| 25-6896 |
Dylan Jerelle Pettyjohn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit facial-challenge felon-in-possession-of-firearm second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit has held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is facially constitutional? |
| 25-6879 |
King Belin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-preservation constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession-of-firearm firearm-regulation second-amendment |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied
to a defendant whose prior conviction is not accompanied by any
judicial finding that … |
| 25-6870 |
Marcellus M. Cheatham v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-1001 |
United States v. Briani L. Doucet |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-challenge drug-offense felon-in-possession firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… |
| 25-6868 |
Ronald Sylvester Finney, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-961 |
Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale |
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
On October 3, 2025 this Court granted the petition for certiorari in Pung v. Isabella Cty., Mich. Case No. 25-95 ("Pung ") where … |
| 25-6771 |
Kionnataya Shevil Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment |
Does the lifetime criminalization of any convicted felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6761 |
Kennan Alexis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation non-violent-drug-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially or as applied to individuals who, like Petitioner, only have felony convic… |
| 25A896 |
Homewood Associates Inc., et al. v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia |
Georgia |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge land-use-restriction municipal-ordinance property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 25-935 |
United States v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-conviction federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… |
| 25-6750 |
Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit |
Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-6732 |
Daniel Delgado v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge bruen-standard constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment |
Section 922(g)(1) of title 18, U.S.C., imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or… |
| 25-6729 |
Antwaun O. Heaggeans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6721 |
Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect |
I. Fourth Amendment: Warrant and Entry Defects
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause
requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues… |
| 25-6698 |
Dalando T. Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6677 |
John Wayne Morgan, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25-881 |
Christopher Hadsell v. Catherine Isham |
California |
2026-01-23 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-challenge court-access due-process fundamental-rights judicial-procedure vexatious-litigant |
1. Are States'! Vexatious-Litigant Law ("States' VL Law'), and specifically, California's VexatiousLitigant Law ("CA VL Law', Cal. Code Civ. Proc.? §§… |
| 25-6652 |
Jarmarl Thornton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6648 |
Nathan Bermea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) , the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exc… |
| 25-872 |
Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places |
Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 … |
| 25-6606 |
Robert Paul Rosell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6523 |
Dennis Martin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6460 |
Brad O'Neal Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment on its face or as applied to Petitioner. |
| 25-6435 |
Lenny Reyes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6433 |
Avis Coward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-752 |
Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process midwife-practice rational-basis-review rule-12(b)(6) separation-of-powers |
1. Does rational basis review permit courts, at the Rule 12(b)(6) stage, to treat plaintiffs' well-pleaded factual allegations as irrelevant?
2. Does… |
| 25-6428 |
Joshua A. Sottile v. City of Portland, Oregon |
Oregon |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-regulation heller-precedent public-carry second-amendment |
Whether a law that criminalizes carrying a loaded firearm in public, subject to exceptions raised only as affirmative defenses, violates the Second Am… |
| 25-6427 |
Devin Joe Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25A731 |
Michael Thomas McCowan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
|
922(g)(1) constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 25-735 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
congressional-acts constitutional-challenge district-court-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
Did the Veterans' Judicial Review Act strip district courts of the jurisdiction, recognized by this Court in Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361 (1974), … |
| 25-734 |
Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky, New York State Board of Elections Co-Executive Director and Chief Election Official |
New York |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge judicial-review mootness natural-born-citizen presidential-eligibility supreme-court-doctrine |
WHETHER, in this U.S. Constitution, Article II, §1, Clause 5 "natural born Citizen " challenge to the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the U… |
| 25-6403 |
Miguel Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felony-possession gun-rights permanent-disarmament second-amendment |
Petitioner Miguel Abreu possessed a gun only because, during a dispute, he disarmed another person and then retreated. Because he had two prior felony… |
| 25-6401 |
Frankie Centeno v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure felony-conviction gun-rights second-amendment supervised-release |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its
face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with theSecond Amendment, the federal… |
| 25-6393 |
Cortez D. Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-6382 |
Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Mr. Walls review, based solely on undue delay, despite the primary basis for his challenge —records r… |
| 25-6371 |
Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment—either on its face or as a… |
| 25-6368 |
Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Luis Garza-Gomez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to po… |
| 25-6375 |
Eddie White, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment —either on its face or as … |
| 25-6313 |
Owen Zachary Simonson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impriso… |
| 25-6311 |
Christopher Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-decision constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), rendered Mr… |
| 25-6285 |
Rudy Altamirano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-6281 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional as applied to Mr. Dubois, because it … |
| 25A642 |
Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25A615 |
Tessa Needham, et al. v. Merck & Company, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power non-severability presentment-clause separation-of-powers vaccine-act |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6217 |
Christopher Wuchter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance facial-unconstitutionality firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), which prohibits firearm possession by any unlawful user of a controlled substance, is facially unconstitutional under t… |
| 25A607 |
Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6189 |
Javonte Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6161 |
James Capers v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard apprendi-rule constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement |
1) In regards to 21 U.S.C. §846, to be in accordance with both Apprendi
and Alleyne , to punish as 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(A) (10 to life), must
the ju… |
| 25-6153 |
Marco Antonio Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Below, Petitioner Marco Antonio Sanchez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a … |
| 25A561 |
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al. v. Lauren Sanchez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Dismissed |
|
california-law commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-challenge emissions-reporting first-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6129 |
Paul Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearms-rights gun-control second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, on its face or as applied to Petitioner, because the Se… |
| 25-6108 |
Johnathan Anton Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute permanently prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 25-6107 |
Davon Amos Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-6106 |
Rico Gonzalez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament gun-rights nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-6105 |
Brittany Lyn Isaacson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Ms. Isaacson, in light of New York State… |
| 25-6098 |
Elston Bone v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-challenge intermediate-scrutiny new-york-rifle-bruen state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Federal District Court have subject matter jurisdiction, over a Plaintiff who brings a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, and presents an indepen… |
| 25-6079 |
James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-10 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is the lifetime ban on firearms possession by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 25-6077 |
In Re Brian William Schumaker |
|
2025-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion |
I. Unless and until, notice of acceptance of jurisdiction is given WHETHER federal courts are without jurisdiction to punish under criminal lews of th… |
| 25-6064 |
Marcus Gerrod Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25A519 |
Bristol Myers Squibb Company v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge drug-pricing fifth-amendment first-amendment inflation-reduction-act medicare-drug-negotiation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6026 |
Martino Antwion Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-541 |
Benjamin Schoenthal, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
citizens-rights constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation fourteenth-amendment public-transportation second-amendment |
Whether Illinois' flat ban on ordinary citizens carrying firearms on public transportation violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. |
| 25-6027 |
Deondre Lamont Bain v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25A504 |
Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense |
Question not identified. |
| 25A502 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Application |
|
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5976 |
Henry Leon Marrow, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5952 |
Theo M. Owens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5944 |
Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce 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… |
| 25-5931 |
Caleb Campbell v. Officer Terry Pruitt, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process procedural-grounds state-court |
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| 25-5925 |
Tracy Jenkins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-ban |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year v… |
| 25-5920 |
Donald Otis Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge death-penalty first-degree-murder legislative-expansion proportionality-review |
Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of the applicability of our statute's "aggravating factors" requirements, Section 921.141(6), Florida Stat… |
| 25-5916 |
Luis Espinal v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-469 |
Heriberto Carbajal-Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge firearm-possession noncitizen-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which prohibits
firearm possession by all unlawfully present
noncitizens, is unconstitutional on its face underth… |
| 25-451 |
Faytima Howard v. Macomb County, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge just-compensation property-rights state-procedure takings-clause tax-foreclosure |
1. Does the government violate the Takings Clause's "categorical duty" to pay just compensation for property taken in excess of the taxes, fees, and p… |
| 25-5867 |
James Bradley Vlha v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-regulation gun-rights manufacturing-license second-amendment |
Whether the statute prohibiting manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license, 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A), is constitutional pursuant to the S… |
| 25-5849 |
Darvin W. Gray v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. The handwritten or heavily corrupted te… |
| 25-425 |
Steven Duarte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)'s categorical ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent … |
| 25-5825 |
Laterrence Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5772 |
Rudy Mario Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5770 |
Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard |
1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 25-5755 |
Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Granted |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction |
1. Whether or Not the Eleventh (11th) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of… |
| 25-5748 |
She Ler Yer Lee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession precedential-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Lee's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso… |
| 25-5747 |
Sidney Donnell Kimble v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5722 |
Isaiah Kahlil Wise v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge felon-disarmament firearm-possession historical-tradition second-amendment |
Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-356 |
Steven P. Mancuso v. New York |
New York |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense |
The first question is whether New York's Penal Law § 265.03(3), § 265.02(1) and § 265.01-b(1), which prohibit the ownership of a firearm in the home o… |
| 25-5717 |
Raul Acosta v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge federal-law felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25A339 |
Devin W. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5697 |
Desmond Copeland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5695 |
Frank Deonta Leopaul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5678 |
Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1). |
| 25-5672 |
Basaaly Saeed Moalin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
business-records constitutional-challenge ex-parte-review fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance-act |
(1) Whether a United States Court of Appeals may avoid ruling on a constitutional challenge to a statute implicating Fourth Amendment concerns if it d… |
| 25-325 |
Robert L. Fooks v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession maryland-law second-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Maryland Code, Public Safety Article, § 5-133(b)(2), which provides that "a person may not possess a firearm if the person has been convicted … |
| 25-5668 |
Matthew Chambliss Coleman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5667 |
Antonio Deante Town v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5637 |
Jeffrey Michel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-test constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense |
Pursuant to the Second Amendment analysis dictated by New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), and clarified by United S… |
| 25-5658 |
Devontae Lamont Royal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5657 |
Pierre Demetrius Redd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5655 |
Walter Lavelle Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5634 |
Shawn M. Robertson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5624 |
Nathaniel J. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5626 |
Andrew Chafin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment |
Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two … |
| 25-5627 |
Lennie Edward Coles, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5614 |
Franklin Jerome Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-275 |
Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention |
Does the "bad faith" exception to Younger preemption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions a… |
| 25-5597 |
Joseph Carroll Bush, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5599 |
Raymond Lamont Seward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5601 |
John Edward Mason, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5603 |
Germaine Edward Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-252 |
Jalina Fluellen v. David Krasn, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Rehearing |
|
administrative-procedure-act article-iii-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure rule-5.1 |
1. Whether the District Court violated Rule 5.1 and due process by dismissing a constitutional challenge to Local Rule 26.1 without notifying the stat… |
| 25-5550 |
Jermaine Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face or as applied to Petitioner because, consistent with the Second Amendment, the federal g… |
| 25-5554 |
Marcus J. Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5535 |
Jason Daniel Carbajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment facially?
2. Does § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment as applied to individuals with conviction… |
| 25-5518 |
Dejuan Dion Bruner v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge domestic-violence firearm-possession misdemeanor permanent-disarmament second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which imposes a lifetime prohibition on firearm possession by anyone convicted of a domestic-violence misdemeanor, is c… |
| 25-5519 |
Demario D. Henderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5503 |
Bobby Nathaniel Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5477 |
Cornell Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 25-5482 |
Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5467 |
Patrick Lee Adams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment. |
| 25-5471 |
Jakari Alexander Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-219 |
Jay Warren Arnold v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Is the statute under which the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed petitioner's application for writ of habeas corpus, Texas Code of Criminal Pr… |
| 25-5433 |
Jon Jesse Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5434 |
Christian Lamont Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Pending |
Relisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5437 |
Sequan Anthony Fowler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5438 |
Tamonte Finney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5439 |
Naim Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5441 |
Azontay Malik Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5443 |
Donovan L. Crews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5424 |
Kiyel Tyquello Kearney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5415 |
Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25-5417 |
Shalik Rasheem Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-199 |
Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN FEDERAL BASEBALL CLUB OF BALTIMORE V. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS, 259 U.S. 200 (1922) AND ITS… |
| 25-5388 |
Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5393 |
Ross Farca v. California |
California |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment |
I. Is California's Assault Weapon Control Act: §30605, §30600, §30800 & §30950 constitutional, especially when Prosecution "Firearm Expert" conceded t… |
| 25-5382 |
Meleke Osborne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a ny felony violates the Second Amendme… |
| 25-5358 |
Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense |
The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of … |
| 25-5347 |
Daniel Lee Lusk, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 25-5319 |
Timothy L. Elliott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5301 |
Mario Leequan Thorne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 25-5263 |
Marvin Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25-5228 |
Geber Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face.
2. Whether the govern… |
| 25A98 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-procedure habeas-corpus mandamus pro-se-litigant statutory-certification |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5170 |
Mark Richard Walters v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud? |
| 25-67 |
Abhijit Bagal v. Kshama Sawant, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge federal-court injury-in-fact judicial-review legal-standing standing |
1. What constitutes a cognizable injury to establish standing in a federal court to challenge an unconstitutional law?
2. Whether a geographical conn… |
| 25-5124 |
Jacob Graves v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Graves' conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol As… |
| 25-5132 |
Jennifer Murphey v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment freedom-of-thought treaty-enforcement war-on-drugs |
1. Whether I have standing to challenge the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, which are int… |
| 25-5107 |
Markos Pappas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention |
1. Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 ("BRA ") is facially unconstitutional, and/or unconstitutional as-applied to Petitioner in this case based (ind… |
| 25-21 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bankruptcy-law constitutional-challenge first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers student-loans |
1. Can federal courts, consistent with the Consti
tution, assume legislative authority by creating fed
eral common law on judicial immunity, filing re… |
| 25-5049 |
DaJohn M. Hymes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 25A17 |
Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5034 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State Ri… |
| 25-5009 |
Joshua Willis v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-5027 |
Gregory Stevens v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-5021 |
Dajavan Speaks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge gun-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment self-defense |
1) Is § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to an individual when he was a victim of a drive by shooting and has been convicted of a non-violent pre… |
| 25-8 |
Matthew Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness |
I.
Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible
right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague.
II.
Whether th… |
| 24-1328 |
United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24A1294 |
Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7507 |
Osmar Alexis Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7491 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
1. In a method-of-execution challenge based on the Eighth Amendment, does this Court's jurisprudence require lower courts to assess the substantiality… |
| 24-7479 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Michael Reger, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process recidivist-statute residual-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a
state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crime… |
| 24-1290 |
Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation |
1. Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly… |
| 24A1249 |
Andrew Charles Beard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence cyberstalking direct-appeal plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1276 |
California Association for the Preservation of Gamefowl v. Stanislaus County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge property-rights regulatory-taking statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether a statute of limitations for facial constitutional challenges begins to run solely from the date of enactment, or whether each day of conti… |
| 24-7417 |
Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7419 |
Cardari Bradley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7425 |
Joshua Sutherland v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment?
Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment? |
| 24-7398 |
Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7400 |
Brandon Lee Mayfield v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-firearms-law second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Mr. Mayfield's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol… |
| 24A1217 |
Ryan Daniel Richmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge controlled-substances-act federal-taxation marijuana-taxation state-legal-marijuana |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1247 |
United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1248 |
United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1249 |
United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Pending |
Relisted (3) |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7378 |
Margarita Leanos v. Allen Dills, Warden |
Georgia |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge discriminatory-evidence gang-membership ineffective-assistance witness-testimony |
I WAS IT INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL OF APPELLATE COUNSELS FAILURE TO ARGUE THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILURE TO ARGUE THE ADMISSIO… |
| 24-7334 |
Brandon Rashaad Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession individual-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of a felony violates the Second Amendment,… |
| 24-7296 |
Karen Hylton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge judicial-discretion legal-error pro-se-plaintiff sentencing-appeal victim-rights |
1. Common grounds for appeal include legal errors, procedural errors, new evidence, inadequate representation, and unreasonable prejudice. When the pl… |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Appellant respectfully requests the Court to determine the applicability of Oregon Revised Statute 14.270. Appellant finds ORS 14.270 to be in vio… |
| 24-7286 |
Christopher Glen Mason v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7279 |
Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination |
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| 24-7253 |
William Danta Toney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7232 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-as-applied gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-7188 |
Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for being an unlawful user of marijuana in possession of a firearm, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), must be vacated be… |
| 24-1155 |
Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Relisted (8) |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent… |
| 24-1147 |
Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners, who sought a declaratory judgment under the Declaratory Judgment Act tha… |
| 24-7141 |
Kerry D. Gayfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7143 |
Kelvin Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7153 |
Melvin Clay Blake, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7124 |
Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in their ruling alleging Rodger's brief in support of his motion to proceed inform a pauperis fails to identify disput… |
| 24-1100 |
Ashu Joshi v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment |
1. Whether the federal prosecution of Petitioner for sexual exploitation of a minor under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251(a), 2423(a), and 2252A(a)(2) is unconstitu… |
| 24-7051 |
Gmerrio Underwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24A1003 |
Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
age-restrictions constitutional-challenge firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment state-emergency |
1. This case involves a Second Amendment challenge to provisions of Pennsylvania law which prohibit under-21-year-olds from openly carrying firearms w… |
| 24-6996 |
Deonta Damon Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6984 |
Tyrone Woodson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment state-law |
Does Fla. Stat. § 790.23(1) and (1)(a), which makes it "unlawful for any person to own or to have in his or her care, custody, possession, or control … |
| 24-1070 |
Conghua Yan v. Mark A. Taylor, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal District Office Investigator, Tarrant County, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure district-attorney first-amendment government-policy petition-rights |
This petition addresses an unpublished dismissal of a constitutional challenge to a goyernment. barring Petitioner and everyone from filing individual… |
| 24-6974 |
Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence |
I. WHETHER THE IL STATE ACCOUNTABILITY LAW AT THE TIME OF PET ITIONER'S CONVICTION WHICH OMITTED "MERE PRESENCE" NOT BEI NG SUFFICIENT TO CONVICT WAS … |
| 24-1063 |
Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Granted |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights |
1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 24-6936 |
Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac… |
| 24-6897 |
Joshua Michael Faust v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6788 |
Shannon Lamon Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6791 |
Ladarrell C. Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6793 |
Steve Dismore v. Kentucky Parole Board, et al. |
Kentucky |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto garner-v-jones kentucky-law parole-eligibility |
I. Does the fact that Kentucky treats parole as "a matter of grace or gift to persons deemed eligibl e" exempt rules relating to the timing of Kentuck… |
| 24-6794 |
Ismael Moises Haynes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6782 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6737 |
Carlsel Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
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 … |
| 24-969 |
Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-challenge governmental-action judicial-relief officer-replacement presidential-power removal-restriction |
Whether, in order to obtain judicial relief, a party challenging governmental action taken by an individual who remained in office against the Preside… |
| 24-6711 |
Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. |
Kansas |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant |
Petition to review a "constitutional question".
Petitioner contends that the lower court 's decision has
incorrectly interpreted or applied a provis… |
| 24-6698 |
Joseph Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion |
1.) What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren 1s second prong. And, how to resolve if intertwined within the 'sys… |
| 24-6669 |
Gregory Stump v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-test constitutional-challenge firearm-possession second-amendment serial-number-obliteration statutory-interpretation |
Stump asks this Court to determine whether 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h), which prohibits possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, violates th… |
| 24-6623 |
LaMorris Allan French v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York St… |
| 24-6625 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-6582 |
Dajuan Martin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearm-possession second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face because it is… |
| 24-6569 |
Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 24-862 |
Michelle MacDonald v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Minnesota |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law judicial-candidates legal-qualification state-licensing |
Is an election law, requiring proof that judicial candidates have state law licenses in order to qualify as "learned in the law", pursuant to the Minn… |
| 24A773 |
Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights |
(1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv… |
| 24-6517 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 92 2(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term e… |
| 24-6533 |
Jon Anthony Schweder v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-jurisdiction double-jeopardy post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statute-of-limitations |
1. Can a failure to raise an argument at trial or on appeal — or in previous post-conviction proceedings — bar a criminal defendant from later challen… |
| 24-844 |
Joseph Srour v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge facial-unconstitutionality government-action judicial-review mootness vacatur |
Whether vacatur is proper where the government's voluntary conduct causes the case to become moot in the context of the review of a successful facial … |
| 24-6474 |
Leonard Morrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense |
Does the recent Supreme Court ruling in *Erlinger v. United States*, 602 U.S. (2024), render unconstitutional the enhancements imposed under the Armed… |
| 24-6476 |
Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-validity felon-rights firearms-possession second-amendment |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-833 |
Aklilu Yohannes v. Olympic Collection Inc. (OCI), et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process garnishment-statute pre-deprivation-hearing property-seizure state-actor |
In the District Courts of Washington, creditors' attorneys may issue writs of garnishment on behalf of the court, and for the benefit of their client.… |
| 24-821 |
Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
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… |
| 24-6427 |
Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5).
2. Whether … |
| 24-6416 |
Carlos James Meeks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-781 |
First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey |
Third Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Granted |
Amici (52)Relisted (10) |
constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction first-amendment investigatory-subpoena ripeness-doctrine state-court-proceedings |
Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights, is a federal court in a … |
| 24-792 |
Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing constitutional-challenge declaratory-relief injunctive-relief ministerial-capacity state-court-officials |
This is a case that, as in the Court's Whole Woman's Health proceeding, the state's actors, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit, claim that Petitioners cann… |
| 24-6374 |
James Clifford Goodwin, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion congressional-intent constitutional-challenge ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance restitution |
Whether it is an abuse of discretion and/or an usurpation of power to impose a judgment that does not adhere to the congressional mandates and/or requ… |
| 24A708 |
Donald J. Englert, II v. Reginald Bishop, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24A692 |
Edward Moses, Jr. v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2018 G-CTT |
Louisiana |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
|
banking-law constitutional-challenge foreclosure pro-se property-rights sovereign-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6270 |
Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101 (1) and MCA (46-22-101) (2) is drawn in question under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) on the ground of its bein… |
| 24-6282 |
Dominique Kevion Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-unconstitutionality hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statute of conviction, Title 18, Section 1951 (The Hobbs Act), is facially unconstitutional? |
| 24-6246 |
Benny Roe Stewart v. Jim Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute M.C.A. (46-22-101) (1) and
M.C.A. (46-22-101 (2) is drawn in question on the ground of its
being repugnant to the C… |
| 24A648 |
Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge extraterritorial-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause search-warrant |
Question not identified. |
| 24A629 |
National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-challenge second-circuit sports-league standing time-extension |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a consumer alleging disclosure of personal information to a single business entity, rather than to th… |
| 24A634 |
Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24A626 |
Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right |
Because it is a structural constitutional right, can any litigant for any reason agree, by waiver or can a State for any reason forfeit any litigant's… |
| 24A611 |
Ronnie Diaz, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearms-possession fundamental-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A599 |
Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process federalism regulatory-board state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6102 |
Cleate Wilson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24A558 |
Nicholas Paul Somberg v. Karen D. McDonald, Prosecutor, Oakland County Prosecutor's Office |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
chilling-effect constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment governmental-punishment pre-enforcement-standing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6089 |
Recardo Cartrell Pierce v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 24-6061 |
Chadwick Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, both on it… |
| 24-6063 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term… |
| 24A520 |
DeShaun L. Wells, et al. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-134 constitutional-challenge military-justice parker-v-levy service-discrediting ucmj |
Question not identified. |
| 24A501 |
Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing-doctrine vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5984 |
Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds |
In Mckaskle v. Wiggins, 05 U.S. 16% C1934), this Honorable Court held that [the prose _defendadt must be. allowed to control. the organi zation _ond_c… |
| 24A483 |
Samuel Boima v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 24A476 |
Missouri, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-law legislative-findings standing state-resources tenth-amendment |
Whether the United States has standing to enjoin a Missouri statute that is enforced only by private parties (and only against local state political e… |
| 24-5951 |
Manuel Moya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Because the restriction contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) implicates the right to bear arms and lacks historical analog, is the lifetime ban of poss… |
| 24-5866 |
Edward Moses v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-sanctions clearly-erroneous-standard constitutional-challenge federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity tribal-recognition |
On March 15, 2024, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held that, Edward Moses, Jr., a lawyer who has proclaimed himself "Emperor of the A… |
| 24A407 |
Susan Beals, Commissioner, et al. v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
ballot-access constitutional-challenge election-law immigrant-voting voter-registration voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-467 |
Christopher Hadsell v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-10-25 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts constitutional-challenge due-process fundamental-rights state-interest vexatious-litigant |
1. Is California's Vexatious Litigant Law ("CA VL Law", Cal. Code Civ. Proc.! §§391-391.8) unconstitutional facially because it is not narrowly tailor… |
| 24A396 |
Eric Dean Sheppard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
|
bail-pending-appeal constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal irreparable-harm prison-sentence substantial-question |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5786 |
Mark Allen Craig, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-420 |
Bill H. Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-trade-commission private-enforcement rulemaking-authority |
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 3051-3060, delegates broad enforcement powers over regulated parties in the horseracing industr… |
| 24-414 |
Reuben Larson v. CommunityWorks North Dakota, et al. |
North Dakota |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure brief-requirements constitutional-challenge court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-due-process |
Is a rule of court unconstitutional which mandates that an appeal brief cannot exceed a certain number of pages, and which mandates that the appellant… |
| 24-5745 |
Brian Broussard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-knowledge constitutional-challenge due-process probable-cause seizure warrantless-search |
1) Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional and, as such, fails to provide
probable cause for detaining an American Citizen.
2) To what extent… |
| 24-5746 |
In Re Trey Tarell Bradley |
|
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus self-representation state-court-procedure |
Can a State summarily deny a defendant's right to self-representation and subsequently bar a constitutional challenge to such because of the defendant… |
| 24-5748 |
LaVanzel Kerr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure firearms-statute sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
L. May a district court apply a U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6) enhancement without resolving a defendant's affirmative defense claim?
II. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(… |
| 24-5744 |
Andre Michael Dubois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process felony-ban firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), unconstitutional on its face, because it is permanent … |
| 24-5730 |
In Re Carlos Martinez |
|
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law |
Whether the indeterminacy of the wide-ranging inquiry required by the determinative clause in subdivision (A) of California Penal Code Section 170.14,… |
| 24-373 |
Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al v. Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-challenge firearms-regulation gun-rights handgun-license maryland-law second-amendment |
Whether Maryland's Handgun Qualification License Requirement violates the Second Amendment. |
| 24-5690 |
Rayzjaun Curry v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment |
Is the federal statute criminalizing the possession of a firearm by a felon unconstitutional, either on its face or as applied, because it violates th… |
| 24A309 |
Patricia Weiss v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge declaratory-decree judicial-abstention subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Cana person obtain that "declaratory decree" in a federal court where a State Judge, and a State, are named defendants and the "declaratory decree"… |
| 24-5560 |
Adam Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24A277 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-269 |
Lydia Olson, et al. v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge failure-to-state-claim hypothetical-facts judicial-review pleading-standard rational-basis-review |
Whether a court may dismiss for failure to state a claim a constitutional challenge to a law subject to rational-basis review based on hypothetical fa… |
| 24-5506 |
Rustam Yusupov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation unlawful-possession |
1. Whether Rustam Yusupov's conviction for unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment?
2. Whether th… |
| 24A253 |
Kent Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge contempt-proceeding emergency-relief injunctive-stay pro-se state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24A241 |
John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus |
Does a South Carolina Supreme Court's Decision Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio… |
| 24-5470 |
Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5437 |
Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
1.) Whether a criminal defendant should be allowed to seek
judicial review of a criminal statute for constitutional
infringement if he seeks only dec… |
| 24A222 |
Oscar Stilley v. John Thurston, Secretary of State of Arkansas, et al. |
Arkansas |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
|
ballot-access ballot-initiative constitutional-challenge election-law supreme-court-review voter-standing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-219 |
In Re Warren Petersen, et al. |
|
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge high-ranking-officials legislative-intervention legislative-privilege morgan-doctrine state-law |
(1) Whether, in a private civil action challenging the
constitutionality of a state law, the leaders of a state
legislature waive the legislative priv… |
| 24-5406 |
Michael Hoeft v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and (9), the statutes prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of: (1) crimes punishable by imprisonment … |
| 24-5404 |
Mani Panoam Deng v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge drug-use firearm-prohibition guilty-plea menna-blackledge-doctrine second-amendment |
1. Under this Court's Menna-Blackledge doctrine, where a challenger's constitutional "claim is that the [Government] may not convict [him] no matter h… |
| 24-5376 |
Donald Davis Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment |
L 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… |
| 24-5328 |
Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge eighth-circuit felon-in-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-154 |
Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-08-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (43)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption |
1. Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the or… |
| 24-5315 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24-144 |
Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance |
Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes any verbal act that resists, hinders, impedes, or interferes with a law enforcement officer is facially i… |
| 24A164 |
Republican National Committee, et al. v. Mi Familia Vota, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
ballot-drop-box constitutional-challenge election-law election-procedures state-regulation voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5298 |
Jose Rosado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Rosado, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5258 |
Lance James Talbot v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5261 |
Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment |
L 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… |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very
contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This
prohibition cannot be applied literally … |
| 24A126 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-discretion state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5194 |
George Henry Purdy, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente… |
| 24-5126 |
Michael J. Brillon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge As-Applied-Unconstitutionality Bruen bruen-decision constitutional-challenge conviction-review Due-Process facial-challenge Facial-Unconstitutionality Felons second-amendment |
This Court should grant certiorari because this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) rendered Mr.… |
| 24-5101 |
Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L 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… |
| 24-5103 |
David Thomas Overman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
L 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… |
| 24-5112 |
Austin Wayne Massey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment |
L. 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 pas… |
| 24-5087 |
Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment |
1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defenda… |
| 24-5034 |
Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional |
Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of ,
Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for
sexual offenders fo… |
| 24-5005 |
Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii |
Hawaii |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority best-interest best-interests burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge due-process family-law federal-funding state-sovereignty |
1. The State of Hawai 'i abandoned its jurisdiction and state sovereignty in
Domestic Relations and family court law when it willingly accepted federa… |
| 23-7772 |
Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies |
Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY?
730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,… |
| 23A1142 |
Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. |
Louisiana |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1319 |
B. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1. Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider that their interpretation of Statute § 39.8155 is unconstitutional as- applied when it contradicts … |
| 23A1120 |
Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-challenge first-amendment legislative-representation redistricting writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7727 |
Everett G. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was co… |
| 23-7728 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), prohibiting an unlawful user from possessing a firearm, is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 23-7689 |
Ardis Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing |
L 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… |
| 23A1101 |
Richard Rynn v. Craig Jennings, Judge, Avondale City Court |
Arizona |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge employment-dispute pro-se state-court-remedies workplace-injunction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7688 |
Chaves Hodges v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-1290 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or… |
| 23-1280 |
Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (15)Relisted (8) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process gender-identity parental-rights school-district-policy school-policy standing standing-doctrine student-privacy |
When a school district adopts an explicit policy to usurp parental decision-making authority over a major health-related decision—and to conceal this … |
| 23-7660 |
Michael Steven Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing 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… |
| 23-7653 |
Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing 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… |
| 23A1068 |
Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bruen-standard constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-regulation prior-precedent second-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1070 |
Thomas George Stanko v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7554 |
Rawtavious Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7500 |
Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute |
Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I.
Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti… |
| 23-7501 |
Maurice Farris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is un constitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol … |
| 23-1211 |
E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-discovery federal-claims fraud judicial-notice prima-facie-evidence rule-60-motion standing void-order |
Petitioner presents the following questions to this Court and asserts all below should be answered in the affirmative:
1. Whether the Court below mis… |
| 23-1202 |
Ellingson Drainage, Inc. v. South Dakota Department of Revenue |
South Dakota |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge external-consistency fair-apportionment movable-equipment sales-tax state-tax-credits state-taxation use-tax |
Whether South Dakota's imposition of an unapportioned use tax on the fair market value of Petitioner's movable construction equipment —some of which w… |
| 23A999 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7401 |
Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings |
L 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… |
| 23-7402 |
Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23A992 |
David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights |
I. Whether the "due process of law" clause of Amendment XIV gives a local government the burden to secure state judicial approval for its official dep… |
| 23A985 |
Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1177 |
Eric Fisher v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law |
Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli… |
| 23-7349 |
Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7305 |
Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L 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… |
| 23-7293 |
Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
GVR |
IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State… |
| 23-7259 |
In Re Quelyory A. Rigal |
|
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process factual-innocence materiality-threshold newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-juror totality-of-the-evidence |
Whether newly discovered evidence, which directly undermines the reliability of the petitioner's conviction and establishes a plausible claim of factu… |
| 23-7235 |
Troy Dontae Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment 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… |
| 23-7166 |
Charles Edward Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness |
Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7174 |
Richard Lee David Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence |
1. Whether the admission of two prior drug convictions for the purpose of arguing in closing that "[t]he defendant possessed that crack cocaine, and h… |
| 23-7179 |
Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. 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 pas… |
| 23-7181 |
Austin Drake Day v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. 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 pas… |
| 23-7160 |
John Michael Carrasco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. 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 pas… |
| 23A881 |
Linda Baldwin v. Robert Pitman, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1053 |
Cletus Woodrow Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-state agency-authority civil-procedure constitutional-challenge jurisdictional-dispute kelo non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers takings |
Whether this Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge to the constitutional authority of an agency was properly filed in district court, or whether an agency… |
| 23-7045 |
Carol Ann McBratnie v. Charles Paul Rettig, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
26-usc-7436 28-usc-2680c administrative-procedures-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process federal-payment-levy-program federal-tort-claims-act gross-negligence irs-administrative-remedy tax-court-jurisdiction |
What does the jurisdictional checkbox on Tax Court Form 2 represent ? Is it restricted to
26 USC §7436 and businesses only, or do workers such as McBr… |
| 23-7055 |
Jacob Lyon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver |
1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23A850 |
Benjamin F. Whiteman v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual due-process habitual-offender mandatory-minimum sentencing-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7018 |
Julian Ash v. Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights consolidation-of-cases constitutional-challenge due-process federal-agency government-oversight personnel-management title-v-exemption whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation |
1. In the Interest of Public Safety and Public Trust should the Title V Exemption extended to the Federal Aviation Administration from the Office of P… |
| 23-7001 |
Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings |
L 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… |
| 23-7006 |
Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. |
Kentucky |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation |
1. De Novo: Whether the Supreme Court 's decision, affirmed the
Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law
finding Porter … |
| 23-1011 |
Philip C. James, et al. v. Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacities as Comptroller of Texas, Chairman of the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, and Administrator of Texas Unclaimed Property Funds, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process ex-parte-young property-rights standing standing-injury state-enforcement takings texas unclaimed-property |
1. Petitioners' assets were escheated to the State under the Texas Unclaimed Property Act and the State currently has physical possession of their pro… |
| 23-6973 |
Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings |
L 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… |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-990 |
George Dunbar Prewitt, Jr. v. Yazoo County, Mississippi |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction racial-equality reconstruction-acts removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction three-judge-court voting-rights |
1. Whether the district court and the 5th circuit panel acted in the total absence of subject matter jurisdiction by illegally assuming the subject ma… |
| 23-6940 |
Michael Marrara, et al. v. Philip D. Murphy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus preiser-doctrine preiser-v-rodriguez section-1983 time-credits unconstitutional-legislation |
Preiser v. Rodriguez , 411 U.S. 475, 487-88 (1973) held that claims seeking the restoration
of time credits were not cognizable in a § 1983 action, m… |
| 23-6879 |
Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law |
1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be… |
| 23-6869 |
Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending Un… |
| 23-6850 |
Eric Michael Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. 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 pas… |
| 23-6842 |
Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment bruen-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment standing |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 23-6830 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection |
Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h… |
| 23-6831 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
clemency clemency-hearing constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process false-evidence harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct |
(1) Does the State's intentional presentation of false evidence at a clemency hearing violate due process?
(2) Under what circumstances, if any, does… |
| 23-6816 |
Wayne Resper v. YesCare Corp., fka Corizon Health, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process election-law election-procedures federal-court removal standing state-court voting-rights |
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| 23-6769 |
Derrick Durrell Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
1. 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 pas… |
| 23A757 |
Breon Hicks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge controlled-substance due-process firearm-possession second-amendment unlawful-user |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6732 |
Seth Conner Wells v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration pursuant to Section 960.293 Florida Statutes is an unconstitutionally excessive fine as app… |
| 23-6693 |
In Re John Waldon |
|
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
all-writs-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-violation discretionary-denial due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review remedy standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23A720 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6658 |
Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing |
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| 23-6602 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 23-6584 |
David E. Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech nlrb-sanctions standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IS INCONSISTENT WITH NLRB v. BECK CONSTRUCTION CO., 536 U.S. 516 (2002) AND CEMETERY v. MARBURY, 536 U.S. 903 (2… |
| 23A683 |
Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-challenge education-funding establishment-clause first-amendment parent-advocacy school-choice |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6539 |
In Re Jesse James Corbin-Bey |
|
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto extraordinary-relief federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus imprisonment slavery state-court-jurisdiction |
1.) Should this Court use the power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Petitioner who has no other available forum to raise his Compelling claims… |
| 23A665 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-762 |
Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments |
Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be … |
| 23-770 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court |
Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
Does Rooker… |
| 23-772 |
David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court |
Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supre… |
| 23-6470 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional |
(1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section… |
| 23-708 |
Chava Rachel Mark, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of T. B. M., R. L. M., and E. B. M., Minors, et al. v. Republic of Sudan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
consolidated-appropriations-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act judicial-review settlement-agreement state-sponsored-terrorism subject-matter-jurisdiction sudan-sponsored-terrorism |
1. Whether, as the D.C. Circuit held, the SCRA stripped the courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to the rest of the settlement or the… |
| 23A583 |
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6276 |
Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition |
Is a habeas petition "second or successive" when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi… |
| 23-6236 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition |
In light of the plain language contained in 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1), which requires any claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus "applicat… |
| 23-627 |
Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation |
1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania "mask mandate" moot when the restriction is capable of repetition yet so short in duration tha… |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6170 |
Edell Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 23A485 |
Cletus Bohon, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge jurisdiction-stripping land-condemnation legislative-power non-delegation separation-of-powers |
Whether Landowners are likely to prevail on jurisdiction over this structural Non-Delegation Doctrine challenge in light of this Court's unanimous 9-0… |
| 23A469 |
Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge federal-court gender-affirming-care legislative-standing preliminary-injunction state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6077 |
Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence |
If the state conceded that its medical examiner falsified evidence in the autopsy procedure of several cases, then Robinson discovered that the same e… |
| 23A450 |
Franklin S. Tiegs, et al. v. Montana Department of Revenue |
Montana |
2023-11-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process net-operating-loss nonresident-income tax-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6035 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6010 |
James Woo v. Jose Angel Baez, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-review civil-rights colorado-statute constitutional-challenge due-process expert-review expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff negligence-claims professional-conduct standing |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in holding that the certificate of review requirement pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 13-2… |
| 23A429 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 23A402 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5933 |
Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(¢)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional in light of This Court's opinions in Dimaya and Johnson?
2. Whether Florida's… |
| 23-5934 |
Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment 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… |
| 23-455 |
United States v. Litsson Antonio Perez-Gallan |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge domestic-violence due-process firearms firearms-possession protective-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders, violates the Second… |
| 23-5909 |
Eric A. Zevely v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 article-iii-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction federal-criminal-conviction judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5876 |
Christian Lamar Porter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing 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… |
| 23-5883 |
Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis |
Because filing fees are not required for removal of a criminal action under [28 U.S.C.] § 1443, it is not necessary to grant Petitioner in forma paupe… |
| 23-5815 |
Emily Claire Hari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic |
Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5742 |
Joseph Michael Easton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing 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… |
| 23-5688 |
Angel Marie Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-justice criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement right-to-appeal |
This Court has recognized that an appeal waiver in a plea agreement cannot bar a challenge when a conviction, or sentence, is based on "constitutional… |
| 23-312 |
Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and re sentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convi… |
| 23-5645 |
Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18
U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int… |
| 23-291 |
Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention |
Whether Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioner's constitutional challen… |
| 23-5637 |
Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions |
Question #1:
Did the fifth Circuit err by denying a COA for failure to properly consider the F.R.C.P.60(b)(6)under the framework in which successive p… |
| 23-5639 |
Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard |
In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (… |
| 23-5613 |
Robert L. Allum v. Montana State Fund |
Montana |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-branch montana-constitution res-judicata state-court-structure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether an entity, in state government, can constitutionally exist and function, as "not simply an administrative law court functioning under the exec… |
| 23-5601 |
In Re Michael Kenny Carter |
|
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5485 |
Paul M. Poupart v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court statute-validity |
Whether LSA-R.S. 15:529.1, is unconstitutional to the rule of law. Whether the State of Louisiana and its legislative and judicial branch created and/… |
| 23-5419 |
Seth Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification |
Does the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have the authority and jurisdiction to change a sentence after 12 years that was ORALL… |
| 23-5424 |
Caesar V. Vaca v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment |
I. Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and
appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)
despite abundant legal support for… |
| 23-5344 |
Aaron Abadi v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process mootness mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-regulation standing standing-requirement vaccine-mandate |
1) Do the vaccine mandates instated by the City of New York exceed their authority and/or are they arbitrary and capricious? (This is not moot, as the… |
| 23-117 |
John Castro v. Donald J. Trump |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election election-law insurrection political-competition standing vote-diminution |
Does a political candidate have constitutional standing to challenge the eligibility of another political candidate who competes for the same nominati… |
| 23-5274 |
Wicahpe George Milk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression |
I. Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment.
II. Whether 18 U.… |
| 23-97 |
Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention |
1. Whether Younger v. Harvis, 401 U.S. 87 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional chal… |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5263 |
Steven Dewayne Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process felon-in-possession felons gun-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 Unites States Code section 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on
its face because it infringes on a felon's individual right to keep and bear
ar… |
| 23-5242 |
Rebecca Wu v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-classification constitutional-challenge constitutional-law employee-classification employee-misclassification equal-protection labor-law statutory-interpretation |
Is it unconstitutional to have an interpretation of a statute that creates an Arbitrary classification in violation of the constitution of the 14th Am… |
| 23-5161 |
Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)… |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
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| 23-5095 |
Marland Maynor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard … |
| 22-1225 |
Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (8) |
administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing |
1. Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (195… |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution and/or the … |
| 22-7674 |
John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1158 |
Lassana Magassa v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-challenge final-order jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping mcnary-v-haitian-refugee-ctr statutory-interpretation sts-redress-process |
Does agency rulemaking itself, like the STA Redress Process, constitute a final order under 49 U.S.C. § 46110, therefore stripping the district court … |
| 22-7665 |
Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
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| 22-7644 |
Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce 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… |
| 22-7524 |
Larry Carl Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce 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… |
| 22-7481 |
Anthony Allen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-representation cause-and-prejudice constitutional-challenge constitutional-sentencing ineffective-assistance smith-vs-bailey substantive-law successive-petition |
I. Whether appointed Appellate Counsel's missapprehended the .law and facts by failure to
brief and raise the following issues on appeal constitutes … |
| 22-7485 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 22-7465 |
Jogaak Jogaak v. Dan Sullivan, Warden |
South Dakota |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine violent-felony |
Is a Section 1983 action involved in SDC 22-1-2(WA)? Serious, why does the Eighth Amendment protect the right to life with what is SDC 22-1-2(B)? Does… |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement?
Double Jeopar… |
| 22-964 |
Kenneth Allen Pruitt v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge corruption default-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-corruption standing standing-doctrine ultra-vires uncac |
For Judicial efficiency to place Questions Presented in context, see Pruitt's Complaint [01/19/2021] ROA.8-47, para 83-84.
Pruitt squarely addressed … |
| 22-7190 |
Dante R. Voss v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection legal-loan-policy standing takings takings-clause |
1. WHETHER Voss's COMPLAINT STATES A CLAIM UPON WHICH RELIEF MAY BE GRANTED?
2. WHETHER 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD? |
| 22-7165 |
James Woo v. El Paso County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process governmental-immunity procedural-safeguards property-rights replevin takings |
1. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in holding that (I) the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act does not violate Petitioners Constitutional Fig… |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi… |
| 22-7115 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-support-enforcement congressional-research-service constitutional-challenge constitutional-interpretation federal-matching-grant federal-reimbursement federal-reimbursements open-ended-program reimbursement-rate state-matching-grant |
In the context of the federal CSE 1 reimbursement program, the Massachusetts
Legislature enacted an ambiguous interpretation 2 by implying a possible … |
| 22-7099 |
Dana Simmons v. Andrew Beshear, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 advisory-opinion civil-rights color-of-state-law constitutional-challenge due-process injunctive-relief section-1983 standing state-law summary-judgment |
Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America limits federal courts I.
to hearing the actual case or controversy before them. May lo… |
| 22-7022 |
LeAnthony T. Winston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-prosecution trial-in-absentia |
Question not identified. |
| 22-878 |
Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 |
First Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case
under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon
reopening, where the chapter 11 case was … |
| 22-6971 |
Joseph Dingler v. Terry Garrett, Sheriff, Rockwall County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-evidence preservation-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings tax |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6916 |
Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement |
L. The first question for this Court's review is whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate convictions that ar… |
| 22-6946 |
Clement Mosseri v. 7 West 21 LI LLC |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process government-immunity judicial-immunity legal-standing rule-of-law standing |
1. Judicial immunity and any other immunities by the government, its employees and officials conflict with the Constitution of the United States and i… |
| 22-6912 |
Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitution… |
| 22-827 |
Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
|
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12, Petitioners were permitted to bring a facial constitutional challenge to their statute of convic… |
| 22-6770 |
In Re Alphonza Thomas Bey |
|
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment 15th-amendment administrative-remedies constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-questions human-rights personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-imprisonment |
Do the United States Constitution, the United States Congress and/or the Constitution of the State of North Carolina have Government of Jurisdiction o… |
| 22-716 |
Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement |
Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use… |
| 22-6632 |
Michael A. Benanti v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing |
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| 22-6527 |
William Langley, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-586 |
Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation |
1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restric… |
| 22-582 |
United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) an… |
| 22-478 |
David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention |
1. Whether the fact that the challenged portions of
New Jersey's ERPO Act are "... flagrantly and
patently violative ..." of the Fourth Amendment to
t… |
| 22-6095 |
Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction |
Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-6035 |
Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California |
California |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits |
DOES THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL APPEAL TIME LIMIT
(TIME BAR) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S 14TH AMNEDMENT
EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE PERTAINING… |
| 22-420 |
In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras |
|
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights |
The question presented is whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers in any Ohio precinct or board of electio… |
| 22-5985 |
Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague |
1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally
vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment?
… |
| 22-5987 |
Anessa R. Fierro and Willie T. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-arson-statute lopez-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Is the federal arson statute, 18 U.S.C. § 844(i), unconstitutional? |
| 22-413 |
Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law |
1. Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-5890 |
Ronald William Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief section-2255 |
Whether the boilerplate waiver of Petitioner's appellate and post-conviction rights contained within his plea agreement bars his claim under 28 U.S.C.… |
| 22-352 |
Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation |
In response to the pandemic-related economic downturn, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4. AR… |
| 22-5825 |
Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, … |
| 22-5836 |
Laquan Kyle Duane Shakespeare v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583k consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy due-process mandatory-minimum marks-doctrine marks-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether Mr. Shakespeare's five-year mandatory minimum revocation term of imprisonment imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(k) is valid in light of … |
| 22-5824 |
Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-317 |
Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law?
2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi… |
| 22-5639 |
Eddie Dewayne Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce 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… |
| 22-5577 |
Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
(2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-179 |
United States v. Helaman Hansen |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
8-usc-1324 commercial-advantage constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment immigration immigration-law overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine private-financial-gain statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against
encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in v… |
| 22-5425 |
William Paul Burch v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii-court civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-removal federal-jurisdiction in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation removal sanction-fees sanctions vexatious-litigant |
Should removal from a state court to a federal court by a defendant only be allowed after the state court judge conducts a hearing to determine if the… |
| 22-149 |
Rosalie Weisfeld, et al. v. John Scott, Texas Secretary of State, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge election-law enforcement-authority ex-parte-young federal-jurisdiction federalism sovereign-immunity standing state-official |
Under Ex parte Young's exception to state sovereign immunity, a state official is suable in an action for prospective relief from enforcement of an al… |
| 22-5372 |
Tony Lee Foster v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Federal and U.S. Supreme Court precedent demands Kansas Supreme Court precedent civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-precedent judicial-review kansas-supreme-court procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-precedent state-statute statutory-review supreme-court-precedent |
Wheather a state high court can deny a review to a constitutional challenge of its
own statute when procedural due process, Kansas Supreme Court prece… |
| 22-119 |
Christian Action League of Minnesota, et al., v. Mike Freeman, in His Official Capacity as Hennepin County Attorney |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution due-process enforcement-authority free-speech pre-enforcement-challenge standing |
If a law authorizes both private and public enforcement, and a credible threat of private enforcement exists, may a plaintiff bring a pre-enforcement … |
| 22-5321 |
William S. Divine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19
safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of
§2… |
| 22-5193 |
Shaidon Blake v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard |
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| 22-5167 |
Regis Storm Ervin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583g constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-59 |
Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio |
1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal… |
| 21-8084 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
as-applied-challenge comity constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment execution-protocol federal-courts federalism inmate-standing method-of-execution standing |
1. Ifa state's established method of execution would violate the Eighth Amendment as applied to that inmate, may federal courts direct specific altera… |
| 21-7971 |
Gaston Salazar-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce 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… |
| 21-7890 |
Michael E. Bargo, Jr. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech legislative-procedure legislative-process legislative-rules representative-rights separation-of-powers standing voting-rights |
Whether the eight rules of the IL 102nd General Assembly cited in this case violate and nullify Petitioner Michael E. Bargo Jr's, right to have his el… |
| 21-7819 |
Kevin Ray Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion article-iii-standing collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect |
1. Did Petitioner have Article standing to collaterally attack a federal criminal conviction, assuming 28 U.S.C. §2255, relying on this Court's preced… |
| 21-7823 |
Robert L. Allum v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process executive-branch financial-gain fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-pool res-judicata state-constitution workers-compensation |
QUESTION I
Whether or not a 46 year history, of a state court of last resort, through
judicial fiat, violating the due process rights of the Fourteen… |
| 21-7773 |
Eric Middlebrook v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-challenge constitutional-law double-jeopardy drug-crimes drug-offense guideline-range mandatory-consecutive-term mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Does punishing an individual with both a statutory penalty that requires a
mandatory consecutive prison term and a Guideline Range enhancement for… |
| 21-1402 |
Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme |
1. Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech.
2. Whe… |
| 21-7559 |
Vitaly Kolosha v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge detention-powers due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law legal-standing retroactivity state-law state-official state-sovereignty treason |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7554 |
William Burke v. Rosa Childs, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge court-access due-process incarcerated-litigants necessary-state-interest procedural-fairness statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Preface : The first eight questions were presented to the Georgia Supreme Court in an
application for writ of certiorari, which was denied without co… |
| 21-7537 |
Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana |
ISSUE ONE:
Texas Penal Code §21.02 is Whether, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana
unconstitutional on its face?
ISSUE TWO:
Whether a trial court has jur… |
| 21-7433 |
Donnell Parker v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing 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… |
| 21-7450 |
Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-7359 |
Kaleb Gattis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce 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 in definite past, … |
| 21-1239 |
Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. v. Michelle Cochran |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction removal-provisions sec-administrative-proceeding securities-regulation separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal district court has jurisdiction to hear a suit in which the respondent in an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission administrati… |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-1235 |
Robert Grundstein v. Supreme Court of Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech standing statutory-interpretation vexatious-litigator |
1. Is the Ohio Vexatious Litigator Statue, ORC 2323.52, Unconstitutional on the basis of vagueness and insufficient standards?
Is it subject to abuse … |
| 21-7264 |
Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires indictment by a Grand Jury for a capital crime?
Whether the Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 21-7195 |
James Leon Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
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… |
| 21-7176 |
Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
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… |
| 21-1160 |
Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation |
Massachusetts requires people to obtain licenses in order to possess or purchase handguns, and it disqualifies people with certain criminal conviction… |
| 21-7115 |
Robert Stahlnecker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
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? |
| 21-1120 |
Chad Thompson, et al. v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
ballot-access civil-rights constitutional-challenge COVID-19-restrictions first-amendment free-speech government-regulation initiative-placement mootness standing |
1. Whether ever-changing and ongoing governmentissued COVID-19 restrictions moot First Amendment
challenges to ballot access restrictions.
2. Whether… |
| 21-6977 |
Lavont Flanders, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1591 constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-petition postal-service-interference pro-se-litigant sex-trafficking sua-sponte-dismissal |
(1) The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict to the United States Supreme Court and other Circuit Courts which prohibi… |
| 21-6957 |
David Kent Thacker, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-due-process civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process exclusionary-rule federal-intervention investigation-scope miranda-rights pecuniary-interest self-incrimination |
in this particular scenario (pretrial assertions must it have been asserted by way of the 4th Amendments EXCLUSIONARY RULE, to suppress State Statemen… |
| 21-1001 |
Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt |
Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon… |
| 21-6850 |
Jacques Paul Villafana v. Henry Thomas Padrick, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
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… |
| 21-951 |
Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine |
This Court has held that a plaintiff may challenge
the constitutionality of a burden on speech by alleging that it objectively deters people from exer… |
| 21-6735 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny |
This Court has held that a statute restricting photographs, videos, or sound recordings is presumptively invalid under the First Amendment to the Cons… |
| 21-6714 |
In Re Rafael Verdejo-Ruiz |
|
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel military-appellate-review speedy-trial standing takings ucmj-jurisdiction |
I.
APPELLATE COURT LACKED JURISDICTION. IS PETITIONER'S APPEAL LEGALLY ADEQUATE? DUE PROCESS VIOLATION. IN LIGHT OF IN RE BUBER, 62 MJ 227 (CAAF 2015)… |
| 21-6723 |
Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) where the Supreme Co… |
| 21-6666 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-909 |
Khai Quang Bui v. Hernan Ruiz Cabaellero |
Virginia |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment adverse-decision amendment-fourteen civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process evidence judicial-decision procedural-due-process |
The U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV Section 1 Procedural Due Process Civil contradict with the process, procedure, evidences and decision, of a court … |
| 21-6589 |
Lamont Guinyard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-6529 |
Brandon Lamont Jenkins v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure matloff-v-wallace mcgirt-retroactivity mcgirt-v-oklahoma retroactivity state-procedural-bar subject-matter-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), applies retroactively to convictions that were final when McGirt was announced?
2. Is Oklahoma'… |
| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-6503 |
Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6489 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6465 |
Andrew John Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
L. Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed… |
| 21-6485 |
R. S. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights section-262.201(0) statutory-interpretation texas-family-code |
Does Texas Family Code, Section 262.201(o) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it is unconstit… |
| 21-810 |
Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment |
Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutional… |
| 21-6417 |
Mausean Carter v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6372 |
James Michael Bartley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights competency-proceeding constitutional-challenge due-process gun-rights judicial-review mental-competency mental-illness right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing |
Whether the government may deny a law-abiding citizen their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment based solely on a competency proceeding that… |
| 21-6351 |
Holly Harvey v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing |
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| 21-751 |
Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System |
Louisiana |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay |
Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State
Employees' Retirement System ("LASERS") violate
the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compen… |
| 21-727 |
Robert R. Snyder v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts active-interference civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process law-library-access plausibility-standard prisoner-rights procedural-due-process prospective-relief standing |
Did the lower court's incorrectly apply Christopher v. Harbury in its attempt justify the dismissal of Petitioner's Active Interference claims? Does H… |
| 21-686 |
Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that neither it nor the MSPB may review a career senior executive's removal from the Senior Executive Ser… |
| 21-601 |
Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. Amy Berman Jackson, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-act appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irs judicial-review pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Question 1:
Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and
practice of refusing to adjudicate
EVERY
issue
presented by the Class of disrespecte… |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes… |
| 21-588 |
United States v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-review preemption preliminary-injunction sovereign-immunity standing state-law supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6046 |
Jacques Lisbey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional on its face and as-applied because Congress lacks the power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize… |
| 21-5986 |
Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee |
Virginia |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-law property-rights summary-judgment unlawful-detainer |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia's Opinion that "there is no reversible error in the judgment complained of" in the Loudoun County Circuit Court'… |
| 21-5967 |
Zenon Grzegorczyk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (11)IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea retroactivity substantive-law waiver |
Pursuant to this Court's holding in Class, does an unconditional guilty plea, by itself, waive a defendant's right to challenge his conviction under §… |
| 21-527 |
Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),… |
| 21-5858 |
Enrique E. Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure indictment indictment-deficiency plea-agreement waiver |
Can a defendant who claims actual innocence after entering a plea agreement be barred from raising his actual innocence claim based on a Plea Agreemen… |
| 21-5790 |
Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a "crime of violence," unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-5772 |
Charles Eason v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court armed-career-criminal-act chemical constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure drug-classification drug-manufacturing remand sentencing-enhancement serious-drug statutory-interpretation |
I.
When the Appellate Court Interprets"Promotion" Of
A Chimical that "Could" be used to Manufacture as
a "Serious Drug" is Remand Required ?
II.
If… |
| 21-5728 |
Alberto Solar-Somohano v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-appeal administrative-exhaustion appointment-clause carr-v-saul civil-procedure constitutional-challenge patent-registration principle-officer trademark-board |
I.
Whether under Carr v. Saul the exhaustion of
administrative appeal to the Trial Trademark
Board can be bypass directly appealing to the Court
of… |
| 21-5652 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-procedure civil-petition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contempt due-process fraud fraud-on-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation standing |
1. In Limited Government terms, when are effective limitations so tangible as to
define Fraud on the Court and Criminal Contempt in terms of judicial
… |
| 21-5645 |
In Re Donald Mack |
|
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules |
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from trying or convicting a defendant who is mentally incompetent. See Pate v. Rob… |
| 21-5387 |
Roland Adams, aka Peter Brown, aka Harold Whiteker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-agreement statutory-authority statutory-interpretation void-judgment |
1. Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgement under 18 U.S.C § 1956(h), where Petitioner was not charged with nor engaged in "f… |
| 21-5384 |
William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings |
A. Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue?
B. When a State makes a… |
| 21-189 |
Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
1. Whether Speedy trial Rule( 600) is protected by due
of law of the Sixth Amendment; Eighth Amendment
Fourtheeth Amendment:-section 1, of the United… |
| 21-155 |
John M. Custin v. Harold J. Wirths, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process inquisitorial-proceedings misconduct notice property-rights unemployment-benefits |
1. Does it violate constitutional due process when a worker is dispossessed by the state of a property right to unemployment benefits on a charge of "… |
| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 21-5277 |
Samuel Eaddy v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge disabilities due-process effective-counsel jurisdictional-time-limits mental-health mental-health-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-requirements |
Individuals are guaranteed the right to effective counsel at trial. These rights mean nothing if attorneys are not held to task as to their stewardshi… |
| 21-104 |
Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection… |
| 21-86 |
Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (9) |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law federal-courts federal-trade-commission judicial-review jurisdiction removal-protections separation-of-powers |
After petitioner acquired an essentially insolvent competitor, it found itself subjected to the review of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), rather t… |
| 21-91 |
Wesley Perkins v. Whitney Brewster, Executive Director, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelled-arbitration constitutional-challenge criminal-sanctions due-process pleading-standard standing statutory-challenge statutory-interpretation transportation-code vehicle-definition |
Statutory Challenge
1. Is the TEX. TRANSP. CODE "unconstitutional," as applied?
2. Are sanctions abusive?
Pleading standard
3. Was it abusive to orde… |
| 21-5102 |
Jaime Meza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence |
I. Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to … |
| 21-5061 |
Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law |
I. The quEstiON pResENtEd is WhEthEr thE VA. SUPREME COUt VIDLAtEDpEtitiONER'S DUE PROCESS OF LAWINVIOATION OF AMEND. 14 oF thE UNitED StAtESCONstitut… |
| 20-8464 |
Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointment-clause article-i congressional-intent constitutional constitutional-challenge enrolled-bill enrolled-bill-doctrine field-v-clark judicial-review patent patent-trademark-judges |
Whether Arthrex a hoax does not control be foreclosed from deciding appointment clause problem instead is Field v. Clark 143 US 649 (1892) that contro… |
| 20-8369 |
Clarence Clark v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8328 |
Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand. |
| 20-8260 |
Earton Smith v. John Schuyler Marvin |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-rights state-court-procedure supreme-court |
whether the S.C.s 1983.
Jurisdictione
OVER |
| 20-8267 |
Christopher Jermaine Kelley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea judicial-review parties plea-bargaining |
Did the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in denying … |
| 20-1700 |
Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity |
1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 20-8050 |
Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel |
Florida |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers |
1. Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the … |
| 20-8048 |
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our
statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was es… |
| 20-1595 |
Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers |
1. Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under which the Morgovskys were convicted; if so, whether those regulations and th… |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
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| 20-8012 |
Jack Vo v. California |
California |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights |
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| 20-7735 |
DeAndre Harris v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion |
I. Did the trial court's questioning of multiple witnesses that essentially advocated strengthen the prosecution's and pierce the veil of Case judicia… |
| 20-7719 |
Robert L. Tatum v. Thomas Trettin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation prisoner-litigation-reform-act standing three-strikes-rule |
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| 20-1405 |
Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas |
Illinois |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law |
Whether Sharia is contrary to Our Constitution and laws?
Whether Sharia is untouchable?
Whether the Court erred in not granting the injunction and n… |
| 20-7649 |
Robert Earl Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process frequency-of-orgasms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-victim-testimony sexual-battery uncorroborated-statement witness-testimony |
1. WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO DEFECT TO TNE TESTIMONY OF TNE STATE'S WITNESS WHEN SHE TEST/f/ED TO TNE FREquENCY ORGASMS OCC… |
| 20-1380 |
Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property |
Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review under the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112-29, 125 Stat. 284 (2011), the "A… |
| 20-1327 |
PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention |
Federal courts have a "virtually unflagging obligation" to hear and decide cases within their jurisdiction. In Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), … |
| 20-1331 |
Arthur J. Clemens, Jr. v. Local One Service Employees International Union, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights class-counsel constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment free-speech labor standing union union-governance |
1. Should 29 USC 481(c) be declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and the case remanded to the Eighth Circuit or the Trial Court with instruct… |
| 20-7524 |
Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7502 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7451 |
David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional |
In light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional in tha… |
| 20-1277 |
Richard Meyer v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines forfeitability forfeiture kentucky kentucky-statutes timbs-precedent timbs-v-indiana |
I.
DOES THE KENTUCKY COURT OF
APPEALS DECISION IN THIS CASE
STAND IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION
TO THIS COURT'S DECISION IN
TIMBS V. INDIANA, 139 S.Ct. 682
… |
| 20-7442 |
Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden |
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| 20-7445 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation third-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7366 |
In Re John Peyton Alexander |
|
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process earned-time-credits ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing successive-petition |
1. Due to the fact that the AEDPA excludes an entire category of prisoners in custody and now seek to file successive habeas corpus within 1-year-from… |
| 20-1236 |
Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 |
A. Is Anderson is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Va. C… |
| 20-7333 |
Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),… |
| 20-7317 |
Darex Antonio Chester v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review petition-denial standing |
Whether the United States system § 2254 Habeas corpus petition as interpreted, set court decision to petitioner's motion is Constitutional Amendment.
… |
| 20-1219 |
Carline Maria Curry v. Douglas Mackenzie |
Ohio |
2021-03-03 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge damages-calculation default-judgment due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-denial partial-liability resubmission summons-process |
THIS IS A QUESTION OF CONSTITUTION CHALLENGE FOR DEFAULT JUDGEMENT
The Ohio Supreme Court declined to accept Jurisdiction of the Appeal & a motion fo… |
| 20-7300 |
Robbull Bryant v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI and this Court's decision in Rehaif when it denied Bryant's co… |
| 20-1080 |
Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demons… |
| 20-1062 |
Chad Bennett v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-findings sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
In a state with mandatory sentencing guidelines, where a judge may not sentence a defendant above the guidelines range unless the jury finds an aggrav… |
| 20-6964 |
Dallas Ray Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE
APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A… |
| 20-6950 |
In Re John Poullard |
|
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
1. Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision… |
| 20-6904 |
Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. |
Kentucky |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme |
In Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, 105 (2003), this Court found that Alaska's sex offender registration statute was a "civil regulatory scheme" which was "… |
| 20-6883 |
Christopher Brent Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
Whether courts of appeals reviewin… |
| 20-928 |
National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service |
In Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981), this Court held that the Military Selective Service Act, under which men—but not women—are required to reg… |
| 20-6825 |
Andrew Andersen v. Marisela Montes, Commissioner of California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment greenholtz-v-inmates-of-nebraska parole parole-denial prisoners-rights protected-freedoms swarthout-v-cooke |
1. Did this court's ruling in swarthout v. cooke and Greenholtz v. inmates of Nebraska foreclose First Amendment challenges agasint statements of reas… |
| 20-6808 |
Thomas Traficante v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges courts-of-appeals direct-appeal due-process ripeness risk-condition second-circuit sentencing-reform-act sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and Congress' intent to provide a streamlined scheme of sentencing re… |
| 20-6736 |
Salvador Diaz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to remedy the District Court's improper venue selection conflicts with this Court's decisions in Nichols v. U… |
| 20-6743 |
Neil Dussard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6667 |
Ronald Douglas v. Eric S. Schmitt, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights communications-act constitutional-challenge due-process eminent-domain government-owned-stations human-rights-violations jurisdiction property-rights takings |
The trustee and/or Ronald Douglas (the Debtor) in possession hereby serves this notice and partitions the Court to order, judge or decree: declaratory… |
| 20-6640 |
James David Perryman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing 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… |
| 20-6641 |
Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-810 |
Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing |
1. Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution permit Pennsylvania to rely on the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equ… |
| 20-815 |
Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud |
I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED THE PETITIONERS' EMERGENCY MOTION WITOUT EVEN A HEARING OR ORAL ARGUMENT FOR DECLARATORY, EMERGENCY, AND PERMA… |
| 20-6618 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
Does An Appeal Brought Under 28 U.S.C. § 1455 Associated To Other Avenue Of Relief Grits When An Appellate Court Fails To Adequately Resolve Impartial… |
| 20-6546 |
John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing |
The questions presented are
1. Does Rooker-Feldman* doctrine bar Petitioner's 42 USC 1983 US District Court claim where Petitioner pled a facial as o… |
| 20-6513 |
Calvin Teko Coston v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-imprisonment revocation sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by mandating the revocation of supervised release and imposition of a term of impr… |
| 20-704 |
Cesar Santana v. California |
California |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender |
1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted
Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court… |
| 20-6303 |
Lamar Whatley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im… |
| 20-651 |
Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. |
Texas |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act |
Whether, despite the lack of any state involvement, participation, coercion, input, or control of any kind, a private hospital is nevertheless a state… |
| 20-6221 |
Miguel Nunez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-594 |
Richard S. Berry v. State Bar of Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust civil-rights commercial-speech constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech professional-regulation professional-services standing state-bar-regulation unauthorized-practice-of-law |
IS A COURT RULE DEFINING AND PROHIBITING THE
UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW ("UPL") AN UNCONSTITU
TIONAL ABRIDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH WHEN a) IT IS … |
| 20-6196 |
Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming that the District Court did not err by admitting inadmissible and highly prejudicial hearsay testimon… |
| 20-556 |
Special Services Bureau, Inc., dba Regional Bonding Co. v. Circuit Court of West Virginia, Berkeley County |
West Virginia |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-discretion bail-bondsmen constitutional-challenge discretionary-power due-process good-moral-character statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether W.Va. Code § 51-10-8 violates the due process clause of the United States Constitution by being unconstitutionally vague as to the meaning of … |
| 20-6138 |
Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment |
DECLARATON® FOUOGEMNZNT THAT HE UIAS DEAITED DVE PROCESS ses HES CRIMTMAL etal. whtsI FAE CoORT ADIN TZTED THE pring restimouy oF al vsavartliadee ulr… |
| 20-6034 |
Christopher Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-challenge equal-access-to-courts equal-protection equitable-estoppel first-time-filer habeas-corpus material-mutual-mistake suspension-clause |
When faced with a plea agreement that contained unconstitutional provisions, does the doctrine of "equitable estoppel" or "material mutual mistake" ap… |
| 20-6007 |
William Harold Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence venue |
Did the Delaware Court Erect to Denie doaht's Modton bo t SINS Che Naictineit? |
| 20-482 |
Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the Sixth Circuit's judgment and remand with ins… |
| 20-462 |
Jesse Louis Kaiser v. Anthony R. Morfitt, Assistant United States Attorney |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
1. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under FRCP Rule 40)… |
| 20-403 |
Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California |
California |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance |
1. Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e), which prohibits Group Residential use, is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Four… |
| 20-5807 |
Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a Pro Se [indigent] prisoner to be held to a higher standard than state courts?
Are state courts exempt from following their own statutes and r… |
| 20-385 |
Judy Doe v. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge due-process establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-belief religious-liberty undue-burden undue-burden-standard |
1. Is the Establishment Clause violated by
the proclamation in an abortion statute that "The life of
each human being begins at conception. Abortion w… |
| 20-373 |
Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action |
1. Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to even argue that the behavior of the Commission on… |
| 20-5671 |
Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights |
I. IS MICHIGAN'S STATUTE, MCL 60G.2963(B) UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON ITS FACE and/or AS APPLIED TO THIS PETITIONER, AS VIOLATING THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO COURT… |
| 20-5596 |
Kevin Dean Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Does Beckles U. United States, U.S. —, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017) foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that… |
| 20-276 |
Christopher M. Gibson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
administrative-law administrative-law-judges appointments-clause constitutional-challenge dodd-frank free-enterprise-fund jurisdictional-review lucia-v-sec sec-enforcement securities-and-exchange-commission separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress has implicitly stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction to adjudicate separation-of-powers challenges to the authority of SEC… |
| 20-5551 |
Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when the record of the case is wholly devoid … |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5531 |
Cynthia Holmes v. James Y. Becker, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech seventh-amendment |
Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (FPA),
S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face or as applied in violation o… |
| 20-5441 |
Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate that the District Court's limitation on the cross-examination of the prosecutor about objections to the use… |
| 20-5374 |
In Re Amro Elansari |
|
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process |
1. Does the failure of the Third Circuit - and other courts - to consider the Plaintiffs substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of … |
| 20-162 |
Damon J. Claiborne v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-double-jeopardy administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process retroactive-enforcement retroactive-rule separation-decision separation-decisions statutory-authority |
1. Whether the Secretary violated departmental regulations that prohibited administrative double jeopardy by subjecting Claiborne, months before he ve… |
| 20-146 |
Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness |
WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-5313 |
Melquan Tucker v. New York |
New York |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felony-penalties home-protection second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny takings |
Whether New York's Penal Law § 265.01-b(1) is unconstitutional as applied where it imposes criminal, felony penalties when citizens fail to ask for th… |
| 20-5071 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-44 |
In Re David A. Golden |
|
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-process civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process false-claims-act free-speech judicial-discretion rule-of-law standing |
Whether the 9th Circuit and Western Washington District Ct. have abused their discretion by dismissing Plaintiffs False Claims complaint and appeal, w… |
| 20-5100 |
Steven Deon Turner, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech judicial-review procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether the PLAINTIFF appeal is frivolous when it involves a trespass of constitutional dimension on the Freedom of Information Act, BY THE UNITED … |
| 20-5087 |
Italo Ebaristo Napa Moreira v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process johnson jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act miranda prosecutorial-discretion stateless-vessel |
I. Whether the MDLEA is unconstitutional because the Government is not required to prove any "minimum contacts" or "nexus" between a defendant and the… |
| 20-17 |
Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention |
Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered, a quest… |
| 20-5024 |
Calvin Earl Brown v. Blair Williams, Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing state-court-procedure state-official |
Whether it is unconstitutional that this pro se litigant (Petitioner) is denied the ability to be able to challenge the explicit correctness of a stat… |
| 20-5029 |
Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy |
Montana |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution free-speech hearsay-impeachment jury-verdict ministerial-oath standing stare-decisis |
Whether to apply Federal Constitution: XAl bad behavior-after-petitioned speech to impeach hearsay -stare decisis with particularized legislated Monta… |
| 20-5030 |
Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 20-5012 |
In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross |
|
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of Prohibition be issued under the U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari in this case or Writ of Mandamus, I also stated or whatever the… |
| 19-8897 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review |
ARE PRO-SE PETITIONER'S ENTITLED TO COURTS' LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR COURT PAPERS OR FAIR AMENDMENT?
IF PROSECUTOR PRESENT ED NO EVIDENCE PETITI… |
| 19-1451 |
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers |
While Sanofi's appeal was pending before the Federal Circuit, the court decided Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019),… |
| 19-8845 |
Charles Grover Brant v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver |
Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 19-1420 |
Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction when dismissing without adjudication petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2241 Federal h… |
| 19-1387 |
Waseem Daker v. Theodore Jackson, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act religious-exercise three-strikes three-strikes-provision |
I. Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act "three-strikes" provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), is unconstitutional as applied to deny a prisoner access t… |
| 19-1392 |
Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (141)Relisted (22) |
abortion civil-rights constitutional-challenge dignity-of-unborn due-process health medical-profession medical-profession-protection pre-viability-abortion standing third-party-standing undue-burden-standard women's-health |
1. Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective
abortions are unconstitutional.
2. Whether the validity of a pre-viability law that
protects wo… |
| 19-8675 |
Issac Oral Chandler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol… |
| 19-8603 |
Melvin P. White, Jr. v. Internal Revenue Service |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-docket-entry civil-procedure constitutional-challenge district-court-procedure federal-court-jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-review notice-and-certification procedural-standards record-keeping standard-of-review |
Did THE US.DISIRET CF. CITRK EAI TH ENTER PETITION FoR REVIEW ST. CT, CASENG LXCYDI6T FUOCE ORDER FoR MONEY OWED IN THE cai DOCKET ?
PCLoRDIWE TC FR … |
| 19-8448 |
Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does
that sente… |
| 19-8394 |
Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A … |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced
under both the CarJacking
statute and the firearm statute.
The issue befire the Court is whether sen… |
| 19-1204 |
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings |
1. Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amend… |
| 19-8232 |
William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights |
Whether this Petitioner is another example of such deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from … |
| 19-8235 |
Justin K. Eaton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-us braxton-v-us constitutional-challenge dillon-v-us judicial-review retroactive-effect sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1). Since the Sentencing Commission is to serve a similar function to interpreting guidelines as this Court does in interpreting statutes under Braxt… |
| 19-8141 |
Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing |
Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection. |
| 19-8143 |
Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. Brevard County Tax Collector, et al. |
Florida |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ad-valorem-tax civil-rights constitutional-challenge discovery discovery-rights due-process procedural-requirements property-rights quiet-title standing tax tax-authority |
whether appellees has authority without a statute law by Congress, may impose tax for private household good personal effect non-commercial?
whether … |
| 19-1177 |
American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-1-section-1 article-i-section-1 constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine presidential-discretion presidential-powers section-232 separation-of-powers tariff-imposition tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-of-1962 |
Is section 232 facially unconstitutional on the ground that it lacks any boundaries that confine the President's discretion to impose tariffs on impor… |
| 19-8119 |
Walter E. Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process essential-element felony-murder judicial-review jury-instruction standing |
can a trial court acquit and convict for same crime without violating the prohibitions of the fiFTH Amendment involving double jeopardy in this case?
… |
| 19-8121 |
Nikkolas Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing |
I. Whether, the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in … |
| 19-8130 |
Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction |
ISSUE ONE:
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT SOUTH CAROLINA'S
ERRONEOUS DENIAL OF EXTRAODINARY WRIT CHALLENGING THE SOUTH
CAROLINA'S INADEQUATE POS… |
| 19-8045 |
Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto |
Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv… |
| 19-1140 |
In Re Wesley Perkins |
|
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction recusal statutory-construction access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process probation-revocation standing statutory-construction texas-code-of-criminal-procedure |
1.a
(NeW) Is TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. art.
42A.755(e) unconstitutional, as applied?
1.b
(New) Are TEX.RS.APP.P. 25.2(a)(2), (d)
unconstitutional, facial… |
| 19-7999 |
Christopher Parker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) categorically a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) w… |
| 19-7990 |
Gabriel L. Roman v. Sarah H. Kim, et al. |
California |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-access standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute is Unconstitutional |
| 19-1110 |
Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty |
Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional… |
| 19-7864 |
Derek Crosby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum |
Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ?
Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
Is West Virginia's sexual offender registration scheme, which requires the disclosure of any telephone number that a registrant "has" or "uses," uncon… |
| 19-1047 |
Michael Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Damon Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. |
California |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
|
and whether California's vexatious litigant statu appellate-opinions bill-of-rights civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-procedure due-process first-amendment full-faith-and-credit standing vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes void-court-opinions void-grant-deed |
(1) Whether Full Faith and Credit can be given to the appellate opinion in G058123 and other of its specified opinions; (2) Do Code of Civ.Proc. 391.7… |
| 19-994 |
Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to bar t… |
| 19-975 |
Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law border-wall constitutional-challenge homeland-security immigration-law immigration-reform non-delegation-doctrine Presentment-Clause separation-of-powers |
Whether IIRIRA § 102(c)—which grants the Secretary of Homeland Security unfettered discretion to waive all federal, and related state, local, and trib… |
| 19-7449 |
Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review |
1. Is OLONOVOR V. DONALDSON, 422 US. [?] a Valid Legal Precedent for Due Process?
2. Is FOURIER V. LOUISIANA, 504 US. 71 77-1780 (1992) still Valid?
… |
| 19-7417 |
Corey Michael Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering constitutional-challenge criminal-history effective-counsel predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Can a the breaking and entering of outbouildings (ie. storage Sheds), that were visably and actually padlocked from the outside, where no reasonable p… |
| 19-7163 |
Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A … |
| 19-840 |
California, et al. v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affordable-care-act article-iii-standing congress-power constitutional-challenge due-process minimum-coverage-provision severability standing tax-power taxation |
1. Whether the individual and state plaintiffs in this case have established Article III standing to challenge the minimum coverage provision in Secti… |
| 19-841 |
United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation |
In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), this Court upheld 26 U.S.C. 5000A, a provision of the Affordable Care… |
| 19-7121 |
Jay F. Shachter v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-adjudication administrative-hearing administrative-hearings civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process employment-status judicial-independence municipal-ordinance municipal-ordinances state-supreme-court-split |
Whether, in the City of Chicago, the adjudication of municipal ordinance infractions violates the due process requirements of the United States Consti… |
| 19-6964 |
David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights |
Does "PUBLIC INTEREST" AND "JUSTICE SO REQUIRE" IMPANELING OF A "SPECIAL GRAND JURY", WHEN TRIAL PROSECUTORS COMMIT "MULTIFARIOUS FRAUD" ON THE JURORS… |
| 19-6976 |
James Clayton Johnson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona capital-punishment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings meaningful-opportunity standing |
Does a court deprive a capital defendant of his due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when the defendant challenges the constituti… |
| 19-6810 |
Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA… |
| 19-6764 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. District of Columbia Police & Firefighter's Retirement and Relief Board |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability disability-benefits disability-provisions due-process employment police-firefighters property-interest property-rights takings takings-clause |
1. Are the provisions of the United States Constitution, Amendment 5. Due Process Clause .
compelled and/or implied as pertains to the expressed statu… |
| 19-668 |
Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations |
Courtney Bird alleges the State of Hawai'i systematically violates the due process rights of parents by reporting them as confirmed child abusers on t… |
| 19-647 |
Jonathan Corbett v. Transportation Security Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-standing certainly-impending chain-of-events constitutional-challenge eleventh-circuit future-injury speculative speculative-harm speculative-injury standing standing-article-iii substantial-likelihood supreme-court |
1) Does the Eleventh Circuit's "substantial likelihood" test for Article III standing relating to future injuries comport with this Court's "certainly… |
| 19-599 |
Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ |
What is the appropriate procedure when the Court uses a service of foreclosure order for one property and takes two properties in one foreclosure?
2W… |
| 19-6522 |
William Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search |
1.Is Texas Transportation Code Sect. 724.012 (b.) (3.)(B). (Texas'mandatory blood draw statute) Constitutional as applied, under the Fourth Amendment … |
| 19-6539 |
Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-… |
| 19-6516 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Gregory O. Griffin, Judge, Circuit Court of Alabama, Montgomery County, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights retaliation standing state-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6531 |
Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists could disagree over the district court's res… |
| 19-6459 |
Kenneth K. DuVall v. Carlos Hernandez, Superintendent, Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-standards judicial-relief judicial-review state-imprisonment |
1. Did Judge Whitney's failure to rule on Petitioner's newly discovered evidence of Double Jeopardy issues deny Petitioner his 1st and 14th Amendment … |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re… |
| 19-6453 |
James E. Lang v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fiore-v-white judicial-review pipeline-law precedent-interpretation retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
When a state's highest court corrects an erroneous interpretation of it's statutory law committed by it's lower appellate Court, that has affirmed a c… |
| 19-552 |
William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada |
1. Does an attorney in the practice of representing
proposed adult conservatees/wards have direct
standing , associational standing, or traditional th… |
| 19-6395 |
V. A. C. v. J. L. W. |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion |
1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi
ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un… |
| 19-6364 |
Eduardo Duffy, aka Eduardo Duffy-Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-definition citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge conviction-review due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry judicial-precedent morales-santana severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6331 |
Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe… |
| 19-6253 |
Adam Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were it that a judge held every reason to believe that Rooker-Feldman doctrine should bar "even [his] constitutional claims, " after a state appellate… |
| 19-481 |
In Re R. C. "Rick" Lussy |
|
2019-10-10 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-code elections extraordinary-circumstances free-speech judicial-procedure misconduct non-delegation-doctrine public-office standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6243 |
Jackie Ray Patrick v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process indictment indictment-validity jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mississippi-law standing state-law void-for-failure-to-state-offense void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER PATRICK'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM A DEFECTIVE INDICTMENT WHEREAS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE INDICTMENT OR CHARGE(S) WHICH PATR… |
| 19-6102 |
Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision |
GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT… |
| 19-422 |
Patrick J. Collins, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law agency-independence agency-structure congressional-appropriations constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process federal-housing-finance-agency independent-agency presidential-removal separation-of-powers standing |
In 2008, Congress created the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—an "independent" agency with sweeping authority over the housing finance system. 1… |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-381 |
Rainbow Ridge Resort, LLC, et al. v. Branch Banking and Trust Company |
Tennessee |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process examination-limitations first-amendment petition petition-rights pleading standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Is Tennessee Code Annotated Sec. 35-5-118
unconstitutional as applied, given the lack of due
process created by artificially limiting a Defendant's… |
| 19-5995 |
Jason L. Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining statute-of-conviction |
DOES A GUILTY PLEA BAR A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM LATER COLLATERAL
ATTACK ON HIS CONVICTION ON THE GROUND THAT THE STATUTE OF
CONVICTION VIOLATES THE C… |
| 19-5793 |
Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… |
| 19-5754 |
Charmar Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.… |
| 19-245 |
GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing |
Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid… |
| 19-5578 |
Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-5511 |
Robert Hill v. Dave Jassen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus incarceration judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Are inccrcerated plaintiffs m civil coses in corcercted fro se U.S. Distriet Cout cnfairl trected, cadlar in prejedd agoinst, becaule they ore not giv… |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe … |
| 19-161 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge due-process expedited-removal habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review suspension-clause |
Respondent is an inadmissible alien who was apprehended almost immediately after illegally crossing the U.S. border and was placed into expedited remo… |
| 19-160 |
Heather Singleton, et al. v. Mary Fairhurst, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-power pro-tem-judge supremacy-clause washington-state |
Whether the Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme
Court in order to ensure "maximum efficiency" of
Washington courts pursuant to Wash. Rev. Code
2.5… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-67 |
United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-5043 |
Justin Panus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of on offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-5033 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing |
Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with.
Whether adjudicating collateral estoppel f… |
| 19-5025 |
Isaac Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez |
1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti… |
| 18-1569 |
Richard Chamberlain, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. |
New York |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
|
comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits tax-jurisdiction tax-residency wynne-precedent |
Whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain individuals not domiciled in the… |
| 18-1570 |
Samuel Edelman, et ux. v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, et al. |
New York |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
double-taxation due-process residency state-taxation tax-credits ' domicile' comptroller-of-treasury-of-maryland-v-wynne constitutional-challenge domicile dormant-commerce-clause intangible-income interstate-taxation state-taxation tax-credits wynne-precedent |
Whether a state tax scheme that taxes the intangible income of individuals who are domiciled in the State and certain individuals not domiciled in the… |
| 18A1351 |
Janice Stevenson v. TND Homes I LLC |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-challenge extension-of-time pro-se statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1326 |
Lisa Montgomery v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9684 |
David Prien-Pinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm |
Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18A1305 |
Carolyn Barnes v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Granted |
|
constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine government-sovereignty judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9633 |
Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation |
(1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection… |
| 18A1288 |
Steve Chabot, et al. v. Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge district-court election-law gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1521 |
Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution |
After correctly determining that the members of
the Financial Oversight and Management Board for
Puerto Rico are principal Officers of the United Stat… |
| 18-9569 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Tom Roy, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-recusal petition-for-appeal plra pro-se-litigation recusal standing three-strikes tro |
Can denial of a Rule 5 Petition for Permission to Appeal be a strike under the PLRA?
Should Petitioner have received a strike for the denial of his P… |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9454 |
Daniel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-questions coram-nobis custody error-coram-nobis habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation pcra post-conviction-relief writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether 42 Pa. C.S. § 9542 of the Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) operate under the Antiterroism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA… |
| 18-1475 |
Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing |
Does the de facto officer doctrine allow courts to deny meaningful relief to successful separation-of-powers challengers who are suffering ongoing inj… |
| 18-9394 |
Ward T. Evans v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law |
Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin… |
| 18A1217 |
Jorge Baez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus johnson-precedent section-924c vagueness-doctrine |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-1434 |
United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-9244 |
Danny Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018)?
If a cond… |
| 18-9219 |
Yaqob Tafan Thomas v. Joseph P. Meko, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factor alternative-means burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-scrutiny due-process jury-instructions presumption richardson-v-us-schad-v-arizona |
1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN A STATE INTENTIONALLY REFUSES
TO DEFINE EVERY ELEMENTAL FACT IN "ALTERNATIVE MEANS" STATUTE THEREBY
CR… |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9029 |
Tyron James v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure |
1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life
Senfence be overturned at any time?
2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con… |
| 18-1338 |
United States v. Joseph Decore Simms |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8982 |
Daniel Warren v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge custody due-process federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas federal-rights habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-due-process state-court state-court-review state-statute |
Whether a state court of last resort which dismisses without argument or opinion a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute from a judgment dis… |
| 18-8900 |
Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-1317 |
American Institute for International Steel, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-i checks-and-balances constitutional-challenge delegation-doctrine delegation-of-power facial-challenge federal-energy-administration-v-algonquin-sng legislative-power presidential-authority section-232 separation-of-powers steel-tariffs trade-expansion-act trade-expansion-act-1962 trade-expansion-act-of-1962 |
1. Did the Court of International Trade erroneously conclude that Algonquin controls the outcome of this action by failing to distinguish this facial … |
| 18-8831 |
Javier Contreras Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-8760 |
James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony |
(1) Is a sentence as a career offender (com) unvalied se valid when a fone violent ors conviction, (Kloada attery on Law en Mv Licey), LO au by wily o… |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER ACT NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF … |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8611 |
Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway |
Texas |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a … |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove.
(a). Is Title … |
| 18-1245 |
Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in
holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and
three other courts of appeals , that the possibility of
f… |
| 18-8511 |
Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Emily Johnson Piper, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention administrative-appeal breast-cancer breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-rights medicaid medicaid-benefits |
Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court erred by concluding in In re Victoria and Stephen Carlson (A18-1578, Minn. 2018)--in conflict with the decision of… |
| 18-1216 |
R. C. "Rick" Lussy v. Florida Elections Commission, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
anti-trust civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections emolument emolument-manipulation free-speech judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation property-appraisal standing stare-decisis |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8479 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Mitch McConnell, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-healthcare free-speech healthcare healthcare-policy insurance-regulation legislative-claims obamacare standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) PRESIDENT THRU VE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO PARDON HIMSELF?
2.) IS PRESIDENT TRUMP SUBJECT TO SUBPOENA(S)?
3.) DID PRESIDENT TRUMP SELL CO… |
| 18-8393 |
Irma Ovalles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-8286 |
Marco M. Torres v. Michael S. Williams, Judge, Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Hillsborough County |
Florida |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts florida-supreme-court judicial-power judicial-review separation-of-powers sister-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, Article 3, section 1, and 2, of the United States Constitution, on doctrine central to the federal courts structural independence consists… |
| 18-8224 |
Antonio Dickerson, aka Girbaud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-challenge fifth-amendment first-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea strict-liability |
In Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), this Court recently held that a federal criminal threats statute required a knowingly mens rea and… |
| 18-1117 |
Kabani & Company, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
|
administrative-framework administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process hearing-officer judicial-review lucia-v-sec procedural-validity ryder-v-united-states separation-of-powers structural-constitutional-objections timely-challenge |
In Lucia v. SEC, this Court held that
administrative law judges of the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission are "Officers of
the United St… |
| 18-1107 |
Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit |
1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits?
2. Has Petitioner satis… |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject… |
| 18-1096 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
|
as-applied-challenge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation retaliation standing vexatious-litigant |
Calif. vexatious litigant law is unconstitutionally vague on its face. The language is unclear as to: (a) what is "litigation"; (b) what has or doesn'… |
| 18-8100 |
Senica Matthew Franklin v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-challenge constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-reversal newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasons-for-granting-the-writ statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
WheTher Senica Franklin's ConvicTion
and Sentence should be reversed, and set asick
based upon newly
discovered
evidence.
SeDica FRanKlin's ConviCTiOn… |
| 18-8042 |
Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate that sought to chall… |
| 18-7953 |
Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a… |
| 18-7967 |
James Dalton Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-7954 |
Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan |
Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co… |
| 18-7719 |
Cesar Gomez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code |
Whether Texas Penal Code ' 21.02, is Constitutional under the
Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution?
Whether a Sta… |
| 18-7660 |
LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment |
The Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, O.C.G.AS/-H Enactment of Code, a felory - If these were"Enacted" in violatin of the Georgia Constitotion 201, … |
| 18-989 |
United States v. Marvin Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7578 |
Jeffrey T. Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court-procedure civil-rights coa constitutional-challenge due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdictional-issue manifest-injustice venue writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the law applicable in COA proceedings such as would represent deviation from the directives of t… |
| 18-7486 |
Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors |
Constitutionality, of the entire docket vanishing from the public records of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. Shortly after filing the … |
| 18-7510 |
Mark A. Perez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-pa-csa-721-726 collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law direct-review due-process extraordinary-relief original-jurisdiction pennsylvania sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
As a matter of first impression - Does the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's original jurisdiction process pursuant to 42 Pa. C.S.A. 721, 726 constitute… |
| 18-7557 |
Terveus Hyppolite v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 18-936 |
Jeremy Kettler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment congressional-taxing-power constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cox-v-new-hampshire due-process murdock-v-pennsylvania national-firearms-act second-amendment sound-suppressor standing statutory-interpretation tax taxation united-states-v-sonzinsky |
1. Whether the National Firearms Act of 1934, upheld in Sonzinsky, continues to be a constitutional exercise of Congress's taxing power when the justi… |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
| 18-7413 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando… |
| 18-7352 |
Giovanni Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits due-process federal-firearms-law federal-regulation firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-7284 |
Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statut… |
| 18-7220 |
Pashtoon Farooqi v. California |
California |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness |
Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
… |
| 18-7225 |
Neil Gillespie v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment administrative-procedure buyer-incompetence civil-rights constitutional-challenge disciplinary-functions due-process federal-regulation foia foreclosure home-equity-conversion-mortgage hud-jurisdiction lawyers-guild mortgage-law nonlawyer-ownership older-americans-act privacy-rights pro-se-litigation securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 standing the-florida-bar trial-by-jury unlicensed-practice-of-medicine void-for-vagueness voting-rights |
Is the federal HECM reverse mortgage program unconstitutional? This petition challenges the constitutionality of the federal Home Equity Conversion Mo… |
| 18-837 |
Scott Harris, in His Official Capacity as State Health Officer, et al. v. West Alabama Women's Center, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (11) |
abortion abortion-ban abortion-rights constitutional-challenge dismemberment due-process gonzales-v-carhart medical-debate medical-procedure partial-birth-abortion reproductive-rights state-law state-regulation unborn-child |
Whether a state ban on dismemberment abortions is unconstitutional where there is a reasonable medical debate that alternatives to the banned procedur… |
| 18-7182 |
Roy Dean Gates v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order |
DOES THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS HAVE THE AUTHORITY OR THE JURISDICTION TO OVERRULE AN ORDER BY THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT?
IS THE RULING AND OR… |
| 18-7166 |
Gerard Mann v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct.… |
| 18-7136 |
Mark Hanna v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process incarceration incarceration-rights insurance-requirement motor-vehicle-law retaliation standing vehicle-registration |
Whether La. RS32:863 of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law is unconstitutional for due process of law in terms of Mullane v Central… |
| 18-7024 |
Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence - post-trial - without notice are unco… |
| 18-6981 |
Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6987 |
Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review |
I. Does The Failure OfThe Arlansas Department. Of Correction To Pay Equitale Remuneration To Its Inmate Population Equate To Mader Day Slavery?
II. D… |
| 18-6946 |
Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity |
Constitutionally, when a presentencing waiver of appeal is not bargained for in exchange for an agreed upon sentence, can that waiver be knowingly and… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T… |
| 18-6789 |
Delroy McLean v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-115 brady-violation constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary government-official immigration-judge judicial-officer protected-person statutory-interpretation vagueness |
IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS NOT A PROTECTED PERSON UNDER THE STATUE OF 18 U.S.C.S. § 115 (a)(1)(B)
THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE IS AS WE HAVE SAID, AN OFFICER CREA… |
| 18-677 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Jane Doe 2, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction transgender transgender-military-service |
In 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a new policy concerning military service by transgender individuals. Under the Mattis policy, tra… |
| 18-678 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Aiden Stockman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction standing transgender transgender-military-service transgender-policy |
Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide. |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-620 |
Jamahl Harim Simmons v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-challenge due-process foreign-state jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunities sovereign-immunities-act subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The State Trial Court lacks subject matter and personal jurisdiction for the reasons below.
1. This Court, and all public offices, is defined under F… |
| 18-629 |
Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. |
California |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation |
In this case of first impression before this Court, does the CAA withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of s… |
| 18-6617 |
James L. Rudzavice v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process free-speech freedom-of-speech habeas-corpus judicial-oath judicial-review separation-of-powers standing supreme-law |
(1) How Can a CONSTITUTIONAL challenge be frivolous?
(2) Did the Appellate Court for the Fifth Circuit Intentionally violate their oath of office to … |
| 18-561 |
Orus Ashby Berkley, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
15-usc-717r administrative-review administrative-review-scheme agency-action agency-order congressional-delegation constitutional-challenge delegation-of-power district-court district-court-jurisdiction non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
I. Is a delegation of Congressional power an "agency
order" or "agency action" such that a party wishing
to challenge that delegation must file that c… |
| 18-6468 |
Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden |
This case presents 3 narrow and discrete questions for this Court to consider, viz. - what happens when (a) the Government fails to allege in an indic… |
| 18-6445 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional |
I. WHETHER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 36.1 OF THE TENNESSEE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED § 29-21-101, AND TENNESSEE LAW ARE UNCON… |
| 18-6407 |
Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue "failed to state a claim" is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson, … |
| 18-6359 |
Uriel Gomez-Saavedra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3661-3553 5th-amendment 5th-circuit-law constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. The mandatory five year minimum under which Mr. Gomez-Saavedra was sentenced is unconstitutional and contravenes 18 U. S.C. 3661 and 3553(a) becaus… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6379 |
Ramess Nakhleh v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a "loud and unusual noise" unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-496 |
Barry Michaels v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felon-disarmament felons firearms-restriction heller heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment standing |
1. What does the phrase "law-abiding, responsible citizens" mean?
2. What does it mean to say that "longstanding prohibitions on the possession of fi… |
| 18-6343 |
Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-457 |
North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust |
North Carolina |
2018-10-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
beneficiary-residency constitutional-challenge due-process federalism pennoyer-v-neff state-courts state-revenue state-tax-revenue state-taxation trust trust-income trust-taxation |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit states from taxing trusts based on trust beneficiaries' in-state residency? |
| 18-445 |
Tanya Ramirez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code |
Is TEXAS PENAL CODE §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |
| 18-6282 |
Iseal Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6241 |
Edward Jewell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… |
| 18-6222 |
Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez |
Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-428 |
United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6204 |
Jermaine Franklin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement. |
| 18-336 |
Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
|
15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, 553 U.S. 591 (2008), extends to the political context, where po… |
| 18-308 |
Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe |
The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-241 |
Paminder S. Parmar, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Surinder K. Parmar, et al. v. Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge due-process estate-tax jurisdiction post-deprivation-remedy retroactive-application retroactivity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-refund |
This Court held in Reich v. Collins, 513 U.S. 106, 108 (1994) that "due process requires a 'clear and certain' remedy for taxes collected in violation… |
| 18-5685 |
Clifton Patterson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5593 |
Maurice Mitchell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-challenge commerce-clause constitutional-challenge felony-enhancement felony-offense firearm-possession preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancement-2k2.1-b-6-b ussg-2k2.1 |
Whether the District Court committed error by failing to
sustain the defense objection to the four-level enhancement
of the sentence under USSG sectio… |
| 18-5565 |
Nicholas Edwards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocent laws-of-united-states miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations standing state-statute treaties |
1. WHETHER THE STATE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS UNDER -42 PA. CONS. STAT.6501-6505, WHERE THE VALIDITY OF THE STATE STATUTES ON THE GROUNDS ITS BEING REPUG… |
| 18-137 |
Ernest Hunter v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law dc-government due-process employment-dispute employment-rights free-speech government-agency government-employment personnel-rules retaliation whistleblower whistleblower-act whistleblower-protection |
Is the application of the relevant personnel rules of the District of Columbia, including the Abolishment and D.C. Whistleblowers Acts (DCWPA) by the … |
| 18-128 |
Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell |
California |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
|
business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations |
1) Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents, unconstitutional and violative of Be… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (71h Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-111 |
Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor |
Virginia |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law |
I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional?
II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as… |
| 18-5293 |
George Anthony Autobee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the
constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was
timely because it … |
| 18-5066 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. California |
California |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine |
Whether Petitioners sentence of 38yrs 4mos., violates equal protection under the law because of the disparities in Californa sentences
whether Ptiton… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |
| 25A343 |
Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais, et al. |
Louisiana |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-districts constitutional-challenge majority-minority-districts redistricting section-2 voting-rights-act |
Question not identified. |
| 24A325 |
South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge fourth-circuit governmental-interest irreparable-harm sovereign-definition state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |