| 21-144 |
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission v. Matthew S. Woods |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (17)Relisted (9) |
civil-rights coreligionist-hiring employment-discrimination first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause ministerial-exception religious-exemption religious-freedom religious-nonprofits standing |
1. Whether the First Amendment protects the Mission's right to hire coreligionists.
2. Whether denying the Mission a total exemption the state grants… |
31.5 |
| 20-1426 |
Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets |
Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s… |
27.5 |
| 21-614 |
Brian Green v. Pierce County, Washington |
Washington |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
citizen-journalism citizen-journalist corporate-personhood first-amendment free-speech media-access press press-freedom public-records |
Whether barring individual citizen-journalists from accessing public records otherwise made available to news media, for lack of corporate personhood,… |
20.0 |
| 21-417 |
Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility |
Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
19.0 |
| 21-648 |
Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness |
In Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, this Court will determine whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Kentucky Attorney General's m… |
16.0 |
| 20-1817 |
Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent |
The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma… |
15.5 |
| 21-460 |
April Diane Myres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
14.0 |
| 21-520 |
Gerald H. Hawkins, Individually and as a Trustee of the CN Hawkins Trust and Gerald H. Hawkins and Carol H. Hawkins Trust, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
federal-authority federal-government-authority federal-indian-trust-relationship indian-tribes indian-trust-assets klamath-indian-tribes land-management protocol-agreement standing trust-assets water-rights |
The United States is the owner of certain instream water rights within Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin. The federal government holds these water rights i… |
11.5 |
| 21-859 |
The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin |
Montana |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers |
Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq… |
11.5 |
| 21-868 |
Oklahoma v. Kevin Tyler Foster |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
11.5 |
| 21-1002 |
Arthur Lopez v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
banking-regulations civil-rights consumer-protection due-process federal-liability financial-regulation mortgage mortgage-disclosure truth-in-lending |
Should International Banking Conglomerate, HSBC Bank USA, NA, Defendant, and Director James Brien Comey Jr, Defendant and Former F.B.I. Director, be a… |
10.5 |
| 21-843 |
Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii |
(1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua… |
10.5 |
| 21-976 |
Gregory Thomas Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment jail-visitation legal-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy sixth-amendment surveillance |
Whether an attorney has reasonable "expectation of privacy" when meeting with clients in the jail attorney visitation room - thereby rendering the act… |
10.5 |
| 21-888 |
Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin… |
9.5 |
| 21-618 |
Armand Jones v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability |
Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev… |
9.0 |
| 21-735 |
Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System |
Texas |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause |
In the decision below, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the argument that copyright infringement by a government entity appropriates "the right to … |
9.0 |
| 21-1072 |
Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona |
Arizona |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-question implausible-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy right-to-counsel third-party-culpability |
This petition presents the question whether offering
an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant's right to the effective assi… |
8.5 |
| 21-1135 |
Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
8.5 |
| 21-677 |
Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements |
This case is about the extent to which the First Amendment applies to residential architecture. Donald Burns wanted to replace his Palm Beach home wit… |
7.5 |
| 21-688 |
Neris Montilla, et al. v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law conservatorship constitutional-claims due-process federal-agency federal-housing-and-finance-agency federal-national-mortgage-association mortgage-association state-actor |
1. Whether the Federal National Mortgage
Association, when under the conservatorship of the
Federal Housing and Finance Agency, is a state actor
for p… |
6.5 |
| 21-739 |
Mandeep Singh v. Haerim Won |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
amendment-xiv civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words free-speech harassment interstate-jurisdiction protection-order true-threats |
"...blessed with daughter who I will be showing
this world to as you are daughter to your
parents... "- (PetAppK.p87a).
1) Are Jan 27th, 2019 actions… |
6.0 |
| 21-979 |
Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment |
In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'… |
6.0 |
| 21-1000 |
Clifford Allen Brace, Jr. v. Steven M. Speier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
|
11-usc-541 automatic-stay bankruptcy-jurisdiction bodily-detention contempt contempt-order due-process jurisdiction probate-exception |
1. DUE PROCESS ■ Whether the Bankruptcy and 14th court's order violates the 5th, amendments of the United States Constitution.8th
2. BODILY DETENTION… |
5.5 |
| 21-1018 |
Nicole Colton v. Fehrer Automotive, North America, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
ada ada-amendments-act ada-amendments-act-of-2008 disability disability-discrimination motion-to-dismiss pleading reasonable-accommodation regarded-as-disabled short-stature standing |
1. Whether Colton's short stature could plausibly
be a disability covered by the Americans with
Disabilities Act 1990, as amended by the ADA
Amendm… |
5.5 |
| 21-682 |
Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity |
Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl… |
5.5 |
| 21-851 |
Richa Narang v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute |
1. Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment that the government has never sought to reinstate,… |
5.5 |
| 21-877 |
Ross Thacker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
5.5 |
| 21-967 |
Pius Barikpoa Nwinee v. St. Louis Developmental Disability Treatment Centers, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-process civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equitable-tolling pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-sue-letter title-vii |
Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se litigant who filed his case under Title VII EEOC adminis… |
5.5 |
| 21-977 |
Robert E. Kovacevich v. Gordon R. Finch, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
|
case-settlement civil-contempt evidentiary-hearing judicial-estoppel judicial-procedure least-intrusive-remedy mootness supreme-court-precedent trial-court-discretion |
The state courts have failed to dismiss a civil contempt that was decided during trial. The case was later settled. The failure conflicts with three d… |
5.5 |
| 21-981 |
Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
|
12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing |
1. Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)?
2. Did the Third Circuit err by b… |
5.5 |
| 21-986 |
Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board |
Since 1947, Petitioner Vanderveer's Family has owned 3+ acres of land (with a small barn) in the Town of East Hampton, New York. Petitioner asserts he… |
5.5 |
| 21-991 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-precedent klapprott-v-united-states liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp manifest-injustice rule-60-motion |
Did the Court of Appeals, despite the presence of the requisite "extraordinary circumstances", by affirming the District Court's denial of Petitioner … |
5.5 |
| 21M90 |
Gordon Ray Lewis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21M91 |
Joseph Sandlain v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21M92 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21M93 |
Adrian Cotterll Gilliard v. Courtney Lumme, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21M94 |
James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
Presumed Complete |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21M95 |
Maurice Cotton v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
|
None |
|
5.5 |
| 21-517 |
Antoinette Marques v. JPMorgan Chase, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment default default-declaration due-process foreclosure property-rights residential-note secured-creditor |
1. Was Chase, a nonparty and nonagent to a residential note, authorized to declare default and foreclose? Alternatively, does a party that is not a se… |
4.0 |
| 21-980 |
Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidentiary-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions opening-the-door prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 summary-judgment |
1. Does the doctrine of "opening the door" require the traditional Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial … |
4.0 |
| 21-1004 |
Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law |
1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth… |
3.5 |
| 21-1005 |
Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation |
Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285? |
3.5 |
| 21-1016 |
Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense |
A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a… |
3.5 |
| 21-1020 |
Janet Tingling v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
altered-documents business-records civil-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility genuine-issue loan-documents material-fact pro-se-litigation student-loans summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals position was inconsistent with the standards outlined in Rule 56(e), which provides that summary judgment is only prop… |
3.5 |
| 21-1024 |
Miriam Brysk v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-semitism civil-rights emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech injunction standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by holding that the use of multiple signs in front of a synagogue in Ann Arb… |
3.5 |
| 21-1029 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-allegations defendant-sanctions dismissal due-process good-faith-findings pre-discovery-dismissal sanctions standing trial-court-dismissal |
I filed a lawsuit in 2019 against 33 defendants for conspiracy to rig several primary elections.
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss all alleg… |
3.5 |
| 21-1037 |
Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys… |
3.5 |
| 21-1038 |
John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing |
When & What interest &/or other penalties may A/P Kenney also collect along with the $6,050,800.00 "DEFAULT JUDGEMENTS" - now seven (7) years+ -per De… |
3.5 |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
3.5 |
| 21-1075 |
Mandy England, in Her Individual Capacity v. Annissa Colson |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights correctional-officer due-process eighth-amendment inmate-treatment medical-determination medical-treatment qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a correctional officer violated a constitutional right of an inmate for not requesting further treatment for a non-life-threatening injury … |
3.5 |
| 21-1092 |
Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine |
Whether, as private corporations and law enforce-
ment agencies increasingly cooperate to investigate
and prosecute retail crimes, the distinction b… |
3.5 |
| 21-1095 |
"I Am" School, Inc. v. City of Mount Shasta, California |
California |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cannabis-regulation civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights retroactive-overruling rule-of-law school-protection takings |
Petitioner "I AM" School, Inc. was denied declaratory relief in which it sought the full extent of State mandated 600-foot protection from cannabis ac… |
3.5 |
| 21-1105 |
Jana Garcia v. Wyoming Department of Health and Social Services |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada affirmative-defense americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity federal-funding federal-funds rehabilitation-act subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver-of-defense |
1. In an action against a State under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, is the State immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment when the c… |
3.5 |
| 21-1109 |
Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments to th… |
3.5 |
| 21-1117 |
Reginald Watkins, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure district-court due-process mortgage-foreclosure quiet-title sheriff-sale standing statutory-interpretation statutory-redemption takings |
A. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN RULING THAT THE PETITIONERS DO NOT HAVE STANDING SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH STANDING.
i. Petitioners answer: "Yes… |
3.5 |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
3.5 |
| 21-1122 |
Geoffrey M. Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-challenge civil-procedure due-process election-law mootness mootness-doctrine procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation trial-court-dismissal |
1. May any trial court in Kentucky dismiss a ballot challenge for failure to state a claim without ever having construed it in the light most favorabl… |
3.5 |
| 21-1127 |
Samish Indian Nation v. Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
dismissal-grounds federal-jurisdiction issue-preclusion ruhrgas-ag-v-marathon sinochem-int-l-co-v-malaysia sovereign-immunity steel-co-v-citizens subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-immunity tribal-law |
1. Whether Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity and tribal sovereign immunity deprived the lower courts of subject-matter jurisdiction over the Snoqu… |
3.5 |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick w… |
3.5 |
| 21-1142 |
James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 |
1. Does Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) preempt classification-based discrimination claims by a customer against an interact… |
3.5 |
| 21-1149 |
Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing |
This Court has held that federal courts (1) may adjudicate jurisdictional issues in any sequence they choose and (2) may, under appropriate circumstan… |
3.5 |
| 21-437 |
Yao Pone v. Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines racial-discrimination takings zoning zoning-violations |
Were unjustifiable excessive fines (all of the maximum permit by the law) imposed by the Calvert County's Planning and zoning employees to the Petitio… |
3.5 |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
3.5 |
| 21-5991 |
Ricky Allen Fackrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-record capital-cases federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10 right-to-appeal structural-error |
1. Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a "hearing or trial," or "proceeding," under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) such that a … |
0.5 |
| 21-6593 |
Murray Hooper v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 clearly-established clearly-established-law evidence-suppression federal-law greene-v-fisher habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct state-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-bagley witness-testimony |
1. Whether this Court should clarify its holding in Greene v. Fisher, 565 U.S. 34, 38 (2011), to reflect that the state court decision by which "clear… |
0.5 |
| 21-6054 |
Benjamin Koziol v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi… |
0.0 |
| 21-6077 |
Torri McCray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
-1.0 |
| 21-6319 |
Eric Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law |
When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als… |
-1.0 |
| 21-6481 |
General Grant Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standing third-party-perpetrator wisconsin-law |
1. Whether the limitations that Wisconsin places on a criminal defendant seeking to introduce third-party-perpetrator evidence are consistent with the… |
-1.0 |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated
clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have
elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7134 |
Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors |
In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7136 |
Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 21-7149 |
Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 21-7156 |
Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7158 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach?
II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 21-7183 |
Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination |
The district court, in conducting a change of plea hearing, failed to advise Petitioner of her right to be free from compelled self-incrimination befo… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7191 |
Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7195 |
James Leon Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
-1.5 |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
-1.5 |
| 21-5555 |
Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court Sanction vs. Washington delete US 068 (4284) lower Courts to present defense atheists to Violate co defendants Cig to a fair an… |
-4.0 |
| 21-5881 |
In Re Marjorie Creamer |
|
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process employment free-speech jurisdictional-issues legal-procedure statutory-interpretation workplace-policies writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 21-5951 |
Steven B. Baumgarten v. Erika Evans |
Washington |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment judicial-disqualification mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination perjury-allegations stalking stalking-evidence standing |
1) Is the U.S. Constitution and federal case law violated when a trial court
erred in finding substantial evidence of two or more distinct, individual… |
-4.0 |
| 21-6129 |
John Ragin v. Supreme Court of Virginia |
Virginia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affidavit civil-procedure costs court-filing declaration financial-assets in-forma-pauperis income-disclosure legal-support monthly-expenses poverty |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 21-6358 |
Michael A. Young v. Ned Lamont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-or-controversy civil-rights emergency-relief jurisdiction mootness standing |
(1) WHETHer"SECOND CIRCUI"Court "ERROREDnestra sponte that it
"LAcKEDjurisdiction despite "LAcKf "moorNES"
(2) WhEther "SECOND CIRCUIT"Court SubSEqUe… |
-4.0 |
| 21-6399 |
David Wayne Anderson v. Roger Lee Stacy |
Virginia |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing takings |
I. DId ti co er WE pArED JUnE RESpNDET iN OUL
PEANER PROEDINGS WLCN 3ETITOER APALED C23E # 20159 CR14-1599
AND PROUED TO COOD TAT REPODET ETED RESIDMI… |
-4.0 |
| 21-6410 |
Steve Herbert Speckman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review limitations-period petition-deadline statute-of-limitations supreme-court-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
-4.0 |
| 21-6561 |
Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff |
New York |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-divorce civil-procedure civil-rights due-process elderly-citizen-rights fraud international-jurisdiction judicial-fraud qdro standing supreme-court-appeal |
Can an elderly USA citizen living in Israel continuously since July 9, 1991 except for 1 week August 1992, appeal to the United States Supreme Court t… |
-4.0 |
| 21-6782 |
A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children |
Colorado |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing |
Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus… |
-4.0 |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5995 |
Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment |
I. Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a "hearing or trial," or "proceeding," under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) such that a … |
-4.5 |
| 21-6212 |
Anthony De La Torriente v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation |
The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6223 |
Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Once an officer issues a traffic citation and tells the person he may leave, the Fourth Amendment requires consent to then delay departure to ask more… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6238 |
Donald Broadnax v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
AEDPA aedpa-deference due-process federal-habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief state-evidentiary-rules state-postconviction-proceedings |
Alabama prohibits a state postconviction petitioner from introducing hearsay to prove a penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel claim. By cont… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6282 |
Tannous Fazah v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement |
I. In August 2013, petitioner was indicted in federal court, in part, on charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Petitioner was all… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6344 |
Joseph J. Snyder v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-regulation amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis department-of-veterans-affairs disability-benefits disability-compensation presumptive-service-connection regulatory-creation service-connection statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
1. Whether the Secretary of Veteran Affairs' imposition of a length of service requirement for the presumption of service connection for ALS is counte… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6412 |
Rebecca Stampe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
GVR |
IFP |
brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review government-disclosure in-camera-review materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion |
Can the district court, consistent with Brady and its progeny, refuse in camera review of evidence that is plausibly subject to disclosure under Brady… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6519 |
Jesse Driskill v. Missouri |
Missouri |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations constitutional-claims constitutional-review due-process evidence-destruction factual-findings independent-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct witness-testimony |
I. Whether Missouri's verbatim adoption of the prosecution's factually deficient findings without independent review – contrary to Jefferson v. Upton,… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6559 |
George Russell Kayer v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder competency-determination direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-specialist sentencing-hearing trial-counsel |
In March 1997, a jury convicted George Russell Kayer of capital murder. Only after his conviction, and just two months before his sentencing hearing, … |
-4.5 |
| 21-6580 |
Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan |
1. Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6639 |
Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing |
Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation?
Does the differ… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6657 |
Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6688 |
Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-claim brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression judicial-review materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility witness-reliability |
Whether a reviewing court considering a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must assess the reliability and credibility of the witnesse… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6801 |
In re Johnny McMahon |
|
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Petitioner, Johnny E. McMahon, has been collaterally attacking subject-matter jurisdiction since 2011. However, this is the first time this Honorable … |
-4.5 |
| 21-6805 |
Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment |
WHETHER THE HONORABLE JOHN A GIBNEY, JR., UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT JUDGE, IN THIS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION, ERRORED WHEN HE DID NOT
RECUSE HIMSELF, P… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6806 |
Armin Wand, III v. Gary Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession confession-suppression constitutional-provisions due-process manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal stay-of-proceedings unreliable-confession |
1. SHOULD ARMIN WAND, III S SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 STATEMENT HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED?
2. DOES THE COERCED UNRELIABLE CONFESSION PROVIDE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE … |
-4.5 |
| 21-6807 |
Davis Salary v. California |
California |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing |
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-4.5 |
| 21-6809 |
Edward Shane West-El v. Midland Funding LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights delegation-of-authority due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-be-heard standing |
1. Where did Caryn Canner Schwartz get the Delegation of Authority Order to make a decision in the lower tribunal case from Miami dade County Courts.
… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6813 |
Ronald Charles Washington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60(b) rule-60b standing |
Question #1: Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstru
ing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition
without all… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6818 |
Arron Lawson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings |
Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6820 |
Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
None |
|
-4.5 |
| 21-6822 |
James Edward Barber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-evidence capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence prejudice prejudice-standard split-verdict |
This case concerns the prejudice resulting from ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of a capital case. For petitioner James Bar… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6828 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure |
I. Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily "dismiss as unauthorized " a prison Petitioner's is Sta… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6830 |
Huy-Ying Chen v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, et al. |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-judgment civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review |
(i) Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent.
(ii) Whether the inequitable na… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6835 |
Roland Ma v. Gallery Belltown Condominium Association |
Washington |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process homeowners-association judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge preliminary-injunction property-rights recusal standing |
1. Does the Homeowner Association has the jurisdiction to eject a homeowner from his own home, living there since July 12, 2011?
2. Does the trial co… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6843 |
In Re Kevin Brewer |
|
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter |
The entire panel of active judges in 8th Circuit Court Of Appeals have evaded, refused and failed to address the merits of a constitutional claim with… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6848 |
Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure.
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' indepe… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6850 |
Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge district-court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-jurisdiction habeas-corpus mandatory-hearing post-conviction-motion post-conviction-relief standing state-court-hearing state-court-review |
Whether a state court's denial of a mandatory hearing on a post-conviction motion was unconstitutional, invoking federal question jurisdiction in a di… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6853 |
Charles N. Belssner v. Linda Gittings |
Nevada |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-accommodations ada-section-504 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure pro-tempore section-504 standing transcript |
1) WITH A GOVENOR 'S MANDATE TO STAY HOME SHOULD THE 5™
PRO TEMPORE WHOM RECENTLY TOOK OFFICE SCHEDULE A
HEARING- WAS THIS APPROPRIATE?
2) SHOULD S… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6854 |
Joe Byrd v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Trustee for the Benefit of Alternative Loan Trust 2007-J1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection federal-statute subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is it an error, a violation of federal statute, and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court without subj… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6857 |
Reginald E. Blandford v. New York |
New York |
Denied |
IFP |
drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search |
This Court has held that under the Fourth Amendment police officers may not extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle's exterior with… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6869 |
Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition |
should this Court use its power to grant certiorari to a non-prisoner to raise a compelling claim of actual innocence
Whether the Court of Appeals de… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6870 |
Daniel Dumond v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings |
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-4.5 |
| 21-6871 |
Alan Price v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance McCoy-retroactivity mccoy-v-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity right-to-counsel substantive-rule |
I. Whether McCoy u. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct 1500 (2018), adopts a new substantive rule that applies retroactively to cases on collateral review?
II. Whe… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6872 |
Olajuwon Perry v. Florida |
Florida |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 21-6873 |
Juan J. Torres v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-court court-denial criminal-procedure custody-violation due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
the United states Supreme court
what
about informing suspect
ruling
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having a lawyer
about
present
durning Questioning.
What
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United states sup… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6877 |
Alisha Dawn Aldridge v. Texas |
Texas |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process independent-investigation ineffective-counsel witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 21-6880 |
In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner successive-petition successive-petitions unreasonable-application |
Whether on ZaWwidual Cire Surge of the US. Ceork Of Ageeals Was ociainal Hebbeas Compus Worishidhoa over a second of Suceassve heloeas Pelion. Filed L… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6889 |
Michael D. Lowery v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
Denied |
IFP |
choctaw-indians congress-authorization criminal-jurisdiction reservation treaty-of-dancing-rabbit-creek united-states |
(1) whether Article 4 of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, 7 Stat. 333 reserves criminal jurisdiction to the United States or Choctaw Nation without… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6891 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen Boyd, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 21-6892 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Janet Smith, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Their descietion rEIardiNg ISSUE / and ISSUp2
Or was the District folrt Clearly erroneons?
Couln have been takeh renndins Issue Iand??
3. Planlit, … |
-4.5 |
| 21-6893 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Harold Clayhurst, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process federalism preemption standing state-law |
Question not identified. |
-4.5 |
| 21-6895 |
Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction |
Whether a sworn and verified criminal complaint can be commenced under Illinois law (Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 38, Para. 109-3(C)) without violating the Fou… |
-4.5 |
| 21-6900 |
Patrice E. Brown v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Arizona |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Does a court render no judgment which violates the law of its veld when it renders its judgment 2 Compliance with the mandatory provisions of an uncon… |
-4.5 |
| 21-7202 |
In Re Mohammed Kwaning |
|
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-imprisonment |
IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE DISCHARGE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT TRIED AND IMPRISONED PETITIONER FOR INFAMOUS CRIMES WITHOUT PRES… |
-4.5 |
| 21-5926 |
Rimma Kunik v. New York City Department of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
age-discrimination burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-intent employment employment-discrimination religious-discrimination standard-of-review workload-comparison workplace-harassment |
1. Quotes in the Order (p.6'4-7; p.9-8-13)issued by the Court of Appeal on 5/13/2021
such as "Kunik did not allege any overt discrimination (emphasis … |
-5.5 |
| 20-8356 |
Sharee Harrell v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
None |
|
-6.0 |
| 21-6116 |
Christopher David Cobb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error oath-of-office public-employment standing |
1) Whether the conflict between Mechanik and Bank of Nova Scotia invite arbitrary decisions from the lower courts.
2) Whether it was a mistake of fac… |
-6.0 |
| 21-6127 |
In Re Howard Griffith |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-rules habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
What was the reason for not making application for writ of habeas corpus to the district court of the district in which I am being held? (Rule 20.4[a]… |
-6.0 |
| 21-6163 |
Gerard M. Lynch v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-adjudication confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights |
The Respondent "Justice Center," a New York State agency, has a standard practice of routinely allowing uncorroborated hearsay evidence —for example, … |
-6.0 |
| 21-6173 |
Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs |
New York |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility |
Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone (in over 95 percent … |
-6.0 |
| 21-6385 |
Edward J. Dostal v. Basin Electric Power Cooperative, et al. |
South Dakota |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-timeline court-procedure due-process federal-court-precedent filing-deadline motion-dismissal public-utility-regulation sherman-act state-court-precedent supremacy-clause |
The South Dakota Supreme Court dismissal order used the motion for appeal filing fee payment date rather than the actual filing date causing the Petit… |
-6.0 |
| 21-6522 |
Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Maryland |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal |
1) Will the Justice be served by the US Supreme Court by providing a fair trial to Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges are Distance Cousin Brothe… |
-6.0 |
| 21-6591 |
Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia |
Georgia |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings |
Question not identified. |
-6.0 |
| 21-7169 |
Latwon James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
-6.0 |
| 21-6842 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Census 2020, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-act civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employer government-misconduct retaliation sherman-act title-vii |
The Supreme Court has recognized in a variety of contexts that the judiciary's legitimacy and efficacy derives largely from the public's confidence in… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6862 |
In Re Daniel Jones |
|
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-relief federal-courts filing-requirements judicial-procedure mandamus prisoner-rights standing |
1. IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE RELIEF INCLUDING MANDAMUS FROM THIS COURT TO PROTECT HIS RIGHT TO PETITION THE COURTS WHERE A MANIFEST INJUSTIC… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6899 |
John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure |
Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6903 |
Michel Thomas v. Grundfos, CBS, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, and/o… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6904 |
Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
X. What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, an… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6907 |
Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities |
1. Constitution of the United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992). All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6932 |
Joshua Dixon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel criminal-procedure federal-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-findings sufficiency-of-evidence |
I In Florida, e criminal defendant hes a first
eppecl as a matter of c:qht and t
theappointment
of counsel for said oppeal. under Floridd case law a
s… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6938 |
David Charles Sussman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process filing-restrictions pro-se suspension-clause |
1. Does the Fla. court's imposition of an all-inclusive, total pro
3. Where a Fla court has never deemed any ofa litigant' leadings he filed therein … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6943 |
Ms. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services |
Maryland |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-separation child-welfare discrimination due-process family-law judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-discrimination parental-rights |
It is fair that the Montgomery County and Appeal Courts did not considerate the fact that I had been mentally stable for 4 years?
Isn't true that the… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6953 |
Jaime Luevano v. Hillary R. Clinton, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
-6.5 |
| 21-6962 |
Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
-6.5 |
| 21-6965 |
Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge |
I.
Whether The Current Version of the California SVP Law Violates the Due Process Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not offer a Me… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6970 |
Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment |
To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6980 |
Michael R. Fowler v. Robert Fox, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay |
unconFrontedstatements
Whather a victims
to police wre admissible at trial onthe grounds
of unavailability by forfeiture where no affirmcaused +he wi… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6986 |
John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel |
Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where (1) Atlas was charged with making crimin… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6995 |
Admassu Regassa v. C. Brininger, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bivens-action civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability prison-officials standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6997 |
Luke Waine Caines, Jr. v. M. Interian |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-needs prisoner-rights substantial-injury substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm wood-v-housewright |
1). WHETHER DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE SHOULD BE ANALYZED UNDER THE BALANCING FRAME WORK
3F THE SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF HARM TEST ANNOUNCED BY THIS COURT RA… |
-6.5 |
| 21-6999 |
Sharoc Richardson v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-court-error witness-cross-examination |
QUESTION ONE: DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN THIS CASE?
QUESTION TWO: WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFF… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7016 |
Tony Gonzalez v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion brady-violation cellphone-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jury-selection jury-venire motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment standing |
Did the trial Justice err, when the Jury Venire challenge, had been inappropriately addressed, concerning a proper sixth Amendment challenge? And Tria… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7028 |
Fred Pride v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection informal-claim medical-record pro-se pro-se-veteran va-medical-records veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
A special provision, 38 C.F. R. § 3 157, (Authority 38 U.S. Code § 5108), effectively makes a VA medical record itself an informal claim that can be r… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7033 |
Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7073 |
Nathaniel Collins v. Alabama |
Alabama |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-hearing in-person-hearing probation trial-court-objection video-conference virtual-hearing |
Whether a virtual, video conference, or other hearing that takes place using an electronic or computer medium is sufficient to meet the due process re… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7086 |
William L. Whitefield v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
-6.5 |
| 21-7107 |
Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT CANADA HAD BE… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case? |
-6.5 |
| 21-7117 |
Frederick Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation plagiarism witness-testimony |
WAS DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT PLAGIARIZED A 31-COUNT WORD-FOR-WORD/COMMA-FOR-COMMA MISREPRESENTATION ORIGINALLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7120 |
David John Telles, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony grooming-expert-testimony malingering mental-disorder mental-disorder-defense self-representation standard-of-review |
1. What is the correct standard for reviewing denied motions for competency
hearings, under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(a) and constitutional due process? Is rev… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7128 |
Cornelius Riley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Should this Honorable Court extend the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases sig… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7129 |
Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea |
1. Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed?
2. Whether, to conspire t… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7133 |
Francis P. Salemme v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessorial-liability accessory-after-the-fact aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent middleton-v-mcneil |
Whether the jury instruction regarding accessorial liability that fails to distinguish between aiding and abetting liability and accessory after the f… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7135 |
Daniel Joseph Dawson v. Jeremy Larson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel eighth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
(1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has
made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional … |
-6.5 |
| 21-7139 |
Bradley Scott Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-level-score criminal-procedure drug-offense judicial-discretion methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(2) USSG-Section-2D1.1(c)(4) |
Did the trial court commit error when it calculated the appellant's sentencing guideline base level score using the enhanced "Ice" guideline value und… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7148 |
Mark Allen Banes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction |
Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7151 |
Quentin Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force |
QUESTION ONE:
The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained
even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7153 |
Arthur Miles v. United States |
First Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions |
Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7157 |
Richard Lucas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of
"cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7161 |
Deja Paschal v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equivocal-request right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether a defendant's request for self-representation, made in the context of expressing frustration with appointed counsel and requesting new counsel… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7162 |
Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence |
Whether it is Consistent with this Courts holding in CAPERTON v. A. MASSEY COAL CO., 556 U.S. 868, 129 S.Ct 2541 (2009) and the Imperatives of Due Pro… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7163 |
Nathaniel Ruth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act?
II. When def… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7164 |
Charles Pyne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination |
1. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue where there is a conflict in the Circuits concerning the ability to employ Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) b… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7170 |
Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not
pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness |
I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7184 |
Richard Langley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fundamental-rights healthcare-rights medical-benefits medical-marijuana medication-alternatives right-to-life substantive-due-process |
Whether there is a fundamental right to use medical marijuana when it provides life-altering medical benefits that other medications cannot reasonably… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7188 |
Elishay Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7190 |
Jason Terrell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction merits plea-agreement procedural-facts standard-of-review |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred by dismissing the appeal based upon an appeal waiver contained in the plea agreement and should have addressed M… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7210 |
James Thomas Webb v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fair-play federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction settlement-agreement sovereign-immunity takings |
Did the relitigation of the CLOSED Florida Federal District Court case United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. James Thomas Webb (Case 07-… |
-6.5 |
| 21-7214 |
Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review |
DOES AHA MELTER AUA" CLAL{OOF ACTUAL leholEWACE OURLEY AL ACL AMA ME ACTIAL lb byl CEWe LE Tht SAME STATED faked. . OF THE STATUTE: ACTUALLY Maio Ell … |
-6.5 |
| 21-7225 |
Milton Lattimore v. Illinois |
Illinois |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency special-conditions trial-fitness |
Whether a person who is fit to stand trial only with special conditions is denied due process when the trial court accepts a guilty plea entered witho… |
-6.5 |