Conference: 2025-04-04

72 cases — 0 granted, 72 denied/dismissed, 0 pending

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Case Title Lower Court Status Flags Tags Question Presented Score
24-482 Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause. 28.0
24-557 David Asa Villarreal v. Texas Texas Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen… 21.5
24-795 Ivan Antonyuk, et al. v. Steven G. James, In His Official Capacity as the Superintendent of the New York State Police, et al. Second Circuit Denied Amici (7)Relisted (2) concealed-carry gun-rights historical-interpretation moral-character second-amendment state-regulation 1. Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment's original meaning as applied to the states is 1791, rather than 18… 18.0
24-849 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit Denied Amici (3)Response Waived admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove… 11.5
24-515 Baltimore County, Maryland v. Michael A. Scott, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment-classification fair-labor-standards-act government-custodian inmate-labor public-works-project wage-regulation Whether inmates working in furtherance of public works projects for the government charged with their custody and care may qualify as "employees" unde… 10.0
24-637 T-Mobile US, Inc., fka T-Mobile USA, Inc., et al. v. Simply Wireless Inc. Fourth Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) common-law-mark continuous-use lanham-act section-1127 trademark-infringement trademark-rights Whether the "use" that creates a common law trademark right under Section 45 of the Lanham Act, 35 U.S.C. § 1127 (2006), must be continuous—at least u… 9.0
24-877 David Bernardo-De La Cruz v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Seventh Circuit Denied Response Waived None 8.5
24M72 Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Relisted (2) None 6.0
24-604 Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States Second Circuit Denied administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… 5.5
24-692 Covenant Construction Services, LLC, et al. v. Five Rivers Carpenters District Council Health and Welfare Fund, et al. Eighth Circuit Denied american-rule attorney-fees claim-assignment contractual-exception miller-act notice-requirement 1. Does the Miller Act modify the contractual exception to the American Rule governing attorney fees to allow their recovery against a contractor wh… 5.5
24-711 Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan Eleventh Circuit Denied access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness 1. Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity? 2. Must artwork be popular, prosperous or promoted to be reasonably accessible online? 5.5
24-818 Trika Sprewell v. Juana Flores California Denied california-law conveyance mineral-interest property-rights quiet-title subsurface-lease Whether the lower Courts in California errored in reaching it's decisions made within this Quiet Title Action, without proper consideration of the par… 5.5
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is Rule 10B, Rules Of The Supreme Court Of The State Of Tennessee (" Rule 10B ") (App. C, No. 6) (App. pp. 7a-10a) a structural constitutional vi… 5.5
24-821 Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit Denied appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance At trial, Mr. Lewis argued that certain key evidence should be suppressed because it was obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The trial cour… 5.5
24-832 Renee Anna Najda, et al. v. Citibank, N.A., as Separate Trustee for PMT NPL Financing 2015-1, et al. First Circuit Denied diversity-jurisdiction investment-advisor jurisdictional-test navarro-precedent trustee-citizenship unincorporated-entity If an investment advisor controls an unincorporated entity and through the entity's trustee invokes diversity jurisdiction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 13… 5.5
24A852 Tahawwur Rana v. James Engleman, Interim Warden, Metropolitan Detention Center Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
24M70 Anthony Michael Branch v. Fannie Mae, et al. Massachusetts Denied None 5.5
24M71 Myrna De Jesus v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., dba Optum360 Services, Inc. Ninth Circuit Denied None 5.5
24-5776 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… 4.0
24-810 Prabhjot Kaur Kang v. Western Governors University Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process human-rights institutional-misconduct legal-protections student-discipline 1. (a) Are the educational institutions allowed to cover their criminal wronging against the students by labelling it as student discipline? If so, wh… 3.5
24-811 Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii 1. Can facts be removed from a summary motion under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? 2. Did the three judges of the instant case and … 3.5
24-822 Alejandro Alers, Jr. v. Olympia Medical Center, et al. California Denied Response Waived civil-procedure equal-protection power-of-attorney pro-se-litigant probate-code wrongful-death 1. Are pro se litigants entitled to equal protection under federal and state laws as represented parties are protected under federal and state laws? … 3.5
24-828 Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri Denied Response Waived congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause Whether the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution preempted the State of Missouri from the prosecution of a criminal defendant for the ki… 3.5
24-846 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to adhere to the st… 3.5
24-859 Ruth Ann Conde Cheesman, et vir v. Tabitha A. Snyder Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived None 1. Did Tabitha Snyder abrogate the Cheesmans' Fourteenth Amendment right to family association when she subjected their children to investigatory, med… 3.5
24-891 Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by the local government because such violence serves as useful p… 3.5
24-899 Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company Ninth Circuit Denied Response Waived cargo-freight carrier-exception dominion-over-cargo legal-uniformity maritime-law shipping-commerce Under maritime law, a receiver of cargo who has not paid freight, and who (before exercising dominion over the cargo) is given notice to pay freight t… 3.5
24-918 Exclusive Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Eleventh Circuit Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-litigation court-procedure federal-removal judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether, in order to fulfill the "large objective" of deterring unnecessary federal court removal petitions, district courts are required to expressly… 3.5
24-921 Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal 1. Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine given that the 4th circuit, in Gibson v. Goldston, No. 22-1757 (4th Ci… 3.5
24-931 Laurie Ann DeVore v. University of Kentucky Board of Trustees Sixth Circuit Denied Response Waived accommodation-process religious-discrimination sincerely-held-beliefs title-vii totality-of-circumstances undue-hardship 1. Whether the dispute of sincerely held religious beliefs should be evaluated under a Totality of Circumstances test that resolves the dispute, not b… 3.5
24-6451 Devon Maurice Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit GVR IFP bruen-test constitutional-law gun-rights rahimi-precedent second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether under the Second Amendment methodology set forth in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), as clarified in Uni… 0.5
24-6458 David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Second Circuit Denied IFP abuse-of-process constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest grand-jury probable-cause 1. When a grand jury claims no probable cause is it an undisputed fact on a false arrest? 2. Can Due Process of law be affected by flase arrest" 3. … 0.5
24-6465 Leslie Robert Burk v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied IFP 18-USC-1343 18-USC-1349 commercial-contract contract-law specific-intent wire-fraud 1. Whether the wire-fraud statutes criminalize a deceptive statement that induces an ordinary commercial contract that the party who made the statemen… 0.5
24-6485 David C. Lettieri v. Wyoming County Sheriffs Second Circuit Denied IFP appellate-review case-review court-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rights 1. Does an appeal court have the ability to ingrone facts? 2. Does a judge have a right to revoke an informa paupris without notice? 3. Does a revoke … 0.5
24-6487 Kareem Reaves v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. 0.5
24-5700 Andersen Rable v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea 1. Whether the District Court, Erred When It Refused to Allow Evidence of the Fact That the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (hereinafter ATF), … -0.5
24-6741 Sasha Nicole Pringle v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim exhaustion-doctrine federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court Whether a state habeas petitioner "fairly presents " her federal claim, thus exhausting that claim, when the petitioner raises the substance of a fede… -1.5
24-6012 Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. How must judicial legitimacy be restored when judicial ethics are ignored and deprecated by systemic policy of courts in California, while judicial… -4.0
24-6444 Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure 1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction… -4.5
24-6445 Neelam Uppal v. Florida Department of Administrative Hearings, et al. Florida Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violations due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-review Did the Florida Supreme Court err in dismissing the appeal and consequently failed to address the constitutional violations raised. -4.5
24-6446 Larayna Manning v. Kentucky Kentucky Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial I. THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL AND THE PREJUDICE THIS DELAY CAUSED TO DEFENDANT WAS A VIOLATION OF HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? II. THE CHAIN OF CUST… -4.5
24-6471 Douglas Manning v. Sgt. St. Paul, et al. Third Circuit Denied IFP None X. Plaintiff alleged that "Writ Set Forth action or Failure To Act amounted to a Violation of the Plaintiff's Sixteenth Right of Reasonable Freedom fr… -4.5
24-6481 Frederick Stampone v. Michigan Supreme Court, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied IFP constitutional-rights judicial-review legal-standard liberal-construction pro-se-pleadings procedural-interpretation OV£R 71 YEA&5 OLD WITH NO CRIMINALJr Petitioner stampone is NI STORY, WAS ARRESTED IN THE SAME COUNTS WARRENT WAS ISSUED ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES OF KID… -4.5
24-6484 Steven James Kelly v. American Bar Association Fourth Circuit Denied IFP None Question not identified. -4.5
24-6493 Washington Windsor v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fifth-amendment judicial-delay mootness-doctrine pro-se-litigant 1. Whether a lower court's unexplained and unjustified delay in docketing a pro se litigant's motion —thereby prejudicing the petitioner's substantive… -4.5
24-6498 In Re Thomas Sawyer Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules Question not identified. -4.5
24-6508 Tyrone Lindsey v. Louisiana Louisiana Denied IFP None Question not identified. -4.5
24-5983 Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-law evidence-tampering fruit-of-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation veterans-claims #1 - "If the allegations occurred of obstruction of justice, fraud on the court, and evidence tampering, which led to prejudicial losses with harmful… -5.5
24-5769 Tanya Tyson v. Quiktrip Corporation Oklahoma Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review default-judgment jurisdictional-challenge petition-of-error service-of-process supreme-court-procedure Did the Supreme Court err in their (APP C) June 12, 2023 Order dismissing my Motion to Dismiss the Default Order of October 11, 2021, asserted in my f… -6.0
24-6074 Corey Rogers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fundamental-error grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion per-curiam-decision unlawful-detention Did the Supreme Court of Florida abuse its discretion when it failed to review the case of Corey Rogers vs. Ricky D. Dixon Secretary, Florida Departme… -6.0
24-6425 Cameron Cates v. Jared Shlemovitz, dba Junto Sounds, et al. Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP copyright-law creative-works judicial-interpretation legal-petition procedural-fairness public-domain How is it that, according to the Second Circuit, "all on the common wellspring that is the creative works draw public domain,"? What good is copyrigh… -6.5
24-6447 Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Chad H. Williams, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified. -6.5
24-6461 David James Lack v. Dr. Posner, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process medical-treatment plea-agreement prison-conditions speedy-trial 1. Was the Trial Court in Violation of the Plaintiffs State and Federal Speedy-Trial Rights. Plaintiff constantly asking for a speedy trial for over 4… -6.5
24-6463 Noel Vincent Thomas v. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, et al. Florida Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof failure-to-state-claim pleading-standards res-judicata statute-of-limitations trial-court-discretion 1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S CASE FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM OR INSUFFICIENT PLEADING, EXPIRATION … -6.5
24-6520 Lalako Jonathan Jose v. Arizona Arizona Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. -6.5
24-6524 Robert Annabel, II v. Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency dismissal judicial-discretion pleading-amendment pro-se Are Courts allowed to disregard heightened pleading standards and disregard Rooker-Feldman doctrine to avoid analysis of a prisoner's First Amendment … -6.5
24-6532 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention 1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when: A. … -6.5
24-6609 Barry Morris v. Rob Jeffreys Illinois Denied Response WaivedIFP None Question not identified. -6.5
24-6646 Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… -6.5
24-6665 Craig LaFayette Stingley v. John Laczkowski, et al. Wisconsin Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice non-economic-damages state-action I. Petitioner respectfully asserts that this SCOTUS will recognize these questions expose an "Unconstitutional and Discriminatory " matter of national… -6.5
24-6716 Deepak Deshpande v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 (1) . Wat is the peeper mamer of ensuring flat the remedy offered in the name of section 2255 las bean adequate and effective to test the legality of … -6.5
24-6719 Stanley Ray Lubkin v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP None I. Whether an erroneous application of the ACCA enhanced penalty constitutes a sentence imposed in excess of the statutory maximum penalty. II. Wheth… -6.5
24-6720 Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment DO THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AFFORD CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AT LEAST THE SAME BURDEN OF PROOF FOR EXTRANEOUS OFFENS… -6.5
24-6729 Justin Lang Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility drug-offense felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether section 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban for possessing a firearm violates the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner? 2. Can a district court … -6.5
24-6730 Richard David Degout v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process first-step-act sentencing-reduction This Court should GVR tnis case to the lower court to aadress whether the procedural protections enshrined m the Due Process of Law allows a criminal … -6.5
24-6737 Carlsel Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines (1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by persons previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of imprisonment, codified … -6.5
24-6738 Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop 1. The Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that officers had reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry stop and frisk based on ambiguous and subjective… -6.5
24-6743 Andre Ricardo Roach v. United States Fourth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals federal-custody judicial-review sentencing-procedure state-custody Weather the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by failing to consider this Court's opinion in Hughes v. United States v. United States. II. Weath… -6.5
24-6747 Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States Seventh Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP cbd-legalization constitutional-rights drug-sniffing-dogs fourth-amendment privacy-expectation warrantless-search Whether a warrantless sniff by a dog trained to reliably alert to legal possessions constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. -6.5
24-6749 Foster Lee Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence intent-determination mens-rea 1. Does the two officer's testimony at trial, particularly Sergeant Helms' testimony establish the required mens rea for the offense? 2. How does the… -6.5
24-6752 Adonis Batista v. United States Tenth Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury in his drug conspiracy trial foun… -6.5
24-6753 John Martin v. United States Second Circuit Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… -6.5