| 20-603 |
Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety |
Texas |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process military-employment sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig userra war-powers |
In the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Congress gave the over 19 million military servicemembers—including… |
51.5 |
| 20-1573 |
Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Angie Moriana |
California |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (27)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
bilateral-arbitration class-action concepcion employee-rights epic-systems federal-arbitration-act iskanian paga private-attorneys-general-act representative-claims |
Whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative c… |
43.0 |
| 20-1034 |
Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) |
ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law |
Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
42.5 |
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Two questions are presented:
1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
40.5 |
| 20-609 |
Gannett Company, Inc., et al. v. Jeffrey Quatrone |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa fiduciary-duty investment-options menu-of-investment-options prudence single-stock-fund |
Whether a plaintiff adequately pleads breach of the duties of prudence and diversification solely by alleging that fiduciaries permitted participants … |
37.5 |
| 20-1046 |
Marin Housing Authority v. Kerrie Reilly |
California |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law annual-income developmental-disability housing-assistance income-calculation medicaid-funding medicaid-payments personal-caregiving public-housing |
Whether a public housing authority, in calculating a family's annual income, is required by this regulation to exclude Medicaid-funded payments made t… |
32.5 |
| 21-309 |
Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon |
Seventh Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers |
Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are … |
26.0 |
| 21-296 |
AMN Services, LLC v. Verna Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
employee-reimbursement fair-labor-standards-act overtime overtime-compensation per-diem-allowance per-diem-allowances regular-rate statutory-interpretation traveling-expenses |
Whether, under the FLSA, per-diem allowances for traveling expenses, which are reduced when the employee fails to work a contractually required shift,… |
20.5 |
| 21-348 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s… |
17.5 |
| 20-1255 |
Jeffrey Schweitzer, et al. v. Investment Committee of the Phillips 66 Savings Plan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
defined-contribution-plan diversification erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duty imprudent-investment investment-diversification participant-claims participant-rights pleadings single-stock-fund |
Is an ERISA fiduciary entitled to dismissal on the pleadings of a plan participant's claim that the fiduciary imprudently maintained an undiversified,… |
14.5 |
| 21-388 |
John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., et al. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
circuit-split equal-access first-amendment forum-analysis government-exclusion press-access press-clause public-forum speech-clause viewpoint-neutrality |
Whether the government's selective exclusion of members of the press implicates the equal treatment guarantee of the First Amendment's Press Clause, a… |
14.5 |
| 21-110 |
GMAG, LLC, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for the Stanford International Bank Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process factual-dispute jury-trial jury-verdict legal-ruling ponzi-scheme seventh-amendment transferee-liability |
Whether the Seventh Amendment and due process permit a court of appeals to reverse a jury verdict based on the court's own independent examination of … |
14.0 |
| 21-518 |
AlixPartners, LLP, et al. v. The Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights in Foreign States |
Second Circuit |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1782 arbitration-proceeding commercial-dispute discovery discovery-authorization foreign-tribunal international-tribunal investor-state-arbitration investor-state-dispute section-1782 statutory-interpretation |
Whether a n ad hoc arbitration to resolve a commercial dispute between two parties is a "foreign or international tribunal" under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) … |
13.0 |
| 21-161 |
Derick Donovan Roberts, aka Cypress Roberts v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
10.5 |
| 21-335 |
Stephen A. Begani v. United States |
Armed Forces |
Denied |
|
active-duty article-iii-courts civilian-crimes constitutional-limits court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers |
When, if ever, does the Constitution permit the court-martial of retired servicemembers for offenses committed after their discharge from active duty? |
10.5 |
| 21-617 |
Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity |
Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status, as the Second, Third, and Sixth Circuits have held (subject to legitimate penol… |
10.5 |
| 21-575 |
Freedom Foundation v. Washington Department of Ecology, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech public-employee-unions public-employees right-to-work state-action unions viewpoint-discrimination |
Does state action that supports speech by public employee unions to public employees advocating union membership and disfavors speech by right-to-work… |
9.5 |
| 21-23 |
Brenda Cook v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire |
I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor… |
9.0 |
| 21-31 |
Fast Auto Loans, Inc. v. Joe Maldonado, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act individualized-arbitration preemption public-injunctive-relief state-law state-law-preemption supreme-court-precedent |
Is California's McGill rule, under which agreements for individualized arbitration are invalidated when a plaintiff seeks public injunctive relief, pr… |
9.0 |
| 21-423 |
Jason Cunningham, Individually and as Administrator ad Litem and Personal Representative of the Estate of Nancy Jane Lewellyn, Deceased v. Robert Paschal, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton use-of-force |
1. Does the ruling in this case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violate basic fundamental principles of Rule 56 of the Federal Rule… |
9.0 |
| 21-198 |
Anthony W. Knights v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-analysis eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment free-to-leave free-to-leave-test race race-consideration reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure |
A Fourth Amendment seizure occurs when, "in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he wa… |
7.5 |
| 20-1570 |
HRB Tax Group, Inc., et al. v. Derek Snarr |
Ninth Circuit |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
arbitration-agreement california-law class-action class-action-waiver consumer-protection federal-arbitration-act preemption public-injunction public-injunctive-relief |
This Court has repeatedly held that the Federal
Arbitration Act "protect[s]" agreements "to use individualized rather than class or collective action … |
7.0 |
| 21-169 |
James Gatto, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1343—the federal wire fraud statute—requires the Government to prove, consistent with section 1343's statutory text, that the "… |
6.5 |
| 21-264 |
San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity |
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a… |
6.5 |
| 21-406 |
Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment |
Because settlement agreements that permit a "generic manufacturer to enter [a] patentee's market prior to the patent's expiration" increase competitio… |
6.5 |
| 20-1589 |
Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law |
1. Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 106… |
6.0 |
| 21-65 |
Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC |
New Jersey |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions |
1. Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil r… |
6.0 |
| 21-199 |
Mohammad Sharif Khalil v. Ur Jaddou, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
asylum-status immigration-law immigration-nationality-act inadmissibility military-training real-id-act retroactive-application terrorist-activities terrorist-organization |
Whether the INA, as amended by the REAL ID Act, permits the government to retroactively deem a noncitizen inadmissible for receiving military-type tra… |
5.5 |
| 21-211 |
Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement |
When the district court dismisses all criminal charges
against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction
over a motion to expunge the records rel… |
5.5 |
| 21-233 |
Mike Finnin Motors, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy civil-procedure direct-takings due-process economic-valuation federal-defense property-rights regulatory-takings supreme-court-precedent takings takings-liability |
During the liquidity crisis of 2008-09, the United States determined the public interest required Chrysler and General Motors because they were too im… |
5.5 |
| 21-244 |
Taylor & Sons, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment economic-impact fifth-amendment just-compensation penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-taking takings |
At the time the Government required Petitioners to cease doing business under their Chrysler dealer franchises, which are compensable property interes… |
5.5 |
| 21-266 |
Robert S. Carlborg v. Department of the Navy |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
|
agency-exemption authored-material first-party-request government-records personal-identifier privacy-act record-access unrestricted-access |
Barring a general or specific exemption for a SOR claimed by an agency, does an individual making a first party request for his own record retrieved b… |
5.5 |
| 21-350 |
Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
GVR |
|
administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex |
1. Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), and r… |
5.5 |
| 21-448 |
France.com, Inc. v. The French Republic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-interpretation circuit-court claim-analysis commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception distinct-claims foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen legal-misapplication lower-federal-courts obb-personenverkeher-v-sachs |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and other lower federal courts have misapplied this Court's decision in OBB Personen… |
5.5 |
| 21-521 |
Foster Wheeler, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure deposition-time-limit due-process fairness fairness-doctrine judicial-remedies mesothelioma mesothelioma-litigation time-limits |
Where a mesothelioma plaintiff sues more than 100 defendants, and the plaintiff's health would not be endangered by the deposition process, does newly… |
5.5 |
| 21-527 |
Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),… |
5.5 |
| 21-534 |
Roman Andy Janiec, et al. v. City of Glendora, California |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights class-of-one monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability section-1983 selective-enforcement |
1. Can a municipality be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 pursuant to Monell v Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) for a "c… |
5.5 |
| 20-1702 |
Jimmy Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation |
1. Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and … |
4.0 |
| 20-1714 |
William Joseph Mooney, et ux. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure article-iii courts-of-the-united-states due-process federal-register iRS-collection legal-notice real-party-of-interest standing substantive-regulations united-states united-states-of-america |
Question 1. Who has Standing against the Mooneys as the Plaintiff and
being the as the Real Party of Interest in the "Courts of the United States " ar… |
4.0 |
| 21-216 |
Roger Brown v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights commercial-activity contract-impairment due-process eleventh-amendment governmental-function pro-se-rights state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity thacker-v-tva |
Both the lower Courts ' decisions contradict cases
within its own circuit, other circuits, and this Court 's
precedent in Thacker v TVA. Please cons… |
4.0 |
| 21-5228 |
Dwayne Sheckles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants |
Search warrants are directed at places, not people. To obtain a warrant to enter a person's home, there must be probable cause that evidence of a crim… |
4.0 |
| 21-530 |
Thomas C. Donald v. James P. Kimberley, et ux. |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response Waived |
boundary-lines due-process federal-land-patent land-patent land-survey property-law public-land real-property-law supremacy-clause title-43-usc-752 |
When the United States conveys ownership of public land to a person, it does so with a land patent in which the conveyed land is described by the Sect… |
3.5 |
| 21-559 |
Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law |
This case presents two questions:
1. Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertenc… |
3.5 |
| 21-561 |
Elijah Anthony Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-2000e-2m adverse-employment-action discrimination employment-discrimination pleading-stage pleading-standard prima-facie-case protected-category swierkiewicz-v-sorema title-vii |
At the pleading stage of a Title VII discrimination claim (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.), in which there is no direct evidence of discrimination, must th… |
3.5 |
| 21-574 |
Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agency-rulemaking bennett-v-spear environmental-impact nepa notice-and-comment procedural-finality standing standing-doctrine |
1) The National Policy Act ("NEPA") , 42 U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (2012) mandates that all federal agencies consider environmental impacts before acting.… |
3.5 |
| 21-577 |
Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent |
Under Unitherm and the Federal Rules, can a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court nonethel… |
3.5 |
| 21-590 |
A. Michael Davallou v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability hazard-disclosure negligence policy-decision specific-known-immediate-hazard warning-duty |
Whether the Government's failure to warn of a specific, known, immediate hazard, for which the acting agency is responsible, is not the kind of broade… |
3.5 |
| 21-595 |
Bruce Alexander v. Anheuser-Busch, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process employee-contacts federal-rules in-rem-jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss personal-jurisdiction sales subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Did the Western District Court erred by not allowing the Declaration by
Kristin M. Byrne, an employee of Anheuser-Busch, LLC, et.al. be considered
… |
3.5 |
| 21-604 |
Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. |
Michigan |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez |
1. Did the court of appeals manifestly err in affirming the trial court's erroneous order that denied plaintiff his constitutional right to a jury tri… |
3.5 |
| 21-624 |
Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income |
1. May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income?
2. Does the decision of The Eleventh Circuit… |
3.5 |
| 21-684 |
Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims |
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act creates a private right of action for any "consumer who is damaged by the failure of a supplier, warrantor, or service … |
3.5 |
| 21-702 |
Shahen Minassian v. Seda Galstian Aghaian, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-remedy executive-orders executive-power federal-preemption illegal-contract international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-trade-sanctions iran-sanctions iranian-transactions-and-sanctions-regulations national-security |
Whether a state court may fashion an equitable remedy for enforcement of an illegal contract for services concerning blocked property prohibited by in… |
3.5 |
| 21-713 |
Victor P. Kearney v. Unsecured Creditors Committee, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-trustee district-court-jurisdiction due-process fiduciary-duty jurisdiction trust-law trustee-appointment |
I. When does a lower district court have the sole discretion to influence, lead, dictate, supersede, deny, or nullify the jurisdiction of the higher f… |
3.5 |
| 21-723 |
Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law |
Under the United States Constitution, especially the 14th Amendment, "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws", the 1st Amendment, free … |
3.5 |
| 21-729 |
Shirene Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest … |
3.5 |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
0.5 |
| 20-7883 |
Kathleen M. O'Donnell v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
None |
|
-0.5 |
| 21-6201 |
Reginald Kindle v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6210 |
Tony Bowen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum |
1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has
three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act
("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6234 |
Edward Stain v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6251 |
Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention |
Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6252 |
Ryder Shane Altman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se |
Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6270 |
Catherine Pileggi v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief state-court state-court-procedure |
Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution requires a state court adjudicating a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel to a… |
-1.5 |
| 21-6298 |
Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
-1.5 |
| 20-8175 |
Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower court… |
-4.0 |
| 21-5075 |
Elizabeth Shaw v. Derek Shaw |
Michigan |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute icwa jurisdiction-challenge mifpa tribal-law |
1. In violation of court orders, MIFPA, ICWA, federal law, state law, and tribal law,
the Tribe illegally seized my children from their school and ref… |
-4.0 |
| 21-5258 |
In Re Calvin James |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment standing |
A) WHE ARE MAKING ERROR OF H/7- HEE BERE BRASLY WEKLAO KEO
SUDS 5 THE ABUL APU OE CONSTZ TUTTO NAL
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SENTING TN TAT FETIT ION.… |
-4.0 |
| 21-5420 |
Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
1. Whether a habeas court violates Strickland and decades of this Court's precedent by imposing a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for prejudi… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5460 |
Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant i… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5917 |
Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference |
The question presented to this Court is whether the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly
applied 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) , when it gave s… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5923 |
Deonte Kinwan McCoy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance judicial-fact-finding jury-selection reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Was the Evidence Insufficient to convict Mr. McCoy of each offense. Should this court should reverse his convictions pursuant to federal and state con… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5931 |
Noe Lopez Suchite v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-information penal-law right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense trial-transcripts |
NY-PENAL'LAW' '35.15 JUSTIFICATION .
I reasonably believes to defend myself,when I am risk of peril,
whenever can be in my defense. I. AM JUSTIFY
4.CO… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5935 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights unnecessary-litigation |
1. Does not the law say anything the Jury did not hear is Now Evidence ?
2. Is the Court abusins there decreation by issuiny denied order on Clian?
… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5939 |
Michael Luis Cota v. Nevada |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-laws takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 20-8470 |
Christopher McLees v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
-6.0 |
| 21-5130 |
Michael Storey v. City of Alton, Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure development-regulation due-process land-use municipal-law property-rights takings zoning |
Can a city deny a resident use of his land without due process?
Can city allow resident to develop his property then without any changes to its Offic… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5167 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing |
1. Whether or not the lower court 's denial of the Petitioner 's guaranteed rights under
provision as outlined in the Bill of Rights departed so far f… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5199 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings |
What is the correct vehicle and avenue inwhich a petitioner may challange a COA violation by a circuit court pursuant to Buck v. Davis 13? S. Ct. 759 … |
-6.0 |
| 21-5264 |
In Re Melvin Dinkins |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5330 |
Laura Marie Scott v. Nandan Patel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption michigan-v-long monroe-v-pape standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax trustee-liquidation |
Does enjoining both courts in contradictory reliance on faux removal of a 100% exempt parcel (11 U.S.C.) revested in Petitioner before removal from th… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5385 |
Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana |
1. Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an
excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial
v… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5408 |
Bruce Allen Rutherford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Court states that, Movant claimes counsel failed to inform him of plea
offers and allowed them to expire was not in §2255. (see Appendix A)
This state… |
-6.0 |
| 21-6269 |
Johnathan Dewayne Mitchell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process forcible-medication judicial-authority medical-intervention medication mental-health |
Whether this Court should resolve an issue of first impression and decide if district courts have the authority to order the forcible medication of co… |
-6.0 |
| 21-5925 |
Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
1. Whether, as a threshold matter, Petitioner has shown that his federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process was violated by the pros… |
-6.5 |
| 21-5949 |
In Re Henryk S. Borecki |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure citizenship-documentation due-process federal-authority identity-documents immigration mandamus real-id-act travel travel-identification |
Whether this court should issue a writ of mandamus in order to immediately expedite the issuance of petitioner's long-delayed REAL Travel ID, in advan… |
-6.5 |
| 21-5953 |
Dennis Sena v. Steven Kenneway, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Shirley |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari federal-issue first-circuit good-cause habeas precedent precedents rhines-v-weber |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in conflict with this Cour… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6020 |
Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement |
Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6024 |
Dudley Allen Hicks v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
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a boma Pde dloubV as Vo W\± cV»eoVs cor*pe.… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6041 |
Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana |
Indiana |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony |
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-6.5 |
| 21-6048 |
Shakina Ortega v. Higgs Fletcher and Mack LLP, et al. |
California |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-court racial-discrimination self-representation self-represented summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals ' decision to uphold the granting of the
summary judgment motion when discovery was not complete, in conflict with the… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6051 |
Travis L. Watson v. Dennis Daniels, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment fraud habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice |
and Fraudulent imprisonment under a falsified document?
The state imprisoned mr. Watson past the l25 month maximum sentence ordered in the zoo5 Origi… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6059 |
Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. |
-6.5 |
| 21-6080 |
Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition |
If a petitioner litigated a pre-AEDPA federal habeas petition, do AEDPA's new restrictions on second or successive petitions apply retroactively to th… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6113 |
Clinton Rayshawn Grayson v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 21-6157 |
Christopher Coker, aka Christopher Forman v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pcra post-conviction-relief standing trial-procedure |
1. Did Trial Judge failed to rule on meritorious issues ?
2. Did.. PCRA Counsel l fail to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of tria… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6184 |
Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing |
I. Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (Eighth Circuit) granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then den… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6185 |
Rodney Smith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
-6.5 |
| 21-6187 |
James E. Lyons v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
WHETHER THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HEAR AND RULE UPON PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY THAT WAS DENIED AND ALLEGED THAT TRIAL C… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6207 |
Philip Bernard Friend v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
The question presented is whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6208 |
Daliang Guo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
control-over-others criminal-procedure criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing leader-enhancement leadership-role ninth-circuit participant-control role-model sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who took part in a criminal scheme with multiple participants is properly subject to the leader/ organizer enhancement at USSG § 3… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6211 |
Cubby Wayne Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brain-injury cognitive-deficits criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony good-faith mens-rea rule-702 traumatic-brain-injury willfulness |
Whether, in a case in which the government was required to prove that the defendant was not working from a good faith misunderstanding of the law, the… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6215 |
Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. |
-6.5 |
| 21-6231 |
Christopher Lee Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses divisibility fourth-circuit-review modified-categorical-approach precedent remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this case should be remanded for the Fourth Circuit to decide the issue presented below, which is whether S.C. Code §§ 44-53-370 and 44-53-… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6232 |
Jason Stallcup v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
-6.5 |
| 21-6233 |
Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine |
1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence
to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6242 |
Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling factual-innocence fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus state-court unlawful-incarceration |
When a state court evidentiary ruling impinges on the constitutional rights of a factually innocent person, does the fundamental miscarriage of justic… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6243 |
Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application |
Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6245 |
Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
1. Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crim… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6250 |
Joel Rivera-Alejandro v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process excessive-delay fifth-amendment indictment multi-defendant sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-delay |
Whether Petitioners Constitutional Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process of Law and his Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial were violated when hi… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6254 |
Deante Blackman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder |
1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim or … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6260 |
Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a "particularly defer[entional]" standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6264 |
Marion Katrell Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b rule-702 trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY ALLOWED FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) & 702 IN PETITIONERS TRIAL |
-6.5 |
| 21-6265 |
Jonathan Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions |
Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6266 |
Mary Aragon, aka Mary Delgado, and German Ramirez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acting-attorney-general appointments-clause constitutional-law due-process executive-branch principal-officer senate-confirmation united-states-attorney |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' claim under Article II's Appointments Clause — namely, that Whitaker's unconstitutional appointmen… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6276 |
Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on "Certificate of Appealability" Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason, When … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6280 |
Johnny Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-distribution-conspiracy due-process enhanced-sentence mens-rea statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
When the Government clearly defines the scope and object of a drug distribution conspiracy in a charging Indictment, do the lower courts err when they… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6283 |
Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force |
1. Federal assault with a dangerous weapon does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. Rather… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6294 |
Robert Michael Junkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As to both petitioners,
1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6349 |
Victor Hurns v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-acquittal judicial-review legal-procedure newly-discovered-evidence statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN THE MISSISSIPPI TRIAL COURT BY THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND CO… |
-6.5 |