| 22O154 |
New Hampshire, Plaintiff v. Massachusetts |
|
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) |
None |
|
38.0 |
| 20-319 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) |
anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko |
(1) whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid b… |
36.0 |
| 20-1029 |
City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny |
Austin sign code provisions distinguish between
on-premise and off-premise signs based solely on location. From this distinction—and unrelated to what… |
35.5 |
| 19-648 |
CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) |
alien-tort-statute appellate-jurisdiction civil-immunity civil-rights collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine derivative-sovereign-immunity due-process federal-contractor government-contractors jus-cogens military-operations sovereign-immunity |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, the courts of appeals "have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the district courts." This Court has held that… |
34.5 |
| 20-28 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction |
Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of … |
33.0 |
| 20-402 |
Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period |
The question presented is: What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys' fees actions under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(8)(B)(… |
32.0 |
| 22O152 |
Montana and Wyoming, Plaintiffs v. Washington |
|
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
None |
|
29.0 |
| 20-391 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (21) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury |
Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
23.5 |
| 19-66 |
George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. |
Idaho |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), that the Free Exercise Clause generally requires no… |
22.0 |
| 20-1158 |
The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Inc. v. Will McRaney |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
employment employment-tort first-amendment ministerial-exception neutral-principles religion-clauses religious-organization secular-court tort-law |
1. Whether a secular court can, consistent with the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, adjudicate a minister's employment-related state law tort clai… |
20.5 |
| 20-979 |
Pankajkumar S. Patel, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law citizenship citizenship-misrepresentation discretionary-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration-law inadmissibility judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) preserves the jurisdiction of federal courts to review a non-discretionary determination that a noncitizen is i… |
17.0 |
| 20-853 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office |
Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic… |
16.5 |
| 20-1215 |
North American Meat Institute v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agricultural-regulation animal-welfare commerce-clause constitutional-limits dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-regulation interstate-commerce preemption state-police-power |
Whether the Constitution permits California to extend its police power beyond its territorial borders by banning the sale of wholesome pork and veal p… |
16.0 |
| 20-1212 |
Peyman Pakdel, et ux. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies finality-requirement land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-takings takings-claim unconstitutional-conditions williamson-county |
Planning for their retirement home, Petitioners (the Pakdels) purchased a tenancy-in-common interest in a six-unit building in San Francisco, which ga… |
15.0 |
| 20-1376 |
Michael Abatti, et al. v. Imperial Irrigation District |
California |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bryant-v-yellen due-process federal-law federal-reclamation imperial-valley prior-appropriation property-rights reclamation-act standing water-law water-rights |
1. Whether the District may abrogate the farmers' water rights that it previously conceded, and that this Court recognized, in Bryant.
2. Whether Imp… |
15.0 |
| 20-1218 |
Demetrius William Edwards, et al. v. Sherry Burt, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
is entitled to habeas relief thereby giving rise to a presumption of prejudice counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure critical-stage habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
During an overnight recess in Demetrius Edwards's and Bryant Royster's bench trial, the judge made an independent, nighttime visit to the crime scene,… |
14.0 |
| 20-1163 |
Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights |
Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require school s to let transgender students use multi user restrooms designated for the opposite biologi… |
13.5 |
| 20-1203 |
Moose Jooce, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency agency-law appointments-clause due-process government-action ratification ratification-doctrine rulemaking-authority standing |
Whether a government official has the power to validate the unauthorized actions of other officials is presumptively determined by the law of agency, … |
13.5 |
| 20-1113 |
American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether Chevron deference applies to a statutory interpretation question that determines both the lawfulness of agency action and the court's jurisdic… |
13.0 |
| 20-1505 |
Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o… |
12.5 |
| 20-1294 |
Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors |
1. Are state actors, acting under color of state law, entitled to claim petitioning immunity from liability for a First Amendment retaliation claim br… |
12.0 |
| 20-314 |
RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, challenge r… |
11.5 |
| 20-645 |
Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (13) |
16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law |
The Petitioners allegedly operate a Colorado state legal cannabis dispensary and sold cannabis in accordance with state law. The IRS claims that altho… |
11.5 |
| 20-1043 |
United States v. Miguel Angel Cano |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
border-crime border-related-crimes border-search digital-contraband digital-evidence electronic-device fourth-amendment physical-smuggling warrant-exception |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the scope of a search of an electronic device under the border-search exception to the Fourth Amend… |
11.0 |
| 20-1194 |
Arthur Lopez v. Corona Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Should these defendants Corona Police Department, City of Corona, Joseph Brown and James Birmingham be held accountable for their Deprivation of Civil… |
11.0 |
| 20-271 |
Vilox Technologies, LLC v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-judges administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congressional-intent executive-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board severance-remedy tenure-protections |
1. Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy of the Appointments Clause violation of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) is consistent with congr… |
11.0 |
| 20-414 |
Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections |
1. Whether the severance and invalidation of administrative patent judges' tenure protections is consistent with congressional intent.
2. Whether inv… |
11.0 |
| 20-679 |
Micron Technology, Inc. v. North Star Innovations, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appointments-clause inferior-officers inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office principal-officers standing |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments
Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative
patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
11.0 |
| 20-92 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
11.0 |
| 20-1173 |
Glendy Yocelin Pineda-Sabillon v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
10.5 |
| 20-1339 |
Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv… |
10.5 |
| 20-1357 |
Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Laurie Exby-Stolley |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada adverse-employment-action americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-rights employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff asserting a failure-to-accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a), must show that t… |
10.5 |
| 20-1473 |
Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden |
Georgia |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers |
For purposes of the disposition of Petitioner's constitutional rights (including those with respect to custody of and visitation with his minor childr… |
10.5 |
| 19-841 |
United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation |
In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), this Court upheld 26 U.S.C. 5000A, a provision of the Affordable Care… |
9.5 |
| 20-1286 |
Sacramento County, California v. Joseph Hardesty, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
chosen-profession due-process executive-action executive-decisions land-use land-use-regulation legislative-decisions municipal-decision-making occupational-liberty substantive-due-process zoning-ordinance |
This case presents two questions involving efforts to expand the scope of the substantive component of the Due Process Clause.
1. Land-use regulation… |
9.0 |
| 20-74 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description |
Question not identified. |
9.0 |
| 19-1459 |
Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-311 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-service-protections congressional-intent constitutional-remedy ipr-statute patent-law severance statutory-interpretation tenure-protections |
1. Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ("APJs") was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation … |
8.5 |
| 20-1656 |
Carmen Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-forfeiture civil-rights coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance restitution supervised-release |
May an individual challenge non-custodial aspects of a criminal judgment through a petition for writ of error coram nobis? |
8.5 |
| 20-1174 |
Kim Lippard, et vir v. Larry Holleman, et al. |
North Carolina |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-claims defamation ecclesiastical-settings first-amendment neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religion-clauses tort-claims |
Whether the First Amendment's Religion Clauses prohibit courts from hearing defamation claims that arise from ecclesiastical settings, even when the c… |
7.5 |
| 20-1129 |
Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment |
L. Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution, as discussed in McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459 (1969) and more recent de… |
6.5 |
| 20-408 |
Fredman Bros. Furniture Company, Inc. v. Bedgear, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-officers administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-law principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
6.0 |
| 20-1013 |
Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement |
Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer because his counsel, who lacked actual or apparent author… |
5.5 |
| 20-1138 |
Cimznhca, LLC v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction good-cause good-cause-analysis intervention motion-to-intervene non-final-order procedural-due-process standing |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously exercised jurisdiction over a non-final order by creating a motion to intervene when the G… |
5.5 |
| 20-1183 |
Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland, Inc., et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
article-iii article-three-standing civil-action civil-rights constitutional-injury havens-realty mission-alignment organizational-standing resource-diversion standing |
In a civil action arising under a Federal question, can an organization that does not claim membership or representational standing, attain first part… |
5.5 |
| 20-1306 |
Alan Dale Walker v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
|
capital-case capital-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mitigation-evidence psychological-trauma sixth-amendment tactical-decisions trial-counsel |
1. Did the Mississippi Supreme Court fail to adhere to this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence requiring counsel in a capital case to conduct a tho… |
5.5 |
| 20-1313 |
Dimitri Shivkov, et al. v. Artex Risk Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
aaa-rules arbitration-agreement arbitration-clause class-arbitration dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act gateway-issues procedural-questions |
1. The parties' arbitration clause expressly designates the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") as their default dispute-resolution method. The c… |
5.5 |
| 20-1448 |
Donna Corbello v. Franki Valli, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
copyright-estoppel copyright-infringement factual-work fair-use fiction first-publication ninth-circuit-doctrine original-expression public-claims unpublished-biography |
1. Whether the century-old equitable doctrine of copyright estoppel, which states that, once a work has been held out to the public as entirely factua… |
5.5 |
| 20-1465 |
Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias |
Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated to deny Petitioners a fair tria… |
5.5 |
| 20-1475 |
Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. Code "unconstitutional," as applied?
Referral, Roell, and Rule 4(m)
2. Was dismissal abusive?
Post-dismis… |
5.5 |
| 20-1482 |
Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple |
Florida |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access |
Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv… |
5.5 |
| 20-1491 |
Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court |
A- Is being a stakeholder, not just a member, of an organization which
solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a
violation of the… |
5.5 |
| 20-1509 |
Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee |
Georgia |
Dismissed |
|
article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing |
1. Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Co… |
5.5 |
| 20-1514 |
Robert John Dodd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
|
child-sexual-abuse criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-proceeding statute-of-limitations trial-counsel |
Dodd was indicted on nine counts for the sexual abuse of a child more than fifteen years ago. Each count of the indictment was an identical carbon cop… |
5.5 |
| 20-1525 |
Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause |
Does the fact that there is "no defense for Federal Mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial State court " while such defense naturally exists… |
5.5 |
| 20-1545 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation |
This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In… |
5.5 |
| 20-1675 |
Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property |
Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State?
If N… |
5.5 |
| 20-6199 |
Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure |
Before trial began, the trial court issued a concededly unjustified gag order that prohibited defense counsel from discussing with the defendant or an… |
5.5 |
| 20M100 |
David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M101 |
Ronnie J. Rice v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M102 |
Dontour D. Drakes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20M99 |
June Johnson v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 20-1354 |
City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation |
1. Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of "effect of prohibiting" in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting sta… |
4.5 |
| 20-6600 |
Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or success… |
4.5 |
| 20-7210 |
Tesfa Connell v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment likewise mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely park… |
4.0 |
| 20-7522 |
Joshua R. Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
4.0 |
| 20-1495 |
Karen V. McIntyre v. Kevin L. McIntyre, et al. |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contempt-of-court fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion state-law trust-accounting trustee-obligations |
Should a state court be allowed to recognize a trust accounting produced by the trustee of an inter vivos trust as meeting the requirements of state l… |
3.5 |
| 20-1496 |
Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury |
I.
WHETHER REASONABLE JURISTS COULD
DIFFER AS TO WHETHER PETITIONER WAS
DEPRIVED OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
TO DUE PROCESS AND TO TRIAL BY JURY
WHEN TH… |
3.5 |
| 20-1508 |
Susan Pierson v. Hudson Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
25-usc-5321-c-8-a collateral-estoppel insurance-liability issue-preclusion privity public-policy recovery sovereign-immunity tort tort-claim |
Issue 1. Did the resolution of the tort claim against
Thorne in Pearson v. Thorne decide the same issue or
claim that plaintiff raises in the presen… |
3.5 |
| 20-1510 |
Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a "packed" Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election?
2. Are the r… |
3.5 |
| 20-1515 |
Jason Assad v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process prejudice-presumption sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic |
It is undisputed that the appel late brief filed by Mr. Assad's attor ney on direct appeal was so procedur ally deficit as to preclude consideration o… |
3.5 |
| 20-1535 |
Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act |
1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
3.5 |
| 20-1537 |
Terence K. Dickinson v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-act constitutional-law federal-courts federalism judicial-review legal-interpretation legislative-authority legislative-intent separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Truth-in-Lending-Act, passed by Congress into law, to be adhered to by the United States Federal Courts. |
3.5 |
| 20-1543 |
Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference |
1. Can a violation of law or code be charged and
tried without any statutory reference of code
chapter and section indicated?
2. Will a trial be fa… |
3.5 |
| 20-1544 |
Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing |
Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
Did the District Courts err by not considering the rights of a protected citizen in the rule… |
3.5 |
| 20-1564 |
James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted where, if left without review, the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth C… |
3.5 |
| 20-1597 |
Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge commercial-lending consumer-protection contract-law debt-classification non-dischargeable-debt promissory-notes student-loans |
May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a "student loan," "educa… |
3.5 |
| 20-1609 |
David R. Seaton v. Blake Johnson, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights de-escalation electronic-evidence evidence-standards police-brutality pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation recent-rulings summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Should police brutality be constitutionally protected?
2. Do regulations ordering police to de-escalate confrontations instill an affirmative duty… |
3.5 |
| 20-1625 |
David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute |
The case involves issues regarding two whistleblower statutes, one federal and a California whistleblower statute. The California whistleblower retali… |
3.5 |
| 20-1637 |
Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi |
Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional … |
3.5 |
| 20-1645 |
Don Wilburn Collins v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto juvenile-jurisdiction juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-jurisdiction |
Did the Texas appel late courts fail to realize that the retroactive expansion of juris diction over a previous ly exempt juvenile for capital murder … |
3.5 |
| 20-1663 |
Matthew D. Norwood v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony |
Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e… |
3.5 |
| 20-1671 |
Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon, recently reaffirmed by this Court in Jam v. Int Fin. Corp., --- U.S. ---, 139 S. … |
3.5 |
| 20-1680 |
ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
1. A party who uses a copyrightable work with the implied license of a copyright owner is not liable for infringement. Such a license can arise from i… |
3.5 |
| 20-7474 |
Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the… |
2.0 |
| 20-7523 |
Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v… |
1.0 |
| 20-7549 |
Shane Arnold v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error |
Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain error review for a Rehaif v. United States, __ U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), trial erro… |
0.5 |
| 20-7667 |
Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence |
(1) When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court … |
0.5 |
| 20-7871 |
Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record |
I. Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Mr. Walker's case because the indictment failed to state an offense against the … |
0.5 |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
-1.0 |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
-1.5 |
| 20-8152 |
Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
-1.5 |
| 20-8189 |
Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
-1.5 |
| 20-8194 |
Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the BOP violate the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of a non… |
-1.5 |
| 20-6767 |
Marlon Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 20-6929 |
Stephen Hugueley v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
In Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012) , this Court reaffirmed the right to
effective representation " is a bedrock principle in our justice sys… |
-4.0 |
| 20-7170 |
In Re Abhijit Prasad |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus pro-se standing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 20-7189 |
Bernard Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 20-6948 |
Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7460 |
Carlos Rodriguez Fernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography context-test due-process first-amendment four-corners-test jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition |
To comport with the First Amendment and Due Process in determining whether an image of a child acting innocently constitutes child pornography, must c… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7533 |
Preston James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether it is a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines for a sentencing court to defer to guideline commentary that expands the definition of a c… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7611 |
Jamar Garrison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue to Revi ew the Brady and Rule 1 6 Due
Process Viol ations in Defendant's Case Because the Sixth Ci rcuit
Found No… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7815 |
Sylvester O. Barbee v. Jason Boyd, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
1). Does 21 U.S.C. § 331 (U) (3A) Of Prohibited Act(s) Pertain to Violation(s) Of Administrative Regulations 407 & 600 by Respondent(s), as Well as Th… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7827 |
Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia |
Maine |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture |
1. Opposing Counsel in this case was the law firm of Jabar, Laliberty, and Dubord, LLC, and lead counsel for that law firm is George Jabar, son of Jus… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7828 |
Kevin Norris Mitchell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 attorney-death attorney-performance civil-procedure constitutional-rights equitable-tolling federal-tolling ineffective-assistance judicial-opinions legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
TIME FRAME UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (d)(2)?
TOLLING TIMES UNDER 28 U.S.C. § 2254? |
-4.5 |
| 20-7835 |
Steven Cooper v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass |
1. Whether it is appropriate for a capias to be issued after a defendant makes
the required written waiver of presence as allowed for by the Florida … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7836 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Ted Wire, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law age-discrimination appointment-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-employment federal-question standing |
BOHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF Appeals ERk IN THE ORDER OF TISTRIUT o ADOPTING OF JUDGE SCHROEDER, IN DISMIS TE D. THOMAS Right(s) Aer OF 1964, TiTlE THE … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7841 |
Sylvia J. Manor v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract contract-interpretation date-of-accrual insurance-law legal-interpretation life-insurance statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
The Defendant, (Respondent), life insurance company maintains that they are free
to choose a Date Of Accrual which is in flagrant violation of the con… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7843 |
Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 20-7848 |
Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud individual-capacity judicial-jurisdiction non-judicial-acts official-capacity |
1. Is non-judicial conduct/actions/decisions by judges and clerk in their official capacity under color of law, and in their individual capacity for n… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7859 |
Denver Lee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights |
This Court has made clear that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of a person accused of a crime to due process and to a trial by an impartial jury … |
-4.5 |
| 20-7865 |
Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire |
1) Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of ju… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7867 |
Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes |
Groffel was convicted five times for transporting one firearm in violation of five separate protective orders. This case poses a clear question of law… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7875 |
Lisa Truong v. UTC Aerospace Systems |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-rights discrimination due-process emotional-damage emotional-damages employment employment-discrimination harassment personal-file-disclosure workplace-harassment |
With a goal of addressing the facts in this case, Petitioner asks if the Supreme Court of the United States will authorize the release of Petitioner's… |
-4.5 |
| 20-7881 |
Steven Lynn Oppel v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-misconduct judicial-reputation wrongful-conviction |
Are Minnesota courts more interested in protecting a judge's reputation then the constitutional rights of the people?
Did the trial judge have the ri… |
-4.5 |
| 20-8001 |
In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. |
|
Denied |
IFP |
and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
1. As noted by Justice Betty Fletcher in her dissenting opinion, "[w]hen faced with the corruption of our legal system, we must start over. The first … |
-4.5 |
| 20-8198 |
In Re Khayree Smith |
|
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery |
(negro, black,colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act reinstates such persons as chattel propertv and reopens the institution o… |
-4.5 |
| 20-8222 |
In Re Marshall DeWayne Williams |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 20-8226 |
In Re Francis Boyd |
|
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure |
1). CAN A TRIAL JUDGE INSTRUCT A JURY DURING A JURY CHARGE , THAT THEY CANNOT FIND
PETITIONER GUILTY OF A CERTAIN DEGREE OF MURDER AFTER ENTERTAINING … |
-4.5 |
| 18-8621 |
Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial, or alternatively a full evidentiary hearing, because his trial and appellate counsel rendered constitut… |
-6.0 |
| 20-8177 |
Michael T. Brooks v. Agate Resources, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure due-process federal-rules informa-pauperis judicial-procedure pro-se-plaintiff rehabilitation-act retaliation standing |
1. Can the federal courts ignore the Federal Rules?
2. Are the federal courts subject to the Rehabilitation Act and the American 's With Disabilities… |
-6.0 |
| 20-7823 |
Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. … |
-6.5 |
| 20-7908 |
Derrick Martin King v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
None |
|
-6.5 |
| 20-7919 |
Edward Shane West-El v. C. K. ONeal |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights delegated-authority due-process indigenous-status judicial-hearing jurisdiction standing tax tax-compliance |
1. Where does C. K. Oneal of the Internal Revenue Service get the Delegated Authority to requests and threaten a Moorish American, Aboriginal, Indigen… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7926 |
Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework 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 |
| 20-7971 |
Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7980 |
Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing |
Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl… |
-6.5 |
| 20-7987 |
Gregory K. Clinton v. Cheryl Dean Riley |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law endangered-species-act environmental-law national-environmental-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-8017 |
Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. |
Texas |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
i.
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas case no. 20-0246 denial on November 13,
2020 of my (1) right to a rehearing and the (2) Supreme Court failure to… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8087 |
William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment |
A) Is petitioner entitled to a constitutional review and his court on his presented claims at the appeal level regarding his Effective Assistance of C… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8105 |
Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure |
1. Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the "Bias" and
"Partial" behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement
to prove "Structural" Err… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8129 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel |
I.
As a matter of first impression in this court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(C), does
an attorney 's failure to advise his client of the adver… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8132 |
George Verkler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel |
Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read everything Mr. Verkler, the Defendant in a criminal case submits … |
-6.5 |
| 20-8137 |
Marilynn M. McRae v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights disability due-process eeoc-duty employee-protection employment government-agency light-duty-policy workplace-discrimination |
1. Whether EEOC have a duty to an employee that come to them for assistance to protect the employee from a discriminatory enacted light duty policy th… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8138 |
Eddy Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8146 |
Edward Lee Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory district-court district-court-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court committed significant procedureal error when it mistakenly interpreted section 7B1.3(f) of the United States Sentencing Gui… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8156 |
Ricardo Renteria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop |
Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8157 |
In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain |
|
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-8160 |
Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps? |
-6.5 |
| 20-8168 |
Ross Colby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror-sympathy jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the statements of a prosecutor invoking juror sympathy and telling the jury that it has a duty to convict violate the defendant's Sixth Amendm… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8169 |
Yessenia Jimenez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons |
1. Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, (1986), in
the trial of a female Hispanic New York City police officer when it use… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8173 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling government-misconduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity standing |
Question I
Whether the Government sought to diminish the likelihood of
Petitioner's finding of a Brady violation, by interjected a
manufactured decl… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8174 |
Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8183 |
Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
1. Does the Constitution takes precedence before an other form of legislation?
2. Are the branches of the Government of the United States of America … |
-6.5 |
| 20-8184 |
Ronald Centeno v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constructive-amendment mens-rea specific-intent |
I. Whether it is a violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to submit aiding and abetting to the jury when aiding and abetting is not charged in th… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8186 |
Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
-6.5 |
| 20-8191 |
Steven E. Hill v. C. V. Rivera, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-courts due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdictional-status limited-jurisdiction military-tribunals reconsideration supreme-court-review united-states-v-briggs |
Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Briggs 592 U.S. 141 S. Ct. 467 (December 10, 2020) should be reconsidered in light of the status of … |
-6.5 |
| 20-8192 |
Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
-6.5 |
| 20-8209 |
Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 20-8212 |
Dany L. Brandao v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle |
1. Should certiorari be granted where the police violated the
Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution when, in a narcotics
prosecution, the… |
-6.5 |