Conference: 2023-01-20

61 cases — 0 granted, 61 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
22-95 Schuyler File v. Margaret Hickey, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abood-v-detroit civil-rights compelled-membership due-process first-amendment free-speech janus-precedent mandatory-bar scrutiny-standard standing union-shop Whether membership in a mandatory state bar is subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment. 22.0
22-336 Jason Reed v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Amici (1) armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "co… 11.5
22-402 James Vorley v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… 10.5
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust 1. Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust. 2. Whether a revoca… 9.5
22-537 Ramy Eid Zaki Hakim v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process evidentiary-hearing government-inducement government-promise guilty-plea immigration-status judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal When Can a Defendant, Induced to Enter a Guilty Plea by the Government's Promise to Assist the Defendant with His Immigration Status, Move to Withdraw… 8.5
22-482 Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C., et al. v. Janet Yijuan Fou New Jersey Denied Relisted (2) attorney-fees causation causation-damages constitutional-rights damages due-process jury-award legal-malpractice 1. Whether the Petitioner's constitutional right to due process was violated when the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey substitut… 6.0
22-375 Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. New York Denied civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination 1. Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither fa… 5.5
22-419 Cedric Chanu v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev… 5.5
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent 1. Should the requirement that a plaintiffs cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign nat… 5.5
22-489 Kevin Charles Bertram v. U.S. Bank N.A., as Trustee Florida Denied consumer-protection creditor-notification lending-transaction notice-requirement rescission rescission-right right-to-rescind security-interest statute-of-limitations truth-in-lending-act The Truth in Lending Act provides that a borrower "shall have the right to rescind the transaction until midnight of the third business day following.… 5.5
22M63 William A. Rankin v. Brian Lavan and Associates, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit Denied None 5.5
22M64 Sean Wright v. Alaska Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
22M65 Alecia Trapps v. United States Ninth Circuit Presumed Complete None 5.5
22M66 Frances Hines v. Boston Public Schools First Circuit Denied None 5.5
22-5102 Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an… 4.5
22-577 Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' … 4.5
22-306 Lindsay O'Brien Quarrie v. Stephen Wells, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-act contract-law due-process mendacity property-rights racial-discrimination standing title-vi 1. Whether ignorance of the law can excuse racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.) and theref… 4.0
22-508 John O. Green v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response Waived 18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation In a series of decisions from this Court, the reach and scope of conspiracies to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 were define… 3.5
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution 1. Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 prohibiting the state or political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing any legal statu… 3.5
22-522 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers "[W]hen one court is exercising in rem jurisdiction over a res, a second court will not assume in rem jurisdiction over the same res." Marshall v. Mar… 3.5
22-5765 Ryanne Parker, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, N. P. v. West Carroll Special School District Sixth Circuit Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights damages disabilities-education-act exhaustion-of-remedies rehabilitation-act remedies statutory-interpretation In the Handicapped Children 's Protection Act of 1986 (HCPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1415(1), it requires the exhaustion of state administrative remedies under t… 1.0
22-5857 Bango Benjamin Enyinnaya v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-or-entering burglary categorical-approach entry-requirement fourth-circuit generic-burglary mathis-v-united-states taylor-v-united-states violent-felony 1. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and thus cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Care… 0.5
22-5206 Shain Duka v. United States Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 924(c) actual-innocence circuit-court-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-conviction criminal-procedure invalid-conviction judicial-procedure jury-instruction sentencing-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Third Circuit Erred in Utilizing the Concurrent Sentence Doctrine to Uphold a Concededly Invalid 924(c) Conviction. -1.0
22-5752 Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto Third Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used on a petitioner with solely… -1.0
22-6300 Edman Castro-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure due-process indictment recidivism recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense L. Whether the government's failure to allege a prior conviction necessary to support a statutory recidivism enhancement violated Mr. Castro's right "… -1.5
22-6302 Selvin Omar Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions 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
22-6349 Daniel Nepomuceno v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights credibility-determination due-process federal-habeas guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-post-conviction-proceedings Could reasonable jurists debate whether a state court's dispositive credibility determination regarding federal constitutional rights, based on a writ… -1.5
22-5910 In Re Mark Lewis Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority - and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance - can render a judgmen… -4.0
22-5879 Eugene Thurman v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… -4.5
22-5926 Charles Chitat Ng v. California California Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt I. WAS PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF DUE PROCESS AND HIS RIGHT OF SELF REPRESENTATION UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS BY THE TRIAL COURT'S … -4.5
22-6060 Christine Owens v. Mahershal Simonet California Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process human-trafficking judicial-responsibility paycheck-protection-program standing temporary-restraining-order victim-protection 1.) Should have Mahershal Simonet been placed into custody by Justice William C. Redmond because, petitioner, Christine Owens needed to file a Tempora… -4.5
22-6088 Tupoutoe Mataele v. California California Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… -4.5
22-6111 In Re Katrese Nickelson Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-sealing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard motion-to-quash service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandate 1. Whether Assembly Bill No.2819 's mandatory automatic and permanent case sealing requirements in limited unlawful detainer cases extends to sealing… -4.5
22-6113 Guillermo Garcia v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied IFP appeal appeal-denial civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-appointment district-court due-process legal-error motion-to-appeal petition petition-review standing 1. WHETER THE LOowER cOvRT MADE A LECAL ERROR . 5 AFL WHEW DENYEW C HIS DPPEAL , WAE A OF? PETLZIOW SHARE CORE OF OF EGRATAOVE AYIETS DN COMMON WUT FH… -4.5
22-6139 Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-courts jurisdiction standing Question not identified. -4.5
22-6146 In Re Maria Navarro-Martin Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action Whether a former President is withholding, desclassifying, concealing or depriving of records and evidences in an offered proceeding where the prosecu… -4.5
22-6148 Larry James Bradley v. Florida Florida Denied IFP civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause (1) WHETHER PETITIONER IS PROPERLY DETAILED AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO? (2) WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION §775.0… -4.5
22-6149 Edgar Arellano v. California California Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . .. LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __ The Hi^hT. _io _effective S-ixth — AMD-… -4.5
21-8061 Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino Sixth Circuit Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii In a Title VII action between an indigent pro se complainant and private sector employer, who, if anyone, has the responsibility of informing the comp… -6.0
22-5681 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing 1. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ("Second Circuit") confirmed in United States v. Lumumba, 794 F.2d 806 (2d Cir. 1986) that p… -6.0
22-5762 Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T? -6.0
22-5793 Thomas A. Forrest, et ux. v. United States Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code judicial-precedent military-benefits military-retirees statutory-interpretation tax tax-recovery 1. Whether the Supreme Court erred in their interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code in United States v. Brockamp, 519 U.S. 347 (1997) by disallowi… -6.0
22-5804 In Re David Kevin Lewis Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal-standard affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure motion-for-acquittal statute-of-limitations trial-motion Is the Law of the United States for Statute of limitations a matter of jurisdiction and by Lewis raising the issue in trial as well as filing the tria… -6.0
22-6118 Wilbert Glover v. Matt Bostrom, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-treatment prison-conditions qualified-immunity racial-discrimination RE. GLOVER NV. BOSTEM, TAL. PETITIONER WILBERT GROVER AND OTHER INMATES OF ADC RAMSEY COUNTY JAIL SEND SEVERAL INTERNAL GRIEVANCES THAT WERE REJECTED… -6.5
22-6119 Jaques Fearence v. Brenda M. Cash, Warden Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-abandonment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision 1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in its application of the constitutional standard for the denial of a motion for reconsideration based on the pe… -6.5
22-6145 Daniel Alexander Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law burden-shifting commenting-on-silence falsely-representing-evidence ineffective-assistance misstating-law misstating-witness ninth-circuit-review prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly applied Arizona law in finding that multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct, including falsely representi… -6.5
22-6147 Eric Lee Porterfield v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract due-process standing takings 1. What is a contract? 2. Is a TriDenaMe a secondury TradoMarK 4. Can a contract be valid through silence? 5. Does a cease and desist be cohsidared a … -6.5
22-6162 Donald Lee Scott v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process pre-accusation-delay prejudice prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations witness-testimony What is the proper standard for evaluating pre-accusation delay? -6.5
22-6165 Darron Thomas v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None -6.5
22-6176 Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis poverty Question not identified. -6.5
22-6281 Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of th… -6.5
22-6286 John Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment, U.S. Const. Amend. IV, permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants when the officer only knows that… -6.5
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements. -6.5
22-6291 Jimmy R. Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas statute-of-limitations I. Whether it is inconsistent with Slack v. McDaniel, 539 U.S. 413 (2008) for a Court of Appeals to have declined to issue Certificate of Appealabilit… -6.5
22-6305 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment campbell-ewald civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-amendment government-liability property-rights property-seizure rule-41g standing This petition presents the following question: Whether a person seeking return of illegally seized property under Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 41(e) has an … -6.5
22-6319 Francis Boyd v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions second-degree-murder third-degree-murder 1). DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS MISCONSTRUE PETITIONER'S CLAIM(S) IN DENYING HIS PETITION FOR REHEARING /REHEARING IN BANC? 2). CAN A TRIA… -6.5
22-6360 Tyrell Hart v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process false-confessions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial • Tie lower federal and state courts unreasonably applied tiis Court's ioldings finding tiat Hart was sot da?ted affective assistance of counsel regar… -6.5
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen… -6.5
22-6397 Alex Daniel v. Illinois Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma appointed-counsel britt-v-north-carolina due-process fundamental-fairness griffin-v-illinois indigent-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment In Farretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 833-34 (1975), this Court recognized that the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees cr… -6.5
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe… -6.5
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) Is a defendant deprived of his right to Confrontation and due Process within the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments Whea the District… -6.5