETITIONER'S MOTION TO REOPEN A CASE PURS… 1.0
20-6400 Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed law enforcement to make warrantless entry into the home of Mr. Sanders, his … 0.0
20-7884 Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? -1.5
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure During a custodial interrogation, a police detective asked for the password to Danny Williams' cell phone, which had been seized incident to Williams'… -1.5
20-7251 Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas Texas Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error (1) Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process? (2) Does the undisclosed participatio… -3.5
20-6049 Isidoro Gonzalez-Ferretiz v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment immigration judicial-review mendoza-lopez pro-se-alien waiver waiver-of-appeal In Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828, 840 (1987), this Court held that the Fifth Amendment prevents the government from using a deportation order to satisfy… -4.0
20-6066 Rodolfo Segura-Virgen v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony civil-rights criminal-procedure deportation-order due-process fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration judicial-review pro-se-waiver removal-order I. Four terms ago, in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions , 137 S.Ct. 1562 (2017), this Court held that a conviction under California Penal Code § 261.5(c) … -4.0
20-6357 Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles California Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality 1. Can a for-profit law firm, without supervision from the public prosecutor, be contracted out to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial… -4.0
20-6965 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn Texas Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process. Whether a finding of contempt aga… -4.0
20-7116 Isabel Del Pino Allen v. Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College Florida Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eeo eeoc-compliance employment-discrimination employment-termination public-institution tenure tenured-professor title-vii Whether Title VII and other Civil Rights and EEO-related federal decrees can be invoked by a publicly-funded college in an effort to "jump-start" a pr… -4.0
20-7366 In Re John Peyton Alexander Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition 1. Due to the fact that the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners in custody and now seek to file successive habeas corpus within 1-year-from… -4.0
20-6684 Daniel Todd Silveria v. California California Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-case due-process joint-trial mitigating-evidence severance 1. May a court exclude significant mitigating evidence in a capital case by joining two codefendants in a single trial before a single jury? 2. When … -4.5
20-6946 Barry Cashin v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… -4.5
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual disability on the merits for cases on coll… -4.5
20-7214 Eric Kurt Patrick v. Florida Florida Denied IFP fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-strategy voir-dire Where the purpose of voir dire is to empanel an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, but an actual biased juror is not removed for cau… -4.5
20-7238 Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment Does Mississippi's "presumption of competency" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all… -4.5
20-7252 John Raymond Travis v. California California Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment jury-instructions mitigating-factors sixth-amendment 1. May a trial court, consistent with the requirements of the federal Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and/or Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of a fundamentally f… -4.5
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin… -4.5
20-7559 Lora Kay Oxendine-Taylor v. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Council Fourth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain property-rights takings Question not identified. -4.5
20-7560 Hakim Jakuin Morris v. Jocelyn B. Cate, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection property-rights property-seizure standing strict-scrutiny Why was I denied Substantive & Procedural Due process to challenge the validity of the alleged claims made by DMV, DSS and court officials? Why was pr… -4.5
20-7568 L. E. Pauli Coffey v. South Carolina Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection privacy sovereign-immunity standing Do Americans have the inalienable 14th Amendment right to Due Process? Do American women have the inalienable 14th Amendment Right to Due Process? D… -4.5
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver 1. Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntar… -4.5
20-7574 Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Rymer's state trial violated,Inef. Ass't. of Counsels '/Government by Due Process Cl. 1 Deprived of 6th amdt. attached counsel right by S.P.D. Kuech,… -4.5
20-7576 Humberto Rodriguez, Jr. v. Texas Texas Denied IFP criminal-procedure jurisdictional-determination rir-nabisco-v-european-cmty rjr-nahisco state-courts state-criminal-cases subject-matter-jurisdiction tribunal-power two-step-test Does the Supreme Court's Two-Step Test to determine [extra]territoriallity it created in, RJR Nahisco V. European Cmty, 136 S.Ct. 2090, also apply to … -4.5
20-7578 Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment detention-conditions due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-dismissal official-conspiracy standing 1. Whether the Courts may or may not dismiss an Appeal and Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis on Appeal when the Appellant has not paid the docket fe… -4.5
20-7579 Donald Phillips v. Texas Texas Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct juror-misconduct jury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Is it proper or a violation of the 6th Amendment due process law for a defense attorney to discover that during testimony in trial one of the juror… -4.5
20-7581 Michael Hernandez v. Florida Florida Denied IFP constitutional-rights fact-finding first-amendment judicial-discretion juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-factors sixth-amendment trial-judge 1. Whether Florida's juvenile sentencing statute - which mandates a life sentence if a certain finding is made and prohibits that sentence when that f… -4.5
20-7583 Thomas Mark Hild v. Colorado Colorado Denied IFP 6th-amendment autonomous-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-justice defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel habitual-criminal plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prior-convictions 1) Given this Court has ruled that our criminal justice system is largely a system of pleas rather than trials, is there a constitutional requirement … -4.5
20-7588 Anthony Sharif Gay v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority inalienable-rights law-enforcement mandamus standing state-authority Whether a Court's knowing review of, and ruling on, a petition for writ of mandamus, that was neither authored nor delivered by the Petitioner, consti… -4.5
20-7590 Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation I. IS AN pro-sELitiaANT eNtitIEb to relcive CourT procecdinqs NO NO INDONNNUbND OO 21 violatetheeiqth AmevomeNt 3 ON A ACTUAL FALTWALINNOCENCE CLAIM 4… -4.5
20-7596 Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione… -4.5
20-7600 Antonio Navarro v. California California Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified. -4.5
20-7602 Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DISCRETION SUSTAINING/AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER BECAUSE NO SUBSTANTIAL QUESTION WAS PRESENTED… -4.5
20-7606 Zoe Ajjahnon v. St. Joseph's University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-claims-act fera-2009 fourteenth-amendment fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act government-damages non-government-claim standing This matter concerns an action brought under False Claims Act (FCA) provisions of S. 386, Pub. L. 111-21(2009) - Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (F… -4.5
20-7616 Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t… -4.5
20-6677 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified. -6.0
20-7009 Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def… -6.0
20-7399 Jenita Clancy v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP disability-discrimination disability-harassment employment-retaliation federal-rule-15 first-amendment post-employment-retaliation rehabilitation-act retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Federal law strictly prohibits false declaration and misleading conduct in Court against Rehabilitation Act binding in potential Agency that discharge… -6.0
20-7577 Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-process civil-procedure court-administration docket docket-procedure legal-response opposition petition-review response standing supreme-court-rules 1. According to Rule 15.3 of the Supreme Rule Rules; does the opposition have to respond; once a case the docket placed on the docket? -6.5
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ 1. Does a criminal conviction halt or defeat a pending pretrial Habeas Corpus Action? 2. Does the successive-writ doctrine bar a Petitioner from fili… -6.5
20-7660 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used "special care" when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S… -6.5
20-7671 Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p… -6.5
20-7676 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia motion-for-bill-of-particulars motion-to-suppress reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence This is a principal to second degree robbery case based, almost exclusively, on questionable circumstantial evidence that ended in a life sentence for… -6.5
20-7757 James L. Toliver v. Florida Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review The question(s) presented in this case is whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous j… -6.5
20-7810 Antonio Prophet v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-evidence doyle-v-ohio post-miranda-silence presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct tailored-testimony 1. Does a prosecutor 's remarks made at trial asserting that a defendant used his govemmentally-induced "two years " of post -Miranda silence to tail… -6.5
20-7839 Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne… -6.5
20-7845 Oscar Minaya v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) actual-innocence court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence section-924c statutory-interpretation yates-precedent yates-v-united-states 1. In considering error under Yates v. United States , 354 U.S. 298 (1957) should a court consider evidence of the defendant's actual innocence of the… -6.5
20-7856 Dennis Ayala v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held, contrary to this Court's holding in Molina-Martinez, that any error in the District Court's choice be… -6.5
20-7872 Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? II. Was the career offender gui… -6.5
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. 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 th… -6.5
20-7887 Ronnie Spells v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… -6.5
20-7888 James Arthur Ross v. Steven Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion medical-treatment pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness standing summary-judgment 1. Did the District Court abuse it's discretion by refusing to even request the appointment of counsel in this case? 2. Was the District Court wrong… -6.5
20-7890 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… -6.5
20-7904 Bruce Simmons v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence bousley-v-united-states constitutional-claim due-process federal-law mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice murray-v-carrier schlup-v-delo writ-of-error-coram-nobis 1. WHETHER THE PRINCIPLES OF DUE PROCESS ARE OFFENDED BY THE LOWER COURTS' APPLICATION OF AN INCORRECT LEGAL STANDARD IN ASSESSING THE PETITIONER'S AC… -6.5
20-7906 Gerald J. Silva v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified. -6.5
20-7910 Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States First Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status I. Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United Stat… -6.5
20-7917 Miriam Lowell, et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process pre-deprivation-hearing substantiation substantiation-process younger-abstention 1. Is a State's child abuse substantiation process sufficiently akin to a criminal proceeding such that it is subject to Younger abstention when a par… -6.5
20-7939 Cedric Jones, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerk-signature collateral-review court-order due-process judicial-procedure mandamus official-misconduct procedural-validity recusal standing 1. Whether it is LEGAL for an appellate court clerk (not a judge) to sign an ORDER, and that ORDER be valid and binding without a judge's signature or… -6.5
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified. -6.5