Fourteenth-Amendment

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25-6854 Lonny Slade Glover v. Minnesota Minnesota 2026-02-19 Pending IFP ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether an unrecorded ex-parte communication between a trial judge and a deadlocked jury where the physical note of the communication was subsequen…
25-992 Reginald Johnson v. City of Satsuma, Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-act equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment racial-discrimination state-action Whether the City of Satsuma, acting in concert with Maurice Kirk Harless, individually and collectively, under color of law, deprived the plaintiff of…
25-6844 Shannon Simpson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-02-18 Pending IFP due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment impeachment-silence right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest:…
25-6849 Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. Georgia 2026-02-18 Pending IFP appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment neutral-adjudication rule-36-summary-affirmance structural-due-process This case arises from a state-court adjudicative process in which the neutrality of decision making was called into question by sworn testimony descri…
25-6833 Israel Romero v. Charter Communications, Inc., et al. South Carolina 2026-02-17 Pending IFP appellate-procedure class-of-one due-process-clause equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether South Carolina courts erred in applying "double standard" in a "class of one" in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of …
25-967 Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending anderson-burdick-test election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-ballots voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's requirement that mail-in voters provide a handwritten date when signing a preprinted declaration on a ballot return envelope viola…
25A914 Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. New York 2026-02-13 Application Amici (1) congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering Question not identified.
25-6792 Daniel Smalls v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. South Carolina 2026-02-12 Pending IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction paternity personal-service 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a state court to assert jurisdiction and impose child support obligations on a nonres…
25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 1. Procedural Due Process I Rule 60(b) Jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause pennits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion be…
25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise all meritorious claims on di…
25-6766 Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending IFP arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause 1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a…
25-6768 In Re Mark Anthony Morris 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-interference 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit Mark Morris' continued imprisonment after establishing that constitutional viol…
25-6773 Devern Clemons, III v. Florida Florida 2026-02-10 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6777 Olda Rachel Guardiola v. Maricela Rodriguez Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction nunc-pro-tunc procedural-change state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court —after its plenary jurisdiction has expired —to use a nunc pro tunc order to retroactively…
25-6763 Frederick Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company California 2026-02-10 Pending IFP appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-taking property-rights vexatious-litigant 1. Whether a state appellate court effects a deprivation of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it dis…
25-939 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the…
25-931 BAS, LLC v. Tommy Land, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of State Lands for the State of Arkansas Arkansas 2026-02-06 Pending fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does a state's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment obligation to pay just compensation waive sovereign immunity when it takes private property?
25A887 Arron Benedetti, et al. v. Marin County, California, et al. California 2026-02-05 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use-exaction nollan-test property-rights residential-development Question not identified.
25-926 Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Pennsylvania 2026-02-05 Pending Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe…
25A876 Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-04 Application disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A874 Huong Giaccio v. Meredith Lyon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Application constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-immunity retaliatory-arrest 1. Whether absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity applies when municipal officials act without jurisdiction and in coordination with retaliatory…
25A873 Patricia Tillman v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Application ballot-access candidate-exclusion election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment irreparable-harm Question not identified.
25-6717 Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. Washington 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation 1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/ SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fo…
25-910 MEI-GSR Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2026-02-03 Pending civil-contempt contempt criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment receiver-restitution 1. This Court has been grappling with the contempt due process requirements when a contemnor removes property from a receiver's control without author…
25-903 Sandra J. Bezanson, as Executor of the Estate of Dennis G. Bezanson v. Exeter Hospital, Inc. New Hampshire 2026-02-02 Pending administrative-error court-system due-process electronic-filing fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to forfeit a litigant's rights based on an administrative …
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25-6676 Vincent Terry v. Teresa Bailey, et al. Georgia 2026-01-29 Pending IFP attorney-immunity constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment summary-affirmance 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state appellate court resolves federal constitutional claims through …
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
25-6642 Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama Alabama 2026-01-22 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change In a capital case where the pretrial publicity was extensive, gruesome, and negative, including statements by the current Attorney General that the Ji…
25-880 In Re Roy Dixon, et ux. 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment mandamus Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach, Florida, to perform its ministerial duty to vaca…
25-866 Charles Wright v. Monica Marie Wright Michigan 2026-01-21 Pending brady-violation constitutional-claims due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's destruction and suppression of exculpatory evidence used to enforce MCL § 552.27 support obligations violates a litigant's …
25-864 Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu Georgia 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness 1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione…
25-6634 Joseph D. Reaves v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea newly-discovered-evidence pcra-petition psychiatric-medical-history 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an Petitioner in a PCRA Petition, Notice of Appeal and Allowance of …
25-6623 Hamed Kian v. Florida Florida 2026-01-20 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending IFP administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements 1. Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order—adopted the same day by an administrative judge without a hearing—violat…
25-6607 Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida Florida 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-6593 Jason Jones v. Florida Florida 2026-01-15 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment immunities-clause incarceration-costs Whether the Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment must restrict government from imposing costs of incarceration and criminal fines that are gr…
25-836 Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. New York 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res…
25-835 Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC Florida 2026-01-15 Pending appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: 1…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies…
25A815 Natural Lands, LLC v. City of Boca Raton, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Application 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment property-rights state-remedies Question not identified.
25-6571 Maxo Casseus v. Florida Florida 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6552 Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction 1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a…
25-822 Thomas DeCola v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-12 Pending Response Waived bill-of-rights constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment legal-estoppel section-1983 state-liability Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is the congressional consent for asserting individual God-granted rights that are acknowledged within the U.S. Bill of Rights…
25-6537 David T. Everett v. Sarah E. Tharrett, as Successor Trustee of the Roxine Poznich Revocable Trust Kansas 2026-01-09 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-error meaningful-hearing supremacy-clause trust-law I. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is satisfied when state courts at three successive levels either ignore or refuse to rule on…
25A788 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
25-805 Kerry Kruskal v. Alan Maestas, et al. New Mexico 2026-01-08 Pending Response Waived access-to-courts civil-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-fairness 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court affirms the dismissal of civil claims without findings of…
25A792 Anthony A. Browne v. Kimberly Reynolds, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-08 Application clemency felony-conviction firearm-rights fourteenth-amendment restoration-of-rights second-amendment 1. Iowa Code § 914.7 (2025) entitled "Rights not restorable" infringes the Petitioner's right to keep and bear arms enshrined by the Second and Fourte…
25-798 Rick Siegel v. Jude Salazar California 2026-01-07 Pending Amici (3)Response Waived administrative-authority constitutional-claims contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment state-procedural-rules 1) "Whether state procedural rules are 'adequate' under the Fourteenth Amendment when, in combination (limited-case misclassification, jurisdictional …
25A787 Jacquelyn Miller v. Dylan Farris, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-07 Application constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-safeguards Question not identified.
25-6509 Charles Bocock v. Illinois Illinois 2026-01-07 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof 1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a convic…
25-6508 In Re Angeliina L. Lawson 2026-01-07 Pending IFP ada-protections due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power 1. Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power under Rule 20 and the All Writs Act to restrain a state judge who continues to act …
25A782 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-06 Application asset-purchase due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction successor-liability Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits the exercise of personal jurisdiction over: (i) a foreign-based non-culpable asset-and-liability purchaser wh…
25-6495 Jason Elysse v. Florida Florida 2026-01-06 Pending IFP appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment First, whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it affirms a trial Court's denial of a…
25-6484 Donald N. S. Mortvedt v. Charles E. Clawson, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-liberty pro-se section-1983 sua-sponte 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment excludes equity from jurisdiction over deprivations of liberty, including parental liber…
25-6476 Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas Texas 2026-01-05 Pending IFP faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment This case presents important issues concerning the Sixth Amendment right to represent oneself in a criminal proceeding and the fair administration of …
25-775 Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2026-01-02 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment non-resident-seller personal-jurisdiction product-transportation specific-jurisdiction Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction ove…
25-6444 Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-30 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p…
25-6437 Sean Blaine James v. Oregon Oregon 2025-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-clause incorporation-doctrine sentence-enhancement Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment?
25A752 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-12-29 Application actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review Question not identified.
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25-745 Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. Tennessee 2025-12-23 Pending Response Waived appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and …
25-6409 Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois Illinois 2025-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous …
25A714 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-18 Application birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause executive-order fourteenth-amendment preliminary-injunction standing Question not identified.
25-716 ENI S.p.A v. Gulf LNG Energy, LLC, et al. New York 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived arbitration claim-preclusion corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment nonparty-preclusion 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and the Federal Arbitration Act, a state court may extend the…
25-708 Rupert Baptiste v. Fatou Jallow Third Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner judicial-act pro-se-rights self-representation The United States Constitution grants certain inalienable rights to its citizens. The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment is to protect people from be…
25-6394 Joshua Abrams v. Richard Isolda New Jersey 2025-12-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine judicial-sanctions seventh-amendment 1. Whether immunity doctrines eliminate all remedies for constitutional violations. 2. Whether judicial sanctions imposed as penalties require due pr…
25-6378 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-16 Pending IFP aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir…
25-6365 Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending IFP ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access 1. Recusal and Void Orders Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to continue issuing substantive custody, cont…
25-6364 Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal…
25-6356 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-15 Pending IFP appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi…
25A690 United Services Automobile Association, Inc. v. Estate of Sylvia F. Minor, et al. Mississippi 2025-12-12 Application compensatory-damages due-process fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages ratio-test state-farm This case implicates the due process limits on punitive damages when a plaintiff has already recovered substantial compensatory damages. See State Far…
25-6352 Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2025-12-12 Pending IFP complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator…
25-681 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived civil-procedure discovery-referee disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality This petition arises from a California civil action in which a privately compensated discovery referee, whose impartiality was formally questioned, wa…
25-6346 Corey Gaynor v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Whether trial counsel was ineffective and the trial court s unconstitutional jury instruction derived from Pennsylvania's consolidated statute 18 P…
25-6340 Robert Knickerbocker v. Michigan Michigan 2025-12-11 Pending IFP constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review I. Did A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATION OCCUR WHEN THE STATE COURT VIOLATED SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 29B …
25-678 Louis B. Antonacci v. Renu Brennan, in Her Official Capacity as Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, et al. Virginia 2025-12-10 Pending bar-complaint constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion Whether this Court's decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) militates in favor of abrogating the prosecutorial discre…
25-671 In Re Mark Christopher Tracy 2025-12-09 Pending constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure ministerial-duty writ-of-execution Whether the California state court violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to issue a writ of execution following entry…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25-6322 Jeremy Ian Frieday v. Washington Washington 2025-12-09 Pending IFP factual-findings fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction-exception sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was subject to an increased standard sentence based on the trial cour…
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio 2025-12-05 Pending IFP equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul…
25-6305 Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights 1. Was Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966) decided for that specific class of persons "not mentally ill" that is…
25A658 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Bette Eakin, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Application anderson-burdick election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting voter-rights Question not identified.
25-6279 Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida Florida 2025-12-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr…
25-618 Craig Jonathan Warner v. Texas Texas 2025-12-01 Pending constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment witness-testimony 1. At least ten states' courts and four federal circuit courts recognize that a state's unknowing presentation of false testimony denies a defendant d…
25-6230 McKinley Kelly v. Indiana Indiana 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation sentencing-procedure Whether the sentencing procedure mandated by Indiana Code Sec. 35-38-l-7.1(A) and utilized by the state trial court in imposing Kelly 's sentence, whi…
25-611 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon 2025-11-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible …
25-610 Hansueli Overturf v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District California 2025-11-25 Denied civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment hague-service-convention service-of-process 1. Whether entry of default based on defective service of process, which failed to provide defendant with actual notice of the action, violates the Fo…
25-6208 Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment 1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven…
25-6201 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied IFP attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G…
25-593 Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. Florida 2025-11-20 Denied discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations 1. Does a state supreme court's practice of summarily denying discretionary review of Per Curium Affirmance (PCA), involving a Statute of Limitation d…
25-6172 Quantell Williams v. Austin J. Robinson, et al. Florida 2025-11-19 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-filing psychiatric-duress settlement state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court enforces a settlement entered over a litigant's explicit objec…
25-6171 Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement 1. Does the systematic manipulation of our grand jury authority —contrary to its constitutionally intended role as a "protector of citizens [the Peo…
25-6164 Shannon Bernard Jackson v. Texas Texas 2025-11-19 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-brief QUESTION No. 1: Is a criminal defendant deprived of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to file a pro se brief…
25-6150 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-18 Denied IFP child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best …
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25-577 Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. California 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"— "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh…
25-6120 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2025-11-14 Dismissed IFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1- a) Does a failure by trial counsel to investigate known-to-be material facts and/or witnesses, constitute federally defined ineffective assistanc…
25-6130 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Denied IFP deferred-probation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the State's refusal to allow out of state travel for life-saving medical treatment to a defendant on deferred probation violates the Eighth an…
25A569 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Application deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Court may stay or render void, the entire state deferred probation order entered by a judge who lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, in …
25-6093 Shari Lynn Oliver v. Matthew Warren Oliver Michigan 2025-11-13 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-fairness res-judicata void-judgment I. Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to vacate a facially void judgment that was procured …
25-566 Eddie Grant, Jr., et al. v. Ronnell Higgins, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Transportation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Pending common-use constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-possession second-amendment semiautomatic-rifles Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee the right to possess semiautomatic rifles that are in common …
25-6074 Olayiwola Adebisi v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2025-11-10 Denied IFP child-support-enforcement due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-access pro-se-litigant service-of-process Whether the Texas courts violated clearly established federal precedent protecting jurisdictional access and due process rights of pro se litigants wh…
25-6061 Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-11-07 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested…
25-6059 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders…
25-552 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational…
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Question not identified.
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.
25-537 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing California 2025-11-04 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency 1a. Isn't it true that under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that Dr. Pierson, a self-represented party without alternat…
25A503 William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias Colorado 2025-11-03 Application due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-integrity jurisdictional-defect state-court-procedure Question not identified.
25-6015 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. Indiana 2025-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella…
25-6011 John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. California 2025-10-31 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer 1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s…
25-533 Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Amici (4) demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny 1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Am…
25-6004 Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest …
25-5996 Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A …
25-5973 Eric Michael Schuster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl…
25-5971 Jeffrey Rivard v. Vermont Vermont 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-motion probation-modification I. Whether the Vermont Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's right to file a pro se motion to vacate and modify probation based on newly discovered e…
25-5949 Matthew Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-24 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the Oklahoma courts ' categorical refusal to grant evidentiary hearings on colorable claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, actual …
25-508 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-10-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court jurisdictional-defect 1. Whether due process is violated when state courts rely on a concealed ex parte proceeding and fraudulent allegations —previously adjudicated as l…
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-22 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right …
25-5932 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-10-22 Denied IFP choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t…
25-5919 Kevin Griffin v. New York New York 2025-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant 1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th…
25-489 Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. Texas 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation Injured workers in Texas have One Year after their date of injury to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits and a Two Year limit to reach med…
25-485 Alvin E. Williams, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-10-20 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct 1. Whether the doctrine of judicial immunity protects judges who engage in and facilitated fraud in violation of constitutional due process rights? 2…
25-460 Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-16 Denied Response Waived covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale 1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the decision of its lower court to ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property and the su…
25A427 Indiana, ex rel. Freddie L. Byers, III v. Superior Court of Indiana, St. Joseph County, et al. Indiana 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete attorney-client due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel property-rights state-court Question not identified.
25-455 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani…
25A424 Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment genetic-privacy medical-data newborn-screening parental-autonomy Question not identified.
25A421 Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue Oregon 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete centrally-assessed discriminatory-tax equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property taxation Question not identified.
25A423 Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete equal-protection fourteenth-amendment home-birth medical-regulation midwifery rational-basis Question not identified.
25-5865 Aaron Norman Dunn v. California California 2025-10-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment payne-v-tennessee victim-impact-evidence Whether under Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), a prosecutor can be permitted to play for the jury during the penalty phase of a capital trial …
25-5859 Wisconsin, ex rel. Paul M. Nigl v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Wisconsin 2025-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief wisconsin-statutes 1. Whether the Wisconsin Court of Appeals unfairly blocked Petitioner access to his only remaining avenue for postconviction relief?
25-443 Ted Velleff v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-policy property-rights section-1983 state-remedies 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving individuals of personal property by applying a pol…
25-5852 Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law Part I - Constitutional / Federal Questions Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-reco…
25-5827 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of law …
25-427 Walid Abdelaziz, in His Individual Capacity as a Police Officer for the City of Oakland, California, et al. v. Estate of Decedent Lolomania Soakai, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger substantive-due-process 1. Whether bystanders injured when a fleeing criminal suspect lost control of his car and crashed into them have a Fourteenth Amendment substantive du…
25-5807 Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-06 Denied IFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment 1. Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of polic…
25-411 John Doe v. Illinois Illinois 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fo…
25-5809 Anthony Lee Van Durmen v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-impediment WHERE PETITIONER'S APPEAL OF RIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER (20) YEARS DUE TO THE STATE'S CREATED IMPEDIMENT WHICH PROHIBITED HIM FROM FILING, RESULTING I…
25-401 Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af…
25-398 Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC Pennsylvania 2025-10-03 Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine 1. Whether a state may constitutionally guarantee rights to appeal in all cases, then suppress that right by rigidly and/or arbitrarily applying proce…
25-5798 Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman California 2025-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights. 2. Whether rigid equal divisi…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California 2025-10-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5780 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Stacy Hall Indiana 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review state-law I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana deprived me of the secured right to one appeal under state law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, w…
25-5778 Ashlie R. Anderson v. Automobile Club of Southern California ("AAA") LLC, et al. California 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp-statute due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights vehicle-salvage a) Whether a summons and complaint that was filed on February 2, 2022 and was served on the defendants timely on March 19, 2022 and March 21, 2022, wh…
25-389 Abolfazl Hosseinzadeh v. Swedish Health Services, et al. Washington 2025-10-02 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant summary-judgment 1. Whether a state court's application of summary judgment standards, by excluding qualified expert affidavits through credibility assessments rathe…
25-5754 Biobele Georgewill v. Joshua M. Ball, et al. Tennessee 2025-09-29 Denied IFP constitutional-bias due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-recusal professional-relationship I. This case presents a substantial federal due process question. The Fourteenth Amendment requires an impartial tribunal. A judge who maintained a 14…
25-5757 Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon Oregon 2025-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment writ-of-mandamus Will SCOTUS order a writ of mandamus to stop the State of Oregon from punishing Freda with cruel and unusual punishment and stop the Constitutional vi…
25A360 Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-29 Application civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Question not identified.
25-371 Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC Florida 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam 1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe…
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Amici (23)Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-364 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-5744 Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in…
25-5738 Mark H. Wilson v. Florida Florida 2025-09-25 Denied IFP appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence…
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka…
25-5730 Michael Dean Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation supreme-court Was Ross Aerv.ecA Won<AannenAa\ riqVA-Aio Due Process as uararrPeeA bq Abe. SAW arvA \4AW AmerAmerAs oWAWe DniA-eA SAoWes ConsA-AuWan , ancA ArAscAe. …
25-5711 Jermal Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment standard-of-proof Under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, is La. R.S. 15:438 a higher standard of proof than Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. …
25A330 John F. Carbin v. Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights licensing-restrictions property-rights rational-basis Question not identified.
25-330 Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied 42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may nonetheless invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.…
25-321 Jeanette A. Stengel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dale E. Stengel v. Heartland Bank Nebraska 2025-09-18 Denied active-concealment discovery-rule due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-claims probate-rule 1. Whether a state probate rule barring a personal representative from invoking the discovery rule for fraud claims, based on the representative's kno…
25-324 Richard William Kleinhammer v. California California 2025-09-18 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen…
25-5662 Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for…
25-316 Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla Florida 2025-09-17 Rehearing Relisted (2) access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's denial of meaningful appellate review, based on the absence of a transcript that the court itself suppressed or failed t…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio 2025-09-16 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, …
25-5642 Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas Texas 2025-09-16 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge 1. Whether the Trial Court 122nd District Court (Galveston County) Texas use of a visiting trial judge who was not properly appointed nor noted on the…
25-305 Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. Illinois 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is …
25-301 Frank Marshall, et ux. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications state-election-law For the first time in the history of the United States, a State violated the foundational principles of the Electoral College by removing bona fide Pr…
25-5628 Stephen Shapiro, et al. v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. California 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights fourteenth-amendment incarcerated-litigants procedural-due-process self-represented-litigants Due process principles are designed to ensure a party is afforded his or her right to be heard during adversarial proceedings: "As the rubric itself i…
25-5615 Shahram Shakouri v. Scott Becker, former Judge, 219th Judicial District Court of Texas, Collin County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process filing-fee fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding poverty-exception (1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying the motion of this poverty-stricken Petitioner for extension of time to pay the filing fee, denied him …
25-5606 Joan Doe v. Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, in their Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-title-ii ada-title-v administrative-law due-process fourteenth-amendment university-discipline 1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a 13-day interim suspension —without notice or an exigency claim —that merged into an eight month suspension…
25-279 Matthew Wood v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment proportionality Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourt…
25-5589 Shane Stevens v. Colorado Colorado 2025-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio—on the grounds of proced…
25-5583 Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP discrimination-charges due-process eeoc-regulations fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-interest I. Cause of Action as Property Right Under the Fourteenth Amendment Whether a state-created statutory right to file discrimination charges and receive…
25-5572 Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP administrative-malfeasance appeal-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review WHETHER THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT OT DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE CLERK OF COURT FOR THE FOUTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEA…
25-5549 Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg…
25-5547 Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz California 2025-09-04 Dismissed IFP appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review s291778on july 23 25—despite a documented record of procedural due process violat…
25-5534 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot…
25-5532 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bitemark-evidence capital-punishment discretionary-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment scientific-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require a remand where the State has conceded that no court ever addressed the impact of Rogers's new …
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching …
25-5525 Teresa Lynette Bloodman v. Robert Brech, Executive Director, Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct Arkansas 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment interim-suspension liberty-interest procedural-fairness I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state supreme court to impose a imposes an interim suspension of an attorney '…
25-5523 Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn Maryland 2025-09-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards 1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from: A- Dementia and Alzhei…
25-5511 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal Question I. Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than …
25-238 Cutberto Viramontes, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-29 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (6) constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment gun-rights individual-liberty second-amendment semiautomatic-weapons Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.
25-241 Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida Florida 2025-08-29 Denied Response Waived evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard I. Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's facially sufficient ineffective assistance of counsel claim without an evidentiary hear…
25-5498 Jason Strauch v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-28 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus 1. Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus, contrary to the United State Constitution First Amendment, Right…
25-5494 Donald A. Allen v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-08-28 Denied IFP deportation due-process fourteenth-amendment fugitive-warrant judicial-process sentencing-delay 1. Whether the State of New Jersey violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourtheenth Amendment by sentencing him more tha…
25-5492 Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2025-08-28 Denied IFP bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment 1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot…
25-231 Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Was the conviction obtained through the use of what the Solicitor knew, or should have known to be false testimony, and did the Solicitor fail to c…
25A230 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction Question not identified.
25-5483 Z. G. v. M. C. Pennsylvania 2025-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes assoc…
25-5474 Jacob I. Severson v. Shabnum Gupta, et al. North Dakota 2025-08-27 Denied IFP bodily-integrity due-process expert-affidavit fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants medical-battery 1. Whether a state 's application of an expert-affidavit requirement to dismiss a claim of extreme and obvious medical battery —where a doctor non-co…
25-224 Bernard Gelb v. Preston Niblack, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement property-rights takings-clause unclaimed-funds Did the Respondents taking $500 million dollars without sending any notice to the Owners violate the Due Process Clause of the of the Fourteenth Amend…
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation 1. Do a Pro Se litigant have constitutional provision in federal court? Violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments, "Due process clause". Ensures that t…
25-5459 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso…
25-205 Schuyler E. Cole, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Hawaii 2025-08-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-valuation tax-assessment tax-classification Whether a real property tax class that consists of certain residential properties that are distinguished from identical residential properties based s…
25-204 Jeri Pearson, et al. v. Shriners Hospitals for Children, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment research-ethics state-action Since Congress enacted the 1974 National Research Act, it has been the federal government's policy that no individual can be subjected to a penalty or…
25A194 EMVLP, LLC, et al. v. Thuy Martinez, et al. Missouri 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete bristol-myers-squibb class-action due-process fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class personal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar (1) Was the novel state procedural ground for denying the false evidence claims in the initial habeas application inadequate? (2) Was the state proce…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment (1) DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN VIOLATION OF A MYRIAD OF SUPREME COURT SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY PRECEDENTS MISAPPREHEND …
25-5378 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Mark H. Slimak Florida 2025-08-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights stalking-injunction Did the trial court commit reversible error 's dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent Respondent from stalking? Did the court violate th…
25-189 Ron J. Waterman v. Robyn B. Waterman Massachusetts 2025-08-15 Denied due-process federal-law-interpretation fourteenth-amendment judgment-modification state-court-jurisdiction variable-separation-incentive A dozen States' Appellate Courts have issued opinions holding that Variable Separation Incentive (VSI) is a retirement benefit/pension. Subsequently, …
25-5366 Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh California 2025-08-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-party pro-per The Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause, which protects against excessive punitive economic sanctions, is fundamental to the scheme of ordered l…
25-5350 Monica Curtis v. Justice Court of the North Las Vegas Township, Clark County, Nevada Nevada 2025-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment sovereign-immunity If a state asserts sovereign immunity against a civil rights complaint, should the court accept the submission as the state, "Pleading the Fifth," and…
25-176 Tristram Heinz v. City of Philadelphia Bureau of Administrative Adjudication Pennsylvania 2025-08-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment speed-camera 1. Whether Section 3370 of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3370, the Automated Speed Camera Enforcement Program, and an implementing…
25-5287 Andrew W. Bell v. Karli Swift, et al. Georgia 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-guarantees due-process election-contest fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction service-of-process 1. Whether Georgia courts may dismiss election-contest petitions for "failure to perfect service " when O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524(f) places that duty on cle…
25-143 Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr…
25-5278 Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment If a Trial Court admitted into evidence inculpatory statements made by a defendant during the post-interview portion of a polygraph examination, but e…
25-5265 Jessica M. Graulau Maldonado v. Orange County Public Library System Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment material-facts negligence-tort summary-judgment witness-credibility Whether in holding that under federal summary judgment standard there is discretion to dismiss a jury negligence claim after determine credibility of …
25-5264 Craig Alan Sandhaus v. Florida Florida 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instruction nondeadly-force sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when his trial attorneys failed to request a jury instruction on the just…
25-124 Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 1. Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury? 2. Whether dism…
25-5239 Robert Largo v. New York New York 2025-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment mandatory-assessment new-york-penal-law victim-surcharge 1. Does imposition of New York Penal Law § 60.35, subdivision 1, as-applied to Petitioner result in State perpetrating extrinsic fraud upon Petitioner…
25-5234 Cathy E. Butler v. Estate of Dana Grace Butler, Deceased, et al. Florida 2025-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment open-courts probate-administration self-representation 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Fla. Const, art. I, §§ 9 & 21 require meaningful notice, hearing, and written findings be…
25-5232 Doina Rosu Almazon v. Town of Oyster Bay, New York Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-action property-rights Did the Town of Oyster Bay's action in demolishing the plaintiff's nearly completed, rebuilt home violate the due process guarantee under the United S…
25-5209 Andrea Nicole Weetly v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-07-28 Denied IFP child-support due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-delay modification-motions procedural-compliance 1. Whether a state court's prolonged failure to rule on timely filed child support modification and enforcement motions —despite irrefutable financia…
25-5195 Missouri, ex rel. Steven Albert Martin v. Ann Hansbrough, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-07-25 Denied IFP declaratory-judgment due-process fiduciary-control fourteenth-amendment judicial-inaction state-court 1. Whether a state court may constitutionally refuse to act on a properly filed Petition for Declaratory Judgment regarding private trusts and fiduci…
25-96 Maryville Baptist Church, et al. v. Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2025-07-24 Denied attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent retroactive-application vested-rights This case presents a classic vehicle for this Court to clarify that a judicial decision which changes legal precedent cannot be applied retroactively …
25-5188 Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge Florida 2025-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A…
25A104 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2025-07-24 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override Question not identified.
25-5182 Ronda Melnychuk-Beselt v. Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC, a Foreign Limited Liability Company, et al. Hawaii 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodations discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment health-information-laws medical-records A. Novel Questions 1. Whether the Court violated foreign Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution during an attorne…
25A93 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
25-5175 Rayon Payne v. Eric Parke LaRue, II, et al. Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP all-writs-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal state-court-procedure supremacy-clause One, whether the Florida Supreme Court's refusal to address federal constitutional issues presented in an original All Writs Petition violates the Sup…
25A69 Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-eligibility Question not identified.
25-5136 Christopher Thomas Scamahorn v. Florida Florida 2025-07-17 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders meaningful-opportunity rehabilitation Question 1: Whether under the Eighth Amendment as applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibi…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin…
25-5122 Raheem Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the ju…
25-5092 Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 Does Logic disqualify Judicial actions? Statutory provisions Is the first and the fourteenth Amendment meaningless in the Constitution for a Citizen …
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Question not identified.
25-41 Jan Peters v. Malia M. Cohen, In Her Official Capacity as Chief Fiscal Officer, State Controller of California, and as Trustee of the Unclaimed Property Fund Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause unclaimed-property 1. Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1300, et seq. ("UPL"), violate the D…
25A50 Alfonso E. Chavez Ayub v. Alfonso Chavez Pacheco Texas 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment international-law probate-law property-rights treaty-obligations Question not identified.
25-5083 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2025-07-10 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation Does the Petitioner's execution violate the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution when the conduct of the government and …
25-5079 Leon Carter v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-07-10 Denied IFP counsel-deprivation ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instruction sixth-amendment 1. Should a writ of habeas corpus issue when a bailiff reinstructed the jury in a criminal trial by directing it to continue deliberating until it rea…
25-38 Seth Adam Lilly v. Melissa Ann Lilly Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied contract-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review settlement-agreement state-courts 1. Did the refusal of the Indiana state courts to enforce the Petitioner's rights as unambiguously stated in the Settlement Agreement between the part…
25-37 Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. Indiana 2025-07-10 Denied common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor 1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of a…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-09 Denied IFP bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1. Was Dwayne Anderson 's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a …
25-27 Judy A. Brannberg v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-07-09 Denied Response Waived antitrust charter-school civil-rico due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-55 The questions presented are: Question One: Whether Petitioner is entitled to $2.6 billion in civil RICO default judgment under Rule 55 where Defendan…
25-20 Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure 1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis…
25-5026 C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2025-07-03 Denied IFP child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights 1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding wher…
25-5024 Roy Glenn Reay v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la…
24-7495 Jose Mario Lopez Carrillo v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-25 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment 1. Whether fail to provide Discover was ineffectice assistance of Counsel ? 2. Whether the indictment of information-was deficient by laking elements…
24-7493 Christopher David Harrell v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment kidnapping-statute sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Wyoming Supreme Court has consistently decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decision of other state courts of la…
24-1312 James J. Decoulos v. Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals, et al. Massachusetts 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-disciplinary-proceeding statutory-interpretation Whether a state court violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it defers to a state agency's interpretation of statutes and re…
24-7487 Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2025-06-24 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, as set forth in Beck v. Alabama, when th…
24-1300 Andrew John Blount v. Joan Michelle Blount Texas 2025-06-24 Denied community-property due-process evidentiary-burden fourteenth-amendment property-rights sua-sponte 1. Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by sua sponte imposing an unargued, heightened evidentiary b…
24A1265 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching Does a trial court violate a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it permits prosecutorial and police vouching for a witn…
24-7457 Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida Florida 2025-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records 1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas's demand for public records from the Executive Office of the Governor, in violation of Gud…
24-7452 Robert Hart v. Beth Mae Hart California 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-principles due-process fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion judicial-reformation 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits application of the doctrine of issue preclusion to a party who did not participa…
24-7442 Patrick L. Booker v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-contempt due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding procedural-rights summary-contempt Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require explicit notice and an opportunity to be heard when a court delays the imposition of c…
24-1285 Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang California 2025-06-17 Denied civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant 1. In a civil trial where the trial judge precludes a self-represented plaintiff from offering material evidence, comments that the plaintiff is not a…
24-1273 Jonathan Phillips v. California California 2025-06-13 Denied due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining 1. Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate the due process protections of the Fifth and Fourteen…
24-1269 Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. Connecticut 2025-06-12 Denied constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint Did the State of Connecticut violate the petitioner's 1st and 14th Amendment rights when it imposed a no contact order (CPO) for speech/conduct that w…
24-7399 Lake Robinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stand-your-ground 1. Defense Counsel was ineffective for failing to request a pretrial immunity hearing based on erroneous reasoning that Appellant was not entitled to …
24-1263 Jeannine Bedard v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. California 2025-06-11 Denied Response Waived due-process employment-conditions fourteenth-amendment labor-law property-rights vested-rights California Labor Code Sections 2802 and 2804 govern the indemnification of employees for necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in …
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment 1. ) Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel , …
24-1256 Gary Robinson v. Jerry N. Higgins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights tax-lien 1. Whether the state of Kentucky violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by enforcing an illegal tax lien, depriving the petitio…
24-1250 Art Bullock, et al. v. R-Ranch Property Owners' Association, et al. California 2025-06-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-rules constitutional-authority due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review stare-decisis California's 1928 Constitutional Amendment withdrew au thority for California Supreme Court (CSC) to adopt appel late rules, after giving that author…
24-7360 Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing Question (1) In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307, 143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct. 1…
24-1235 Suliang Bu v. Missouri Missouri 2025-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure cross-section-of-community due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment Whether, consistent with the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, a waiver of the right to a jury trial is intelligent when the record does not show the d…
24-1227 Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority 1. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in failing to hold that Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9, the enforcement provision for alleged ethical vio…
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois 2025-06-03 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights 1. Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a …
24-7343 Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule Where an officer of the court violates the "Kokkonen rule" by "enforcing" an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth …
24-7309 Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts Nevada 2025-05-28 Denied IFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error 1. Whether the District Court Judge Joseph Hardy, Jr., erred when considering the Findings of Fact, Conclusion of law order and Final Judgment. 2. Wh…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment 1. In a challeng e under Ramos v. Louisiana 590 U.S. 83, 140 S. Ct. 1390, 206 L. Ed. 2d 583 (2020), where the record is silent as to the votes on the …
24-7246 Tamika Seay v. Lisa James, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness 1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things? 2. Whether procedures the United State…
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights 1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things? 2. Whether procedures the United State…
24-7248 Tamika Seay v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-procedure procedural-fairness 1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things? 2. Whether procedures the United State…
24-7242 Lazarus Casas v. New York New York 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment licensing-regime proper-cause-requirement second-amendment Under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, may New York punish an individual for failing to comply with the licensing regime…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-7235 Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan Michigan 2025-05-16 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect DID THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT A RADICAL JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT BY NOT FOLLOWING MICHIGAN'S LAW AND STANDARDS SET FORTH BY MCL's, MCR's, AND FOURTH, FIF…
24-7204 Sandra Leigh Tomey v. Bill Howard Property Management, LLC Virginia 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment standing unlawful-detainer Q. Whether the courts violated U. S. Const. Ann. art. Ill, § 2, cl. 1.6.1 Overview of Standing, when the courts allowed a fictitious named person, not…
24-7187 Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon Wisconsin 2025-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP divorce-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct marital-settlement-agreement 1. Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgibbon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by: • Losing the parties…
24-7185 Wayne Johnson v. First District Appellate Project, et al. California 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-fiduciary-duty confidential-communications criminal-defendant fourteenth-amendment public-defender sixth-amendment Whether an attorney appointed at public expense has a fiduciary duty to a criminal defendant to not disclose confidential communications in an environ…
24-7169 Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida Florida 2025-05-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules Glen Edward Rogers is currently facing execution in Florida while suffering from the effects of Porphyria disease, a blood disorder. The state courts …
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking …
24-7129 Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant 1. ) Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26 (a)(1)( B)(iv.) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, simply because they are not represented b…
24-7096 Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(h), this matter…
24-1112 Rolland G. Shoup, II v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-foundation fourteenth-amendment officer-testimony Does a state deprive a defendant of their Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law when it admits adverse evidence not on the basis of a prope…
24-1111 Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission 1) Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued because reasonable jurists would find debatable or wrong the district court's conclusion …
24-1107 Jonathan Peoples v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-behavior overdetention Whether the Eighth Amendment provides the sort of explicit textual source of constitutional protection for "overdetention" such that the Eighth Amendm…
24-7059 Dennis L. Magee v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
24-7024 Jesse Scott Fulcher v. Arizona Arizona 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Joa Fulcher denied his Fundamental right to Due Process as Guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution, and Article II…
24-7009 Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment 1. Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting the development of the record deprived Petitioner of a meaningful op…
24-6991 Jessica L. Morris v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE BECAUSE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HER RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS V, VI AND XIV? IS…
24-1075 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-14 Denied Response Waived after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which affirmed the defendant's convictions …
24-6985 R. V., Jr. v. S. V. Texas 2025-04-14 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights Where an incarcerated and indigent parent is in a suit to terminate their parental rights, what circumstances reach the "troublesome points of law," "…
24A969 Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Jefferson County Public Schools, et al. Colorado 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete charter-schools due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct section-1983 sherman-antitrust-act 1. Whether this Court should grant an emergency injunction to prevent Douglas County School District (""DCSD"), Jefferson County Public Schools ("Jeff…
24A960 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT v. Cassandra Fox New York 2025-04-08 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mortgage-foreclosure retroactive-legislation takings-clause Question not identified.
24-6946 Logan Dyjak v. Stacey Horstman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied IFP bodily-movement constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-rights summary-judgment 1. Whether a court must provide notice and an opportunity to be heard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(e)(2) when awarding summary judgment. …
24-6944 Andrew Isaacs v. Interplex Sunbelt, Inc., et al. Florida 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment judicial-jurisdiction labor-law osha-regulations workers-compensation workplace-safety When a Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) rules a lack of jurisdiction over an employee's claim of a Fourteenth Amendment violation, does such a deter…
24-6943 Noah Duncan v. The Curators of the University of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-procedures due-process ferpa first-amendment fourteenth-amendment student-rights Regarding [FERPA] 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(lXA): I. Does 20 U.S.C § 1232g(a)(l)(A) use "rights-creating language " to infer that a student has a right to …
24-6940 Tam Q. Le v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determined that the trial court committed error in providing an Allen charge to the jury when they advised a deadlock and …
24-6932 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-04-04 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment 1. Whether Florida may limit a penalty phase jury's role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments based on Spaziano v. Florida, a case which…
24-6929 Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied IFP custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause 1. ) Did the lower courts erroneously failed to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioners circumstances during his cus…
24-6927 Bryant Cobb v. Ohio Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Fifth Appellate District's affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress is repugnant to the …
24-1050 Estate of Te’Juan Johnson v. Amanda Rakes, Administrator of the Estate of Amylyn Slaymaker and Next Friend to the Minor Children G. C. and M. C. Seventh Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment police-duty qualified-immunity state-created-danger Faced with a Section 1983 substantive due process claim under a "state-created danger" exception to the general rule that there is no constitutional d…
24-1042 Robert R. Parker, Jr. v. John D. Burnes, et al. Oregon 2025-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-concealment judicial-review systemic-racism 1. Whether the Oregon Supreme Court's denial of the Petition for Judicial Review, despite acknowledging systemic racism and discrimination, violates t…
24-6887 Rufus Rivers, et al. v. James Smith, Jr. South Carolina 2025-03-28 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment implied-agreement landlord-tenant procedural-rights property-law 1. Whether the state Supreme Court's decision, which find a Jandlord-tenant relationship based on an implied rental agreement without clear evidence o…
24-6880 Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment GROUND ONE: WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S GUA…
24-6859 Cecil Ray v. Angela Phams, Warden, et al. Georgia 2025-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel state-courts 1. IS one merits bond appeal exist and are much invalidated by a State Court as review, should Federal Court address one lack KH as a second of Unt co…
24-6855 Eric Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su…
24-6847 Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri Missouri 2025-03-25 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting …
24-1010 Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct In the professional conduct review concerning Petitioner, Raphael Weitzman, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, without de novo review, the …
24-6806 Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society Pennsylvania 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin "Does the seizure of all the Petitioners belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc…
24-6773 Jerry Jeron Daniels v. Pennsylvania Parole Board Pennsylvania 2025-03-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment parole-board sixth-amendment Did the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court and The Pennsylvania Supreme Court err, abuse discretion and violate Petitioner's 4th, 6th, and 14th Amendment…
24-6769 Maylois Bacot, aka Maylois Conerly Price, aka Maylois Conerly, aka Maylois Price v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities, Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4 Louisiana 2025-03-14 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech right-to-petition Whether the court violated the Petitioner's U.S. Constitution First Amendment right to freedom of speech and right to petition the court to redress gr…
24-978 Kristopher Paul Hochendoner v. Michael J. King, Executor of the Estate of James E. King Pennsylvania 2025-03-12 Denied default-notice due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights sheriff-sale subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA VIOLATED THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION WHEN IT FAILED TO SET ASIDE …
24-973 Justin Savage v. Henry County School District Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-for-rehearing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of the petition for rehearing without providing any reasoning, and its failure to duly consid…
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…
24A850 Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-04 Presumed Complete controlled-substance-distribution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spousal-privilege Question not identified.
24A836 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6673 Israel Romero v. Meta Platforms Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment half-truth judicial-bias procedural-error Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteen Amendment requires recusal of a judge when there are multiple instances of bias, including half-truths,…
24-934 Edward Turnbull, IV v. Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief standing Petitioner sued state bar officials after they mishandled his grievances against attorneys who falsely accused him of illegal conduct. His suit allege…
24-6646 Randy Allen Herman, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense involuntary-act sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
24-6628 Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde…
24-6604 Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy Is Petitioner's case moot simply because the 2024 midterms are over and he has expressed a desire to run for the 2026 midterms as the 4th Circuit note…
24-6602 Amia Young-Trezvant v. Lone Star College System Fifth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied IFP court-documents due-process equal-access fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure notification-systems 1. Did the lower court's failure to ensure timely delivery of judgment and opinion documents violate my due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendm…
24A801 Michael Anthony Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-02-19 Presumed Complete arbitrary-government-interference due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberties jurisdictional-dismissal right-to-be-heard Question not identified.
24-6578 Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion How should courts assess whether the representation of a group is fair and reasonable? What is necessary to show an underrepresentation is "systemati…
24-6548 Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement Does law enforcement's involvement in the arrest and use of force against Ms. Kynnedi 'Rae Charles potentially violate fundamental constitutional prot…
24-854 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied Response Waived anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-rights It is undisputed that a state may not condition participation in its elections on the payment of a fee. In this case, the uncontroverted evidence esta…
24-853 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2025-02-11 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-liberties constitutional-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance Respondent Moscow, Idaho has an ordinance prohibiting "any notice, sign, announcement, or other advertising matter" in the public square without the p…
24-6531 Mary Ruffin v. Mark Henry Texas 2025-02-10 Dismissed IFP court-fees fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-writ procedural-due-process Whether the lower court's failure to honor a Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs after filing, without any contest, thereby imposi…
24-6514 Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas Kansas 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings Does law enforcement quasi-legal representations that a truth verification machine is 100% accurate, combined with numerous acts of deception during a…
24-6510 James D. Ford v. Florida Florida 2025-02-08 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether Florida's use of the "conformity clause" in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi…
24A767 Jacob Brown v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-relief eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole post-conviction Question not identified.
24-831 Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent Did a 17 year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violate petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments andthe cle…
24-824 Bernice M. Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee of the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) chancery-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice rule-56 summary-judgment This case presents one of first impression and of national importance and significance because it conflicts with well-established rules and principles…
24-819 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-02-03 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is Rule 10B, Rules Of The Supreme Court Of The State Of Tennessee (" Rule 10B ") (App. C, No. 6) (App. pp. 7a-10a) a structural constitutional vi…
24-6449 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when the lower courts' legal standard as applied to false testimony claims conflicts with this Court's le…
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
24-6408 Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal…
24-6383 Christian Ricker v. Indiana Indiana 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was a State Appellate Courts Finding that the States Prosecutorial Misconduct and Conditioning during Voir Dire was waived by Failure to Raise thes…
24-774 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2025-01-22 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias…
24A718 Kai D. Ingram v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole-revocation preliminary-hearing Question not identified.
24-773 Joshua Wade v. University of Michigan Michigan 2025-01-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campus-carry constitutional-rights firearm-possession fourteenth-amendment second-amendment sensitive-places Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments allow a criminal ordinance that prohibits mere possession of firearms on an entire poorly-delineated univ…
24-6342 A. B. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights judicial-procedure The OCR quality of this document is too degraded to reliably extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a section labeled "QUESTION(S…
24-6320 Aaron Abadi v. Eric L. Adams, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights executive-powers first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vaccine-mandate Does the enforcement of COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate individual rights protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments? Should the unchecked…
24-6317 James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a …
24-6313 Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence Does the admission of evidence that a criminal defendant possesses guns, weapons that are -'totally unrelated to the criminal allegation against him, …
24-6300 Pablo Gutierrez v. Florida Florida 2025-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment interpreter-rights sixth-amendment The trial court recognized Mr. Gutierrez only spoke Spanish and appointed an interpreter for him —but the interpreter was prohibited from translating …
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard First, does a Circuit Court retain jurisdiction to consider the merits of an appeal from an order granting federal habeas relief if a state court vaca…
24-6278 In Re Sherly Cadet 2025-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights contract-enforcement fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant racial-discrimination section-1981 The history of U.S. Supreme Court decisions demonstrate that a Court of Appeals should grant a pro se plaintiff IFP status, pursuant to 28 U.S.C, §191…
24-722 Larry E. Parrish, P.C. v. Nancy Strong, et al. Tennessee 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal structural-constitutional-right subject-matter-jurisdiction williams-precedent 1. According to Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016) ("Williams"), is Rule 10B of the Rules of Tennessee Supreme Court ("Rule 10B") a structura…
24-6263 William S. Hurt, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-01-10 Denied IFP due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-court-of-criminal-appeals post-conviction-dna statutory-rights I. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (OCCA) violated Petitioner's statutory rights under the Oklahoma Post-Conviction DNA pursuant to Okl…
24-6248 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance proximate-causation sixth-amendment I. Whether Trial Counsel Was Ineffective, Under Strickland . For Failing to Follow Through With Brown's Causation Defense Theory By Failing To Request…
24-6231 Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil…
24A638 John Paul Gomez v. Judge Dan Favreau, et al. Ohio 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigator For my motion to stay, I raise the following questions: a. Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's denial of my request for leave to file a motion to stay o…
24-6209 Edvin Santiagomazariegos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE FO…
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…
24A619 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty Question not identified.
24A608 Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas Texas 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6172 Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2024-12-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in…
24-650 Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2024-12-16 Denied circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error 1. The Trial Court's error in refusing to give the Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the Appellant's 6th and 14th …
24-6142 Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark Washington 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift There can be only one correct judicial interpretation of the original intent of the Constitution. Courts have departed from this one correct interpret…
24A576 Indiana Green Party, et al. v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State Seventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties signature-requirements Question not identified.
24-6123 Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time of the …
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard I. DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY? II. WAS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRIC…
24-6093 Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel 1. Does South Dakota 's position, in its statutory required appointment of counsel for indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings (SDCL § 21-27-4) there…
24-6098 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-resentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining…
24-625 Elana Thibault v. State Bar of California California 2024-12-06 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline due-process fourteenth-amendment professional-misconduct property-interest state-bar Does the suspension from practice of law and imposition of monetary sanctions by methods that deviate from the prescribed means and offend the sense o…
24-6076 Reginald Wright v. Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction legal-proceedings 1. Did the false information provided by the opposing party to initiate a child support case violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to fair le…
24-6075 Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. Alaska 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law Question not identified.
24-609 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-12-04 Denied civil-judgment due-process-clause escheat fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause Do the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protect a civil judgment creditor, in a state court, from eschea…
24-612 Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Dismissed due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights In 2022, the Alabama Legislature enacted a categorical ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the t…
24A540 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an…
24A533 Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. Florida 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court Question not identified.
24-607 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2024-12-03 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause, equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and the litigants' right to access justi…
24-6057 Luis Alfredo Aparicio v. Texas Texas 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-classification non-discrimination scrutiny-standard 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause requires scrutiny when the state treats men and women differently for purportedly non-pr…
24A525 Mark Miller, et al. v. Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-02 Presumed Complete ballot-access constitutional-burden election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties Question not identified.
24-6045 Shawn M. Berila v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-rights report-and-recommendation IS A PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF DUE PROCES VIOLATED WHEN A DISTRICT COURT DOES NOT ALLOW A PETITIONER AN EXTENSION TO OBJECT TO THE RE…
24-6042 David Leonard Wood v. Texas Texas 2024-11-26 Denied IFP atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics On his campaign website seeking election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a judge provided a link to a news story praising his ruling that Davi…
24-6034 David Lee Hering v. Iowa District Court, Muscatine County Iowa 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-mandate 1. Does the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments due process of law guarantee apply to the sentencing of a criminal defendant? 2. Where a district court r…
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-6026 Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment Does absence of the right to counsel and access to transcripts in family court proceedings—such as divorce and child custody —constitutes a violation …
24-572 Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee I. Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a n…
24-6017 Hanoi Hormachea v. Haridas Bhadja, in His Official Capacity as Chief Medical Officer at Okeechobee Correctional Institution Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion civil-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 WHETHER THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED BY DISMISSING THE APPEAL WHEN PETITIONER HAD IN FACT PROPERLY EXHAUS…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure 1. May a state court elect to contravene its own state laws, which explicitly require the award of legal fees and representation of counsel, in violat…
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Question not identified.
24-5994 David Rodriguez v. Texas Texas 2024-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Did The Court Of Criminal Appeals Of Texas err in holding that The Trial Court did not abuse its discretion and violate Rodriguez Fourteenth Amendment…
24-560 Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights 1. Mississippi's harsh and unforgiving felony disenfranchisement scheme is a national outlier. Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution punishes ci…
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California 2024-11-13 Denied IFP access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels (trial, appellate, and supreme) violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to d…
24-5960 Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause 1. DID THE FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY FAILING TO ESTABLISH PROBABLE CAUSE BY REFUSING T…
24-5952 M. C. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-deficiencies 1. Whether the termination of parental rights without substantial evidence of unfitness violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. …
24A464 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5930 Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing 1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that…
24-521 Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response Waived fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention 1. Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures, or the Fourteenth Amend…
24A448 Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona Arizona 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete capital-case for-cause-strike fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witherspoon-standard Question not identified.
24A438 Montana, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Montana, et al. Montana 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete abortion due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-decision-making minor-rights parental-consent Question not identified.
24-499 Nita A. v. A. A. Illinois 2024-11-01 Denied domestic-violence due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ninth-amendment personal-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Ilinois Domestic Violence Act, 750 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 60/101 et seq., as applied by the Illinois Courts, violated Nita's First Amend…
24-488 Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas Texas 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived due-process felony-penalties fourteenth-amendment legal-framework medical-practice state-courts Should state laws that criminalize the practice of medicine by imposing felony penalties on physicians — based on an unworkable legal framework that m…
24-5839 Jordan Powell v. JBG Smith Properties, LP First Residences, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights-removal fourteenth-amendment remand-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment Whether the civil rights removal statute 28 U.S.C. Section 1443 permits removal remand review according to the text thereof where Subsection 1447(d) d…
24-5833 Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny A. Did the substantive component of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ' Due Process Clauses require the United States Court of Appeals for the Four…
24-5816 Terrance A. Burlison v. Jerry W. Benefield, dba Green Oaks Manor Mobile Home Park Florida 2024-10-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure dismissal due-process florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment procedural-rules WHETHER THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT VIOLATED THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS DUE PROCESS CLAUSE WHEN IT ENTERED AN ORDER OF DISMISSAL BEFORE THE…
24A399 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access candidate-qualification election-law fourteenth-amendment insurrection-clause state-election-commission Question not identified.
24-5796 Deandre Arnold v. Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-immunity standing Whether Petitioner lack's standing to sue a Sheriff's Office or its employees under Linda R.S. for the alleged violation of a First Amendment right to…
24-448 Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC Virginia 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a state appellate court refuse to provide full appellat…
24-441 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-10-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption Petitioners A.M.B. and T.G. have been in a committed relationship for over a decade. Together, they have raised M.M.C, A.M.B.'s biological daughter, a…
24-5787 Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 a) The 9th circuit 's insurrection of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting the 1 plain text of CPA 230 cl'. This was called "republishing nonsense "…
24-431 Danny Ray Dunn v. Caryn Alissa Dunn Georgia 2024-10-17 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal-motion Is a lack of an adequate recusal enforcement mechanism, as evidenced by the Georgia Court of Appeal's ignoring the recusal motion and by the Georgia S…
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan In Troxel v. Granville, this Court concluded that Washington's Grandparent Visitation Statute unconstitutionally infringed a fit parent's federal cons…
24-5747 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana 2024-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when a State upholds a conviction after ruling it was not obtain…
24A342 Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck California 2024-10-10 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
24-393 George Arsenis, et al. v. Borough of Bernardsville, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2024-10-09 Denied discriminatory-taxation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-assessment spot-assessment taxation-uniformity 1. Whether the selective reassessment of 380 Claremont Road by Town Assessor Edward Kerwin, conducted without a district-wide revaluation or the pr…
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination 1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invok…
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida 2024-10-04 Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the right to a jury trial secured by the Seventh Amendment extend to a private citizen in a state court in an action for defamation per se? Does…
24-5698 Tony Moore, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury jurisdictional-challenge wrongful-imprisonment WHETHER PETITIONER'S CRITICAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS BEING CONTINUOUSLY DENIED/VIOLATED, AND HIS STATUTORY RIGHT ENTITLE…
24-371 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance trial-counsel 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment confer the right to effective assistance of first collateral review counsel for claims of ineffective assistance of…
24-376 Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington Washington 2024-10-02 Denied fourteenth-amendment jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment upward-departure Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that one or more aggravating facts amount to "substantial…
24-5680 P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action Was the state court's termination of P.H.'s parental rights on the grounds of P.H.'s mental health issues consistent with P.H.'s fundamental constitut…
24-5676 Henry Altamirano v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus limitation-period subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Petitioner have the right to have his subject matter jurisdiction claim heard on its merits even though he filed his federal habeas petitio…
24-5673 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. John Herring, Superintendent, Maury Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim due-process evidence-review fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Within THE LOW? COVATS OUTRIGHT DENY HABEAS PETITIONERS RiGNT To SHOW ACTVAL INNOCENCE IN THE DISTRICT COVAT 64 FAILING TO ADJVDICA% THE SCHLUP V, DEL…
24-5652 Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense QUESTION 1 - Within the context of SUFFICIENCY of Jackson v. Virginia. 443 U.S. 307, at 317 n.10. When the defense of self-defense and provocation ha…
24-342 Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. New Jersey 2024-09-26 Denied Response Waived ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications For the first time in the history of the United States, a State silenced a presidential candidate running for the Office whose message spoke to the in…
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-335 Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. New York 2024-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant lacking any contacts with…
24-5619 Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion Whether The DENIAL of a Pro Se Application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") with the United States Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, In R…
24-5617 In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson 2024-09-24 Denied IFP bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power WAS KESEAN WILSON DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMEND. RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, SINCE HE WAS SIMILARLY SITUATED TO AN INDIVIDUA…
24A285 Team Kennedy, et al. v. Henry Berger, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete ballot-access election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-candidate presidential-qualifications Whether New York's requirement that independent presidential candidates establish residency in the state for at least four weeks before the election, …
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals denied Petitioner her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial and equal protect…
24-305 Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings Georgia 2024-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence, including the absence of any criminal reco…
24-5547 Clifton Bean v. Florida Florida 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition life-sentence sixth-amendment Does the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony that requ…
24-5538 John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination 1. Did the United States District Court for the District of Kansas err when it failed to find in Mr. Stenberg's favor regarding the suppression issue …
24A251 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court. Specifically, whether California's disbarment of petitioner fell belo…
24-5463 Ashley Wilkerson v. City of Houston, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 constitutional-violations due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment police-interference Do the government's repeated violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as demonstrated by informal pressure from police officers such as, alt…
24A234 Sandra A. Zikry v. Exodus Women's Center, Inc., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Question not identified.
24A233 Sandra A. Zikry v. Hernie David Vann, Jr., et al. Florida 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-consent Question not identified.
24A231 OCA-Greater Houston, et al. v. Kim Ogg Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete election-law ex-parte-young first-amendment fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity voting-rights Question not identified.
24-5436 David Fink v. California California 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-of-appeal (1. Should an appellant have a voice in his or her own appeal? If not, can s/he be procedurally barred for failing to raise it as here? (2. Where, as…
24-234 Raymond Guzall III v. Grievance Administrator, Attorney Grievance Commission of Michigan Michigan 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived court-manipulation due-process evidence-concealment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias legal-procedure States cannot be allowed to prosecute upon altered court recordings. The Michigan Court of Appeals gave Petitioner (Guzall herein) a copy of a court h…
24-5431 Jacob Valle v. Florida Florida 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-225 B. S. v. D. S. California 2024-08-29 Denied constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1. Does the preponderance of the evidence standard used for the issuance of a DVRO in California comply with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of …
24-213 Willis Franklin v. California California 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice when the trial court failed to continue the trial during…
24-212 Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. Alabama 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction Does the reversal of the ORDER of Sept. 1, 2021, [without due process], that granted Lewis Archer and his family the deed to their home of 30 years vi…
24-5389 Loran Cole v. Florida Florida 2024-08-26 Denied IFP baze-glossip-test due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection parkinson's-disease 1. Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on hi…
24-5367 Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage 1. Whether the lack of provision of legal aid to pro se litigants in civil cases violates the equal protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Am…
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Question not identified.
24-5352 Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation 1. Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation, despite the absence of consent from either party, constitutes a vio…
24-184 Xuejie He v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. The denial of Petition for a hearing or rehearing En banc for Proceedings directly on re…
24-177 Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva Florida 2024-08-20 Denied appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment 1. Whether Florida's rules of appellate procedure which provide for the issuance by the Court of Appeals of a per curiam decision, without an opinion,…
24A185 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-174 Jack Jordan v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech 1. Whether the New York State Court of Appeals violated the U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV by dismissing an attorney's appeal based on the summary co…
24-173 Malcolm Johnson, et al. v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process emergency-use-authorization experimental-vaccine fourteenth-amendment informed-consent qualified-immunity The well-established law is that medical experimentation on humans cannot be performed without informed consent, or with any degree of duress or coerc…
24A174 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-14 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense call down the protections of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constit…
24-5320 Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-08-14 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure I. WAS THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT IN ERROR, FOR FAILING TO CORRECT THE APPELLATE COURTS FAILURE TO CORRECT A CONFRONTATIONAL VIOLATION THAT TRANSPIRE…
24-155 James R. Fouts v. The Warren City Council, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-expression term-limits 1. Where an individual plaintiff challenges under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as applied to him only, the constitutionality of a city charter…
24-5283 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-08-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-relief 1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be deprived of …
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant 1. Litigiousness or Numerosity of Litigations Alone is Insufficient to Support the Determination that a Self-Represented Party is a Vexatious Litigant…
24-139 Lei Jiang, et al. v. Kevin Chu, et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied business-records deposition-subpoena due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel real-estate-fraud Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the California Superior Court for the County of Alameda denied Petitioner…
24-5244 Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix 1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal …
24-128 Caf Dowlah v. American Arbitration Association, et al. New York 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived arbitral-immunity butz-v-economou civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct res-judicata A. Does a conflict exist between the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16) and the Supreme Court decision in Butz u. Economou, 438 U.S. 478 (1978…
24-127 The Center For Reproductive Medicine, P.C., et al. v. Felicia Burdick-Aysenne, et vir, in Their Individual Capacities and as Parents and Next Friends of Baby Aysenne, Deceased Embryo/Minor Alabama 2024-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages standing statutory-interpretation 1. Alabama's civil wrongful death statute, codified in 1872, imposes civil liability, including punitive damages, for the "death of a minor child . . …
24-5193 James E. Clifford v. Carla Walker, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights default-judgment due-process fair-adjudication fourteenth-amendment procedural-error racial-discrimination (1.) Does the failure of the Appellate Court to recognize and address a procedural error, especially the entry and subsequent denial of default judgme…
24-5188 Patrick Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trials non-unanimous-jury second-degree-murder sixth-amendment state-courts 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
24-102 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government "effected [a] prohibition" of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of …
24A92 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 Question not identified.
24A88 Michael Collins Iheme v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5123 Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment WheVW petitioner Was Denied His FiFtty 3/Xrh//Avui Fow+eetH AfoeYiWvif Right +0 Due process Av\H Ftxvo Tm\ Because ottt C0(avTS USe OF prior Acts In…
24A65 Tina Peters v. Daniel P. Rubinstein, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete election-records federal-immunity fourteenth-amendment privileges-or-immunities state-prosecution supremacy-clause 1. Whether issues related to a claim to immunity from state prosecution under the Supremacy Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Four…
24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections, under 45 CFR § 303.6(c)(4-5), violates substantive due process as well as privileges and immun…
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Granted Amici (26)Relisted (4) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
24-5063 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment lower-court trial-court Does a conviction for breach of bail conditions-set by lower court-violate the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where tri…
24-5052 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2024-07-11 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation court-of-appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-relief 1. Did the Third District Court of Appeal Violate Section (9) in the Constitution of the State of Florida Due Process-No person shall be deprived of l…
24-5049 Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-07-11 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations In light of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabihties Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., which mandate e…
24-5029 Jurgen Marku v. Florida Florida 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clause and Due Process Clause rights to allow the prosecution to inform the jury tha…
24-22 Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act, 23 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5325, permitting a judge to grant to a grandparent, over a fit parent's obj…
23-1366 Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. Montana 2024-07-02 Denied adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law 1. Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free speech, petition to redre…
23-1368 Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. Puerto Rico 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights In the circumstances described in the first paragraph, was the due process violated? 2. In the circumstances described in the second paragraph, was t…
23-1369 John Rust v. Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State, et al. Indiana 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-association primary-election primary-elections state-election-laws voter-registration voting-rights Whether the Affiliation Statute violates Indiana citizens' right to freely associate with the political party of their choosing pursuant to the First …
23-1351 Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas Texas 2024-06-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived criminal-conviction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech obstruction-of-passageway obstruction-statute peaceful-assembly peaceful-protest public-forum public-sidewalks Petitioners assembled with others in a brief, peaceful march along a historic Texas street. The march took place primarily on the sidewalk, but when n…
23-7822 Nukarri Williams v. Florida Florida 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE PETITIONER WITH THE PROPER TO SIMILAR SITUATION TO DEFENDANT'S WILL AT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FE…
23-1342 David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-injunction constitutional-provision due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination state-courts state-law Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require federal and state courts to answer the question of state law that the c…
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error In Summary, should the Supreme Court issue guidance to state courts on unaddressed, mandatory accommodation to judicial discretion to provide fair hea…
23A1146 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state …
23-7784 Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez Seventh Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation Whether the 3 Wardens ' had a, meeting of the minds decided the fate of the Petitioner's issued retaliatory ordered .to their entire WCI Department a…
23-7785 Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. First Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination 1) Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court erred in dismissing Mr. Sanchez 's claims of religious discrimination, harassment…
23A1143 George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2024-06-24 Presumed Complete child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-protections termination-of-rights Question not identified.
23A1147 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction Question not identified.
23-7791 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state …
23-7792 In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law (1) Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility …
23-7766 Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness Whether the Ninth Circuit applied this Court's precedents in Bradshaw v. State and Barclay v. Marchand to exclude a defendant's custodial interrogatio…
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
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 …
23-1306 Linda Smith, et al. v. David R. Heilman, Trustee of the Ralph A. Siddell Living Trust, et al. Michigan 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived beneficiary-rights estates-and-trusts fourteenth-amendment limitations-period notice-requirements statutory-interpretation trust-validity trust-validity-challenges trustee-duties trustee-duty 1. Whether the Michigan Courts committed plain legal error construing and applying §700.7604(l)(b) by declining to apply the relevant statutory defi…
23-7724 In Re Shomas T. Winston 2024-06-14 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire I. WHETHER A PETITIONER SHOULD BE DENIED AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO QUESTION A JUROR WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION BECAUSE STATE COURTS RULED PETI…
23-7702 Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment 1. Whether the fact that Respondent, Maverick Tube Corporation, fabricated false (fraudulent) evidence of a photograph of a truck in the foreground wi…
23-7703 Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont Vermont 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP defense-theory due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment voluntary-intoxication Is a criminal defendant denied his right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when the trial court…
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence 1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of …
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification 1. Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have the same fraud-on-the-court exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as the Sixth Circuit Court o…
23-7685 Edwin K. Davis v. Florida Florida 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
23-7657 Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights A. QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether there is an ongoing violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights under the Constitution of the United States, a…
23-7665 Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention Question not identified.
23-7671 James Chamblin v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied IFP amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin…
23A1095 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete brady-list civil-service-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment occupational-liberty professional-employment Whether a plaintiff's liberty interest in pursuing a specific profession is violated only if he has been completely prevented from working in that fie…
23-1274 Brian Philip Manookian v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech notice retaliation The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred Brian Manookian for truthful statements, the majority made out-of-court and about other attorneys, and further…
23-1266 Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. Texas 2024-06-04 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal I. Does the Texas judicial system's approach to recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative fundraising and expenditure activities, as viewed…
23-1267 David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire Petitioner sued the cancer doctors who failed to disclose to his mother both the risks of her recommended Hodgkin's lymphoma chemotherapy treatment an…
23-7598 Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown Oregon 2024-05-31 Denied IFP custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an …
23-7588 Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida Florida 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7570 Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F…
23-7534 Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. Washington 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights This case presents a crucial opportunity for the Supreme Court to protect indigent citizens and set a nationwide precedent for the protection of appea…
23-7521 Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? II. Wh…
23-7488 Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas Texas 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error QUESTION No. 1 WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL UNDER THE 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMEN…
23-7472 Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida Florida 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7479 Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and …
23-7460 William Burton v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-stipulation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana plea-rights sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated when his trial attorney stipulated to the prosecutio…
23-7466 Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi California 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law 1. Honorable Chief Justice Guerrero, of the California Supreme Court, Case S 283118, and the 3 Judges Panels, of the State of California, Riverside Co…
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel 1. When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of h…
23-7427 Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether this Honorable Court should grant Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, where Petitioner has demonstrated that his rights to a fair …
23-7387 Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-7391 Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is…
23-7379 Michael Hebert v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence evidence-contamination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment QUESTION 1(A): Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying CO A On The Claim Of Prosecutorial Misconduct Where The State Pvefused To Reveal Evidence And Fa…
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings and prevent the State, like…
23-1186 Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida Florida 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair trial was violated when the trial court allowed the State to inform the jury…
23-1172 Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights The case before this Honorable Court concerns the misapplication of the grant of sovereign immunity for elections officials in Georgia that have faile…
23-1165 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. CSAA Insurance Services, Inc., et al. California 2024-05-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-to-settle fourteenth-amendment good-faith-dealing insurance insurance-law public-interest standing third-party-liability tort The California Legislature as evidenced in the Insurance Code 11580(b)(2) and the binding caselaw precedent (Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.,…
23-7358 Eric LaQuinne Brown v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-v-state constitutional-error due-process fourteenth-amendment howell-v-state mississippi post-conviction-relief procedural-rule retroactive-application upccra Is it a Due Process violation, 1 to apply a 2023, decision (Howell v. State.) 2 case holding, that abolishment of the exception to Mississippi 's proc…
23-7346 Oksana Marinaro v. Zimmer & Lewis, Attorneys & Counselor at Law Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-authority judicial-procedure procedural-rights separation-of-powers state-statutes 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin…
23-7348 Oksana Marinaro v. Cheryl Eddy Benn, PC Virginia 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-mootness civil-procedure court-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-appointment procedural-notice retirement standing state-statute 1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a retired judge preside over the case without an appoin…
23-7329 Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment I. The United States Supreme Court has held that a state criminal Appellant has Constitutional Right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Cla…
23-7314 S. C. v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer 1. Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based largely on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court's hold…
23-7322 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-04-26 Denied IFP attorney-conduct capital-appointments capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-incentive sixth-amendment state-statute When a state has a rule that an attorney must be given an opportunity to explain his conduct before being found to have rendered ineffective assistanc…
23-1160 Derrick Williams v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel 1. WHETHER THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO PETITION THE STATE COURTS PURSUANT TO THE 1ST AND 14THAMENDMENTS OF OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON THE ISSUE …
23A959 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tosic Washington 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete ada-accommodations disability-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se Question not identified.
23-7302 In Re Michael A. Farrell 2024-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due process, equal protection of the law and 28 U.S.C. 2254(d) by failing to ho…
23A951 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus Question not identified.
23-7260 Mark R. Zana v. Nevada Nevada 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Petitioner's conviction and continued incarceration under Nevada Revised Statute 209.730 are facially unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
23-7265 Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment 1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT …
23-7266 Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings it4 V- VOMisiAHfv / THIS Covet \i$u> that The 6|/th Amendment to the Vt^TEp STATED C^H6rVrroT\cn , 6/TENDEP To THE STATED £>y wAy OpTUe FoOpTeENTH A…
23-7272 Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida Florida 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE…
23-1131 Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse…
23-7241 Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation (1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by …
23-7244 Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony…
23-7245 Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7246 Harold Stewart v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7248 Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A933 Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate 1. Whether Respondents must be enjoined from continuing to retaliate against Applicant for his religious beliefs, and subjecting Applicant to segregat…
23A928 John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete absolute-immunity civil-rights fourteenth-amendment investigative-function prosecutorial-immunity witness-interview Question not identified.
23-7239 Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A920 Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar Alabama 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent Does a state appellate court violate a person's due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment when it refuses or fails to comply wi…
23-7218 Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment 1. WHY WERE MY FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATED BY BOTH THE DISTRICT AND 10TH CIRCUIT COURTS? 2. WHY WAS MY REQUEST FOR A JURY TRIAL AN…
23-7197 Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing 1) Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under …
23A910 Chen Chen Hsu v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-illness pro-se supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-1108 Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p…
23-7171 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-claims out-of-time-appeal pleadings standing 1. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err where it vacated Petitioner's Appeal where the parties and District Court had consented to the appeal and previ…
23-7186 Anthony Roland v. Department of Justice Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment in-camera-review judicial-system legal-proceeding meet-and-confer preliminary-injunction summary-judgment Whether permitted by Due process shall a ruling and proceeding take place without a "Meet and Confer"? Eventually causing abstract or ambiguous adjudi…
23-7162 James Hodge v. Florida Florida 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A891 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct Question not identified.
23A889 Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-instruction sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23A882 Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference drug-toxicity fourteenth-amendment medical-care qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether officers violate the Fourteenth Amendment by transporting an arrestee who denies ingesting drugs, declines medical care, and shows no obvious …
23-7124 Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida Florida 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony…
23-7084 Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness Is the undefined/ non-specific/ ambiguous language used in Ohio's App.R.26(B) (2) .(c) that results in arbitrary/ incon sistent/ and discriminatory e…
23-7080 Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment rehabilitation-act rule-15d standing standing-defects supplemental-pleading 1. To meet the fourteenth and fifth amendment requirements of laws such as § 255 Services to the Hearing Impaired and Others with Communication Disabi…
23-7057 Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-03-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment cl /erclcVV SoyporV^ by gd/w,/~/eg/ <?/ 'Jttcv\de,iA^ q(~ /[, *S %i]ci'h n/to-iZ' oi 1 r'l^U- *to Cy £<J>r~ Vr\cA ^"K jL U'2>. (okv5 it Vo L'0
23-7059 Alissa Peterson v. Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-03-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process edwards-v-arizona fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright res-judicata screws-v-united-states sixth-amendment 1. Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, 99 Haw 1, 52 P3d 255 (Haw 2002) by filing and granting …
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claims that: A) The district court violated Petitioner's D…
23-1049 John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. Texas 2024-03-22 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure 1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te…
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7051 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Alaska 2024-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias 1. Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial…
23-7029 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-19 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme…
23-7030 Logan Dyjak v. Joseph Harper, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection forced-medication fourteenth-amendment judicial-review mental-health petition-denial vitek-v-jones writ-of-certiorari Should this Court order, consistent with 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to vacate and make bonds parental interests this a conditions of hospitalization, with mand…
23-6980 Matthew Murphy v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The Failure To Exclude The United States District Attorney's Office For the District of Massa…
23A829 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-13 Presumed Complete child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest Should emergency writs of injunction pending appeals issue against enforcement of direct Respondents' orders for which due process, already appealed t…
23-6963 James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6968 Raymond Vincent v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement This case implicates fundamental rights including those related to or for: children's welfare, unlawful confinement, association, natural parents, and…
23-6956 David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied IFP collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction Wwl £x/er Wt CJ3A CctrViflca^€_ .cf . ciO{)ta\a\jo\\A^ ] uoVxoa TdWr r i cA <d\ud^»£_ l&LKeA do or cdejnM o (jOA \a -VW AoA&me\/d vind^r fed. 12.. H …
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison …
23-989 Robert J. Murphy v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process ex-parte-communications first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-code sixth-amendment workers-compensation 1. Where petitioner sought removal in 2010 of unelected administrative Workers' Compensation judges involving their actual or apparent improprieties i…
23-6931 Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional Issue, In accordance with Rule X(b), this matter is…
23-6937 Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida Florida 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-983 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship 1. Does the "state wherein they reside" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdict…
23A828 Benedict C. Ogbodiegwu v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Texas 2024-03-08 Presumed Complete administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-review Question not identified.
23A823 Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Connecticut 2024-03-07 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-6918 A. S., a Minor v. Palmdale School District California 2024-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-estoppel fourteenth-amendment government-entity intentional-deception standing 1. Whether the State Appellate Court erred in denying the assertion of equitable estoppel by the petitioner, against a government entity, which, inten…
23-6925 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment 1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter…
23A822 Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation pre-deprivation-process property-rights unclaimed-property Question not identified.
23-6891 Joshua Terrel Brown v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6901 Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A815 Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review Question not identified.
23A798 John Seely v. James Seely, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Question not identified.
23-6838 Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana Montana 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-search 1. Are unsworn assertions in a response brief sufficient to overcome clear and convincing direct evidence that prosecutor illegally searched and seize…
23-6843 Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida Florida 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Does a trial court's "tender and accept" procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fa…
23-940 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-02-28 Denied attorney-ethics due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court professional-misconduct res-judicata 1) Can an attorney can be suspended from the practice of law in a state attorney ethics proceeding by the state's highest court for failure to obey th…
23-931 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights The question presented is whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amen…
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion 1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley where the court had before itan evid…
23-6814 Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t…
23-6815 Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. Virginia 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr…
23A771 Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. First Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 Question not identified.
23-906 April D. Gallop v. Cameron Bay Homeowner's Association Virginia 2024-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-consistency judicial-integrity procedural-fairness subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment 1. Can a state court constitutionally deny a Motion to Set Aside/Vacate a judgment acquired through fraud and a court lacking subject matter jurisdict…
23-6783 Kevin F. Jackson v. Applied Materials Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jameson-vs-desta mandatory-arbitration pro-se-plaintiff In Jackson vs Applied Materials, Wherein the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important question of Federal Law that has not been, but shou…
23-6775 Jesse Dean Redfearn v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1. "Did the United States District Court and Court of Appeals properly apply clearly established constitutional law, [Hemphill v. New York, 142 S.Ct. …
23-6747 Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman Eighth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-6767 Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities 1. Does the fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, by means through the Hm% §liuii (which imlyiii the duil=©itiiiniMp elsuii, thi pfivilggii …
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…
23-6723 Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida Florida 2024-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-865 Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California California 2024-02-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission 1. Whether admission to a State Bar, or other state licensing agency, constitutes a liberty interest under the United States Constitution. 2. Wheth…
23-857 Owolabi M. Salis v. Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department New York 2024-02-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure new-york-court-of-appeals referee referee-report 1. Whether the New York Court of Appeals can adopt a Referee report that was clearly based on violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default 1) Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law when the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court denied relief without…
23-844 Phillip Truesdell, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment occupation occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities slaughter-house-cases 1. Whether this Court should overrule the Slaughter-House Cases and hold that the right to enter a common and lawful occupation is a privilege or immu…
23A719 Dennis Ray Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Department of Public Works, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation demolition due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights Question not identified.
23-6646 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2024-02-01 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d…
23-6627 In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional QUESTION No. 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITU…
23-6611 Morice Ervin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning Whether petitioner's Due process - 14th Amendment of the Federal Constitution was violated by allowing post autopsy? Whether petitioner's Due process…
23-6622 Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida Florida 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6590 Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia Georgia 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence 1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro…
23-6610 Wendell C. Helfrick v. Russell L. Rabb, III, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney of Culpeper County Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied IFP cases-and-controversies civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights standing state-court-review 1. Tha. State. state deprives_an_incl lividual from. wtilizing He. right of Due. Process, does this not violate,established guarantees, that are_prote…
23-817 Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. Maine 2024-01-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m…
23-6597 Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida Florida 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A688 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the State of Alabama's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia—a method never before attempted by any State or the fe…
23-6558 Freddie Quinn v. Florida Florida 2024-01-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment; 2. Whethe…
23-6549 Delon Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing WHETHER THE PETJTOINERS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS GRANTED COUNSEL'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO WIT…
23-789 Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing 1. Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiffs Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally ren…
23-6527 Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A674 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome Question not identified.
23-6517 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2024-01-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag…
23-784 Kenneth James Rosellini v. New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics New Jersey 2024-01-18 Denied civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legal-ethics res-judicata 1) Can an attorney can be sanctioned in an ethics proceeding for failure to obey the rules of a tribunal when he is openly asserting that no valid obl…
23-775 Erica Davis, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Dale Davis, Deceased, and Minor Children, JC, Minor Child, SD, Minor Child, et al. v. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, Limited Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure continuing-relationship contract-relationship due-process forum-selection fourteenth-amendment in-forum-company personal-jurisdiction product-development purposeful-availment Whether an out-of-forum defendant that establishes a continuing relationship with an in-forum company by contracting to help the in-forum company deve…
23-746 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and interna-tional comity when it exercised subject matter jurisdictio…
23A627 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing Question not identified.
23A618 Azariah M. Ellington v. Department of Veterans Affairs Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Jurisdiction Question: Must litigants wait for the Circuit Court's response to the impending en banc request, before certiorari may be filed? As the P…
23A614 Azariah M. Ellington, et al. v. Mary Thornton House, Judge, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-of-right certiorari due-process en-banc fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Question not identified.
23A603 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A.S., a Minor v. The County of Harrison, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-assessment juvenile-shackling Question not identified.
23A602 Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review Question not identified.
23-6379 Terrence LaFaive v. Records Custodian, Waukesha County District Attorney Wisconsin 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-work-product civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-negotiations public-records standing 1. Does the Common-Law exception recognized in State ex rel. Richards v. Foust - that doesn't require a response from a Records Custodian to a public…
23-696 Colorado Republican State Central Committee v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2023-12-28 Dismissed Amici (3)Response Waived 14th-amendment disqualification-clause due-process election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection political-parties presidential-eligibility section-3 state-authority The Supreme Court of Colorado held that states possess authority, regardless of the lack of congressional authorization, to determine that a president…
23-695 Samantha Taczak, et al. v. Nicolette Cremeans, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-court state-court-precedent u.s-constitution This case arises from a question this Court has repeatedly declined to answer over the last four decades: what sources of law constitute "controlling …
23-6363 Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment DOES AN ATTORNEY ADVISING HIS CLIENT TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA WITHOUT FIRST INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND/OR INTERVIEWING WITNESSES THEN DISCUSSING VIABLE …
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape 1. WHETHER PETITION WAS DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO A FAIR PAROLE HEARING WHERE THE PAROLE BOARD, DURING PAROLE CONSIDERATION…
23-6302 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by the lower courts when a prisoner petitioner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Sec…
23-6304 Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida Florida 2023-12-19 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6281 Laquince T. Hogan v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus oral-amendment sixth-amendment uncharged-offense 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court denied Mr. Hogan due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, in acknowledging that Mr. …
23-6289 Wisben Sanon v. Florida Florida 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6249 Flenoid Greer v. Michigan Michigan 2023-12-13 Denied IFP collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition. Whether Pe…
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH…
23-6255 David Alexander Hunter v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied IFP aedpa direct-appeal direct-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan suspension-clause Is the AEDPA's one-year limitation period for state prisoners to raise claims of ineffective assistance of counsel triggered by conclusion of "direct …
23-6229 Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water Did CDOC violate Cary's A constitutional federal question: 1. due process and equal protection, provided in the Fourteenth and Eighth Amendments, rega…
23A535 Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete arbitration-appeal article-three corporate-citizenship diversity-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23A524 835 Hinesburg Road, LLC v. City of South Burlington, Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete as-applied-claim fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use regulatory-takings ripeness Question not identified.
23-6227 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability under Title 28 U.S.C., Section 2253(c)(2) when the court …
23-6204 Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California California 2023-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether petitioner was denied his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial because of the court's use of prior acts …
23A522 Gary Wayne Warner v. Texas Texas 2023-12-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6188 Otis Blaxton v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief sovereign-immunity Vn)<xW«l'T of suiK , of $7^8.2*', Fla. 6,13, AA X (Wftw <?f 5 D y'jXti \YV\ <V\ U A \4Y -[) Was fkt- >/ flor]cjc( pOf'^OO^r\'f' f(j 6ia»v\ a) Dd 4k<L …
23-610 Frander Salguero v. California California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding, "suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon…
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Question not identified.
23-598 Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity Does the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide "sovereign immunity " fro…
23-602 William Shupp v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in…
23-6154 Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity Whether a trial's verdict validity get impacted if a judge engages in jury tampering as defined under C.R.S. § 18-6-609 violating defendants Sixth and…
23-6143 Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-01 Denied Relisted (6)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6144 Susanne Aspley v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law covid-pandemic due-process emergency-orders fourteenth-amendment nursing-home-deaths right-to-life section-1983 In March, 2020, during the height of the COvid Pandemic, MN Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Health Department (MDH) Commissioner egregiously created t…
23A488 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2023-11-29 Presumed Complete domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order Question not identified.
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based …
23-6088 Alpheus Elite Hamilton v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miller-v-pate prosecutorial-misconduct Did the State of Arizona violate the Due Process Clause when its prosecutor presented knowing use of false evidence to the jury as in Miller v. Pate, …
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-544 Teresa Marie Gaffney v. The Florida Bar Florida 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homestead-property impartial-tribunal notice opportunity-to-be-heard sexual-harassment 1. Whether it is a denial of due process, (1) notice; (2) an opportunity to be heard; and (3) an impartial tribunal, to not allow the Petitioner to co…
23-6084 Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections Ninth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Whether this Court will allow the People of the State of Alaska to determine if a certified candidate is allowed the name Joe Trump AKA Not Murkowski …
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Question not identified.
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment 1. Whether Escobar vs. Texas, 143 S.ct 557 (January 9th 2023] The use of "material false testimony" to jurors by its States forensic fingerprint exper…
23-526 Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process firearms-rights fourteenth-amendment second-amendment self-defense standing 1. Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns, in case of confrontation, for th…
23-6049 Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied Relisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A448 Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko Texas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl…
23A440 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied capital-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion removal-statute Question not identified.
23A436 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-relief sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-6001 Kenric Lavaughn Jackson, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence capital-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law Question not identified.
23-510 Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4: 1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no object…
23-5980 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct. Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally…
23-5984 Lawrence F. Curtin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
23-5965 Cody Enrriquez v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Relisted (9)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury …
23-484 Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act Alongside Defendant State of Washington, Intervenor Defendant-Petitioners ("Soto Palmer Intervenors") defended against a Voting Rights Act ("VRA") Sec…
23-477 United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Judgment Issued Amici (92)Relisted (13) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights sex-based-classification sex-classification transgender-rights Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported ide…
23-462 Glen Wilkofsky v. American Federation of Musicians, Local 45, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim fourteenth-amendment governmental-purpose judicial-deference legislative-determination public-employer public-entity state-action statutory-designation 1. When applying the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of "state action" as a predicate for constitutional claims, should federal courts defer to a s…
23-5922 Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest 07/06/2016, altered to 07/07/2016 by A warrantless arrest made on a Harris County Sheriff Sergeant who issued a "Pocket Warrant", trespassed movant's …
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment As the first and only sanction ever ordered — or even considered — by the District Court below, that court struck Petitioner Christy Williams' liabili…
23-440 S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Amici (1) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 1. Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983 (as nine circuits hold), or is it not (as o…
23-439 Jim Boydston, et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. California 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment party-nomination political-association political-parties primary-election state-elections voter-participation 1. Where, under State law, the selection of a political party's presidential nominee is governed by internal party rules and procedures and not by the…
23-428 Chinonyerem Osuagwu v. Home Point Financial Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction form-1099 fourteenth-amendment power-of-attorney property-rights standing Did the State Court violate the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right when it empowered one of the respondents to sign his (the petitioner's) name a…
23-5877 Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race Is the Currency of obtaining a Justice determined by one's race, ethnicity, and nothing to do on one's merits? Are First Amendment and Fourteenth Amen…
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee of fundamental fairness require courts to provide fu…
23-5874 In Re L. E. Pauli Coffey 2023-10-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment mandamus sovereign-immunity standing timely-response Question 1.) Do the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure (Fed R. Civ. P 12) and the Federal Laws of Appellate Procedure (31) set a time limit for a respond…
23-5807 Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation 1) Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory …
23-5831 Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny 1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea…
23-5833 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and t…
23-409 Henri N. Beaulieu, Jr. v. Samuel Powell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment pleading-requirements pleading-standards section-1983 shotgun-pleading twombly-iqbal 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's application of the "shotgun pleading" standard to affirm the dismissal of the Petitioner's complaint for violations …
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination WHETHER, TO NEW YORK C.P.L 440.10(2)(C) STATUTES BEING AMENDED PURSUANT RULE 60(b)(5)(6) RECONSIDERATION IS WARRANTED AS TO THE LOWER COURT ERROR IN D…
23-5816 Henry Jo Ward v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment official-capacity The West Virginia Supreme Court interpreted a statute to create an unconstitutional evidentiary presumption. Specifically, the West Virginia Supreme C…
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts 1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S ASSERTIONS IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS" NO. 80, IS IT THE OBLIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE …
23-5823 Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2023-10-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure Where a State conditions a death sentence on a jury's unanimous finding beyond a reasonable doubt that "there is a probability that the defendant woul…
23-5825 Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management Fifth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent No. 1: Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constit…
23-5792 Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation 1. Whether the defendant violated the plaintiffs rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the-Fourteenth Amendment, as well as I.D…
23-5794 Joseph Aiken v. Florida Florida 2023-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5801 Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment 1. Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of the United States Constitution were violated when his right to testify was taken from him. 2. …
23-394 Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. New York 2023-10-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment 1. Where a trial court deciding summary judgment resolves genuine issues of disputed material fact adversely to Plaintiff instead of ruling on the law…
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Question not identified.
23-388 Richard W. Como v. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board Pennsylvania 2023-10-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process excessive-fines excessive-punishment fourteenth-amendment pension pension-forfeiture public-employee retirement-law 1) Did the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania err and did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in not granting Allocatur when the Public-School Employee…
23-5753 Ben J. Latham v. Alaska Alaska 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp, 2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te 2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin…
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Plaintiff Mattie Lomax brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Defendants violated her constitutional rights during a …
23-375 Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-10 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo 1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment by: a. Hearing and dec…
23A303 Daryl Anthony Green v. Prince George's County Office of Child Support, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-06 Presumed Complete bankruptcy clearly-erroneous due-process fourteenth-amendment real-estate-fraud writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-5724 Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure 1. Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its description in allowing only one opinion of the justice in affirming the conviction and sentence set forth?…
23-5700 Paul Gray v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment 1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of "judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially wh…
23-350 Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson Texas 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment 1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constituti…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure After a criminal trial under a county's civil solid waste ordinance specific to solid-waste management opera-tions, the county incarcerated the petiti…
23-329 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-penalties criminal-history due-process fourteenth-amendment housing-ordinance landlord-tenant property-rights public-housing tenant-screening Does Seattle's restriction on private owners' right to exclude potentially dangerous tenants from their property violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Du…
23A272 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23A271 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques Whether a state court applies law "contrary to" this Court's precedents under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 when it resolv…
23-318 Nicolas A. Salomon v. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, LLC, et al. California 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-proceedings california-law due-process federal-arbitration-act fourteenth-amendment preemption right-to-counsel Does the Federal Arbitration Act preempt California law on the right to counsel in an arbitration proceeding? Does the Due Process Clause of the Four…
23-5656 Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent 1. Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke's post-indictment statements and actions that were i…
23-5661 Arnaldo Martinez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mis-charging prosecutorial-misconduct standing Did the Respondent, State of Florida, deny the petitioner of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process when it first, moved to prosecute…
23-5647 Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief when the accuse discovers that a photograph and its contents are now not what they were once purported to be at trial, is the fourteenth amendment, eq…
23-5653 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-26 Denied IFP atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois 1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is not only functionally similar to Intellectual Developmental Dis…
23-300 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common …
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing I. Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment,…
23-5630 Jack R. Sliney v. Florida Florida 2023-09-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders Whether under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual who was under the age o…
23A257 In Re Gregory Mercer 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment separate-sovereigns Question not identified.
23-270 County of Tulare, California, et al. v. Jose Murguia, Individually and on Behalf of the Estates of Mason and Maddox Murguia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (3) deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment private-violence shocks-the-conscience state-action state-created-danger substantive-due-process Whether, and under what circumstances, a State's failure to protect an individual who is not in state custody from violence by a private person consti…
23A255 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Presumed Complete clearly-established-law deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 state-created-danger-doctrine Whether the state-created danger doctrine was "clearly established" when ten circuits unanimously recognized the doctrine, and whether the doctrine sh…
23A251 Obaida Abdulky, et al. v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. Massachusetts 2023-09-19 Presumed Complete access-to-courts attorney-malpractice due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-5609 Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. ) Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right by allowing the lower court to allow the Petitioner to tes…
23-260 Daniel Erwin v. Karla Howell, as Administratrix of the Estate of Cornelius Pierre Howell Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard deliberate-indifference due-process farmer-v-brennan fourteenth-amendment kingsley-v-hendrickson medical-need pretrial-detainee section-1983 Whether Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), applies to claims for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need brought …
23-263 Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority rule-60(b)(4) standing subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment void-judgment 1. Is there a time limit to file a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to vacate a judgment order as void for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction; after the trial co…
23-255 Cooper D. Johnson v. Malia M. Cohen, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State Controller of California, et al. California 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings takings-clause unclaimed-property 1. Whether the Controller's actions under color of the California Unclaimed Property Law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1300, et seq. ("UPL"), violate the D…
23-5597 Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas Texas 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review II. Whether under all the circumstances, including an officer's knowing and deliberate deployment of Petitioner's wife to elicit statements from Petit…
23-5579 Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida Florida 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5588 Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. Nevada 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule L(^V\e. VVe>r We dc>a ^Woceoi> of VVa. ^"oosrVeevxVV A^e^iw^e>v\! \fevvievr /)6\/a,la 5iaVa Iq,(jS 5V x,Vo V&o cxacova »s Vv Vj V-vqv^ci \ * <5V q^V^V…
23A244 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-14 Presumed Complete birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination Question not identified.
23-5567 Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5570 Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5575 Andrew Sposato v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-231 Linda A. Porter v. Kennard Law PC, dba Kennard Richard PC, et al. Texas 2023-09-12 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant standing 1. Whether the appellate court violated Porter 's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights, by denying her right of appeal and due proce…
23-5549 Hope White v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right 1. Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-create…
23-5526 Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in…
23-203 Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney Missouri 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (9) batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire During voir dire in an employment-discrimination suit involving a lesbian plaintiff, plaintiffs attorney asked several questions about whether jurors …
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether The Supreme Court Of Virginia Erred In Refusing To Reverse Petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's Convictions Because The Trial Court Violated The …
23-5455 John A. Crane v. Florida Florida 2023-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5460 Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement Wat. extesMvt-fkflee -ustj^ end af?Tcfujafc/ cJt/TCfrrfon comer}S etT Was .Ke_ 4-oJ^ehtftT ^ e_<v0f GnJ Htuo? W»s The Pift^ Tou-i'Teenrh Avre-nAaenT…
23-184 Karen M. Suber v. VVP Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied articulable-nexus civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-application jurisdiction long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction standard-of-review substantial-relationship Whether the courts sitting in New York have inconsistently interpreted and applied the standard for the "arising from " prong of the New York Long Arm…
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court 1. Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowin…
23-5446 Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause 1. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not be taken for public use without due process, nor shall it be taken for pubhc use wit…
23-172 Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo Pennsylvania 2023-08-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-record-sealing judicial-records judicial-transparency speech-restraint standing Whether the complete sealing of a judicial record violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments since it restrains speech and conflicts with precedent …
23-5405 David Petersen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights court-errors due-process fourteenth-amendment integrity-of-judicial-process judicial-discretion judicial-process material-errors securities-fraud Question 1. Is it a violation of due process when any court, upon becoming formally aware of multiple material abuses of discretion and material error…
23-5383 Ramham Dupriest v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-08-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech minor mistake-of-age obscene-material obscenity scienter I. Does it violate First Amendment free speech protections to convict a person for conduct involving distributing obscene material to a minor without …
23-5393 Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel I. Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant w…
23-5394 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure Question not identified.
23-5400 Nathan Leon Branham v. Michigan Michigan 2023-08-18 Denied IFP compulsory-process curriculum-vitae defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment ISSUES RAISED BY DEFENDANT IN pro per ON DIRECT APPEAL :: WHEN THE PROSECUTION IS HIGHLY FAMILIAR WITH AN EXPERT, WAS IT A DRASTIC SANCTION FROM THE…
23A149 Andrew J. J. Wolf v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-obstruction prison-officials Question not identified.
23A152 Michael Lajeunesse v. Kris Karberg, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-08-18 Presumed Complete fourteenth-amendment physician-patient-privilege prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-privilege Question not identified.
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia 2023-08-18 Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Question not identified.
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation 1.) Does Appellee's (NC Board of Elections) extra requirements of 3 additional requisites of 1.) Being a Registered Voter 2.) Being part of a Politica…
23A135 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of acquitted conduct, standing alone, violates a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Four…
23-5343 Scott Lindsay Halfhill v. Washington Washington 2023-08-11 Denied IFP alternative-suspect circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment (1) Should this Court grant Certiorari when Halfhill was convicted of killing a man with intent upon nothing more than being of many people in the vic…
23-128 Curtis Jason Wendt-West v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights civil-rights-act eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation sovereign-immunity title-vii 1. Whether the States, in private suits involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., retain their El…
23-5319 Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. IS THERE AN URGENT NEED TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE EXCEPTION MENTIONED IN BRECHT V. ABRAHAMS ON 507 U.S. 619 (1993). WHERE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AND FOURTE…
23-5298 Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California California 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing the mandato…
23-5289 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not…
23-5270 Justin Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith-appeal motion-to-dismiss Question not identified.
23-105 Joe Thorpe v. Township of Salisbury, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment harris-v-harvey immunity judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity Did the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate the rule announced in Harris v. Harvey. 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir.…
23-91 Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-01 Denied Response Waived body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Issue 1. Given the current extensive of use by law enforcement of modern technology such as automobile and body cameras, a defendant's right under the…
23-5259 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY? II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,…
23-5246 Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing 1) The Ninth Circuit developed an automated system, where it dismisses almost ALL indigent pro se claims without an opportunity to review; 414 cases s…
23-81 Douglas D. McCall v. Florida Florida 2023-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights extrinsic-evidence fourteenth-amendment minor-victim prior-inconsistent-statement sixth-amendment Whether a state evidentiary rule prohibiting the introduction of extrinsic evidence of an alleged minor victim's prior inconsistent statements/recanta…
23-83 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-07-27 Denied 14th-amendment contract-coercion court-ordered court-ordered-visitation due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract procedural-due-process state-court visiting-supervisor 1. Whether a state court's denial of the right to freely negotiate the terms of a visiting supervisor's contract on the grounds that the supervised vi…
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The document does not…
23A68 Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint Question not identified.
23-5192 Phiet The Doan v. California California 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution 1. Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution? 2. Did the resti…
23-65 Alfredo J. Molina, et al. v. BMO Harris Bank, et al. Arizona 2023-07-24 Denied arizona-judicial-system common-law common-law-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract property-rights ratification-doctrine Were Petitioners deprived of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Arizona judicial system deni…
23A65 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-07-24 Presumed Complete bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver Question not identified.
23-5171 Natoya Cunningham v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5173 Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5158 Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-5157 In Re Tracy Whitaker 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-authority Mr. Whitaker alleges the County of Dealware, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to the Un…
23-5129 Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota Minnesota 2023-07-18 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria The question presented is whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process…
23A37 Patrick Bowie v. William Lee, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Question not identified.
23-5074 Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations I, Petitioner Juan Carlos Valles, Jr., state that this petition presents an issue of great public importance, addressed to the policy of Federal Prose…
23-28 Claude Townsend, Jr. v. New Jersey Transit Third Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied collateral-estoppel constitutional-law dismissed-case due-process fourteenth-amendment new-evidence res-judicata social-security 1) Can Res judicata and Collateral estoppel interfere with the Fourteenth Amendment's constitutional due process when new evidence is presented to a d…
23-5040 Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. California 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure 1. Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer b…
22-7891 Ronald James Littlefield v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court CAN A STATE TRIBUNAL DEPRIVE LITIGANTS TO THAT TRIBUNAL EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND EVEN HANDED JUSTICE BASED UPON A COMMITMENT OFFENSE? DOES THE…
22-1250 Peter Chien, et al. v. Scott E. Jarrett, et al. Maine 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure court-order due-process enforceability entry-of-appearance federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-compliance triggering-date Does the filing of an entry of appearance within 21 days of opening the mail containing a court order missing a triggering date for the 21 day deadlin…
22-1227 Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2023-06-21 Denied Response Waived attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct 1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against an attorney must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and without any substantiv…
22-1228 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-06-21 Denied 14th-amendment civil-contempt compelled-sale due-process fourteenth-amendment property-rights real-property state-court Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limit the power of a state court, to order the compelled sale of a private person's real prope…
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause 1. Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to furnish requested discovery, refusing ev…
22-1208 Ursula Newell-Davis, et al. v. Courtney N. Phillips, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities rational-basis regulatory-burden right-to-occupation slaughter-house-cases 1. Whether the state may deny equal protection of the laws and exclude people from a trade for the sole purpose of easing its regulatory burden, or wh…
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Question I: Can the Maine courts penalize a father in a divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also a defendant in a Criminal case, for e…
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Like millions of other Americans, petitioner's normal daily living activities were interrupted and upended when COVID-19 shutdowns spread across the n…
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge 1. Did former Judge Henderson 's secret extramarital affair with a prosecutor in the same county in which he presided as judge create an "unconstitut…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Question not identified.
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-1183 Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-7719 Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. Nebraska 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve…
22-1171 James LeBlanc, et al. v. Jessie Crittindon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment overdetention prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 state-officials supervisory-liability (1) Do high-ranking state prison officials violate a prisoner's constitutional rights by failing to promulgate policies cajoling independent, locally-…
22-7680 Adonne A. Horton v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-10 constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment life-sentence police-pursuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Lower Court's Application of an Ex Post Facto Law to Affirm Petitioner's Life Sentence for Running From the Police Violated Article I, Sec…
22-7686 Daniel Dorado v. California California 2023-06-01 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases: 1. That th…
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-7624 Gregory P. Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment judge judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct penal-statute prosecuting-attorney sexual-relationship substantive-due-process When "former" Oklahoma County District Judge Timothy Henderson entered in a sexual relationship with the prosecuting attorney, was Mr. Smith's substan…
22-1145 David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity 1. Does Baker's right against overdetention require courts to apply a reasonable, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, or does the case only protec…
22-1132 Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides New York 2023-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness 1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York ("Court of Appeals") erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal the decision of…
22-1129 Faraz Fadavi Akhavan Bonab v. Samuel Ginn California 2023-05-19 Denied Response Waived business-relationship due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction purposeful-contacts specific-jurisdiction Whether this requirement is met when the defendant forms a business relationship with the plaintiff in the forum state, where both reside, the parties…
22-7586 Mark Ringland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure ))KDu't PrOCt&J C//9U6 £ 0 7^ Pjl€- /'0r~f'(ft€AJ /JPA-CtodsWr/O^ ■ UJhe-}htr UAJptr Du<t Ptotted v/Jp ptoitcb iom C/rfuzc 5 op Jht Pbr'th^tl/A' yP/lA…
22-7564 Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial (1) Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial 3.191 (P)(3). (2) Does the Pe…
22-7563 Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio Ohio 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction Question I: Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitution were violated whento the United States request for delayed appeal was denied for a…
22-7548 Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1) Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, under Section 1.5.1 (Overview of Procedural Due Process) considere…
22-7545 Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction 1. Whether, when dealing with its citizens, a State court is permitted to issue decisions that are in direct conflict with this Court's precedents, an…
22-1114 James Harris, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil…
22-1094 Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li Georgia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption The Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA) grants continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to a court of a State to modify its child s…
22-7504 Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor California 2023-05-10 Denied IFP content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord…
22-7487 Travis Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-precedent montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment standing state-v-reddick takings 1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of "judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially whe…
22-7472 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty I. Whether the judiciary, via the United States Court of Federal Claims or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, must de novo re…
22-7463 Lexter Kennon Kossie v. Texas Texas 2023-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment good-conduct-time liberty-interest overdetention prisoner-rights systemic-overdetention 1) Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDC3) violates the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the dates uhen they are lega…
22-1070 Stanford James Stelle, III v. California California 2023-05-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-7438 Frank Nellom v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-order criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process expungement fourteenth-amendment judicial-interpretation jury-finding jury-instructions rape-conviction A. Did the honorable Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Joan A. Brown find the Commonwealth v. Frank Nellom, 565 A.2d 770 (Pa. Super. 1989) Cour…
22-7417 Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection where the district court in a motion for compassi…
22-1054 Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court Err when they Cited Penn Central v. New York City and failed to address Lucas v. South Caro…
22-7402 Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court 1. Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United St…
22-7406 Shawn Henry v. Florida Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED SUBSTANTIAL EQUALITY AND FAIR PROCESS WHERE STATE COURT ARBITRARILY DISCRIMINATED BETWEEN PERSONS APPLYING FOR RELIEF IN…
22-7400 Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu…
22-1047 Rhonda J. Leaf, nka Rhonda J. Ring v. Brian E. Leaf Delaware 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal pro-se property-rights standing I. Per U.S.C. Arndt. 14.S1.5.1, U.S.C. Arndt 14.Si.5.2, U.S.C Arndt 14.S1.5.3 U.S.C. Arndt 14.SI.3, Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring) 's 14th amendment ri…
22-7382 Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas Texas 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona 1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the e…
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction After holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine jurisdictionally barred it from determining whether a state court judgment is void ab initio and subjec…
22-7342 Dupree Penn v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
22-7311 Randal Thomas Rosado v. Florida Florida 2023-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-act double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiple-prosecutions multiple-punishments negotiated-plea plea-bargaining same-offense sixth-amendment Does a ~\ren~counf Conviction under He. Same. S~kchk- ■ppir (X. S OLct~ of -P7/Vi^f cz>V)dL doe-U/neflt y/folohfL double yZopardj clause- of tie Fif…
22-1009 Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. Ohio 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation Ohio has a public employee statutory scheme for collective bargaining. In this statutory scheme, the Ohio Legislature took care to create an individua…
22-7271 Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure ynoc^dut*. FaII ,'fcj Ut-jDer TU< 4 CRuTny Of Ttl<. Bull Com', -^TAA/ cIario AM) Vio IA Ti'hQ TH< FT/J hmtksOmcnT THAT iS To STATcS THROUGH Ttt& IHm…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues I. Whether Mr. Wahl Was Denied His Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Violation Of The Guarantees Of The Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments? II. …
22-980 Neil Paul Noble v. Texas Texas 2023-04-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts A. Indictment A(l). Notice Is a Fundamental Federal Constitutional Right Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the na ture and cause of the …
22-7236 Louis Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2023-04-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment 1. Whether evolving standards of decency have rendered Mr. Gaskin's death violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishm…
22-7211 Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. Fa Mute Coot (ele o208R, eye Rdbowe 4 Ceedbeak of Aypeslabld,, 0a violebos Lf Rl lens etch dhol che PP PCESS ag hts, AS tleded J VE 1k Auucuewt, 4)…
22-7198 Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony 1. Was I deprived of my (14th) Fourteenth Amendment of due process of a fair trial, when I pleaded with my trial attorney and the Judge Meagan Bilik-D…
22-7180 Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Dismissed IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven…
22-7184 Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Oregon 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. In a post-conviction relief case based on an aggravated murder conviction in which the defendant faced the death penalty, is trial counsel ineffect…
22-7141 Donald McDonald v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm Whether the decision of the first District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clausd claim conflicts with the deci…
22-7140 George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. Florida 2023-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law Taking into account that the nonfinal order issued by the lower civil court in case 2017CA004797 is an order that denied the Defendants' Motion to Dis…
22-7134 Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment By compelling the Petitioner to undergo a pretrial psychological evaluation to rebut a mitigation claim it knew he was not making, and prohibiting him…
22-7118 Scott David Creech v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prisoner-accommodation reasonable-accommodation 1.) Did the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections know that Petitioner was disabled and thereafter deny him a reasonable accommodation to…
22-7091 David Lee Hering v. Iowa Iowa 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement 1. Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the sta…
22-7087 Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct 1. To secure its 2011 and 2012 false indictments, did the State violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Due Process when it circumve…
22-936 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2023-03-24 Denied autonomy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty liberty-rights monetary-sanctions psychotherapist-patient-privilege psychotherapist-privilege therapy-disclosure 1. Whether statutory psychotherapist patient privilege and the right to liberty or autonomy provided in the due process clause of the United States Co…
22-922 Ryan J. Welter v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Massachusetts 2023-03-22 Denied administrative-discretion capacity-to-deceive career-ending-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-materiality-harm misleading-statements occupational-licensing When a Legislature delegates authority to an occupational licensing board to prohibit "misleading" statements and conduct with "the capacity to deceiv…
22-901 Richard E. Gardiner v. Nels Anderson Utah 2023-03-17 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-theory utah-supreme-court waiver Whether the Utah Supreme Court denied Petitioner his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when it failed to reverse a decision of the Utah Court …
22-898 Ronald I. Paul v. South Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. South Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied declaratory-relief eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation property-rights settlement-agreement Whether a settlement agreement in an eminent domain case with three parties and two of the parties agreed to a settlement between them, that did not i…
22-7027 Lester Barnett v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied IFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED…
22-7009 Davion Smith v. California California 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the gr…
22-7002 J. T. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness 1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir…
22-864 Ohio v. D. R. Ohio 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (1) court-discretion discretionary-hearings due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders sex-offenders statutory-obligations Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause entitle juvenile sex offenders to hearings at which courts have discretion to lift statutorily mand…
22-860 Chene Devonne Manley v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing-determination Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an applicant to a certificate of appealability regarding a state prison…
22-848 James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo…
22-6969 Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado Colorado 2023-03-08 Denied IFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment Question I: Whether the Sixth Amendment ' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments ' right to due process require that the …
22-6944 Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell Florida 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the care, custody, and management of her child…
22-6928 Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts In an action in which an individual is committed for mental health treatment, does a state's failure to protect that individual against other inmates …
22-6903 William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation "The Petitioner respectfully ask '* When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. £ 3. [Unappropriatedpublic l…
22-6901 Brandon L. Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment illinois-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions knowingly-standard seventh-amendment 1. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where it induced jurors with an incorrect legal definition of "knowingly", in such a way that rel…
22-825 James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,…
22-820 Lori D. McLaughlin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fourth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights doj-policy due-process fourteenth-amendment giglio-determination giglio-policy law-enforcement standing Are law enforcement officers entitled to due process rights prior to a Giglio determination? Does the DOJ Giglio Policy violate the Due Process Cla…
22-6891 Joseph Dingler v. Texas Texas 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech indigent-defendant post-conviction-relief standing takings trial-transcript voting Question not identified.
22-6888 Samantha D. Rajapakse v. Seyfarth Shaw, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-agency due-process fair-credit-reporting-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation standing Question#1: Can a law firm retained by any credit reporting agency carry out the duties of and services of credit reporting agency business? Question…
22-6876 Haroun Bacchus v. Misty Thomson, et al. California 2023-02-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-allegations litigation-process procedural-due-process standing united-states-constitution Whether the civil procedures performed in both cases violate the requirements of procedural due process of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United Stat…
22-6869 Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas Kansas 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i…
22-6868 Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance…
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied IFP capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether, as in the sentencing phase of a capital trial under Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the …
22-802 Murco Wall Products, Inc. v. Michael D. Galier Oklahoma 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement for specific jurisdiction is satisfied whenever a defendant has made limited sales of products to custom…
22-6831 Will Lee Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2023-02-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process This Court has ruled that a variation of mental commitment known in several states as a "sexually violent predator" commitment proceeding can be const…
22-6828 Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated by: (1) the jury's viewing a witness's refusal to testify; (2) the prosecutor askin…
22-6819 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-02-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure 1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is not only functional…
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices "war against the (United States) Constitution" by denying state litig…
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Petitioner was charged, subjected to pretrial proceedings, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for an act that the law does not make criminal. Petition…
22-6776 J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. South Carolina 2023-02-14 Denied IFP amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment I. Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other subst…
22-6753 Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado Colorado 2023-02-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment On direct-collateral review: WHETHER PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL WAS VIOLATED DUE TO JUROR MISCONDUCT. U.S. CONST. AMENDS. VI, XI…
22-752 Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. California 2023-02-10 Denied 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law 1. Is California's scheme of procedural due process in its Code of Civil Procedure and Civil Rules of Court satisfactory of constitutionally protected…
22-6740 Lisa Antoine v. Delancy LLC, dba Vital Medical Staffing Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-withholding due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblowing 1. The standard of review for error #1 - Dosen't the EEOC has Federal Investigators who do investigations when a complaint comes in their office and h…
22-6735 Echo Dixon v. New York New York 2023-02-09 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-exercise habeas-corpus misnomer Whether the People of the State of New York, while investigating child abuse and neglect and crime, interfered with Petitioner 's first and fourteent…
22-6725 Michael A. Gordon v. Florida Florida 2023-02-08 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review pulley-v-harris Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in…
22-6706 Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a …
22-6713 Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center Missouri 2023-02-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions: 1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni…
22-6677 Philip J. Vonville v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mistrial pennsylvania state-court-procedure state-courts 1. Did state courts in Pennsylvania fail to address both Fifth and Fourteenth amendment (Due Process) violations of court record after a second trial…
22-6670 Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment when a key state witness misled the jury as to the benefits received an…
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Where a post-conviction review of a murder trial leading to a sentence of life imprisonment finds that there was ineffective assistance of counsel but…
22-6650 Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska Nebraska 2023-01-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state appellate court from adjudicating an application or motion in …
22-6649 Dee Walter Mitchell, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession coerced-testimony due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights miranda-rights police-interrogation 1. Where police interrogators induce an unwilling 15-year-old murder suspect to incriminate another by (1) omitting to advise him of his Miranda righ…
22-6645 Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida Florida 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
22-6618 Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2023-01-24 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric…
22-6609 James D. Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment 1) DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT BY DENYING PETITIONERS 28 USC § 2255 MOTION TO V…
22-6606 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge - or an "A…
22-661 David Frank Campeau, Jr., et ux. v. Edward Sandercock, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Wayne County, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response Waived 10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights federalism-powers fourteenth-amendment marriage-law ninth-amendment state-statute tenth-amendment In accord with the Tenth Amendment, how is it determined whether a power is reserved to the people or to the State? Whether the Ninth and Tenth Amend…
22-6579 Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S STANDAR D SET F…
22-6576 Phillip Tarver v. Keisha Fisher, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-by-jury UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY AND HIS RIGHT NOT TO BE PUT IN …
22-6574 Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling 1) Petitioner respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, which d…
22-6544 Bradley B. Miller v. Andrea Plumlee, Judge, District Court of Texas, Dallas County Texas 2023-01-17 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity jurisdiction res-judicata standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations 1) Whether state court jurisdiction halts during the pendency of a federal removal. 2) Whether any state court proceedings conducted during the pende…
22-6538 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-01-17 Denied IFP capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction 1. When states open their postconviction forums to federal claims raised in a successor posture based on newly-discovered evidence, do they have to ad…
22-6541 Garrett Statler v. Florida Florida 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because…
22-6534 Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review (1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir…
22-6524 Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law 1. THE PLAINTIFF 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT UNDER A DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE HAS BEEN VIOLATED THROUGH AN UNLAWFUL SURGERY PERFORMED WITHOUT TH…
22-6516 Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Tennessee 2023-01-11 Dismissed IFP civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution I. WHETHER THE FORFEITURE OF AUGUSTIN'S PROPERTY COMPORTED WITH THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION? …
22-6512 Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court WHETHER THE LOWER FLORIDA STATE COURT'S ERROR IN FAILING TO CORRECTLY CALCULATE THE DATE THAT PETITIONER'S DIRECT REVIEW OF HIS CASE BECAME "FINAL" IN…
22-643 Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four…
22-624 Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine Pennsylvania 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony 1. Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie under oath violated petitioner 's right to due process enshrined i…
22-6484 Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis…
22-6492 Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC Florida 2023-01-09 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution Florida 's adoption of the Federal Constitution Fourteenth Amendment at section 9 of its constitution reads, "No person shall be deprived of life, li…
22-6495 Genero Javon Zuniga v. Colorado Colorado 2023-01-09 Denied IFP colorado constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactivity substantive-law zuniga Did the State of Colorado violate Mr. Zuniga's Fourteenth Amendment due process protections when it failed to apply rule of substantive law retroactiv…
22-621 Linda Matarese, Personal Representative of the Estate of Hilda Duld Bauman, Deceased v. Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System, dba Virginia Hospital Center, et al. Virginia 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment haines-v-kerner motion-to-strike pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation 1. Did the Supreme Court of Virginia in affirming the Arlington County Circuit court violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by f…
22-6454 Christine Chang v. Ezery Beauchamp, Captain and Commander for California Highway Patrol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-discretion civil-rights dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 Whether the Ninth Circuit violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it decides in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Secti…
22-6445 Juan Villa Ramirez v. California California 2023-01-04 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex…
22-610 Warren Adam Taylor v. Augusta-Richmond County Consolidated Commissioners, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied case-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss public-interest qualified-immunity standing statute-of-limitations 1. Does Congress give this Court the authority under 28 U.S.C. 1292(e) to review the Fourteenth Amendment mandates under the case or controversy juris…
22-6440 Damian Thomas v. Delaware Delaware 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and …
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) Is a defendant deprived of his right to Confrontation and due Process within the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments Whea the District…
22-6430 Alex Bugno v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-30 Denied IFP evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure (I) Are Search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring su…
22-603 Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, sell or destroy property seized for safekeeping from an arrestee, merely bec…
22-6373 Alicja Z. Herriott v. Paul Barrett Herriott California 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-redress petition-clause right-to-petition vexatious-litigant InBe&K Constr. Co. v. NLRB (2002) 536 U.S. 516, 53, this Court held that "The First Amendment provides, in relevant part, that "Congress shall make no…
22-6369 In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey 2022-12-21 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin…
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court 1. Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated when he was denied his right to a fair trial …
22-577 Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' …
22-576 Cindy Ellen Ochoa v. Public Consulting Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 compelled-speech constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-employee-rights public-sector-unions section-1983 union-dues Does a challenge to a statutory system alleging failure to provide due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 require an injured …
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Question 1. Does California's legal framework — whereby prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees are adjudicated summarily as claims…
22-6330 Billy Ray Jackson v. Bryan Daniel, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-review civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-capacity liberty property section-1983 sovereign-immunity state-action unemployment-benefits Whether petitioner Billy Ray Jackson's allegations in his 42 U.S.C. 1983 complaint brought against the respondent(s) state official(s) of the Texas Wo…
22-6339 Derek James Jones v. State Bar of California California 2022-12-19 Denied IFP attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment giglio-v-united-states presumption-of-innocence state-bar-court willner-v-committee-on-character-and-fitness 1. Whether the State of California violated Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process in an attorney discipline proceeding resulting…
22-6333 N. P. v. Vermont, et al. Vermont 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness This case concerns the constitutionality of Vermont law governing the termination of parental rights, specifically, whether it is a violation of the F…
22-6311 Massey L. Allen, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights post-miranda-silence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence adduced at trial to convict Petitioner of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt under this Court's holding …
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias I. Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6" & 14" Amendment right to conflict free counsel? …
22-6260 Paula Williams v. Conduent Human Services LLC Seventh Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-practices due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does the district court have subject matter jurisdiction over this case? 2. Do the actions and conduct of the district court in this specific indi…
22-528 Gilbert Rodriguez, IV v. Texas Texas 2022-12-08 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the 183rd district court for Harris County, Texas erred in denying Petitioner Rodriguez's writ of Habeas Corpus when Petitioner's trial and ap…
22-526 Pulak Barua v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas 2022-12-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement service-of-process state-administrative-agency takings The administrative law judge entered a default judgment against Petitioner, who had not received notice of the hearing. The notice of the hearing was …
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution 1. Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 prohibiting the state or political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing any legal statu…
22-513 Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 I. Is the test of objective reasonableness applicable to a claim of excessive force enunciated by this court in Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 …
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER AN ATTORNEY'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE AND …
22-501 Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff…
22-496 Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado Colorado 2022-11-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia 1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of…
22-6149 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2022-11-23 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . .. LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __ The Hi^hT. _io _effective S-ixth — AMD-…
22-6142 Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS CERTIORARI JURISDICTION IN ORDER TO REVIEW A CLAIM THAT FLORIDA COURTS OF APPEALS DO NOT PROVIDE FOR EVIDENTIAR…
22-6114 Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz Indiana 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing SHOULD RESPONDENT BENEFIT FROM A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FELONY CRIME? DOES THE CONDUCT OF THE INDIANA COURTS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S FIFTH AND FOURTEENT…
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Peti- oner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons; due to the COVID -19 Pandemic, justifies "Eq…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings 1.) Whether Petitioners' procedural due process right and rights to sue for a taking without just compensation under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendmen…
22-468 Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California California 2022-11-18 Denied bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian Following the Court's ruling in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S. Ct. 682 (2019), which held that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is incorpo…
22-460 Joshua C. Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Washington 2022-11-17 Denied Relisted (2) adverse-parties civil-procedure due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-foreclosure judicial-power pro-se-defendants standing 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits the judicial power of state courts to issuing judgments deciding those justiciabl…
22-466 Herederos de Roberto Gomez Cabrera, LLC v. Teck Resources Limited Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights due-process extraterritorial-statute federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-defendant fourteenth-amendment international-law personal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions as the Fourteenth Amendment on the exercise of personal jurisdiction by a federal court unde…
22-6074 Terry Eugene Sears v. Vernia Roberts, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights security-measures 1. WHETHER THE PROCEDURES REQUIRED TO INSTITUTE UNUSUAL SECURITY MEASURES APPLY IN CIVIL CASES BROUGHT BY PRISONER - PLAINTIFFS? 2. WHETHER DISTRICT …
22-6073 Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. California 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights 1. Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow 's and his children their Fourteenth Amendment rights of "life, liberty, and …
22-454 Garey Webb v. U.S. Bank National Association, As Trustee for CRMSI REMIC Series 2006-03 REMIC Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-03 Oklahoma 2022-11-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-on-court property-rights Whether the Oklahoma Supreme Court violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution by failing to address clear evidence of fraud…
22-449 Christopher E. Larson, et ux. v. Snohomish County, Washington, et al. Washington 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-standard due-process financial-disclosure fourteenth-amendment judicial-neutrality judicial-partiality judicial-recusal objective-standard recusal 1. Whether judges in Washington State must specifically address the judicial partiality claims actually asserted by the parties against judicial offic…
22-6049 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2022-11-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p…
22-442 Tatana Spicakova Romero, et vir v. Li-Chuan Shih, et al. California 2022-11-10 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment land-use private-property property-rights takings 1. Whether a court order that excludes land owners from their real property and allows other private parties to physically invade and occupy the owner…
22-427 William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine Maine 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of Am…
22-428 Deborah Walton v. First Merchants Bank Seventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived billing-errors dispute-letters due-process fair-credit-billing-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations I. Whether a Creditor must follow the requirements specified in 1974 by the Fair Credit Billing Act, Pub. L. 93-495, Tit. Ill, 88 Stat. 1511, for t…
22-421 D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p…
22-412 Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (17) civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte…
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution by allowing mail-in voting from anywhe…
22-415 Mark Elliott Stuart v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech municipal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness (1) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is overbroad and violates the First Amendment? (2) Whether Scottsdale Revised Code 19-13 is unconstitutiona…
22-5969 Thomas Deptula v. Florida Florida 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law-conflict chesser-v-state civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-brief sexual-predator sexual-predator-designation torres-v-oquinn WHETHER THE FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL ERRED BY DENYING THE PETITIONER'S INITIAL BRIEFS REQUEST FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE SEXUAL PREDATOR DE…
22-5936 Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-31 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment 1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c…
22-5943 Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections Kentucky 2022-10-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute 1. Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process? 2. Is the Kentucky Department of Corrections in constan…
22-5942 David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi…
22-5926 Charles Chitat Ng v. California California 2022-10-27 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt I. WAS PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF DUE PROCESS AND HIS RIGHT OF SELF REPRESENTATION UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS BY THE TRIAL COURT'S …
22-5908 Giles McGhee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. McGhee was denied his right to Due Process of Law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to t…
22-5907 Ronald J. Brooking v. Daniel Moloney Maryland 2022-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights fairness fourteenth-amendment judicial-decision maryland-rules privileges-or-immunities procedural-due-process state-action 1. Did the Circuit Court, Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals err in violations against the Petitioner's rights in the 14th. Amendment …
22-5906 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-10-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule 1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int…
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition 1. Does the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantee rights to: a. Correction of mistakes as expeditiously as practical after disco…
22-5901 William Paul Burch v. Areya Holder Aurzada Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Dismissed IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-transparency corruption due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-ethics salaried-employees transparency 1. Should a final report of a chapter 7 bankruptcy case be divided into five parts thus depriving the debtor of transparency so as to prevent errors, …
22-5909 Timmy Doucet v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the evidence presented during trial was insufficient to convict Doucet of Aggravated Rape beyond a reasonab…
22-372 Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of "just compensation," as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunit…
22-5872 In Re Benjamin Cole 2022-10-20 Denied IFP competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction Whether the State of Oklahoma may execute Benjamin Cole while he is incompetent to be executed, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments t…
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper 1. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S.…
22-5845 Skiboky Stora v. New York State Board of Elections New York 2022-10-17 Denied IFP attorney-communication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-communication judicial-conduct standing Did the Communication s between Respondents Attorneys oilnd TIE OCtef Siveeney ON the. Todge Persona) Lei) Pbene the ty Pafde. comm UNitawch cb Pade …
22-5842 Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida Florida 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations I. WHETHER UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT INTRODUCED IN A CRIMINAL SENTENCING PROCEEDING VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO …
22-334 Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government 1. Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appe…
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st…
22-329 Lu Tuan Nguyen v. David Ribal, et al. California 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bias conservatee-estate constitutional-rights deception demurrer due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias 1. Whether the sustaining of the respondent's demurrer is in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment t…
22-5786 Foroud Foladpour v. City of Upland, California California 2022-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability judicial-discretion negligence standing trial-court-procedure judicial discretion Rearview on a writ of certiorari is not a matter of right Is judicial discretion discretion is abused power of official to act th…
22-5783 Kofi Kyei v. Oregon Oregon 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment oral-argument oregon-state-courts precedent statutory-mandate utcr-5.050(1) zehr-v-haugen Whether the Oregon State courts violated pro se Petitioner's federal due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uni…
22-5752 Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto Third Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used on a petitioner with solely…
22-5735 Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment 1. DOES THE JUDGEMENT OF SENTENCE REPRESENT A MAINIFEST INJUSTICE WARRANTING THE SUPERVISORY POWERS OF THIS HONORABLE COURT AS IT SHAKES SOCIETIES CON…
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Did the appellate court err in assessing the legal significance of the sworn Affidavits tending to exonerate the petitioner, and deny the petitioner h…
22-311 Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require, in a child custody and visitation proceeding, that a state family court may not i…
22-308 Ramin Seddiq v. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, et al. Virginia 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict liberty-interest statutory-disclosure statutory-entitlement virginia-freedom-of-information-act 1. Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment p…
22-5696 Matt Nasuti v. Adrian Holm, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-tribunals civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-accountability secret-proceedings veterans-rights Can Secret Trials Ever Be Constitutional? May Federal Agencies Adjudicate Violent Behavior Cases in Secret "Star Chamber" Tribunals, and Then Bar the…
22-290 Anne-Marie Mendible v. Special Proceedings Department of the Wake County Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-litigant res-judicata standing subject-matter-jurisdiction truth-in-lending-act 1. Whether the due process constitutional right of the petitioner is infringed and the Federal Court has jurisdiction to entertain it. 2. Whether the…
22-287 Gail Lewis Hicks, et al. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. Indiana 2022-09-27 Denied Response Waived court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fifth-and-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-procedure summary-judgment Whether or not the Indiana Supreme Court decided an issue without determining the effect of the In-diana Court of Appeals granting Respondent American…
22-5686 Curtis Lee Henderson, Sr. v. California California 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parole parole-denial youth-offender WAS IT CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TO CONDEMN HENDERSON'S AMBLE FROM 25-TO-LIFE PLUS FIFTEEN, TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE WITHOUT A COURT HEARING, AFTER SERVING 30 Y…
22-5684 Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
22-5681 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-estoppel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-bias judicial-misconduct procedural-infirmity standing 1. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ("Second Circuit") confirmed in United States v. Lumumba, 794 F.2d 806 (2d Cir. 1986) that p…
22-282 Randall Pavlock, et al. v. Eric J. Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief judicial-taking property-rights standing state-court-decision takings 1. Whether a "judicial taking" under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is a cognizable cause of action. 2. Whether a property owner who is deprived…
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment 1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,…
22-5644 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appointed-counsel constitutional-rights disability-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence Was petitioner's appeal erroneously dismissed even though newly discovered evidence supports petitioner's disability claims, U.S. Const. Amend. XIV? …
22-271 M. N. v. A. A., et al. Kentucky 2022-09-22 Denied abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness (1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci…
22-5616 In Re Deonte Jenkins 2022-09-20 Denied IFP 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim political-hostage sovereign-rights treaty-rights Whether this Court under its power to grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus can aid an American Sovereign man, if he has no available forum to raise his claim…
22-5591 Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas Texas 2022-09-15 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law When is an individual regarded as having or percieved to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 42 U.S.C.…
22-5585 Mark Marvin v. Martha Peldunas, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment social-security statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE STATE AGENCY CAN REQUIRE THAT FUTURE SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS PREMATURELY APPLY FOR REDUCED…
22-5579 William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa…
22-5563 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-09-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In Persuasive Authority Leading Case on Point Hamilton V. Alabama 368 U,S.52,(1961). The Supreme Court of the United States Reversed. In an opinion by…
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether The Fifth District Court Of Appeal Violated The Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth And Fourteenth Amendments Rights By Denying The Claim Of Ineffectiv…
22-199 Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied Response Waived citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is the first question to be answered by both the district courts and the courts of appeals, when a civil complaint is presented to them, whether …
22-5438 Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of due process and the right to present an effective defense regarding suppressed eviden…
22-5362 Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances 1. WHETHER THE STATE COURT'S OCT. 13, 2021 ORDER (App. P-2) DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL, E.G., A MEANING…
22-5330 Demetrius J. Wade v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-10 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fifth-amendment forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (1). Was petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment Rights violated when police tampered with evidence and removed bullet fragments recovered from the victim…
22-5331 Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2022-08-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY…
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions In a criminal trial, "[d]ue process means a jury capable and willing to decide the case solely on the evidence before it, and a trial judge ever watch…
22-125 Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. Connecticut 2022-08-09 Denied due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes, C.G.S. §45a-273 ("Section 273"), which permits the no-notice administration of a decedent…
22-5304 Nuelito Morel-Vargas v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment waiver waiver-doctrine 1. Do the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments require a canvass of the defendant prior to a constitutionally valid waiver of the fundamental, pers…
22-5297 Jean Max Darbouze v. California California 2022-08-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment helling-v-mckinney state-application Amendment Constitutional ^The^R^spondent violated the Petitioner 8th Rights.ALso applied tothe State California Via 14th Amendment to the U.S.Constit…
22-109 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation I. Whether a Black mother and her Black child/student who walks through the main entrance of the public school doors every morning as does the non-…
22-101 Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates 1. Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representa…
22-5229 Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. Third Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equ…
22-87 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing Whether respondents Milton F. Fitch, Jr., Ownes Chads, E., Calvin Woodard, Jr., Robert A. Evans, Roland Loftin, Donald W. Stephen, Colon Willoughby, C…
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic rever…
22-5216 Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment 1. The question is: Did al Counsel ably Commabonal chan Assistance of Counsel Undertee SAM Htodeiont in tveir Guraveess of SelaZavs Mortal Heal isues …
22-5152 In Re Jerry N. Alfred 2022-07-22 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WHETHER A TEMPORARY EXCEPTION EXISTS TO CITE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S UPLE HOLDING THAT A CRIMINAL CONVICTION USING USE OF FALSE EVIDENCE "MUST F…
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS HELD.THAT A STATE LAW'S REVIVAL OF AN EXPIRED LIMITATION PERIOD UNDER ITS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS VIOLATES THE EX POST FACT…
22-5146 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings standing tenth-circuit-review 1. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as …
22-52 Ariyan Incorporated, dba Discount Corner, et al. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-taking inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings A fundamental element of just compensation is "certain payment of the compensation without unreasonable delay." Bragg v. Weaver, 251 U.S. 57, 62 (1919…
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
22-47 Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-07-18 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act Pennsylvania's Legislative Reapportionment Commission admittedly made extensive use of race in constructing up to 14 state legislative districts. The …
22-44 Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama Alabama 2022-07-15 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and i…
22-5114 Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2022-07-15 Denied IFP child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare…
22-5115 Michael Kennedy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that before a trial counsel can conceded defendant's guilt, trial counsel must first consult with …
22-42 Dipendra Tiwari, et al. v. Eric Friedlander, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Amici (7) civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process economic-liberty fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty meaningful-review occupation-rights occupational-licensing rational-basis-review substantive-due-process Does the Fourteenth Amendment require meaningful review of restrictions on the right to engage in a common occupation?
22-5093 Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with intell…
22-5088 Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Mr. McKenzie had a right to a jury finding for each fact that subjected him to the enhanced penalty of death. This proof was required to be "beyond a …
22-5087 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Melton Truck Lines Tenth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review petition-for-redress tenth-circuit I. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as …
22-5071 Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment Question One: If the record reflects similar if not more egregious ineffective assistance by trial counsel. The claim was not refuted at evidentiary h…
22-4 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Whethe r the Davis- Hatton P rocedure is unconstitutional as-applied to Mr. Karr 's case and whether the Indiana State Courts and United States Distri…
21-1610 Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District Washington 2022-06-29 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law 1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not th…
21-8279 Randy William Gay v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are vi…
21-8262 Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, as constructed in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74 (1970) and Bru…
21-8235 Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis Arkansas 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal Whether the Arkansas Court's application of "attorney diligence" waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta…
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis 1) Does a trial court violate the requirements of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it bases a permanent child custody orde…
21-1590 Rosemarie Austin v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se The District Court disallowed Austin discovery of an undisclosed witness based on the premise that she would be unable to conduct discovery in a prope…
21-8205 Bobby Charles Byrd v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight constitutional-rights due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel-of-choice sixth-amendment PCR ISSUES I. Whether Mr. Byrd was denied his right to effective assistance of appellate counsel when counsel failed to litigate non-frivolous issues…
21-8219 Dante Danil Carter v. California California 2022-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure doyle-v-ohio due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda miranda-rights post-miranda-silence self-incrimination WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA TRIAL COURT DEPRIVED CARTER OF HIS 5TH, 6TH OR 14TH AMENDMENTS PERMITTING THE PROSECUTION TO IMPERMISSIBLY USE HIS POST-MIRANDA…
21-8155 Chad M. Vice v. City of Fort Madison, Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
21-8166 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation coram-nobis due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct A federal ex-prisoner, has the right to present a "fundamental error" byway of a writ of coram nobis, involving newly discovered evidence, pursuing wi…
21-1568 Austin Roger Carter v. Genesis Alkali LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied appeal appeal-procedure attorney-client attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct standing Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution and related rights of Due Process were violated by the Wyoming Tenth Circuit …
21-8144 Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores in cases where the scores were formulated from tests t…
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated when Reed …
21-1553 Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.
21-8123 Terry Malone v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment mandatory-presumption patterson-v-new-york rebuttable-presumption DID THE SUPERIOR COURT VIOLATE THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOUR TEENTH AMENDMENT (in its fullest context) AND THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT IN "PATTERS…
21-8119 Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire Whether Or Not The Lower Court Erred And Abused Its Discretion In NOT Finding Petitioner Was Deprived Of His 5th And 14th Amendment Rights When The Tr…
21-8098 Rocky Christian v. Florida Florida 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738…
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-8081 Moses Clark v. California California 2022-06-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Review should be granted, beause the state court failed to bring the defendant before the magistrate within 48-hours after arrest, violating The Fo…
21-8083 In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood 2022-06-07 Denied IFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements Question not identified.
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
21-1530 Martine Bernard v. Christopher Hodyl Colorado 2022-06-06 Denied article-iii-standing civil-rights court-ordered-therapy due-process fourteenth-amendment personal-autonomy privilege professional-ethics standing therapist-privilege therapy-requirement Whether the federally and state recognized psychotherapist-patient privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond and personal autonomy under the Fourteenth Amendment…
21-1504 Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas Texas 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. May a defense attorney completely fail to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial, without thereby depriving a criminal defe…
21-8023 Xingfei Luo v. California California 2022-06-01 Denied IFP content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude …
21-7986 Stephen Gosch v. Florida Florida 2022-05-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct state-court 1. Did the state court violate the petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment where the prosecution failed to …
21-7983 Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied the due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, when retained counsel admitted the…
21-1489 Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution. Whether Pennsylvania Law sup…
21-7956 Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment WHETHER JURISTS OF REASON COULD DEBATE THE DISTRICT COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE DETECTIVES ACTIONS WERE NOT A CORRDINATED TWO-STEP INTERROGATION TECHN…
21-7948 Femi Isijola v. Elizabeth A. Bielecki, Director, New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles New Hampshire 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment driver's-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motor-vehicle-registration pre-suspension-hearing 1 Whether NH. Revised Statute Ann. 260:10, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by …
21-1477 Sylwia Ewelina Madej Manchanda, et vir v. Andrea Lewis, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority judicial-bias judicial-proceedings organized-crime systemic-bias 1. Does the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, routinely, and arbitrarily exercise authority beyond the proposed function an…
21-1469 Samuel Armstrong v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process emergency-powers executive-order fourteenth-amendment jacobson-v-massachusetts judicial-review public-health roman-cath-diocese-v-cuomo Did Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-33-20, mandating that Californians "stay home" to prevent the spread of COVID-19, violate the rights of petiti…
21-1467 Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. Hawaii 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings 1. In proceedings to terminate parental rights, before a court permits constructive service by publication does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process…
21-7913 William Earl Sweet v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness 1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F…
21-7908 Jose Mejia v. New York New York 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment On October 25, 2021, N.Y. Crim. Proc. § 440.10(2)(b) and (c) were amended to remove the procedural bar precluding a defendant from raising a collatera…
21-7901 Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied IFP anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts - tho…
21-7894 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court Petitioner alleges that New Hampshire does not provide equal protection under the law to its citizens when deciding whether to issue domestic violence…
21-7869 Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment 1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United…
21-1440 Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel Missouri 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution permit an attorney to be sanctioned …
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…
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
21-7802 In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus Question not identified.
21-1394 John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin…
21-7739 Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden First Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment I. The Petitioner seeks review of the denial of a certificate of appealability by the First Circuit which review of the decision of U.S. District Cour…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
21-7730 Justin L. Martin v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. Was Defense Counsel ineffective for failing to object to the states known use of false testimony in Petitioners trial. Violating his Constitutional…
21-7713 William Neely v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County California 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-tampering due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-trial-discovery Do the safegards provided by the 14th Amendment apply to the state's unreasonable denial of post-trial criminal discovery where Petitioner, with newly…
21-1383 Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services North Carolina 2022-04-26 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 "Due Process Clause," affords litigants the right to due process of law and the equal protection of the laws, …
21-1360 Mike Kowall, et al. v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State Sixth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) candidate-qualifications civil-rights due-process electoral-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-restrictions political-participation standing term-limits 1. Whether candidate qualifications should be subjected merely to rational-basis review, as the Sixth Circuit concluded below, or some heightened leve…
21-7642 Brandon J. Weathers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-court-conviction Is the Petitioner, on retake, prisoner entitled to an evidentiary hearing in a State District Court habeas corpus proceeding, where the petitioner has…
21-7607 Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan Michigan 2022-04-13 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counse…
21-7592 Detrick Deroven v. Texas Texas 2022-04-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment…
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether The State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred when affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process unde…
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-1337 Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis Oregon 2022-04-08 Denied 14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing In accordance with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, are state courts directly responsible for not…
21-1330 Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether respondent on July 5, 2002, transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when respondent acted w…
21-7564 Armstead Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings (1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 185 O.G.), apply to 18USC F22¢gyG)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Conv…
21-7568 Jimmy Stephens v. Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct WHEN A STATE TOGETHER WITH STATE'S EXPERT WITNESS CHANGE THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE INTO A NEW COMPLETE DIFFERENT VERSION, TO LINK THE A…
21-7551 In Re Mark Jendrzejewski 2022-04-05 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process evidence-withholding false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony ONE IS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN PROSECUTOR WITHHOLDS BIOLOGICAL AND RELATED EVIDENCE LAYING IN WAIT UNTIL PETITIONER MOVES HAB…
21-7501 Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas Texas 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia 1. WHEN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IS DISCRETIONARY BY THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN NOT REVIEWI…
21-1308 J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. California 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy 1. Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 as amended by Section 204 of the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthen…
21-7461 Antonio D. Rooks-Byrd v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure plea-agreement sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1) Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy Trial violation? 2) Do the Sixth…
21-1288 Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by p…
21-7418 James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are …
21-7416 Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Where officers work together in concerted action to "produce" reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o…
21-7400 Derrick U. Stricklin v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-03-17 Denied IFP alibi-evidence capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-tactics I. WHETHER THE FAILURE OF DEFENSE COUNSEL TO FILE A NOTICE OF ALIBI AND PRESENT AMPLE ALIBI EVIDENCE WHEN INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY THE DEFENDANT IN A …
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure 1. Did The State/ District Court Judge's Failure To Abide By Nevada's State Procedural Law Violate My Constitutionally Protected Liberty Interest Unde…
21-7409 Jory Russell Strizich v. Montana Montana 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidentiary-ruling evidentiary-rulings flight-evidence fourteenth-amendment holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to defend in a criminal case can be denied on unique state evidentiary rulings? Stated another way, d…
21-1260 Kendi Narmer PakeyBey v. Luminant Mining Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights denial-of-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-protections procedural-due-process procedural-protections standing Whether the Petitioners ' 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated under its procedural due process clause by being denied procedural protections…
21-1254 Allen Bregman v. Florida Florida 2022-03-16 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment tactical-advantage united-states-v-lovasco 1. Whether United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984) departed from the two-tier test for determining a due process violation established by United…
21-7397 Mario Derrell Jones v. Great Southern National Bank, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-decision administrative-law civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-1983 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant de…
21-7371 Sherman Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-03-15 Denied IFP capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing In a capital trial, does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors that have personal and professional relationships with a prosecu…
21-7378 Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar Oregon 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest where its order of…
21-7348 Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District Illinois 2022-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment Do the 6th Amendment; Section 1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals not only the…
21-1233 Mark R. Joubert v. Todd Miley Massachusetts 2022-03-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship collateral-estoppel due-process fourteenth-amendment individual-liberty legal-restriction liberty-interest non-legal-business occupational-freedom standard-of-review state-court I. May a state court establish an attorney-client relationship that will restrict an individual's liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment to pursue a l…
21-1224 Laura Cozza v. PNC Bank, National Association Washington 2022-03-09 Denied due-process equity-jurisdiction foreclosure-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-partiality judicial-power judicial-recusal state-statute Did judicial officer, the Honorable Robert E. Olson, legitimately exercise the judicial power of the Superior Court for Whatcom County, Washington as …
21-1221 S. U. v. C. J. West Virginia 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy West Virginia identified unmarried biological stranger gestational surrogate C.J. as the legal mother of S.U.'s children against S.U.'s wishes and in …
21-7308 Deon D. Colvin v. Howard University District of Columbia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment issue-preclusion pleadings pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing 1. Was the D.C. Court of Appeals obligated to consider all of my allegations —including allegations pled in my Opposition to Howard 's Motion to Dismi…
21-7282 Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa 1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim…
21-7263 Michael Halford v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal …
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH…
21-1200 Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on …
21-7246 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2022-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mandamus standing ultra-vires Harris' case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Because of the willful disobedience or adop…
21-7257 Jimmy Dale Stone v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-02 Denied IFP Criminal-Jurisdiction Due-Process Fourteenth-Amendment Indian-Status native-american-rights post-conviction-relief Public-Law-83-280 Treaty-Provisions 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Stone's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by: a) affirming the district court's Deni…
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no…
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-7193 Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel Florida 2022-02-25 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds …
21-7182 Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied IFP due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest 1. Isn 't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforce…
21-7201 Michael Dewayne Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-enclave fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment state-jurisdiction 1) Did the State of OKlahome violate Petitionus Fourth and Fourtenth Amenmnt ss when they Poscuted this Ptits Crime Which happened on a fidud enclave …
21-1173 Joe Elton Nixon v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied Amici (1) and whether Florida's burden of proof for intelle atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-law eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability teague-rule teague-v-lane 1. In Atkins v. Virginia , 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with in…
21-1168 Robert Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Pennsylvania 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Relisted (2) civil-procedure corporate-consent due-process fourteenth-amendment international-shoe personal-jurisdiction registration-statute Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction to do bu…
21-1151 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement 1. Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia, on August 25,1992, discharged appellant Arthur O. Armstrong, without just cause, without a hear…
21-1136 M. S. v. J. B. Massachusetts 2022-02-17 Denied due-process equal-protection ex-parte-order ex-parte-restraining-orders false-impression-of-dangerousness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment records-expungement restraining-order vacated-orders Does Mass. G.L. c. 209A(l)b prima facie infringe a defendant's 5th and 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection, with no remedy, by m…
21-7144 Robert James Grass v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-02-17 Denied IFP cherokee-status criminal-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment indian-status post-conviction-relief state-courts treaty-provisions 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Grass' Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by: a) affirming the district court's Denia…
21-7127 Ngozika J. Nwaneri v. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP District of Columbia 2022-02-16 Denied IFP appeals bill-of-rights civil-procedure due-process equal-justice fourteenth-amendment judicial-error legal-procedure pro-se pro-se-representation standing a). Whether the state court erred in omnibus order and subpoena order granted Quinn Emanuel on October 20, 2021 and in 5th January, 2022 order denying…
21-7132 Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-16 Denied IFP capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude a…
21-7138 Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service 1. Did the United States District Court Error by denying the January 13,2020, initial No.1 CSX Transportation Corporate Headquarters Address -ho exped…
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and more particularly, Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who prepared the opinion f…
21-7066 Kevin Brewer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration 1. Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has…
21-7046 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia 2022-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment human-rights judicial-discretion privileges-or-immunities standing takings Whether this court is willing to stop the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right ".No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the…
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the petitioners ' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated, when Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan Court of Appeals and Trial Cour…
21-1074 Mark A. Di Carlo v. James R. Swartz, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied attorneys-fees civil-procedure defamation due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment ohio-law rule-54 1. CAN A FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE GRANT ATTORNEYS FEES IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT IN A FEDERAL REMOVAL PROCEEDING FROM OHIO STATE COURTS FOR DEFAMA…
21-1073 Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights employee-protections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment good-faith state-action union-rights waiver 1. May a labor union acting in concert with State officials, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, seize for union political speech pay…
21-7005 Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden Ohio 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue If an indictment alleges an offense occurring at the county of Ashland in the State of Ohio, can jurisdiction over the offense be lost if the loca ti…
21-6979 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
21-6965 Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge I. Whether The Current Version of the California SVP Law Violates the Due Process Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not offer a Me…
21-6935 Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado Colorado 2022-01-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness 1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 …
21-6867 Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial Virginia 2022-01-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation 1. Can a judge reverse a case no: to a different case no: or can the judge oversee the plaintiff motion to dismiss the counter claim with the same cas…
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law 1. Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth…
21-6830 Huy-Ying Chen v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, et al. Washington 2022-01-13 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-judgment civil-procedure due-process foreign-judgment fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-review (i) Whether the Supreme Court of Washington's denial of the petition for review is contrary to established precedent. (ii) Whether the inequitable na…
21-6841 Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause Whether the 42 USC 1983 (4th, 14th Amendment) can protect a law abiding educated senior disable that has been abducted (arrested) after physical assau…
21-6843 In Re Kevin Brewer 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter The entire panel of active judges in 8th Circuit Court Of Appeals have evaded, refused and failed to address the merits of a constitutional claim with…
21-6816 N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado Colorado 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w…
21-6801 In re Johnny McMahon 2022-01-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial Petitioner, Johnny E. McMahon, has been collaterally attacking subject-matter jurisdiction since 2011. However, this is the first time this Honorable …
21-6776 Wesley R. Carey v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance michigan-v-mosley post-conviction-relief self-incrimination state-court-decision Has the State of Illinois entered a decision in conflict with the decision in a United States Supreme Court case, Michigan v. Mosley, thereby, Violati…
21-6780 In Re Lori Sklar 2022-01-07 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order an appellate review do-over when due process compels a permanently removed judge's re…
21-6771 Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi…
21-957 Marci M. Webber v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity Petitioner has been detained in a state mental health center since her bench trial in June 2012, which adjudicated her Not Guilty by Reason of Insanit…
21-939 Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. Texas 2021-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr…
21-944 Josephine Tripodi, et al. v. North Coventry Township, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-27 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-liability mold-remediation property-rights state-court takings 1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state court from compelling a real property owner to pay thousands of dollars fo…
21-934 Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment Whether, without meaningful analysis and substantive evidence, the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable of ascertainment criteri…
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant WHETHER AN OPEN-AIR SNIFF CONDUCTED BY A POLICE K9 (DOG) TRAINED IN DRUG DETECTION, ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT OR PROBABLE CAUSE, C…
21-6700 Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at the PCR hearing, by trial Counsel's failure to object to…
21-926 Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. Tyrance McCall Georgia 2021-12-22 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) consent corporate-registration due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-sovereignty Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state to assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation, for claim…
21-927 Donald Clinton Crabtree v. Christine Crabtree South Carolina 2021-12-22 Denied 1st-amendment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-expression gender-bias gender-discrimination judicial-misconduct religious-expression Did Judge Monet Pincus violate the 1st Amendment protection of freedom of expression and generally condemn religious expression of men? II. Did the S…
21-897 Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing 1. Whether pro se litigants in civil cases in fed eral court are entitled under the due process clause to have their pleadings liberally construed by…
21-6649 Paul J. Hultman v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juror-misconduct presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment I Were the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when a juror admitted viewing unadmitted evidence during deliberations and stated that her verdic…
21-886 Ismet Islami v. Kemper Independence Insurance Company Wisconsin 2021-12-15 Denied civil-dissolution due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise legal-separation marital-property religious-freedom religious-rights statutory-entitlement Introductory Statement This is a liberty based "due process" case. Enactment by the Wisconsin legislature of the Wisconsin Marital Property Act in 19…
21-874 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure 1. Whether respondents, Quentin T. Sumner, Calvin Woodard, Keith Stone and magistrate Kenneth Barnes, acted in a conspiracy when appellee Calvin Wooda…
21-6574 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-procedure contracts-clause due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal plea-agreements right-to-petition Can a lawfully perfected interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1292(a)(1) that has been fully briefed and pending in the United States Court of …
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-09 Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective for failing to conduct a reasonable investigation into a potential defense witness, which led …
21-860 Jane Doe v. Timothy White, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment goss-standard goss-v-lopez higher-education liberty-interest procedural-due-process property-interest qualified-immunity When State actors threaten to deprive individuals of liberty or property, the Fourteenth Amendment requires procedural protections that comport with m…
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-834 Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party Whether a government during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot…
21-6500 Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. WHEN A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR HOMICIDE, AND FIRST, AS A RESULT OF BADGERING AND PESTERING F…
21-6473 Michael Stumph v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United State…
21-6455 Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT PETITIONER'S FIFTH, EIGHTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED?
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…
21-6437 J. S. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance right-to-appeal sixth-amendment 1. Did J.S. have a Fourteenth Amendment right to be advised by the Court of his right to appeal? 2. Did J.S. have a right to appeal out of time, beca…
21-794 Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm 1. Whether an abused woman who faces increased danger from her abuser because State Actors have emboldened and condoned the abuser's violently escalat…
21-793 Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. Pennsylvania 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion When a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth A…
21-6435 James Worley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-29 Denied IFP capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Is a capital conviction and sentence in valid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth…
21-6424 Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Texas Texas 2021-11-24 Denied IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permit a prosecutor's knowing use of false testimony unless the defendant proves by a preponde…
21-6429 Randall T. Deviney v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment functional-elements hurst-v-florida ring-v-arizona I. The Due Process Clause requires the existence of an element of a crime to be determined beyond a reasonable doubt. See Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 …
21-6377 Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search 1. Did the Us. District Court crrad in ruling that the stato court violated petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourtewth. Amendruts of the Unitad States …
21-6387 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr…
21-6393 Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP competency-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-v-edwards mental-illness self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Florida Supreme Court, rather than applying a heightened standard for competency to represent oneself for defendants with severe mental il…
21-765 In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company 2021-11-23 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss…
21-758 James P. Tatten v. LSF9 Master Participation Trust Colorado 2021-11-22 Denied 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment nonjudicial-foreclosure nonjudicial-hearing property-rights real-property state-court-procedure In Obduskey v. McCarthy, this Court observed: "Colorado's 'nonjudicial' foreclosure process is something of a hybrid, though no party claims these fea…
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal 1. Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's ri…
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment 1. The trial court refused to allow Petitioner to call a material witness that could significantly aid in his defense -and complied with the Rules O…
21-6341 Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married …
21-6336 Darrin Lashaon Betts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 21-usc-841(a)(1)-(b)(1)(a) amendment-782 criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-11(c)(1)(c) fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-law type-c-agreement Whether a defendant is eligible for 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) (1)(2) relief pursuant Amendment 782 where the district court adopted a Type-C plea agreement …
21-735 Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System Texas 2021-11-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause In the decision below, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the argument that copyright infringement by a government entity appropriates "the right to …
21-6301 Travis Wayne Bentley v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-11-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-witnesses fourteenth-amendment indian-federal-law indigenous-rights indigent-legal-counsel post-conviction-relief tribal-jurisdiction 1) Did the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals violate Mr. Bentley's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process by affirming the district court's Denial…
21-6304 Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland Minnesota 2021-11-16 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se 1. Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to a…
21-6271 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre…
21-6195 Ronald C. Fairchild v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Fairchild 's right 's under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution,…
21-6196 I. A. v. Kansas Kansas 2021-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-appeal standing 1. Did I.A. have a Fourteenth Amendment Right to have a District Court Judge inform him of his right to appeal? 2. Was I.A.'s trial attorney, Scott W…
21-664 Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or…
21-6149 Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele…
21-6153 Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. Texas 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing 1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe…
21-6143 Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California California 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member…
21-639 Mark R. Smith v. Kate Bieker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response Waived dues-seizure employee-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-zerbst state-action union-speech waiver waiver-of-rights In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a right to refuse to subsidize union speech, that "States and public-sector…
21-6112 Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California California 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite …
21-621 Vince Flaherty, et al. v. Holly Hill Investments, LLC California 2021-10-28 Denied Relisted (2) california-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-adequacy notice-of-judgment service-of-notice service-of-process state-law Whether California's no-evidence-allowed rule concerning the adequacy of service of notice of judgment is consistent with the Due Process Clause of th…
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Question not identified.
21-6108 Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Claus…
21-603 Ohio v. George Brinkman Ohio 2021-10-26 Denied Amici (1) automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether…
21-6065 Michael Belcher v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence In a capital case, does the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting p…
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment protect an individual's right to express lawful speech free from state action and deliberate ind…
21-6059 Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
21-6061 John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in…
21-579 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent 1. Under Waddington v. Sar ausad, 555 U.S. 179 (2009), when a conviction requires that the State prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant ha…
21-6025 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-due-process court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation standing trust trust-law Whether a sole Beneficiary and Trustee can represent that Trust pro se. Whether SDCL 15-6-24(a) (Fed.R.Civ.24(a)) would have automatically substitute…
21-563 Warren M. Lent, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2021-10-18 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law administrative-penalty administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings In 2002, Petitioners Warren and Henny Lent bought a beachfront home in Malibu, California. Along the house's east side, prior owners had long ago inst…
21-564 Diane Scott Haddock v. Tarrant County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response Waived association-rights constitutional-rights elrod-branti-test first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-petition government-employment pickering-connick-test strict-scrutiny If multiple and distinct First or Fourteenth Amendment rights are involved— either collectively or as alternative factual theories—is each right analy…
21-555 Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas Kansas 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated when a State supreme court refuses to enforce its legislature's …
21-550 Tyrone Christopher Thompson v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment affirmative-defense complete-defense due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity-to-present-defense mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect pre-trial-hearing Does precluding a defendant from presenting any evidence of an affirmative defense of mental disease or defect to a jury based solely on conflicting e…
21-537 Adir International, LLC, et al. v. Starr Indemnity and Liability Company Ninth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-proceeds legal-defense standing state-action state-litigation Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to prohibit private parties from using untainted funds, such as otherwise l…
21-542 Michael Zito, et ux. v. North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-claims federal-takings-claims fourteenth-amendment just-compensation just-compensation-clause sovereign-immunity state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's incorporation of the "self-executing" Just Compensation Clause abrogates state sovereign immunity from federal taki…
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? Is this presumption a logical…
21-529 Bataski Bailey v. Fair & Walker Unit Owners Association, Inc., et al. Georgia 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment attorney-misconduct civil-rights defamation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings legal-ethics 1. Do intentional false statements made by an attorney in a judicial proceeding violate the opposing party's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights? 2…
21-5912 Mark Wayne Gray v. Dean Borders, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Should CERTIORARI be granted to review two unreasonable and unconstitutional decisions of the state court: 1) Whether the 5th Amendment (right to be …
21-514 Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights In New York State, when a handgun licensee becomes the subject of a mental health report made pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 9.46, the state's handg…
21-504 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opin…
21-5860 Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction 1. Though completely forsaken by the protections of the Sixth Amendment by the time ive at the federal appellate courts, does either the Eighth or sta…
21-5901 Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment 1. Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal nonsupport judgment and its direct counterpart civil judgment tolls the limita…
21-5864 Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar Fifth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant 1) Whether it is unconstitutional, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment- Equal Protection Clause, for any litigant alleging discrimination in the…
21-5882 Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services New York 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error 1. Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two …
21-493 Susan Chen v. Darren Migita, et al. Washington 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-challenge legal-representation notice personal-jurisdiction procedural-ambiguity standing unrepresented-minor 1. Whether a state court's dismissal order, absent clear languages about the legal effects; and its further refusal to clarify - which has led to four…
21-498 James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.) Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of Plaintiffs' action on grounds that District Court lacked subject …
21-5853 Noah Gaston v. Maine Maine 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment general-intent intent mens-rea murder murder-statute specific-intent 1. Does Maine's murder statute violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it does not require the state to prove beyon…
21-5784 Joe Vonzo Readon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and de…
21-431 Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment The question presented by this petition is whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Am…
21-436 In Re Kevin D. Loggins, Sr. 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice unlawful-incarceration void-judgment HAS FOR GOING ON 25 YEARS HELD PET- WHETHER THE U.S./ KANSAS , ITIONER ILLEGALLY IN PRISON CONTRARY TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THEI. UNITED STATES CONS…
21-5736 Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida Florida 2021-09-21 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement 1. Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records, which provide a c…
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL AS MEANT BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AND DID THE ACTIONS OF "ALL" COUNSE…
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Trujillo's trial was rendered fundamentally unfair due to the joint trial of unrelated charges and the admission of highly prejudicial gang evidence r…
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…
21-361 Guangcun Huang v. Tim Hui-Ming Huang, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied academic-freedom eleventh-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing state-immunity title-vi title-vii 1. Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Eleventh Amendment, see e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer; Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney, ba…
21-356 Jermain V. Richards v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-09-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury mistrial perez-v-united-states richardson-v-united-states After Ramos v. Louisiana required unanimous juries to convict criminal defendants, only Oregon preserved nonunanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases,…
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne…
21-343 Michelle J. Smith v. Nicholas French, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Martin D. French, Deceased Massachusetts 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived actual-malice child-athletes defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment libel preemption public-figure sports-governance In Gertz v. Robert Welch Inc 418 US 323(1974), Justice Powell, • t in reference to Defamation/Libel claims of a private individual concerning an issue…
21-346 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law agency-records civil-rights dismissal driver-license due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process witnesses Did the courts follow the Procedural Due process subject to the 14th (i) Amendment due process protection? Did the courts follow the Civil Due Proces…
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment The questions presented show conflict with Precedent of this Court and all Circuit Courts. The significant practical consequence is promotion of discr…
21-331 Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran Virginia 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings 1. Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property of 2% company ownership and $2.3M cash without notice and du…
21-5549 William D. Lauga v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment 1. IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA VIOLATING THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT BY NOT ADDRESSING CLAIMS RAISED BY PETITIONER ON A LAW THAT IS …
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure 1. Whether the eleventh circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial /When the police officer who investigated Greens …
21-5556 Bret Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated by the Prosecuting State'…
21-5561 Tyrone Cade v. Texas Texas 2021-09-01 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen…
21-5538 Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In this case, the United States Court of Appeals per curiam affirmed denial of Petitioner's appeal for habeas corpus relief. Petitioner contends that …
21-308 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces…
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.O.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
21-5517 Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-30 Dismissed IFP 44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. WHETHER PETITIONER'S CLAIMS SHOULD BE HEARD ON THE MERITS UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO A…
21-5535 Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana Indiana 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise…
21-5509 Luther McKiver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent legal-interpretation precedent 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Due Process Clause of the…
21-283 In Re Roland N. Patterson 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without …
21-5495 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le…
21-5496 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le…
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether or not during evaluations, decisions, and judgments, the Alabama Trial, State Courts, are in complete contradiction to this United States Supr…
21-5429 Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action 1. Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification of C.R.S. § 34-32.5-112 (9) (c) into the Division o…
21-263 Kimbro Stephens Insurance Trust, et al. v. James E. Smith, Jr., et al. Arkansas 2021-08-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-termination bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure client-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discharge legal-malpractice standing 1. Whether a client has a right to discharge a lawyer at any time, whether in Arkansas state court or in Federal Court, with or without cause, subject…
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a…
21-5427 Kushawn Miles-El v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment capital-case civil-rights competency competency-hearing due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT HAS DENIED PETITIONER KUSHAWN MILES-EL ANY RIGHT, PRIVILEGE OR IMMUNITY GUARANTEED HIM BY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE …
21-5444 In Re Calvin James 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg…
21-235 Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention 1. Whether pursuant to Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015), jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medi…
21-5377 Alexander Ascencio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence watson-v-state WHETHER THE LOWER COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS, WHEN THE COURT DID NOT CONSIDERED THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE ON THIS CASE WHICH WAS A CRUC…
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…
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony I. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS RELIANCE ON A WITNESS STATEMENTS (Sean Nowling) INDUCED THE STATE'S (Respondent) CASE-IN-CHIEF VIA ERRONEOUS OR …
21-5356 Joel Dale Wright v. Florida Florida 2021-08-12 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
21-5347 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire This Court recently cautioned trial courts to be especially vigilant against "particularly noxious strain[s] of racial prejudice," Buck v. Davis, 137 …
21-197 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-08-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petitioner procedural-due-process sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the courts follow the Procedural Due process subject to the 14th (i) Amendment due process protection? Did the courts violate the rule and the ri…
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…
21-5336 Theodore Howard v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(1)(A) 924(c)(1)(C) constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-use fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Mr. Theodore Howard/ was denied his United States Constitutional fourteenth/ and Sixth amendment due-process rights/ to fair notice of the …
21-5338 Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure PETTIONER'S INTERNET FALEBOOK PAGE AND SEEING HIS TAN AND WHITE OG WHEN THE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED THE DNA REPORT ON H/D/AOL ONE WEEK BEFORE FILING AFFID…
21-5321 Jerome Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing (1) Does the unconstitutionally vague language, stack down, as by the Court in USC 10@) Apply to 18 USC 72a¢g)(L)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice to C…
21-166 Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon Oregon 2021-08-05 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment (I) Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of …
21-154 Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Relisted (2) bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution? II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem…
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…
21-5268 Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution 1. WHETHER ALL NEWLY DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLY RETROSPECTIVELY TO JUDGMENTS OF CONVICTIONS NOT YET FINAL AND PENDING …
21-127 Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response Waived a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism 1. Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner, a person of color, violate his Fundamental Federal Rights guaranteed him by the Due Process Clause i…
21-5209 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure standing 1. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari where no other review is available with stay pending review to address the state court of last r…
21-5214 Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 86, which allows …
21-95 David W. Foley, et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. Florida 2021-07-23 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 colore-officii fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy public-servant-immunity state-court-discretion statutory-interpretation virtute-officii Is a state court free under the Fourteenth Amendment to deprive a plaintiff of a remedy in 42 USC §1983 by granting a public servant immunity from sui…
21-88 Christina Paylan v. Darrell Dirks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-accountability judicial-bias judicial-recusal standing Whether the standard for judicial recusal requires a second look with establishment of a strict uniform criteria whereby the largely relied upon discr…
21-76 Linda B. Vacchino v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC Florida 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-fraud mortgage-crisis property-rights Petitioner, Linda B. Vacchino for Herself And on Behalf of Unnamed, Countless Others Impacted by the 2007 Mortgage Crisis and Those To Be Impacted by …
21-59 Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption After twice being ordered to and agreeing to do so, the Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) caused intrinsic and extrinsic fraud upon…
21-50 D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. Florida 2021-07-14 Denied Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights Should the Government, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas…
21-25 Richard Janusz v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-09 Denied arraignment arraignment-delay constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Whether a defendant is denied due process of the fourteenth amendment to United States Constitution where his arraignment is delayed, for no appare…
21-32 Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2021-07-09 Denied child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina…
21-28 Wayne A. Jones, Ed.D. v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment academic-freedom civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest public-university tenure-review 1. Whether a non-tenured, but tenure-eligible, professor at a public university has a minimal property interest in a fair tenure review process under …
21-24 Curt Daniels, et al. v. John Holtz, et al. Iowa 2021-07-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sale property-rights res-judicata 1. What are the parameters of constitutionally acceptable dismissal and dismissal that rises to unconstitutional violation of due process? 2. Is a fi…
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment I. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important fe…
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…
21-5066 Aquabeus Moore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act?…
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation 1. Petitioner was deprived of due process when the tribunals below materially misapprehended the record. They held that there was no objection to admi…
21-23 Brenda Cook v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor…
21-5041 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-07-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa…
21-5021 Michael Ray Senn v. Texas Texas 2021-07-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti…
20-8450 Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment I. Does a state trial court 's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of …
20-1821 Anton Shifchik, et al. v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, et al. New Jersey 2021-06-30 Denied Response Waived corporate-contacts due-process ford-motor-co-v-montana fourteenth-amendment general-jurisdiction international-shoe internet-commerce personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction 1. Whether it is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state to exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign corpo…
20-8437 Jan G. v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association state-courts supremacy-clause WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS ,DENYING THE PLAINTIFF AND HIS INFIRM MOTHER DENIED VISIT…
20-8435 Vladimir Eugene v. Florida Florida 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER…
20-8429 Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing 1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv…
20-8403 Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven …
20-1773 Pasadena Republican Club v. Western Justice Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-management state-action state-actor viewpoint-discrimination While it is managing the city-owned property, is the Western Justice Center a State Actor for purposes of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U…
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-8333 Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP delay eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation resentencing sixth-amendment This Court is familiar with Mr. Deck, having reversed his second death sentences due to state action that occurred over Mr. Deck's objection. Three ye…
20-8341 Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2021-06-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment proffitt-v-florida proportionality-review pulley-v-harris In the decision below, the Florida Supreme Court held that maintaining conformity with this Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence required eliminatin…
20-1752 Devar Hurd v. Stacey Fredenburgh Second Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest prolonged-incarceration qualified-immunity 1. Whether prolonged incarceration past a statutorily-mandated release date is an objectively serious deprivation under clearly established Eighth Ame…
20-1756 Ethan Fullerton, et al. v. LG Chem, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived corporate-defendant domestic-corporations due-process fifth-amendment foreign-corporations fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-limits longarm-statute personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Should international corporate defendants with worldwide reach be granted jurisdictional protection not afforded domestic corporations? 2. Does a …
20-8324 Ricardo Valdez v. Walker, C.O., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process exceptional-circumstances final-judgment fourteenth-amendment klapprott-v-us liberty-interest procedural-mechanism relief speedy-trial Whether a state-created liberty interest in a spee I.) Can FedRule. Civ. Proc Go(bl) be Use For The Purpose of obTaining Relie From The operation Judsement, when Exceptional Circumstances existed such …
20-8323 Clint Raymond Webb v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-created statutory-interpretation If a state creates a liberty interest by providing a procedural mechanism to enforce and ensure a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial, …
20-8303 Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest After warrantless arrest by officers, petitioner filed 42 U.S.C section 1983 fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims, false imprisonment and …
20-1723 Jane Doe v. James T. DeWees, et al. Maryland 2021-06-14 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights common-law-name constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness privileges-and-immunities standing The fundamental right of all persons to seek remedy for injury via the courts has been variously grounded in Article IV's privileges and immunities cl…
20-1722 Damian Cruz v. Glenda I. Lebron Vazquez Puerto Rico 2021-06-11 Denied administrative-agency civil-procedure default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-personam-jurisdiction interstate-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Puerto Rico Court of Appeal departed so far from the due process in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution o…
20-8278 L. Powers v. Arthur J. Morburger Florida 2021-06-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court property-rights Can the Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Innocent Persons THRUST in 'Criminal ' Courts Rendering False Judgments albeit in' Civil Court?! When There '…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment 1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment 2)Does being deprived of conflict-free …
20-8239 Jeffrey S. Whitaker v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence plea-agreement statute-of-limitations substantive-due-process I. When the opposing party breaches the terms of the plea agreement under the law of contracts, does the one-year statute of limitations begin to run …
20-8236 Brady Lee Ray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-06-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process first-degree-robbery fourteenth-amendment kentucky-supreme-court sentencing-errors supreme-court-rule uscs-supreme-court-rule-10 wanton-endangerment Did Kentucky Supreme Court Violate Section C of USC S of Supreme Ct. R. 10 and therefore the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution w…
20-1684 Sean Hartranft v. Midland Funding, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied civil-procedure debt-collection due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intervention standing telephone-consumer-protection-act 1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed reversible error when it denied Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) motion to intervene as a…
20-8219 Clark D. Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment (1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history? (2) was the…
20-8220 Patrick Alan Vercruysse v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-insufficiency first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment police-testimony strangulation sufficiency-of-evidence suffocation SHOULD PETITIONER'S CONVICTION BE VACATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE THAT HE CAUSED THE DEATH OF DOCTOR THOMPSON BY STRANGULATION OR SUFFI…
20-8175 Timothy Alan Marr v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP violating Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right constitutional-rights due-process federal-question fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus petition statutory-interpretation untimely-filing Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Honorable Court when the lower court…
20-1661 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied 14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights 1. Whether School District of Philadelphia, on August 25.1992. discharged the petitioner from his teaching position, without due process of law, with…
20-1649 Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre…
20-8124 Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation 1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl…
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T…
20-1633 Frank Salazar v. Anthony Anderson, et al. Colorado 2021-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment motor-vehicle-seizure notice-of-dismissal standing substantive-and-procedural-due-process This case is important because it involves lower court decisions that flout this Court's binding precedent, and, denies the fundamental constitutional…
20-8083 Derrick Baer v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision …
20-8086 Jack E. Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction I) DOES THE PETITIONER DESERVE ANOTHER TRIAL BASED UPON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS? 2) DOES THE PETITIONER CLAIM HIS TOTAL INNOCENCE BASED UPON…
20-8089 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motions, Whether "Pro Se Litigants " are Held to the Same Legal Standards as "Counseled Litigants " in l…
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to apply the Law Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. Ther…
20-8037 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas Texas 2021-05-17 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity 1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre…
20-1588 Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act 1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the …
20-8035 James W. Moore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof castle-doctrine due-process duty-to-retreat effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-defense (1) Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional as it does not include one's entire property as the residence while a person acting in self-defense is …
20-7980 Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl…
20-8015 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii 1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A PRIMA …
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is ho requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability ("cot") from the circuitcourt and no process …
20-8005 Philip Steven Matwyuk v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment 1. Was Matwyuks Due Process and Equal Protection and Constitutional Rights violated when trial counsel failed to investigate exculpatory evidence. I.E…
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-…
20-7992 Noah Drake Primeaux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-unanimous-jury prosecutorial-misconduct ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana would apply to persons on Direct Appeal concerning the non-unanlmous jury…
20-7978 Todd Alan Winkler v. California California 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence Did the California Court of Appeal err when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petit…
20-1551 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-05-10 Denied civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings 1. Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when appellees on or about December …
20-7955 Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection of the law, guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments to …
20-7945 Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7926 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment teague-framework Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7882 Taurean Potter v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Government's use of and failure to correct the false and misleading testimony of one of their witnesses violated Petitioner's Constitution…
20-7864 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-framework teague-v-lane watershed-rule 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on state collateral review, where the state follows th…
20-7876 Darrell Tillery v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-jury Ramos-v-Louisiana retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-1504 J. L., a Child v. Kate Halamay, et al. Washington 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent legal-representation mental-disability 1. Did the Washington Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to allow an attorney t…
20-1509 Pamela Timbes v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee Georgia 2021-04-28 Dismissed article-iii-standing collateral-estoppel discretionary-appeal due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-rico mortgage-fraud property-rights res-judicata standing 1. Whether the stated claims for relief of this Case arising directly under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Co…
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to…
20-1491 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-04-26 Denied civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judges-and-attorneys judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality organizational-conflict recusal recusal-standard standing state-supreme-court A- Is being a stakeholder, not just a member, of an organization which solicits donations and memberships from Judges and Attorneys a violation of the…
20-7844 Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in " DENIAL " of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in…
20-7846 Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. New York 2021-04-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole 1) Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will n…
20-7821 In Re John A. Toth 2021-04-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention Question not identified.
20-7825 Carlon McGinn v. Kansas Kansas 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Petitioner's 'OUT OF STATE' crime 'IS NOT' Defined under Kansas State Statutes and used to Enhance His Sentence based on the Determinations of a Judge…
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated to deny Petitioners a fair tria…
20-7791 Shalamar Carmon v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-defect sixth-amendment specific-offense vague-statement (1) Was Petitioner denied due process of law, in violation of the 6th amend. of the U.S.Const., on the grounds that the information he was confronted …
20-7768 Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Does it violate a defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights to be present at trial when he is not informed of the consti…
20-7769 James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
20-1436 Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Brothers, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-04-14 Denied amendment-rights bill-of-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights court-documentation due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct postal-delay 1. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court make false statements? 2. Should an official of the Virginia Supreme Court tell the truth about i…
20-1434 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 GVR Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
20-7724 John K. Wilson v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard de-novo-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea no-contest-plea plea-bargaining standard-of-review state-court-proceedings Is a state court's ruling that a criminal defendant's guilty plea was "voluntary" a constitutional question under the Fourteenth Amendment, subject to…
20-7725 Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Question not identified.
20-1409 Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity 1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely…
20-1401 James Dennis v. Virginia Virginia 2021-04-06 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor …
20-7648 Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into…
20-7644 Skip Hansen v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen 's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Ame…
20-1381 Matthew Fox, et al. v. Charles A. Summers Ohio 2021-04-01 Denied Amici (6) compelling-state-interest constitutional-protection crime-victim due-process fourteenth-amendment government-dissemination informational-privacy public-officials Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process right to informational privacy protects information of a personal, sexual nature related to one's victimi…
20-1372 John Chambers v. Texas Texas 2021-03-31 Denied burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-record statutory-defense tampering-statute texas-tampering-with-governmental-record unforeseeable-judicial-expansion 1. Whether the Court of Appeals violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by making an unforeseeable and retroactive judicial expans…
20-7615 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2021-03-31 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline…
20-7619 Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott Seventh Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA…
20-7623 Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his clie…
20-7600 Antonio Navarro v. California California 2021-03-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony Question not identified.
20-7606 Zoe Ajjahnon v. St. Joseph's University Medical Center, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-claims-act fera-2009 fourteenth-amendment fraud-enforcement-and-recovery-act government-damages non-government-claim standing This matter concerns an action brought under False Claims Act (FCA) provisions of S. 386, Pub. L. 111-21(2009) - Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (F…
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari (1) pzp iTt<r-ST&rg C.omii _t^s) VX£'la-tit PfTOXoMT«- Due - f>flj>t£ss Pro)recrreo (Lz&tt-TCi.) Lt LjVpwUy'6LV PlTnj'u/LLT) Tcir^bjv'v ( de Ur gjJ/u-…
20-1358 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Fourth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment 1. Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourt…
20-7557 Wendy Alison Nora v. Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding lawyer-discipline mortgage-foreclosure petition standing Whether Petitioner was denied procedural due process in the lawyer disciplinary proceeding. Whether Petitioner is being denied due process in the law…
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim Titled Or Styled As: Ground Four - Argued as Ground Tw…
20-7552 Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility 1. Where petitioner is actually innocent and being held in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution, where such peti…
20-1333 Roy Sheridan v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. Third Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judgment-on-partial-findings procedural-fairness united-states-v-james-daniel-good-real-property Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(c) violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a…
20-1335 A. P. v. Vermont Vermont 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute 1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C…
20-1298 Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardi…
20-1310 Genet McCann v. Douglas J. Wold, et al. Montana 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights collusion due-process estate-proceeding fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-rights recusal 1. Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated where a judge persisted in non-disclosure and presided over the final 2019 hearing —…
20-7495 Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida Florida 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven …
20-7504 Ray A. Gough v. Daniel Q. Sullivan, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sexually-dangerous-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts (1) Whether proceedings under the Illinois Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, which may result in incarceration for an indeterminate and possibly lifel…
20-7505 Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court DID THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW AND PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FAILED …
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, denied when on…
20-7478 Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Where a plaintiff who was granted pro bono counsel, specifically for the purpose "to write the preliminary pleadings sufficiently to allow a jury tria…
20-7485 Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence Would the Supreme Court of the United States disregard a Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violation that the sixth circui.t court had re…
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…
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pronouncement on the some evidence standard has departed from accepted and usual c…
20-1259 Protect Our Parks, Inc., et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lujan-standard standing takings takings-clause 1. Whether the Plaintiffs possess Article III standing to bring their takings and due process claims in light of the Seventh Circuit's application of …
20-1253 Charles L. Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2021-03-10 Denied chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-to-strike pro-se-representation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1 DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPRME COURT BREAK STATE LAW WHEN IT WOULD NOT APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CO…
20-1244 Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights Indiana's absentee voting laws expressly distinguish between voters based on age by giving all voters age 65 or older an entitlement to cast an absent…
20-7391 Marcus A. Turner v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard (1.) Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bar a second prosecution and punishment for the crimes of Felony-murder and Felonious assa…
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-7368 Antonio Dewayne Hooks v. Kayodi Atoki, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force failure-to-protect fourteenth-amendment medical-needs objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee In Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 576 U.S. 389 (2015), this Court held that "pretrial detainees (unlike convicted prisoners) cannot be punished at all, much…
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…
20-1213 Marsha W. Mignott, et al. v. Brian Gardiner Georgia 2021-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment georgia-court-of-appeals legal-procedure non-party non-party-corporation 1. Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred by affirming the trial court's March 30, 2018 Order; which ordered The Mignott Law Group, LLC, a nonpart…
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified an investigative stop …
20-7338 Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar…
20-7350 Adam DeVore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-05 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct indictment-misconduct manifest-miscarriage-of-justice sixth-amendment waiver-of-indictment The following questions presented involves a post-sentence withdraw of plea for government misconduct: 1) Is the service of a fake indictment ("warra…
20-7279 Ong Vue v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to…
20-7288 Nazari Vasilich Cam v. Oregon Oregon 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment halbert-v-michigan indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sua-sponte-appointment swenson-v-bosler Whether a state appellate court must appoint counsel sua sponte for an indigent criminal defendant who represents himself at trial, files a notice of …
20-1192 Fred Lohr Fouse, et ux. v. Saratoga Partners L.P., et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-26 Denied due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-tax-sale property-rights redemption-rights Does Pennsylvania law violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying ho…
20-1176 Trustees of the Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust v. Keta Gas & Oil Company, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment internet-age mullane-standard mullane-v-central-hanover notice notice-requirements property-rights tax-sale Does the Pennsylvania court's refusal to apply "preconceived notions of what is reasonable in the age of the Internet," in the context of a tax sale w…
20-1184 Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-25 Denied civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure Is the meaningful hearing aspect of due process satisfied when a party — faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeiture sta…
20-7228 Leroy Pooler v. Florida Florida 2021-02-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification 1). Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim, where his murder conviction must be reversed, where his convictio…
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice 1. Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scanned for obstruction into an investig…
20-7238 Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-02-24 Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment Does Mississippi's "presumption of competency" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all…
20-1166 Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures 1. Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights of the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendm…
20-1152 Guillermo Luna, et ux. v. U.S. Bank N.A. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment notice power-of-sale property-rights Question not identified.
20-7219 Cedric C. Westbrook v. California California 2021-02-23 Denied IFP arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surmou…
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f…
20-1127 Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia Virginia 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings A. Should Hurtado v. California be overruled? B. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Cons…
20-7161 Tyrell E. Artis v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal res-judicata sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment CAN A PLEA DEAL CONSISTING OF TWO (2) MISDEMEANOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES BE WITHDREW POST SENTENCE, WHEN; (1 ) NO DIRECT APPEAL WAS TAKEN; (2) SAID…
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects 1. Authority to File The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States: Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses heretofo…
20-7143 Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash New York 2021-02-12 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1. There is no one plaintiff in the contract , …
20-7144 Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue New York 2021-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1. The petitioner does not owe the statement an…
20-7125 Rashan Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-review criminal-procedure Fourteenth-Amendment non-unanimous-jury retroactivity Sixth-Amendment Teague-v-Lane 1. Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), applies to cases on State collateral review, where the State follows th…
20-7103 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2021-02-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing THE JUDGMENTCS) IN THE NATTER OF CASE NO. 42SPIQ-2 DiRECTIY iNVOLUES A SUbSTANTIAL EUINO STATES PURSUONT TO N.C.G.S.7A-BOCI). HENCE, THE Said juDGNEUT…
20-7108 Jan Gawlik v. Scott Semple, et al. Connecticut 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech religious-rights WHERE THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS, DENYING USED RELIGIOUS/NON-RELIGIOUS BOOKS FROM PUBLISHER…
20-1095 Darius Wayne Haws v. Idaho Idaho 2021-02-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-agreement Whether a criminal defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal in a plea agreement is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary—as required by the D…
20-7084 Mindy Hill v. Google LLC, et al. District of Columbia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights closed-captioning digital-content due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing terms-of-service youtube-terms-of-service 1. Whether the court should resolve the following for which the state courts are dominated by Google's financial endeavors, and further use of TikTok …
20-7051 Tomas Zavalidroga v. United States District Court for the Northern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech iccpr pro-se-litigant standing vexatious-litigant Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) pro…
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new rule…
20-7055 Bernard F. Verrett v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense defense-expert due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent intent-element sixth-amendment strickland-standard QUESTION 1: Whether Strickland requires counsel to procure an adequate defense expert to negate or mitigate the intent element of the crime when that …
20-7064 Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification 1. Since the N.C. Constitution guarantees indictment by a grand jury for felony charges, does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plveiff. D…
20-7044 Gregory Bartunek v. Hall County, Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees religious-freedom Whether failing to provide consistent and reliable opportunities for pretrial detainees to exercise their religious freedoms is a violation of the Fir…
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…
20-1065 Christopher Hudler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition fourteenth-amendment in-absentia in-absentia-trial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's judgment of conviction was rendered in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, where …
20-1068 Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing 1. Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge 's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Jud…
20-1055 Anthony Tricoli v. Rob Watts, et al. Georgia 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-corruption government-retaliation retaliation sanctions sovereign-immunity 1. May the State of Georgia impose punitive sanctions, against an attorney petitioning the courts and speaking out in public to expose and redress sta…
20-1059 Roy H. Murry v. Washington Washington 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process? [When his pro se briefing brought to the Court of Appe…
20-7009 Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def…
20-1049 City of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, et al. v. Calvin McCraw, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-neutral-regulation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-interest narrow-tailoring pedestrian-rights public-safety For the purposes of protecting the health and safety of pedestrians on medians from encroaching traffic, and drivers from distractions caused by pedes…
20-1038 Darrell Wayne Brown v. Kevin Michael Comstock Fourth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
20-6999 Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination Whether panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated my Due Process and Equal Justice process and the Equal Protection Clause under the Fo…
20-6965 Bradley B. Miller v. Virginia T. Dunn Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights contempt court-fine court-fines due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-party judicial-discretion jurisdiction removal Whether the levying of a court fine against an indigent party represents a violation of constitutional Due Process. Whether a finding of contempt aga…
20-1015 Alexi Ortiz v. Alfred D. Walsh, Jr. Maryland 2021-01-28 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review property-rights standing tax-sale Did the State court's reliance on Quillens v. Moore (requiring an individual to pay taxes, interest, and tax sale purchaser costs prior to any court r…
20-1005 Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 Is it necessary, in order to prove a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning a parent's liberty interest in …
20-6940 Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention…
20-990 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois v. Anthony Mays, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bell-v-wolfish civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees In 2015, this Court decided Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2566 (2015), announcing for the first time that Fourteenth Amendment due process claim…
20-6926 Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California California 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense I. CALIFORNIA LAW VIOLATES THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT'S EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE BY REQUIRING ITS COURTS TO INSTRUCT ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS A LES…
20-6902 Layw Thomas v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hammer-clause juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-discretion Did Kentucky violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it allowed a youth who was 17 when his crimes occurred to be sentenced to life in priso…
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1. Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defenda…
20-6900 John Reints v. Janet Sayler, et al. South Dakota 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process economic-benefit fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly pre-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-notice procedural-rights statutory-benefits Are the Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights of a recipient of the need-based, statutory economic benefit at issue here violated when he…
20-974 Emil Svrcina, et al. v. Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2021-01-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process election-contest election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment hawaii-supreme-court state-legislature vote-by-mail Article II of the Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint [electors for President and Vice President] in such Manner as the Legislature …
20-6892 Vashaun Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment 4he U^e^lc'i^erAfeasor 4o Calf D^Pe^SC. a [/lo/aJ't'ojO o\ b&fh A" Q/^A /VA^ejuAbeAs Pcl coi-f-yjsSS Cr -jP23) |a)\\hoiA XoooL/Ap -Me u)eplAby -fhe. …
20-6873 Joshua Harrell v. California California 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure Whether the unreasonable search pnd seizure pig judicially viol? ted the fourth pnd fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution ? Whethe…
20-6821 Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial Pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Gonzales v. State, 435 S.W.3…
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
20-6824 Raymond Bright v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven …
20-6829 Joseph J. Buttercase v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment nebraska postconviction-relief pro-se 1. Whether there is a federal constitutional right for a prisoner to be released upon proof of actual innocence? 2. Whether the state-law procedures …
20-6815 Robert Munoz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process double-jeopardy due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations IS IT WRITTEN IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION THAT A PERSON MAY BE INDICTED, REINDICTED .3-TIMES WITH SAME CAUSE NUMBER: BROADEN, ABANDON, AND BRING ABANDONE…
20-6797 Kevin Sembrat v. Heather Stanton, fka Heather Sembrat New Jersey 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-impartiality property-rights section-1983 1. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as The Civil Rights Act of 1871 "Sect…
20-6769 Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c…
20-904 Deborah Holter v. City of Mandan, North Dakota North Dakota 2021-01-05 Denied abuse-of-discretion due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-action judicial-discretion property-rights special-assessment special-assessments takings village-of-norwood-v-baker 1. By paying a nominal portion of the total costs of an improvement for which the remaining costs will be specially assessed against private propertie…
20-882 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. Wisconsin 2021-01-04 Denied Response Waived absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature 1. Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts, on review of a post-election …
20-6763 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts II2 and II4 of the Original Complaint "For false arrest" …
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing THE SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES PROTECTS THE RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL, DENIED BY THE TRIAL COURT'S ENTRY OF THE JULY 24, 201…
20-878 Michael Edwards v. Indiana University Seventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University?
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment 1.Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with a questionable mental he…
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether or not a third party, Appellant, has an expectation of privacy, in terms of cell-phone data that a police officer or detective obtains, howeve…
20-6708 Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question No. 1: Whether The Court Of Appeal Should Have Granted Coa Where The District Court Employed A Constitutionally Impermissible Standard In Eva…
20-844 Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. Connecticut 2020-12-23 Denied 7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Does the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Con stitution require a jury trial in a civil eviction case, which is based on equity to an elderly petitio…
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error (1) Whether this Court's decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impart…
20-839 Kenneth Greenway v. Southern Health Partners, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied credibility-of-statements deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-rights jail-officials medical-needs serious-medical-needs summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton 1. Should the Eleventh Circuit be permitted to reinvent the Fourteenth Amendment standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs by ruli…
20-6679 Larry Dortley v. Florida Florida 2020-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights Petitioner, Larry Dortley, was declared incompetent to proceed to trial by the Third Judicial Circuit Court, Columbia County, Florida, and was involun…
20-821 Mountainlands Conservancy, LLC, et al. v. California Coastal Commission, et al. California 2020-12-17 Denied Response Waived coastal-regulation due-process fourteenth-amendment land-use procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process takings zoning zoning-law 1. When the California Coastal Commission's certification of the County of Los Angeles' local coastal program imposed a complete ban on the establishm…
20-6644 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing 1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a…
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law 1. Are Pennsylvania state LAWS constitutional? If the answer is yes, are they being applied and are they applied equally? 2. Is the double jeopardy c…
20-809 Kelli Ward v. Constance Jackson, et al. Arizona 2020-12-15 Denied ballot-inspection civil-rights due-process election electoral-college electoral-count-act fourteenth-amendment presidential-electors standing state-courts voting-rights I. Does the Electoral Count Act (inclusive of 3 U.S.C. § 5, the "safe harbor" statute) impose unconstitutional deadlines on state courts' final determ…
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…
20-801 Frank DeLucia v. Greenbuild, LLC, et al. New York 2020-12-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights contempt due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment subpoena witness-appearance Is it a violation of the Due Process clauses of the United State Constitution, 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment to punish a party by dismissing his pr…
20-6613 C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability 1. How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unre…
20-787 Preserve Responsible Shoreline Management, et al. v. City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-12-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure constitutional-claims due-process evidence evidence-limitation fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing Does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause for a state's judicial review statute to bar the introduction of evidence outside the ad…
20-775 Clifford Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment Clifford Williams was convicted of murder in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the trial court denied him the right to introduce evidence showing he was r…
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…
20-6533 Grover B. Reed v. Florida Florida 2020-12-04 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process …
20-6515 Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law 1.Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause …
20-6501 Shannon Riley v. Carrie Kathleen Meehan South Carolina 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit original-jurisdiction public-interest writ-of-mandamus (1) Has the "public interest" requirement pursuant to South Carolina Appellate Court Rules (SCACR) 245(a) been met under the Full Faith and Credit Cla…
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service? May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o…
20-751 Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar Florida 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t…
20-710 John Grove v. Stephen A. Groome, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-interest right-to-appeal small-claims-court takings Does Grove have an interest in his property which is protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments such that he has a civil rights claim and taking…
20-6393 Todd C. Hughes v. Florida Florida 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-motion sexual-predator Did the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and the Florida Sixth Judicial Circuit violate the Petitioner's and like situated inmates, rights unde…
20-6398 Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom DOES IT VIOLATE THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHEN A STATE THAT OFFERS PAROLE TO PRISONERS, DENIES PAROLE TO A PRISONE…
20-6371 Antoine Moseley v. Daniel Clarke Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-elements Whether there were post-acquittal fact-finding proceedings going to guilt or innocence of count 3 and count 4 that shared identical statutory elements…
20-6383 Vincent McFadden v. Missouri Missouri 2020-11-19 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-assessment rompilla sixth-amendment strickland-standard wiggins williams 1. Whether the Missouri Supreme Court's total deference to counsel's "deliberate decisions" without considering their actual reasonableness amounts to…
20-691 Lih Bin Shih v. Nathan Brooks Parnell California 2020-11-18 Denied civil-rights clean-hands-doctrine due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-petition petition-clause police-reports retaliation 1. Whether the Court may deny Petitioner's First Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? In particular when the Govern…
20-6357 Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles California 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality 1. Can a for-profit law firm, without supervision from the public prosecutor, be contracted out to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial…
20-676 J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity I. Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth Amendment claim…
20-677 John T. Laettner v. California Commission on Judicial Performance California 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-discipline judicial-performance notice rebuttal-evidence right-to-be-heard speech-restraint This Writ seeks review of a Decision by the California Commission on Judicial Performance to remove Judge John T. Laettner from service on the Contra …
20-672 Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. New York 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation Did the state court procedure in petitioner's case violate his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constit…
20-6302 Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or …
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.Does The State Lack Subject Matter Jurisdiction Under The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution? 2.Can The Petitioner Demonstrate …
20-6317 Robert Petty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola…
20-6325 Krystal Megan Delima v. Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct motion-for-new-trial preponderance-of-evidence transcript-irregularities 1. Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted? 2. Whether Jury 's Verdict, went against Preponderance of Evidence due th…
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not…
20-6245 Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel T. WHERE PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION OF 1963, ART.I, §2…
20-612 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State Minnesota 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections In the context of Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election, are Minnesota Statues repugna…
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida 2020-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona 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…
20-6231 Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th…
20-6236 Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine Vermont 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights 1) Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief given the Facts and Law on the Record, whether t…
20-582 Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his l…
20-6173 In Re Tommie H. Telfair 2020-10-30 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE VIOLATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS AS A "SOURCE" OF " CONSTITUTIONAL INFRINGEMENT DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE 1ST, 5TH, 6TH, 13TH,…
20-6164 In Re Theresa S. Romain 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination 1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory? 2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe…
20-6144 David Allen Kuntz v. California California 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel 1. ClfMint's _ ri&tf VnJ&/ rtir<Mck V. c ~h^i c* F~) ■%'bk <ind *Hi Airi& /idw7€-h'j 'S ^<4.^ ^ov/'^ anj V6lvni'<zry wk&hC' d-&fe'Of->v r& VS&J O^crre…
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), Lisenba v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 219 (1941), and Estell…
20-554 Craig Eugene Smith v. James McKinney, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship courts-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest prison-conditions wilkinson-v-austin Whether a court determining if a prisoner has suffered an "atypical and significant" hardship must consider factors such as the duration of and justif…
20-545 Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II West Virginia 2020-10-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property 1) Whether the customarily recognized domestic relations exception for federal and state jurisdiction applies where a state appellate court of last re…
20-515 Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. Gateway Hospitality Group Inc., et al. Montana 2020-10-20 Denied arbitration-clause civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-selection fourteenth-amendment insurance insurance-contract personal-jurisdiction Whether the nationwide territory of coverage clause in the insurance policy Philadelphia sold to Gateway in Ohio obligated Philadelphia to submit to p…
20-6060 Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-10-19 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing 1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun…
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
20-6021 William Allen v. Candice Batts, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alexander-v-louisiana constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury-discrimination habeas-corpus jefferson-v-morgan systematic-exclusion 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to habeas corpus relief where he was indicted by a grand jury from which African-Americans were systematically exclu…
20-6031 Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act J6 U)MM the. United Zhitf Court erf appeals , c/|ecu it teas to to denying feiito nee Access -h the court and kis dny vmotronS tfjQmsf Suck decision C…
20-6032 Timothy Nolan v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jurisdictional-error notice notice-requirement standing statutory-interpretation The requirement to provide notice of what conduct is considered to be human trafficking I. will forever be changed by the answer to the question: Is i…
20-6010 Cezary Wojcik v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ada ada-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights disabled-persons disabled-prisoners-rights eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble fourteenth-amendment medical-care 1. Did cook county defendants violate disabled Cezary Wojcik Constitutional Rights to provide disable person proper medical care-treatment with medica…
20-5996 Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in considering the totality of three different trials , and excusing the District Court' s erroneous conclusion regardin …
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-10-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom 1- Whether the State's prolonged 'temporary' foster placement (in excess of 40 months) of children on a plan of reunification, violated federal law, i…
20-5932 In Re Maurice Johnson 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights I. What branch of law Authorized the STATES to apply Abolished Slaves labels (Negro, Black , Colored or African-American), To any person of AFRICAN de…
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates …
20-5944 In Re Gerald M. Calmese 2020-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus identity-theft jurisdiction sixth-amendment 1. Was the Eidere tresrs toblishThe "Anoter Person. in RDiRn Ent of Pantiff which The LAS COnUCED of Lakno thie I 2 2. Ds the cot betore which the Pe…
20-438 Tatiana Reiter, et al. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-10-06 Denied affordable-housing constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment marital-property property-rights takings tenancy-by-entirety As a result of a state court proceeding, the Township of East Hanover was granted a tenancy in common interest with Wyeczeslav Rayter, one of the defe…
20-5892 Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida Florida 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law 1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM …
20-5902 Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-5897 Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T…
20-5846 Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity The question presented is whether the 8th Circuits ' decision is contrary to this Court 's decision in Kingsley.
20-5848 Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon Oregon 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure If a criminal trial in the State of Oregon did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading defendant to choose a bench trial, was this unconstitutional…
20-413 Jozlyn Thomas v. James Scott Blevins California 2020-09-30 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment beneficiary-rights civil-procedure constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirements trust trust-administration Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution serves to void the Order of the trial court which approved and settled t…
20-5835 Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California California 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement CAN A STATE PAROLE BOARD COMMIT A FATAL ERROR BY THE REFUSAL TO ENTERTAIN FAVORABLE EVIDENCE OF THE STATE PRISONER FOR HIS SUITABILITY TO BE RELEASED …
20-5803 Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules Did the State Courts of Pennsylvania violate petitioner's due process under the United States Constitution where they quash Petitioner's appeal?
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…
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's non-unanimous conviction? Was Young entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Sixth and Fo…
20-5795 Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-09-24 Denied IFP discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5780 D. W. v. California California 2020-09-23 Denied IFP amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court notice petition-amendment prosecutorial-discretion trial-procedure Did The Juvenile Court Violate A Minor's Right To Due Process Under The Fourteenth Amendment When It Granted The Prosecutor's Request To Amend A Petit…
20-5732 Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation 1. Is the State of Colorado, the Colorado Courts, both State and Federal, subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence by not giving him relief…
20-361 James Courtney, et al. v. David Danner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce navigable-waters privileges-immunities privileges-or-immunities-clause slaughter-house-cases state-government state-power 1. Is the "right to use the navigable waters of the United States," which was recognized by this Court in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.…
20-350 Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia 1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell …
20-5722 Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law 1. Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created…
20-5697 Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith Tennessee 2020-09-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal …
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review (1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just…
20-5688 Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un…
20-5662 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2020-09-11 Dismissed IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-corrections due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights sex-offender-treatment standing 1) Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals abused its discretion when it summarily dismissed Mr. Saved's 42 U.S.C. §1983 Prisoner's Civil Rights Complai…
20-311 Deborah Walton v. First Merchant's Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction Whether the Appellants 14th Amendment rights, were violated when she was not afforded the right to respond to the Appellee's motion for Attorney fees.…
20-5629 Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourtee…
20-5630 Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee…
20-5619 James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights There was a bona fide doubt as to Petitioner's competence to be tried, due to him becoming stuporous and non-responsive in the second day of his two-d…
20-300 James Alan Clark v. Wendy Kristine Clark Washington 2020-09-08 Denied Response Waived child-support due-process equal-custody equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty-interests residential-credit shared-custody strict-scrutiny 1.) If the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognize…
20-290 Charles Meyers, et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived assembly civil-rights constitutional-review due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-permission A. How individualized must government permission be to raise fair notice protection under the due process component of the Fourteenth Amendment? B. I…
20-5528 Miguel Romero v. California California 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence…
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Are the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be decided …
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-285 Herman Tracy Clark v. Jerold Braggs, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied aedpa-restriction commutation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus impartiality liberty-interest pardon pardon-and-parole parole statutory-interpretation Whether the word "shall " binds the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decision that must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by law, to be ada…
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 560 U.S. 702 (2010), the Court was unable to resolve whether …
20-272 Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers Maryland 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio…
20-5559 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. Georgia 2020-09-02 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights court-record-tampering criminal-immunity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity judicial-remedy 1) Given that Art. I, Sec. II, Par. I, of the Constitution of Georgia of 1983 states, (a) "Public officers are the trustees and servants of the people…
20-259 Minhnga Nguyen v. The Boeing Company Ninth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment discrimination disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment public-safety public-safety-reporting retaliation whistleblower wrongful-termination Did Boeing violate the Fifth Amendment and public safety when it punished Plaintiff for Plaintiff's saving hundreds of human lives from potential airp…
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…
20-5505 Keith O. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health CAN, a Defendant pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure § 3.210 be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of Defendant '…
20-5521 Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights 1) Whether this court "Decide Whether Gender dysphoria IS A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION, AND, IF SO, TO ENTER A DECISION FOR THE COMPANY that THE 5TH CI…
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure 1) Would reasonable jurors find the district court's assessment of this petitioner's constitutional claims to be debatable or wrong, or whether his ha…
20-5440 Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment 1. Whether the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments requires a trial judge, during jury selection and …
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the time ripe for the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial to be incorporated by the Fourteen Amendment to the states? Should government …
20-177 Ally Financial Inc. v. Alberta Haskins, et al. Missouri 2020-08-18 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) class-action due-process forum-contacts fourteenth-amendment nationwide-class out-of-state-defendant personal-jurisdiction state-court Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over claims against an out…
20-5381 Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge DO I HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PETITION FLORIDA'S JUDBCIIAL QUALIFICATION COMMISSION, TOE GOVERNMENT, HIM WRITING, FOSS A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES …
20-5362 David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee…
20-165 Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller Wisconsin 2020-08-14 Denied 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook "friends"?
20-149 Cheryl D. Uzamere v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied antitrust civil-rights court-corruption due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech genocide hobbs-act new-york-state-law Whether New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional: a) Federal Courts find that New York State Law S2942 —A is unconstitutional. b) New York Stat…
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was: A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te…
20-5335 Dustin Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Issue I Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont…
20-5311 Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court 1. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when it Denied Petitioner's Application For Extraor…
20-5294 Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i…
20-5281 Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States District of Columbia 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing I. WAS PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPULSORY SELF INCRIMINATION WAS VIOLATED BECAUSE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS GLENN KIRSCHNER AND NIHAR MOHANTY TH…
20-5263 Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-05 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing 1) Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence…
20-124 Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing 1) Whether the District court erred by dismissing Potitoners $2254 as Untimely (dee Wo. Lad 2) Which conklicts with decisions of other appellate court…
20-112 Sherry Hernandez v. PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors, LLC, et al. California 2020-08-03 Denied Relisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-documents judicial-notice law-of-case law-of-the-case mers-system notice wrongful-foreclosure Did the California Superior Court and the Court of Appeal deprive Petitioner of her right to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by Re…
20-5193 Mollee M. McWhorter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole standing takings I WISH THE US SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW THE UNCONSTITUATIONALITY OF CANNABIS LAWS AS IT RELATES TO MY FEDERAL CASE AND HOW IT IS APPLICABLE TO MILLIONS …
20-5196 David McConnell v. Florida Florida 2020-07-31 Denied IFP cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment 1. Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendants cooperation with the State in a murder…
20-93 Jane Doe, a Minor Child Who is Unborn, By and Through Her Father and Next Friend, John Doe v. Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied abortion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent levy-v-louisiana roe-v-wade standing traceability unborn-children Classed by law as a 'less-than,' and treated for some purposes as property rather than a person, Petitioner Baby Jane seeks constitutional equality un…
20-79 Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5183 Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment Issue I: Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund 's substantive and procedural due process rights by their holding(s) that there was no rea…
20-5163 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5164 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5165 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr…
20-5169 Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied IFP developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security Ohio places the burden of proof and persuasion in a self defense case on the person asserting self defense. A person's state of mind is relevant in a …
20-5171 Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe…
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 ("the Reform Act"), as interpreted by California's Supreme Court, violate the Ex Post Facto Clause …
20-61 Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-crimes workplace-rule workplace-rules The question presented is whether a defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when she is …
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-5123 Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-21 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief…
20-5129 David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE SIXTH CIRCUITS DECISION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALA…
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…
20-5101 Timothy Visage v. R. E. Woodall, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment arbitrary-action arbitrary-and-abusive-conduct civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment government-liability government-policy state-created-danger state-custody Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes upon the State an affirmative duty of care and protection to confined persons held …
20-5102 Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh Virginia 2020-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte…
20-5103 Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner Fourth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte…
20-5105 David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Temple was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United St…
20-5082 Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied IFP affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state …
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford…
20-5003 Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
20-5010 Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana Montana 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process evidentiary-hearing eyewitness-identification fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Petitioner filed a timely Motion for that prosecutors listened to privileged phone call's before trial .trial after discovering new and during The …
19-1478 John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona Arizona 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections where the…
19-1470 Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Rehearing Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata 1. Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal p…
19-1428 Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Montana 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel Did the COP violate Morin's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati…
19-8848 Curtis Phillips v. Derek Oberlander, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
19-8872 James Henry Simpson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Does 28 U.S.C § 2254 (b)(1) permit a petitioner to waive the state exhaustion requirement if circumstances exist that make the state corrective proces…
19-8875 David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT JUDGE"S, A FORMER PROSECUTOR OF APPELLANT'S PRIOR CRIMINAL TRIAL, REFUSAL TO RECUSE HIMSELF AND HIS SUBSEQUENT JUDICIAL PART…
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…
19-1433 Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. Utah 2020-06-29 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both …
19-1431 David E. Olson, et al. v. Mark O'Brien, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-law bias due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fourteenth-amendment notice-and-hearing state-agency Whether the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits biased, ex parte communications between state agency officials which reverse an adm…
19-8804 A. M. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment counsel-representation due-process fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency liberty-interest right-to-counsel 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide children a right to counsel at all proceedings where their liberty is at stake? 2.…
19-8806 David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could…
19-1403 Michael H. Vartanian v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived ada-anti-retaliation ada-retaliation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-profession reasonable-mistake reasonable-mistake-of-law standing 1. Is opposition to a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) that turns upon a reasonable mistake of law, such as belief that an attem…
19-8775 Kirby Gardner v. Texas Texas 2020-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
19-8764 James William Burney v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b…
19-8740 Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8742 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-06-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected…
19-1391 Larry Alan Whitely v. Sharon McCoy, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied compulsory-process due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury webb-v-texas witness-coercion Webb v. Texas prohibits the government from making gratuitous threats that preclude defense witnesses from freely and voluntarily choosing to testify.…
19-1385 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in…
19-8711 Willie Dunn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh…
19-8712 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons Whether, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future …
19-1357 Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege Whether, and to what extent, the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental h…
19-8651 Kevin Remillard v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-10 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check The Police entered Mr. Remillard's locked home and bedroom without a search warrant. The Police had reason to believe Mr. Remillard may have committed…
19-8644 Michael L. King v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-bias When a court shows partiality and bias by adopting nearly verbatim the prevailing party's brief as its order or opinion, particularly in capital cases…
19-8618 Kareem Daniels v. Georgia Georgia 2020-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment misleading-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Under the Fourteenth Amendment, prosecutors may not knowingly secure convictions using false or misleading evidence. This Court has never limited the …
19-8624 Miguel DeFreitas v. Jaifa Callado, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights corrective-remedy due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction Did the New York State Appellate and Supreme courts' dismissal of Petitioner's habeas corpus petition, which left Petitioner with no corrective remedy…
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void? II. When defense counsel…
19-8571 Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Ohio 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety as enumerated in several state constitutions? Does the elimination of a state d…
19-8541 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles South Dakota 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-filing fed-r-app-p-4c1 federal-regulations first-amendment fourteenth-amendment inmate-filing inmates-rights supremacy-clause 1. Whether under the Supremacy Clause, the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, states are permitted to dissociate themselves from Federal regulatio…
19-8522 Richard Felton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-05-22 Denied IFP common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it retroactively applied two de…
19-8497 Christopher Lyman v. Kansas Kansas 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni…
19-1297 James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. Texas 2020-05-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason …
19-8450 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentencing-procedure standing 1. whether the Court of Appeals forthe Fifth Cireuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability regarding the united States District court issuin…
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court, and the New Jersey state courts' ruling, denying Petitioner's ineffective assistanc…
19-8433 Anthony Paul John v. Florida Florida 2020-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS HONORABLE COURT WHEN THEY D…
19-1275 Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction 1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi…
19-1265 Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-05-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const…
19-8396 Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the Conflict of Interest…
19-8382 Christopher Ewing, aka Alex Christopher Ewing v. Nevada Nevada 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-hearing fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act's guarantee that defendants have the right to "demand and procure counsel" requires state courts to appoi…
19-8368 Jamaal Gittens v. Transforce, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing Does the Rooker- Feldman doctrine bar district court subject matter jurisdiction from independent claims
19-1251 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law when respondent denied the pet…
19-8356 Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody l.Do parents have the right to direct the upbringing of there children? 2. Can parents rights over-rule grandparent's rights. . Are grandparents cou…
19-8365 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2020-04-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Question not identified.
19-8367 Brandon Blake Coleman v. Texas Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP adjudication constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment merits-review standing Whether the State of Texas has violated Petitioner's right to Due Process protections under the Fifth & Fourteenth amendments, Constitution whereas, p…
19-8351 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2020-04-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation Question not identified.
19-8338 Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Whethe…
19-1243 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing 1. Did trial court deprive the petitioner of his constitutional rights when he denied petitioner total access to the court when he denied the petition…
19-8321 Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts WHETHER A STATE PRISONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, SECURED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND MADE OBLIGATORY TO THE STATES T…
19-1235 Brian Hampton Clark v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights contempt-of-court due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal state-courts writ-of-prohibition The petitioner, Brian Hampton Clark ("Brian Clark") seeks reversal of a conviction of contempt of court entered by the Honorable David V. Williams, ch…
19-8286 Edward Tiger v. Florida Florida 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac…
19-8278 In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence 2020-04-16 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of a "Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendm…
19-1224 Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim California 2020-04-16 Denied campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respon…
19-1216 Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller Oregon 2020-04-15 Denied birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions…
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings 1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through The Commerce Clause simply because that ite…
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard This is the case for the Court to critically re-examine lost evidence and "bad faith" under Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988) because in appli…
19-8229 Donnie L. Harris, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Does Oklahoma's strict application of its statutory requirement that all newly discovered evidence in capital cases must be presented within one year …
19-8226 Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition If a laymen criminal defendant has presented the general and operative facts supporting Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment claims in the United S…
19-8200 Don Farley v. Carl Parson Tenth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony 1. Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process? 2. Did the U.S. District Court fail to exercis…
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment I. Should the State Courts be allowed to hide behind an alleged procedural bar when clearly the record of the case and the Petitioner's prima facie cl…
19-1199 Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act In Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), this Court held that a municipality's at-large voting system does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rig…
19-1193 Kristin D. Wilkinson v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline of the State Bar of Texas Texas 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-statutes disciplinary-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-re-ruffalo professional-rights property-rights Does the standard for assessing the protection of Due Process Clause rights of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings announced in In re Ruffalo, fail to…
19-1192 Missouri, ex rel. Key Insurance Company v. Marco A. Roldan, Judge, Circuit Court of Missouri, Jackson County, et al. Missouri 2020-04-02 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment liability-insurer long-arm-statute motor-vehicle-accident personal-jurisdiction Whether a court's exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident liability insurer violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Am…
19-8153 Keith Clayton Brooks, Jr. v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-01 Dismissed IFP civil-rights conditions-of-confinement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-traumatic-stress-disorder prisoner-rights section-1915g suicidal-impulses PETITIONER IS A STATE PRISONER ALLEGING FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS FOR RETALIATION AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISON STAFF. PET…
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.
19-8147 Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether PETITIONER'S conviction is constitutional, where the search and seizure of the petitioner was without a warrant and probable cause in violatio…
19-8120 Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest 1. Was it "unreasonable" to be "seized" in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive . the Petitioner of his …
19-8108 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea This is a diversity of citizenship family law case. Petitioner is a resident of New Hampshire and Respondent is a resident of California. The care, cu…
19-1175 John Fritz, et ux. v. Washoe County, Nevada Nevada 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived economic-impact economic-impairment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-regulation loretto-v-teleprompter physical-invasion physical-taking property-rights regulatory-takings takings To constitute a taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, must a physical invasion also destroy or substantially impair an owner's economicall…
19-1168 Mirek Machala v. Libuse Kral, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-25 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment 1. Whether Petitioner's due process right was violated when the District of Columbia Court of Appeals denied his petition for rehearing within no t…
19-1164 Jocelyn A. Johnson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2020-03-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence senate-bill-31 statute-of-limitations workers-compensation 1. Does the Workers ' Compensation Judge relying on medical reports according to Senate Bill 31 guidelines and not the permanent disability rating ,…
19-8086 Randy Dale Jackson v. Tommy Taylor, Interim Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-sanctions civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenges criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether Petitioner's First, Fifth, Sixth, Fighthand Fourteenth Amendment's Right's Are Violated BJ The Imposing of Monetar Sanctions and Threat Restri…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-1160 Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation 1. Whether petitioner, Robert Murphy, had fair warning as to reach of disciplinary proceedings and precise nature of charges that petitioner's adminis…
19-1150 Gary Kirchhoff v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-suit fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech military-medical-privileges statute-of-limitations whistleblower whistleblower-rights Whether the court erred in affirming the lower court's decision that the statute of limitations was past for Gary Kirchhoff, M.D. to file a federal su…
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…
19-8035 Manuel de Jesus Valencia v. California California 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-extraction constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation edwards edwards-rule fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement-deception miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination undercover-operations Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a deceptive ploy in which uniformed and undercover officers work together to extract a confession f…
19-8037 Shlomit Ruttkamp v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York Connecticut 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-litigation fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-allegations jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction The Second Circuit Court Justice should reminisce whether in the 21st Century the rules of law and the books of law should be compromised and violated…
19-1138 DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a claim for violation of a prisonerpatient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and …
19-1136 Chong Yim, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Washington 2020-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-in-time fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant legislative-act property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings substantive-due-process takings tenant-selection undue-oppression Based on its interpretation of federal law, the Washington Supreme Court overruled 68 regulatory takings and due process cases —130 years of jurisprud…
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Issue 1: DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released p…
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic…
19-8008 Jeremy Fontanez v. J. Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-materials prison-policy prisoner-rights Does B.O.P. Policy 1315.007 "Legal Activities, Inmates," violate a Federal prisoner's First Amendment Right to reasonable access to the state court, w…
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein? Does the Fifth Amendment (V) can't allowed accuser to defend himself…
19-7961 Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-03-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i…
19-7937 Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power This case is about an association between a Catholic priest, Peter DeBellis, and a single woman, Michelle Stopyra Yaney. This petition spans several y…
19-7951 Rashad Taylor v. Florida Florida 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence miller-v-alabama 1. Does imposition of a mandatory sentence of forty years on a juvenile convicted of a homicide -a sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory scheme tha…
19-7899 Paul Nigl v. Jon Litscher, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment marriage marriage-rights prison-administration prison-regulations prisoner-rights summary-judgment turner-v-safley 1. Whether prison officials may, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibit a former prison employee and a prisoner from marrying where prison…
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7849 Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department First Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power What is Arbitrary power —restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause —if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used t…
19-7816 Terry Gay v. Shawn Foster, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process evidentiary-development fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan state-courts 1) Under the standards set by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), must a U.S. District Court allow evidentiary development of a fac…
19-7794 Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-02-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION …
19-7799 Desmond Baker v. Florida Florida 2020-02-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole sentencing-review Do the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States juvenile homicide offender, who has certain nonhomicide felony convictions, to s…
19-7789 Steven Klein v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments when he instr…
19-7791 Jermaine Michael Jackson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. DID THE SUPERIOR COURT FAIL TO ANALYSIS PETITIONER CLAIM UNDER THE PRESUMPTION OF PREJUDICE STANDARD UNDER CRONIC? 2. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL ABANDONMEN…
19-7761 Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment This non-capital habeas case arises from petitioner-appellant Jose Osvaldo Arteaga's 2003 California state conviction fo r an attempted murder that to…
19-1054 Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (1) cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto…
19-7744 Partha A. Rai Chowdhuri v. SGT, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-request civil-rights common-law due-process employment-discrimination fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit-review material-adverse-action prima-facie-case record-amendment seventh-amendment temporal-proximity 1) Whether the Fourth Circuit erred and disregarded this Court's precedents when it denied Petitioner's request to amend significantly incorrect recor…
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
19-1034 Tami L. Mitchell v. Thomas M. Dillahunt Minnesota 2020-02-19 Denied 14th-amendment district-court due-process enforceability evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment military-retired-pay state-courts uniformed-services-former-spouses-protection-act 1. Did the Minnesota District Court's division of petitioner's military retired pay violate the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act? 2.…
19-7689 Nicholas Todd Sutton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactivity vagueness 5th-amendment capital-punishment due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-united-states retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine Did Tennessee decisions applying the facially-vague prior violent felony aggravating circumstance, not handed down until after Sutton committed his ca…
19-7696 In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton 2020-02-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib…
19-7633 Anthony Allen v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which intent is an element of the crime convicted of,the jury instruction, "the law …
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California 2020-02-12 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th…
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does …
19-998 Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment After making dozens of 911 calls concerning her abusive ex-husband during 2009-2012, and being promised assistance by police, in August 2012, Deanna C…
19-7591 Leo Lionel Payne v. Jessica Mangum Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process failure-to-defend fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel standing state-action travel WHEN MS. MANGUM ACTiNG UNDER COLOR OF STATE LAW DEPRIVED PETITIONER CONSTiTUTiONAL RiGHT TO TRAVEL BY THE FOuateenth Amendment Of the United STATES CO…
19-7537 Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan Michigan 2020-02-05 Denied IFP appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts QUESTION I WHETHER ICR S.433(C) <3) IS UNCONSTTIOTTONAL AS IT VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION M© DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OP THE FOURTEENTH AMENDME3ST AND T…
19-7551 Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment 1. "Was Petitioner 's conviction a result of a procedure, §17.1-293.1 that violates 1st Amendment U.S. Constitutional Civil Rights to access correct …
19-7541 Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial 1. Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his…
19-7500 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment DOES THE OMISSION OF AN EXCEPTION TO THE FINALITY RULE IN MICHIGAN'S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT ("SORA") ALLOW THE PROSECUTION TO BUILD ITS CASE AG…
19-7488 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2020-01-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r…
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7447 Konstantin Rudenko v. Raymond Shanley, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-courts DID THE NEW YORK STATE COURTS DENY PETITIONER HIS FUNDAMENTAL FOURTEEN AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW IN VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT…
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness 1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori…
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
19-7442 Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas Texas 2020-01-27 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings in ANDREW LEE WILLIAMS v. STATE, No. PD-1199-17 (Tx.Crim.App.- October 9, 2019), regar…
19-925 Kebreab Zere v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived compensation constitutional-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment prescriptive-easement public-prescriptive-easement taking-clause takings tax-sale 1. Whether the due process law of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was violated when the District invoked D.C. Code § 47-1382(a)3 for…
19-928 Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause 1. Review whether my Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated after I was falsely arrested, falsely i…
19-922 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Georgia Georgia 2020-01-23 Denied capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extraordinary-motion fourteenth-amendment innocence-claim new-trial 1. Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state courts' imposition of extra-statutory requiremen…
19-910 K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. Alabama 2020-01-22 Denied calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal …
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period New York State Courts have consistently annulled determinations of administrative agencies that terminated the employment of competitive class civil s…
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure This case raises important issues of public interest and circuit splits that require guidance of Supreme Court of United States. 1. Does seizure, phy…
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v…
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7278 Terrance Cobb v. Florida Florida 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether, the Florida Courts have violated Mr. Cobb's right to Due Process, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, in denying him post-conviction r…
19-7318 John Henry Yablonsky v. California California 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-manipulation evidence-tampering fiduciary-duty fourteenth-amendment historical-accuracy prosecutorial-misconduct trial-integrity 1. HOW CAN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS IF THE COURT ALLOWS STATE TERRITORIES TO PLUNDER THE CORNERSTONES OF THOS…
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied when the complained of and appealed violation was a seizure of livestock on fal…
19-874 William Alan Pesnell, et al. v. Jill Sessions, et al. Louisiana 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-access criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights public-access public-records sixth-amendment trial-recording 1. Whether La. R.S. 44:4(47) and the local rule of the 26th Judicial District Court in and for Bossier Parish can bar public access to the digital rec…
19-7270 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sexual-assault 1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide Mr. Saved with a procedural due process to have exculpatory (DNA) evidence teste…
19-7273 Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether evidence that is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty of crimes, and inadequate when judged under the st…
19-7281 Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. District of Columbia 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition 1) Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasonin…
19-7287 Joey Banks v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether Banks was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel. Whether Banks's trial was adversely affected in violation o…
19-7299 John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL…
19-7275 Cecil Boyett v. New Mexico New Mexico 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-rights discovery-rules due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court state-prosecution xnHbthet l PeTiTfotjGk Bol^btt S CoHsjimTONAL PH&hts \siezjg v/W)7£-o /3y THE tHiHteeht H Judicial b<37&CT Cjduat orN&n./Dexivd und&l the Dub Proces…
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe…
19-7202 Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven…
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay 1. In the context of the dying declaration exception of the hearsay rule, where that declaration is otherwise testimonial hearsay within the ambit of …
19-7191 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida 2020-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment same-sex-marriage standing takings 1. Whether the Appendix A has discretionary jurisdiction to review A decision expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of the Appendix B on th…
19-7194 Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea language-barrier sixth-amendment voluntary-plea DOES THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD THAT PETITIONER DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH PLAINLY SHOWS THAT ANY ADMISSION AT THE GUILTY PLEA HEARING COULD NOT RE…
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment I- WHETHER THE FEDERAL QUESTION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL AS THETPEESERVED CLAIM OF AN ALIBI WAS VAGUE?AND/OR UNEXHAUSTED THEREBY P…
19-844 Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger Indiana 2020-01-06 Denied appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal 1) Whether Graham's substantial rights and right to procedural due process and fundamental fairness guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violat…
19-846 George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. Washington 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement Whether clearly established Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment and Federal Disability. Law permits jail officials to sanction inmates with mental health …
19-7168 Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied IFP burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c 1.) WHEATHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPELLATE COUSEL FAILURE TO RAISE THE VALID…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution 1. Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief b…
19-826 The Estate of Swannie Her, et al. v. Craig Hoeppner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-rights culpable-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment intent liability life-liberty-property reasonable-protection state-created-danger This petition poses two questions: first, whether the state-created danger doctrine provides a due process claim; and second, what level of culpable i…
19-7100 Damon Jones v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-presumption evidentiary-presumption fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment specific-intent transferred-intent In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 309 (1979), this Court held "(t]he Constitution prohibits the criminal conviction of any person except upon proo…
19-817 Annette Shands v. Lakeland Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied age age-discrimination civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment gender intentional-obstruction race race-discrimination school-district-liability Whether the guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment applicable against Lakeland Central School District in Shrub Oak, New York, and its Assistant Superi…
19-816 Kristina Box, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-27 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-consent parental-notification standing third-party-standing For decades Indiana has permitted a minor to have an abortion so long as she has parental consent or a bypass order from a juvenile court based on eit…
19-7058 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-12-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing Does the petitioner's arrest violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's freedom of petition AND Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equ…
19-7063 Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch…
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o…
19-6991 Lei Ke v. Drexel University Pennsylvania 2019-12-18 Dismissed IFP contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata 1. Asa legal doctrine, the dual proceedings waiver is an important component of due process and equal protection of the laws and is there to ward off…
19-6993 In Re Augustus Larry Lundy 2019-12-18 Denied IFP constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Did the trial court divest itseld of personal jurisdiction of Lundy when it Administered the Law in an improper and unconstitutional manner? Was Lund…
19-7000 David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial with the State Courts denial concerning hearsay testimony;…
19-7005 Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's Sixth And Fourteenth Amendment rights violated when the state and state witnesses presented false testimony and prevented a fair subm…
19-6982 Ernest Collins v. Barnes & Thornburg LLP, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 1983-civil-rights-act case-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment incorporation judicial-discretion qualified-immunity section-1691 standing statutory-interpretation DOES THE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS EXCEPTIONS IN 28 U.S.C. 2680(a) APPLY WHEN THE ALLEGED RIGHTS DOES THE "COMMITTED TO AGENCY DISCRETION" EXCEPTION IN…
19-6960 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires a person to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, only if he is presented or indicted by…
19-6959 Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-12-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2019-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing DID THE TRIAL/LOWER COURT CREATE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN IT ALLOWED THE PETITIONER TO PLEA TO CHARGES THAT VIOLATED DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAWS, WHEN THE T…
19-6955 Shondell J. Paul v. New York New York 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede…
19-6927 Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application Whether the Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the…
19-6911 Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-12-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when it s distinct…
19-750 In Re The Law Offices of Nina Ringgold, et al. 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1866 civil-rights-act-of-1886 due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-procedure supremacy-clause 1. Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California local rules of court may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (d) that a st…
19-753 Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force I. If the barrel of a gun is not yet pointed directly at an officer, does clearly established federal law prohibit police officers from firing to stop…
19-743 Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden When Respondent Whole Woman's Health applied for a license to open a new abortion clinic in South Bend but refused to supply documentation of past com…
19-746 Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado Colorado 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques…
19-6916 Sherri Jefferson v. Supreme Court of Georgia Georgia 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attorney-discipline disbarment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent professional-responsibility self-incrimination 1. Does this Court's opinion in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967), In re Ruffalo, 390 U.S. 544 (1968), and North Carolina Board of Dental Examiner…
19-6895 John William Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause 1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co…
19-6898 Demicko Billie Thomas v. Maggie Miller-Stout, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment musacchio-precedent musacchio-v-united-states ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt supreme-court-review washington-state-supreme-court WHETHER THE WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT'S DISAPPROVING OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN MUSACCHIO V. UNITED STATES, 136 S.Ct. 709 (2016), IS BINDING ON …
19-6868 Leigh Laz LePon v. Iowa Iowa 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-impartiality partisan-advocacy privileges-and-immunities subject-matter-jurisdiction I. WHETHER THE STATE DISTRICT-COURT JUDGE VIOLATED THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 'S PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE AS WELL AS THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH…
19-6835 Dennis David Antwine v. Branch Circuit Judge Michigan 2019-12-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deprivation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure liberty-interest state-court state-law WHETHER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE STATE COURT DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS "LIBERTY INTEREST" …
19-696 Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act 1. Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement …
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst…
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Under the fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment, Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner? 1. 2. Were the decisions rendered b…
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested…
19-674 James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company Delaware 2019-11-26 Denied appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue…
19-6751 DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California California 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law 1. Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violat…
19-6701 Carl Labat v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-remedies strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supervisory-writs 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Labat was denied effective assistance of counsel on Appeal for: (a) Failure to Exhaust State Remedies; …
19-650 Melissa L. Barnette v. PROF-2013-M4 Legal Title, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee District of Columbia 2019-11-20 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure property-rights standing On August 21, 2019, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (alternatively, "DCCA"), affirmed the Superior Court's August 27, 2018 order denying Pet…
19-646 Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens Alaska 2019-11-19 Denied bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages A Superior Court Judge in Alaska, presiding without a jury in a bench trial, imposed a $20 million judgment (principally based on treble damages under…
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule (1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case…
19-6598 Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin Oregon 2019-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all: A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that st…
19-6628 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief short-sentence statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING INFIRM? 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4): 42 Pa G.S. §0542; 42. Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545 (b)(4); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(a);…
19-6605 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-infirmity due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief short-sentence standing state-courts statutory-construction Q1. ARE THE FOLLOWING PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES CONSTITUTIONALLY 18 Pa. C.S. §2709(a)(4); 42 Pa C,S. §9542; 42 Pa. C.S. §9543(a)(l)(i); 42 Pa. C.S. §9545(…
19-6629 Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioners due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by suspend…
19-6574 Marco Gonzalez v. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. California 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure res-judicata standing vexatious-litigant 1) Why doesn't there exist Vexatious Litigant laws or procedure that addresses Multiplicity of California's §391 Motion with Conflicting Rulings based…
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-…
19-6523 Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada Nevada 2019-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Why was Counsel for the Petitioner allowed to withdraw prematurely when a request to the filing advocate for a Writ of Justiciare was made?
19-6535 Clarence Fry v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-06 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know…
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…
19-588 Lori Madden-Grammer v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. Colorado 2019-11-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-review colorado-revised-statutes due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-utilization-review property-interest statutory-rights workers-compensation Whether Colorado's Medical Utilization Review process set forth in Section 8-43-501, et seq. of the Colorado Revised Statutes deprives claimants of th…
19-580 Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2019-11-04 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a…
19-6463 Michael A. Albert v. New York New York 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness Question 1: In the Appellate Division, Fourth Department's order, both the decent and majority agreed that Ms. Sheritta Jefferson was an agent of the …
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California 2019-10-31 Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment This Petition presents an issue of fundamental importance to all defendants facing criminal prosecution in California: whether the Sixth and Fourteent…
19-6457 D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom 1. Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner 's Federal Civil Rights under Section 1983 by discriminating against the Petitioner 's Re…
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether trial courts abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice, and sole defense witness to testify at trial for the defense violated …
19-554 50 Murray Street Acquisition LLC v. John Kuzmich, et al. New York 2019-10-30 Denied Amici (2) due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-takings lower-manhattan-revitalization-plan property-rights rent-stabilization section-421-g takings-clause 1. Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit courts, like other branches of government, from eliminating established property rights withou…
19-6425 Andres Santana v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2019-10-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment innocence liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-discovery procedural-rights substantive-rights 1. What amount of due process is owed to a Defendant who is seeking post conviction discovery to prove himself innocent of the charges a jury found hi…
19-6390 Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and right to a jury trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment…
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment I. DID THE PROSECUTOR 'S REPEATED REFERENCE TO PETITIONER 'S DEFENSE AS A "RED HEARING " CONSTITUTE MISCONDUCT THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER A FAIR TRI…
19-6349 Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington DECISIONS BELOW CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND STATE APPELLATE COURTS, AND MISAPPLY THIS COURT'S DECISIONS IN…
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement (1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration…
19-6261 Jeremiah Marion v. Florida Florida 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process evidence-rule evidentiary-provision first-time-offender fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole petition-for-grievances sexual-battery uncorroborated-accusations DOES THE EVIDENTIARY PROVISION OF FLORIDA 'S SEXUAL BATTERY STATUTE VIOLATE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT? AND/OR CAN A STATE LAW MANDATE LIFE WITHOUT PARO…
19-6247 In Re Donald Lee McDonald 2019-10-11 Denied IFP criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States where his natural life sentence und…
19-6250 Father v. Maternal Grandparents Ohio 2019-10-10 Denied IFP adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with…
19-471 Frederick Collins Fermin v. Priest of Saint Mary-Marfa, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied baptism civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence exodus fourteenth-amendment jesus-christ religious-freedom standing Were petitioner's civil rights violated upon being baptized illegally pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Exodu…
19-6223 Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting 1.CAN A STATE TRIAL COURT DISREGARD A DEFENDANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE lAthuAMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIO…
19-6214 Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,…
19-6204 James Michael Biela v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-08 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and i…
19-6175 K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau California 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code, in this case, violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth a…
19-458 John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny 1. Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding: i) pure campaign sp…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings 1. Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the United States Constitution. 2. Whether …
19-6160 Reggie D. Caswell v. New York New York 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment pro-se-appeal sixth-amendment standing POINT I WAS APPELLANT DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO APPELLATE COUNSEL WHEN THERE WAS NO KNOWINGLY, INTELLIGENTLY AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER OF THE RIGHT TO ASSIG…
19-6136 Thomas A. Bias v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-sentencing,eighth-amendment,fourteenth-am life-imprisonment miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana supreme-court-precedent IS THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPOSING CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT ON JUVENILE 'S SENTENCED TO LIFE, IN DISREGARD OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREM…
19-436 T. R. C. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights 1. Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of…
19-6092 Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness I - The lower courts and the respondents claim that the Petitioner's petition is untimely and should be dismissed as such. II - The lower courts and …
19-424 Joel Howard James v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-30 Denied Response Waived class-of-one criminal-investigation due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-tolling nonresident-tolling-provision privileges-and-immunities Privileges-and-Immunities-Clause Rational-Basis statute-of-limitations 1. Based on a "class of one" analysis, does the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution bar application …
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Fs c on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado R. x of te BNA R wasSu RTN S R Ma SAN 884…
19-6074 Gerald Nelson v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061, AFL-CIO, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights complete-preemption due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute fourteenth-amendment labor-management-relations preemption removal removal-procedure state-common-law subject-matter-jurisdiction well-pleaded-complaint-rule 1. Complete-Preemption Doctrine refers to a rule that a federal statue's preemptive force may be so extraordinary and all-encompassing that it convert…
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of …
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure 1) Ds tt not a vislehen of the RehKenev's 4 Ste BF and 1h Amendment rights then! a SEI Unknown officec/oPicers search ancl setee lis vehicle by enteri…
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty 1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th…
19-6051 Hezekiah Whitfield v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborative-evidence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-restriction fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Peririoner Made A Substantial Showing Of The Denial Of His Sixth And Fourteenth Amendmenr Due Process Rights Where Pericioner Was Restricted F…
19-375 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. Indiana 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe…
19-364 Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment A. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to state indictments via the Fou…
19-363 Jim R. Nash v. Norma Nash, et al. Arkansas 2019-09-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction state-court state-courts substitution 1) If several states following close versions of Rule 25 (FRCP) have held that judgments without jurisdiction of the decedent are a nullity, and tho…
19-362 Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones Louisiana 2019-09-18 Denied 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n…
19-5993 Mabon Demetric James v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence robbery standing takings Was Mabon James convicted of the robbery of Marta Parfeta in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights despite constitutionally insuffi…
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity 1. Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve…
19-5978 Terence S. Chancellor v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals appeal-denial bias civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias perjury standing 1. Whether Petitioner Terence S Chancellor 's Constitutional right to due process protected by the 14 Amendment, violated during court proceedings by …
19-5955 Dennis R. Heilman v. Randy Blades, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions rape variance Does a variance between the Information charging aggravated assault and rape, and (a) a 1) conviction on non-conforming evidence submitted at trial, a…
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative 1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated w…
19-5975 Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. …
19-5977 Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California California 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-5933 Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o…
19-5927 Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
19-5919 Marlon Romaine Carter v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-possession criminal-conviction due-process felon-in-possession fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether the State of Louisiana misapplied Jackson v. Virginia sufficiency of evidence test when holding, to the contrary, the evidence was sufficie…
19-335 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Appeals Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-12 Denied appellate-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-panel notice panel-composition property-rights recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by changing the composition of an appellate panel during the …
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald…
19-5886 Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether petitioner was deprived of libe…
19-5881 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief. Whether Petitioner was dep…
19-5887 Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether petitioner was deprived of libe…
19-5894 Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations Petitioner Bentley's murder conviction rests on a clerical error committed by the Wayne County Clerk Office which denoted the wrong filing date to his…
19-5892 Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. Illinois 2019-09-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings Whether the trial court's actions - rushing petitioners straight into trial proceedings without affording them with the mandatory procedural due proce…
19-325 Columbian Financial Corporation v. Tim Kemp, Bank Commissioner of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment notice opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion property-rights res-judicata state-action 1) Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the lower federal courts barred Petitioner's claim — alleging due process violations on …
19-5864 Brandon Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings Question not identified.
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland v. Washing…
19-5842 William Sim Spencer v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations WHERE IT CAN BE SHOWN THATTHE ORDER TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER IS NOT LIMITED IN SCOPE TO STAND ON A VALID GUILTY PLEA SUPPORTED BY THE EFFECTIVE …
19-5841 Shahram Shakouri v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause masterpiece-cakeshop religious-discrimination religious-hostility religious-neutrality scriptural-interpretation thirteenth-amendment Whether district court's lack of religious neutrality violated Petitioner's right to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment or Free Exercise Cla…
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws when …
19-305 Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem…
19-302 Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased Hawaii 2019-09-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest A. Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award against Bornemann in violation of the Due Process …
19-5831 Lorenzo Davis, Jr. v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illinois-constitution. 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus illinois-constitution legal-procedure state-detention Prison on Counts that wee"Dismissed" did the Leave do file a Petitien for Weitot state Habess Cocpus? In which Retitioneris showiag that his Aeticle S…
19-5809 Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich 1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United…
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution? and Whether Petitione…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme…
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un…
19-289 County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in…
19-298 Fernando Juarez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment de-facto-life-without-parole eighth-amendment ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama sentencing-hearing sentencing-law In the context of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), which allows a n application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody under a state -court …
19-279 Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause After a two-day Bench Trial in a malicious prosecu­tion action, the District Court altered video evidence, and ignored other "smoking gun" evidence. A…
19-281 Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny 1. Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associ…
19-5783 Monica Nicole Townsend v. Erik Allen Vasquez Texas 2019-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment free-speech parties proceeding standing 1. Did the State of Texas contravene the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by ignoring T…
19-5792 Randall Turner v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-09-03 Denied IFP bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 (1) Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
19-5794 Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights. (2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1…
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing 1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH…
19-5723 Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis 1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b…
19-5712 Ivan Lee Vasquez v. California California 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights content-based-messaging fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inherently-prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-spectator-conduct 1. May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be "'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat'" to the fair…
19-5704 In Re James Larry 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment mental-disease mental-disease-defect post-conviction rule-32 standard-of-review ISSUE I Does the Alabama State standard of review in Rule 32 Ala.R.Crim.P. post-conviction proceedings regarding the mental disease/defect issue as pr…
19-5695 Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review I. Ohio has a two step procedure under Ohio App R 26 when one claims the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. First, there must be a timely "a…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force 1. 'Olb'THE COURTS, "Tb fe'DE ' ft 9^)ec\Ficl OS^-DF-'C )'=k'vx-^' FftRCe: -ceirsw^ncO X^stb'Actic^ lower Ttt^ l5u£D£b or orocF TOR "YHE STf^S /Fb \…
19-5677 In Re Alonzo May 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power 1. By what authority did you base your actions on when having the Petitioner confined at Texas Civil Commitment Center? 2. What evidence was relied u…
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Despite lower court COA denial, should this Court consider, or remand for consideration, habeas claims: a. Does judicial confession in this case, with…
19-230 Douglas Prade v. Ohio Ohio 2019-08-21 Denied burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights With a single exception, criminal defendants in the United States seeking a new trial based on newly discovered evidence are required to establish onl…
19-210 Lizette Olaechea, aka Lizette Simmonds v. Grace Olaechea Florida 2019-08-20 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-decisions indispensable-party personal-jurisdiction void-judgment Whether the lower Courts disregarded the Four teenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and erred by not declaring a judgment void, wherein the Court …
19-5650 James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial 1.) Whether the Minth Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner, on the Ground Of Error concerning t…
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing 1. Whether Armand Roos ' participation as Plaintiff 's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Pro …
19-5599 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts?
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th…
19-195 Robert Ryan Snyder v. California California 2019-08-14 Denied 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deprivation-of-necessities due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-deference lockdown lockdown-procedures prison-conditions retaliation 1. Has California 's justice system forgotten what was taught by this Court 's holding in Wilson v. Seiter [501 U.S. 294 (1991)]. (Regarding 8th Ame…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-193 Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen North Dakota 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court 1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and E…
19-5566 Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chanman v. California . 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) could the harmless error anal…
19-5567 Delores Neely v. Georgia Department of Human Resources Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 amendment-xiv-section-5 civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1871 congressional-power constitutional-immunity constitutional-provisions eleventh-amendment federal-courts fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity state-sovereignty 1. Can Congress abrogate a State 's immunity from being sued in Federal court without its consent, under authority granted to Congress by the Fourte…
19-5508 Carlin U. Powell v. Medical Department Cuyahoga County Correctional Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment ableism ambleism cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interstate-agreement-on-detainers medical-neglect (I) Did the Medical Department of Cuyahoga County Correctional Center et al., violate Plaintiff-Appellant Carlin U. Powell 's VIII, XIV Amendments to …
19-5507 David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. California 2019-08-08 Denied IFP 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech As part of the #Resist movement, the California Attorney General instituted a policy of arresting his Republican political opponents and banning them …
19-173 Jonathan Quinn, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for H. Q., a Minor Child, et al. v. Truck Insurance Exchange, et al. South Dakota 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 Question not identified.
19-172 Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas Kansas 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co…
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether a Defendant has a primary Right of Self Representation and to Disclosure, by ithe Sat also Farottav California, Usi975) whther plainif ha all…
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-167 Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri Missouri 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership 1. Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no limit in time or geography) and unconditional payment of remunerations of sixteen years of Defendant …
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…
19-5424 Terry James Sullivan v. City of Missoula, Montana Montana 2019-08-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Does Petitioner's conviction for disorderly conduct by allegedly uttering the word "effing" violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
19-5409 Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search (1) Did THE Actions of Miss County sheriffs Department violate the Constitutional and statutes RIGHTS of Lindsey the Fourth / Fifth/Sixth and Fourteen…
19-5402 Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason Washington 2019-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the previous trial court proceedings, by ignoring the 2016 findings i…
19-5394 Michael Leon Bell v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th…
19-142 Timothy C. Harry, et al. v. American Brokers Conduit, et al. First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights document-fabrication due-process fifth-amendment foreclosure fourteenth-amendment lending-transaction property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in denying Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to Substantive and Procedural Du…
19-5371 In Re Mary Capri 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice restitution supervised-release Under this Court's precedent in Mary Capri Vs. US Attorney Financial Litigation Unit. The Petitioner was Released from Probation in 4/2016 WITHOUT Vio…
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha…
19-5313 Thomas Arthur Kahlow v. Florida Florida 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment capital-punishment constitutional-limits due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-constitutional-law state-governments WHETHER THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DENIED BY FLORIDA'S IMPOSITION OF A CAP…
19-5295 In Re Larry Charles 2019-07-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process exceptional-circumstances fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandamus right-to-appeal sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent writ-of-mandamus Do exceptional circumstances exist in the Petitioner's case that justify granting his Petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus when he has demonstrated a c…
19-112 S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC Texas 2019-07-23 Denied appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated while the Appellate Court reversed the Temporary I…
19-5266 Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right…
19-5239 Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petit…
19-5213 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief. Whether Petitioner was dep…
19-85 LC v. MG Hawaii 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights While LC—a U.S. Navy officer —was deployed overseas, her wife MG became pregnant by assisted reproduction . MG had not sought LC's consent to having a…
19-89 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York Indiana 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-fees constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment indiana-court-of-appeals indiana-supreme-court legal-jurisdiction Whether the impositions of appellate attorney fees twice by the Indiana Court of Appeals and a third time by the Indiana Supreme Court without any sta…
19-5179 Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings The Plaintiff-Appellee does not find the value of the Virginia statutory limitation law Va. Code § 8.01-243(B) holds true for intellectual property. I…
19-80 Shreveport Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Caddo Parish Commission Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment monument-preservation standing treaty-rights In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the Petitioner Shreve port Chapter #237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ("UDC") filed its lawsuit in response…
19-81 Vivian L. Rader, et vir v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights standing takings Is Colorado's system of non-judicial foreclosure (Co. Rev. Stat. §38-38-101 (2016) in conjunction with Rule 120) unconstitutional under the Due Proces…
19-64 Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity 1. Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public—classify on the basis of gender? 2. D…
19-5163 Michael A. Kelley, Jr. v. Phillip W. Gerth Ohio 2019-07-12 Denied IFP attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice statute-of-limitations summary-judgment # (1) The sole issue presented in this petition is whether the termination of attorney-client relationship for purposes of R.C. 2305.11 Legal Malpract…
19-40 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. J. W., a Minor California 2019-07-05 Denied church-governance civil-liability clergy-privilege first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intra-faith-communications religious-doctrine religious-freedom religious-practice For decades this Court has safeguarded the First Amendment rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press from state infringement. Jehovah's Witness…
19-5068 Willie J. Trimble, Jr. v. Mathew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 due-process federal-holidays fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implicit-conclusion mailbox-rule party-presentation time-limitation I. WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL(S) DECISION WAS IN CONTRARY WITH U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT, BY FAILING TO LIBERALLY CONSTRUE THE MAILB…
19-5062 Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-07-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony In this capital case, the Tennessee courts permitted the State to introduce a transcript of prior testimony of its "primary witness" rather than prese…
19-5059 Paul A. Viera v. Florida Florida 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process excessive-punishment federal-statutes florida florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment state-sentencing WHETHER THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS DENIED BY FLORIDA'S IMPOSITION OF A NAT…
19-5039 Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware Delaware 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation j/.J ni>h +/-s,vf A*?C*UCtf£SyCi'O (p&aJuZ) /**> Jfa ;>&£> A> c**<?/}M^ Ctm^>/* y/t&ri; 2 Jj dtyf£4t4es dzpu-^/ OA^UC^ ?'/ >/ s!s»y/A^
19-37 Matthew Freeman v. Texas Texas 2019-07-03 Denied acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-acquittal successive-prosecution successive-prosecutions Whether placing the Petitioner in a position to be twice tried for the same offense after a judgment of acquittal violates Petitioner's constitutional…
19-5042 Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing IF THE ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN ALLOWED PETITIONER TO PROCEEDED WITH HIS COLORABLE CAUSE OF ACTION OF ACCESS TO THE COURT WHEN…
19-5031 Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility (1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a 25-to-life sentence with add…
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when t…
19-3 Ryan Begay v. New Mexico New Mexico 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense 1. Whether the "same elements" test articulated in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932), adequately protects in dividuals from multiple p…
19-5004 Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud Whether Outrageous Governmental Conduct claim may carry a custody simpliciter of: oath requir…
18A1369 Jaideep S. Chawla v. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-panel due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction recusal Whether a state appeals court violates the Fourteenth Amendment by changing an appellate panel without notice or an opportunity to be heard contrary t…
18-9821 Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
18-9823 Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI…
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense 1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- …
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat 1) Whether or not the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision (May 08, 2019) in conflict with another decision previously made in the Unit…
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving. Conflicting Decisions …
18-9837 Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law 1. Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d). 2. Whether Court of Appeals was co…
18-9840 Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement 1. Whether a settlement agreement entered into by an inmate and a State, which incorporates the mandatory language of the Interstate Corrections Comp…
18-9809 Willie Strong v. New York New York 2019-06-26 Denied IFP automobile-presumption burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions possession reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation statutory-presumption When is evidence sufficient to render the "Automobile Presumtion" N.Y. P.L. §265.15 (3)(a) inapplicable? Does the N.Y.P.L. §265.15 (3)(a), violates t…
18-9816 Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing 1)- WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS RIGHT'S SECURED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND DUE PROCE…
18-9779 Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status 1. US visa : 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United …
18-9786 Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2019-06-25 Denied IFP appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty In a State that provides appeals as a matter of right from adverse lower court decisions terminating parental rights, may the States, consistent with …
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9802 Rodney B. Benson v. Utah Labor Commission, et al. Utah 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment article-iii article-iii-section-2 article-vi article-vi-paragraph-2 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process executive-branch fourteenth-amendment judicial-branch seventh-amendment utah-constitution workers-compensation Does Utah's Executive Branch and/or Judicial Branch have the power to deny constitutional rights (including rights guaranteed by: U.S. Constitution's …
18-9774 Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng v. California California 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence federal-due-process fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence state-trial Whether this Court should finally decide that the admission of irrelevant prior act evidence in a state trial that amounts to nothing more than propen…
18-1568 Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly New York 2019-06-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t…
18-9753 Jason Brooks v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-access-to-courts,first-amendment,four court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lewis-v-casey pleading-standard prisoners-rights section-1983 standing (1) Whether a federal district court's adoption of a Department of Corrections Administrative Regulation and implementing it in D.C.COLO. L. Civ. Rule…
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest 1. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ABUSE ITS DISCRETIONARY, BROADLY-BASED AUTHORITY OF INTERPRETATION, THUS, VIOLATING PE…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 50-51 (…
18A1340 Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. Florida 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Question not identified.
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California 2019-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9674 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2019-06-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington 2019-06-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte The Superior Court of Washington for Spokane County, initiated, sua sponte, and selfprosecuted an action against the Petitioners, who are professional…
18-9650 Shawn Pinson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-13 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony Question not identified.
18-9665 Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac…
18-9666 Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated where, in reviewing a defendant's a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process violati…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9584 William Earl Miller v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture fourteenth-amendment statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Arizona Revised Statutes, section 13-2313, violates the due process clause under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Cons…
18-9565 Casey Stoermer v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Casey Stoermer lived in a separate apartment connected to the home of Aaron Smith. On the morning of June 21, 2016, law enforcement officers went to S…
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-06 Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility 1. WAS PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR COMMITTED PLAIN AND OBVIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ERRO…
18-9571 Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure WHETHER The Denial Of Petitioner Motion To Suppress Bullets Conflicts With relevant decisions of This Court in Violation of Petitioner Fourteenth Amen…
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-9555 Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD CONSIDER IF THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTOPSY REPORT WHICH WAS PRESENTED AS SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT TESTIFIED TO BY ITS AU…
18A1272 Charlotte Horst v. Matthew Hagen North Dakota 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete child-marriage constitutional-rights due-process emancipation fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking Question not identified.
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction If Martinez V. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 132 S Ct 1309, allows for a case to be over-turned if the Plaintiff can show, had it not been for ineffective assista…
18-9545 Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all: A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that s…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury (1). A Petitioner Rights to have a Witness in his favor is protected by the "Due Process of Law Clause" and the Fifth ,Sixth, Fourteenth, amendment. S…
18A1255 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights Question not identified.
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-1499 Umesh Kaushal v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea immigration-consequences jury-trial plea-bargaining reasonable-probability resident-alien sixth-amendment 1. When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime, while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then discovers those consequences and demands a tri…
18-9477 Arnold Roberts v. DuPage County Circuit Court Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment innocence state-attorney Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violated under the United States Constiutional 14th Amendment? Was the Petitioner's Due Process Rights violat…
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9486 Clifford Abshire v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest property-interest sandin-v-conner Are prison disciplinary hearings considered "communicative acts," entitled to the protections of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-1488 John S. Cammalleri v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency Whether a "specific" and "direct" promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth…
18-1462 Nadejda Rozanova, et vir v. Rafael S. Uribe California 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-omission fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment grannis-v-ordean judicial-fairness judicial-procedure legal-procedure omission omission-of-facts omission-of-laws state-court-conflict Pursuant to Rule 10(c):" a state court... .has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court." I…
18-1472 In Re Christopher Hadsell 2019-05-24 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes In contrast to appellate-jurisdiction cases normally presented to this Court, the courts below provided no trial, and permitted no appellate review. T…
18-9418 D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied IFP 14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing The questions are presented to be review based on the violation of the 14th amendment under equal protection. The CAE airport has terminated non-white…
18-9384 In Re Freya Pearson 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief 1. Whether the Petitioner's Direct Appeal, warrants the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to compel action by the Court. 2. Whether the Petitioner shoul…
18-1449 Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-05-21 Denied arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm…
18A1204 Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. Florida 2019-05-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se Question not identified.
18-1445 Theresa Seeberger v. Davenport Civil Rights Commission, et al. Iowa 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-law civil-rights-ordinance commercial-speech content-discrimination discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech landlord-tenant viewpoint-discrimination 1. Was the imposition of liability for the landlord's speech a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment s to the United States Constitution ? …
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mr. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-9358 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida 2019-05-20 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel WHETHER THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION'S RESTRICTIONS ON MR. LONG'S EXECTUION WITNESS AND REFUSING TO ALLOW HIM TO HAVE A NON-CLERGYMAN AS HIS S…
18-9318 Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INDIGENT APPELLANTS WITH A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RECORD/TRANSCRIPTS FROM ALL PRE CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS …
18-9324 Robert Gordon Johnstone v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief retrial-proceedings standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-9341 Antwon G. Whitten v. William A. Gunter, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech standing takings Whether 18 M.S.C.§1732 was admissible and reliable for proof and fact of untimely filed Motion for spoliation? Whether the admission of the Emergency…
18-1440 Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. North Dakota 2019-05-17 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests 1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and e…
18-1436 Ulric Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure disbarment due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as t…
18-9285 Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and over-breadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con…
18-9270 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-murder capital-murder-elements-as-sentencing-factors due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court foster-v-state fourteenth-amendment precedent sentencing-factors 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rationale in Foster v. State, 258 So. 3d 1248 (Fla. 2018), mirrors the overruled rationale of Hildwin v. Florid…
18-9296 In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. 2019-05-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether ward was ever incapacitated. Whether ward was served with paperwork when guardianship was ordered. Whether ward was provided with opportunit…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high …
18-1422 Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a…
18-9246 Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson Timbs v State of Indi…
18-9262 David Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-05-14 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an …
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire "WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE…
18-9214 Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama Alabama 2019-05-09 Denied IFP autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence In a capital case, does the admission of a gruesome and completely unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking any probative value, and showing t…
18-9216 Klark Deziray Hopkins v. California California 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance liberty plea-agreement presumption-against-waiver property right-to-appeal 1. Do the presumption against waiver of fundamental constitutional rights and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause's guaranty against deprivati…
18-1410 James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed …
18-9179 Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Eighth…
18-9186 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-05-08 Dismissed IFP ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the…
18-9153 Albert Randolph v. Texas Texas 2019-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court writ-of-certiorari The Court of Criminal Appeals erred, denying Petitioner a new trial? Distric+ Attorney (prosccution)violated +he Due Process Clause , Fourteenth Amen…
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether Murphy's Fifth, Sixth, Fourteenth Amendment rights and his Miranda were violated. Whether the court of Appeals violated Murphy's due process …
18-9157 Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security Question not identified.
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image…
18-9067 Sharma Ross v. Christopher Miller, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing PETITIONER DENIED HIS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS AS ENUMERATED UNDER WAS THE FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF THE U.S. WHICH WERE WERE ADMITTED…
18-9097 Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI…
18-9114 Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS AND PROSECUTORS TO IGNORE, ALTE…
18-9130 Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon Oregon 2019-05-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-9088 Charles W. Gray v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana has erred whether Petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of his the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourtee…
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment "The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (…
18-1378 Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Louisiana 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA) to make the federal and state systems more uniform and effective. SORN…
18-1368 San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. California Public Utilities Commission California 2019-05-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation public-utility ratepayers strict-liability takings takings-clause Whether it is an uncompensated taking for public use in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a State to impose strict liability for in…
18-9061 Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. Nebraska 2019-05-01 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-9078 Tina Bradford v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof compromise-and-release cumulative-trauma federal-labor-standards federal-labor-standards-act fourteenth-amendment icd-9 medical-diagnosis qme-ame qme-procedures workers-compensation The Question has to do with The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board of the State of California and all states, Healthcare and the Burden of Proof in d…
18-9034 Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied IFP alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence Can the presentation of an ( Alias ), or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged ias Tampering with Eviden…
18-9025 Phillip Newton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme…
18-1354 C. P., et al. v. C. A. California 2019-04-29 Denied child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a "third parent," regardle…
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence 1) wher Extrating aN INvoluNtary CoNtessioN by Police threat's andlor promises when te. delectues Can Never be Harmless Error Rex vs- Teeples, 753 u5,…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the admission of the oth…
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8973 Joshua Mitch Johnson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-04-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process earned-sentence-credits fourteenth-amendment good-time-credits liberty-interest mandatory-language sentence-credits state-law statutory-interpretation wolff-v-mcdonnell Has the Petitioner been validly sentenced under §53.1-202.2 Code of Virginia, therefore being encompassed by this statute? Is the Petitioner one of "…
18-8927 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bench-court-relationship brady-v-maryland brady-violation complaining-witnesses constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct state-government 1. Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) standard, is suppressing evidence by the state government on bench court's relationship with two compla…
18-8939 Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
18-8907 In Re Samuel H. Williams 2019-04-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress Question not identified.
18-8897 Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-8903 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata Should Res judicata and Collateral, Estoppel Doctrines be able to Barr an Independent or an Original Action in Federal Court when; the Defendants Witt…
18-8864 Joseph B. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p…
18-8866 Winston Grey Brakeall v. Robert Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights parole parole-conditions polygraph polygraph-examination polygraph-examinations self-incrimination sex-offenders This Court has never upheld the findings in United States v. Von Behren, 822 F.3d 1139 (10th Cir. 2016), in which the Court of Appeals held that compe…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain 1. Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to det…
18-8854 Steve Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-schedules constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stirone-v-united-states wamu-personal-checking-account Whether there was an unconstitutional constructive amendment or prejudicial variance that tainted all counts, caused by the confluence of the governnn…
18-1298 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-15 Denied arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid…
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was Federal law violated under color of law, for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural Due Process and Equal Protection Under …
18-8803 Raymond Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without author…
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California 2019-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th…
18-8776 Tam Le v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Reasonable jurors would determined that Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth…
18-8740 Michael Manley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? …
18-8709 Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law common-law-fraud conspiracy-against-rights due-process failure-to-train fourteenth-amendment fraud standing statute-of-frauds I. Can the United States identify any of nine elements of common and law fraud in this case? Is there a pattern or practice is there discriminatory a…
18-8707 Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment DID TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY CONSIDER MR. CARLYLE'S MENTAL RETARDATION AND HISTORY OF ABUSE, AND OTHER VARIOUS ACTS, DEPRIVE DEFENDANT OF…
18-8679 John James Bell v. South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation 1-ID PETTIONER RECEIVE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW ACCORDING TO THE"DUE PROCESS"ELEMENT OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?…
18-8682 Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated when the Nevada Supreme Court incorr…
18-8608 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. California 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame…
18-8623 Justin Cole Milam v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review I. Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of constitutiona…
18-8606 Lester J. Smith v. Greg Dozier, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-harm continuing-violation-doctrine due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-standard standing 1) ES HCV © Serious medical ailment that requires treatin pettioner with Cure. Medianes, 1A accord +0 the Pfs ssene! Community Standard at Medical Car…
18-8583 Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Whether it violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments for a state to defeat a post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel…
18-8561 Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-03-26 Denied IFP culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un…
18-8574 William Burton v. Delaware Delaware 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel that violated petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial a…
18-8577 Gerald W. Long v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure I. Did the Trial Court err when it concluded that Gerald Long's Fourth Amendment right proscribing unreasonable searches and seizures was not violated…
18-8529 Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ…
18-8538 Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Whether a prisoner's sincere religious belief that he should not be psychologically evaluated, involuntarily placed on psychiatric medication and prog…
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause 1. Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections…
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-1198 Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am…
18-8431 David Kelly Brewster v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S.__, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2017) tore down the wall Colorado had built to prevent persons from receiving their valid returns of …
18-8409 Anthony Mungin v. Florida Florida 2019-03-14 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent…
18-8415 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amend…
18-8399 Randall Scott Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…
18-1168 Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking WHEN THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS ABANDON THE IMPERATIVES OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE JUST COMPENSATION AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE EQUA…
18-1163 Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois Illinois 2019-03-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting Where an evidentiary hearing to evaluate specified criteria under a power line siting statute results in orders approving a specific route for a line,…
18-8335 Lamar C. Chapman, III v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ballot-access civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-districts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech religious-freedom signature-requirements standing takings voting-rights DID THE LOWER COUETS AUD JUDGES VIOLATE APPELANT RISHT TOBE PRCES?? BOTH THE LOWE DISTRICT AUD CeCUT COUETS INOUTOUALLY MECGRED PELAT'S BIVEUS - TYPE,…
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d…
18-8323 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence 1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of the likelihood of a less severe …
18-8322 In Re Richard Madkins 2019-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentence-modification sentencing-modification state-jurisdiction unlawful-detention WHETHER IT WOULD RESULT IN A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IF FAILURE TO ENTERTAIN PETITIONER CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS; 1.That the State of Tenness…
18-8319 Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment I) Was petitioner denied a fair trial by trial courts abuse of discretion? II) Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel fai…
18-8317 Robert Gering v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury THE CONTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN A CIVIL COMMITMENT CASE CANNOT BE CIRCUMVENTED BY A FLORIDA RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE NULLIFYING THE INVIO…
18-8305 Nausheen Zainulabeddin v. University of South Florida Board of Trustees Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP commerce-clause disability-discrimination diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-taking sovereign-immunity Did the lower court violate Commerce Clause of the constitution of Article 1, section 8, Clause 3; when it denied principal's interest to maintain uni…
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights WHETHER THE ARBITRARY, BIASED AND CORRUPT PROCEEDINGS CONDUCTED BY THE WAYNE COUNTY PROBATE COURT IN A SIMPLE AND UNCONTESTED BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTIO…
18-1142 Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir Pennsylvania 2019-03-05 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts 1. When a state has by statute or constitutional provision granted civil litigants the right to an appeal, must the state's appellate procedures provi…
18-1147 Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. Utah 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing 5. Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence, under the doctrine of equitable maxim, that contradicts its own precedence's by freel…
18-1149 George A. Gallenthin, III v. Borough of Paulsboro, et al. New Jersey 2019-03-05 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain Fifth-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment just-compensation procedural-due-process property property-rights state-action takings What protection do citizens of the United States enjoy under the Fifth Amendment's just compensation requirement in conjunction with the Fourteenth Am…
18-8289 Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee…
18-8222 Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code Was the Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc…
18-8210 Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,…
18-8208 In Re Donivan Diaz 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act 1.) THE PETITIONER HEREBY AVENS THAT THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND/OR COMMITS PLAIN ERROR IN FLOUTING THE STATE BAR ACT, RULE…
18-1136 Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing 1. Whether the rules and laws governing how charging liens are imposed and executed in Federal District Courts should be clarified so as to uniformly …
18-8203 Darryl Burghardt v. Renee Stein-Graham Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis pro-se service-of-process standing Is anincarcerated prose Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitutional rights violated if they're under In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status …
18-8174 Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed IFP brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order Should this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8…
18-8173 Ruben R. Herrera v. Brandon Price Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement pre-trial-detention CLAIMS FOR RELIEF A. CLAIM ONE: PETITIONER'S PRE-TRIAL DETENTION AGAINST HIS FIFTH AND AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINS DOUBLE JEOPARDY. Becaus…
18-8154 Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's Foujteenth Amendment. right to a. fair and impartial trial was violated 'then the proseatftr elicited false testimony from the vi…
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as codified by County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), may law enforcemen…
18-1119 The Richman Group of Florida, Inc. v. Pinellas County, Florida Florida 2019-02-27 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment class-of-one comparative-analysis difference-in-treatment due-process equal-protection florida fourteenth-amendment legislative-decision property-rights rational-basis selective-enforcement similarly-situated Does Florida's failure to consider the "difference in treatment" between a plaintiff and its similarly situated comparators conflict with this Court's…
18-8128 Cynthia E. Collie v. South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct South Carolina 2019-02-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech frivolous-proceedings seventh-amendment standing statutory-interpretation I. Whether the revised South Carolina Frivolous Proceedings Act (SCFPA), S.C. Code § 15-36-10, is unconstitutional on its face and as applied and is a…
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial, by violations and conflict of state and federal law, Batson v Kentucky, Brady v Maryland, an…
18-8127 Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution were violated when Judge Sa…
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Might the states and especially Ohio be required to accept and enforce the 6th and 14th amendment mandates of Gideon vWainwright, 772 U.S. 335, (196),…
18-8108 Michael Bush v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-hearing postconviction postconviction-hearing trial-transcript Did the failure of the State of Florida to provide Mr. Bush with a complete copy of his trial transcript to be used in a postconviction evidentary hea…
18-8106 Benjamin Crump v. Delaware Delaware 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false evidence by a material state witness - the only state witness to reliably identify the defendan…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo…
18-1098 Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco Utah 2019-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 829-32, 830 n.39, 833-34, 834 n.46 (1975), this Court held that state courts may not compel pro se litigants i…
18-8077 Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield 1. Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor …
18-8052 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst u. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a pris…
18-8032 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment PETITIONER'S COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO CONDUCT A REASONABLE PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION. THIS VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, AS GUARA…
18-8022 Leonicio Arias Coreas v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Did counsel fail to conduct a proper pre-trial investigation of the case, including discovery of the case, to discover that Commonwealth Attorney and …
18-8002 Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-02-15 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc…
18-7972 Victor D. Vickers, Jr. v. Missouri Missouri 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP alibi alibi-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-discovery-sanctions discovery discovery-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment taylor-v-illinois willful-violation Whether the exclusion of alibi evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence, as a sanction for an uncalculated discovery violation, is permitted …
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that prior to the final termination of a property right/interest § 1983 …
18-7960 Andracos Marshall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets I. This court has previously addressed the constitutionality of pretrial restraints and seizures of untainted substitute assets, holding that the unta…
18-1068 Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal 1) Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth…
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Thfl the Lower courts erred in judgment by dismissing Petitioner 'Actual Conflict in dual-representation" when trial counsel's dementia was cause for …
18-7911 Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California California 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause. Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has …
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, DUE TO INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE COUNSEL'S ABANDONEMENT ON A MANSLAUGHTER OF …
18-7903 Albert J. Arrington v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default-judgment due-process ex-parte-communication Fourteenth-Amendment fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-review Jurisdiction procedural-rules Rules-of-civil-procedure Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in finding that the Circuit Court of Henrico did not commit reversible error by continuously granting the Attorn…
18-7860 Timothy L. Barnes v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-finding mandatory-minimum retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-rule watershed-rule Does the new rule of constitutional law announced in Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), that any fact that increases the mandatory minimum …
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability, where petitioner presented clear factual evidence, supported b…
18-7845 Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c…
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having…
18-7809 James Were v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias 1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc…
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner…
18-7780 Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the off…
18-1026 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by restraining free market trade and competition withou…
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7759 Travis Buckner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure 1. Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to assistance of counsel by the denial of his Motion to Continue his tri…
18-7768 Jon M. Strauss v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure Kentucky 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-record license-restriction licensing state-agency state-law Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to "due process" for an independent state agency, completely dependent on member financing, to res…
18-7771 Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements 1. Whether (for any one and or all reasons stated herein) petitioner was denied his rights to due process and a fair trial under the Sixth and Fourtee…
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment I. DID THE STATE OF IOWA VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS 5th, 6th, & 14th AMENDMENT'S CONFRONTATION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO BE PRESENT DURING A CRITICAL STA…
18-1019 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-04 GVR Amici (9)Relisted (7) abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least eighteen hours before an abortion?
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination 1) DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO…
18-7705 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure dismissal due-process fourteenth-amendment mullane-precedent notice postconviction-action service service-of-process standing state-citizens Whether the Iowa Supreme Court has failed to properly apply the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure through the Fourteenth Amendment on Due Process of Law a…
18-7697 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2019-01-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io Whether inmates who file a postconviction under Iowa Code 822 in the Iowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and …
18-7696 Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg…
18-996 Charles Lavel Stringer v. Storesonline, Inc., et al. Mississippi 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived chancery-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-1654 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation DID THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT REFUSE TO APPLY THE MANDATORY LANGUAGE IN THE USE OF THE, WORD OF SHALL IN MISSISSIPPI CODE OF ANN § 11-1-17 IN VIOL…
18-7670 Thomas Alexander Porter v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence procedural-due-process 1. Whether a state rule that excludes as irrelevant evidence that a capital defendant is unlikely to pose a risk of future violence in prison is contr…
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment 1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence…
18-7643 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. …
18-7628 Anthony Brian Bevan v. Florida Florida 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment governmental-misconduct ineffective-counsel spoilage-of-evidence stare-decisis usc-242 Was the Petitioner denied Due Process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, and/or in violation of U.S.0 Code # 242. and/or in…
18-7627 Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri Was the petitioner Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizures? Was the petitioner Fourteenth(14th) Amendment rights violated …
18-7606 Samuel Davis v. Sergeant Florence, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment free-speech incorporation standing takings Question not identified.
18-7597 Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment THE NINTH CIRCUIT CCURT OF APPEALS DENIED THE 1SSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BASED UPON THEIR DECISION THAT PETITIONER DIDNT HAVE SUBSTANT…
18-7591 Kofi Kyei v. Tessica L. Swift, et al. Oregon 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process due-process,civil-procedure,turner-v-rogers,state- fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-statutes state-support-statute turner-v-rogers 1. Do state support statutes like the Oregon Statute (ORS) at Chapter 416.440 (3), which is essentially the same today as it was in 2009, contravene t…
18-968 Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis Massachusetts 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court When a state affords a right of appeal, does a state supreme court denying appellate review, before it, to parties that raise an error of law that is …
18-980 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's decisions based Upon Estoppel to Dismiss Petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio…
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment MAY THE DESTRUCTION OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE BY THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATE PETITIONERS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS,…
18-7526 In Re Robert Heffernan 2019-01-23 Dismissed IFP criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt winship-doctrine Whether it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for a state trier of fact to convict petitioners where the evidence cannot fair…
18-7528 In Re Keith E. Doyle 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment adversarial-hearing constitutional-intent due-process fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-by-information information-document intent-of-delegates judicial-procedure montana-constitution preliminary-examination preliminary-hearing void-proceedings A. Re: The State District Court Judge Did the district court judge violate my right to Due Process of Law, factually loose jurisdiction, and create v…
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti…
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Complaint; (b) Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims With and Without Prejudices; and (c) G…
18-7488 Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-01-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-937 Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2019-01-18 Denied actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six…
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California 2019-01-16 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7466 Glenn Bennett, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment This petition presents the questions of whether reasonable jurists can debate the following issues: 1. Whether the erroneous jury instruction given i…
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-7327 Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the offense that Mr. Johnson…
18-7297 Donnie Howard v. California California 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being "sure" or "positive" of guilt …
18-7392 In Re James Rudnick 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure custody due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus incarceration-authority mittimus thirteenth-amendment 1 Whether the Respondent [Warden Hansen] - employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections] has valid authority (in accord with the thirteenth and …
18-7324 Roberto Gil v. Florida Florida 2019-01-09 Denied IFP arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police - earning twenty percent only in the event of arrest, forfeiture, and favora…
18-7344 Tony Dickinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error I. Whether this Court Should Resolve the longstanding Conflict among Federal Courts over whether the Fifth Amendment Delay caused by the government as…
18-7339 Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe…
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteen…
18-884 Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i…
18-886 Lillian M. Jones v. Hawaii Residency Programs, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights corporate-fraud due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure private-corporation residency-program state-action state-actor technology Whether citizens should still be afforded protection under the 14th Amendment against state abuses committed when the State disguises itself as a priv…
18-869 Shawn Hall Lecuona v. Mark R. Lecuona Texas 2019-01-08 Denied Relisted (2) conscience constitutional-protection due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests marriage marriage-rights no-fault-divorce personal-identity religion texas-family-code 1. Does section 6.001 of the Texas Family Code, commonly known as "no-fault divorce", when applied to Petitioner, violate her fundamental liberty inte…
18-876 Cynthia N. Almond, et al. v. Singing River Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure class-action class-certification constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment monetary-claims opt-out property-rights rule-23 1. Whether the District Court erred in certifying the class under Rule 23 on the grounds that Petitioners have a constitutional due process right to o…
18-7280 Michael Wappler v. Wayne Ivey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights confinement-conditions constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention standing three-strikes-rule WAS PETITIONER, AN INDIGENT PRETRIAL DETAINEE, PREVENTED FROM CHALLENGING PRETRIAL CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT BY THE IMPROPER ASSESSMENT OF A STRIKE UN…
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program 1. WHETHER THE MOST HONORABLE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS' ADEQUATE CIVIL DETAINEE TREATMEN…
18-7235 Jason Eugene Bush v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment investigative-agencies kyles-v-whitley prosecutorial-disclosure Whether Arizona follows the rule of Kyles v. Whitley requiring prosecutors to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence from all participating inv…
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016).
18-7250 Diane S. Jones v. Samson Resources Corporation, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigenous-landowner indigenous-rights property-rights standing takings Whether Petitioner, an indigenous landowner and a United States citizen has standing to challenge whether Respondents, Samson Resources Corporations' …
18-7259 Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Pennsylvania 2019-01-07 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment DID THE PETITIONER GIVE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE SUCH CLAIMS 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?. DID TH…
18-7205 In Re Arthur O. Armstrong 2019-01-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether Petitioner was deprived of liber…
18-7207 In Re Andrew Johnston 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Question not identified.
18-7191 Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa…
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…
18-7190 Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. Florida 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court 1. Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due process rights, guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and un…
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention 1. Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in j…
18-809 Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois Illinois 2018-12-26 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond…
18-784 Eldon Bugg v. Marc Honey, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law common-law-torts diversity-jurisdiction due-process fourteenth-amendment national-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction Under bankruptcy law, in personam jurisdiction is national. In re Federal Fountain, 165 F.3d 600,601, (8 Cir. 1999)(en bane)). ". . . physical presenc…
18-786 Glenn Blair v. Angela McClinton, et al. Texas 2018-12-20 Denied child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction plenary-powers standing subject-matter subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Title IV-D Agency Court had jurisdiction, both personal, subject matter, and plenary powers over my daughter and I when they issued a child su…
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing I. Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a pere…
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa…
18-7110 James M. Flinn v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-allegations insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence (1) Whether the Petitioner was convicted upon insufficient evidence in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when, pursuant …
18-7118 Richard E. Lynch v. Florida Florida 2018-12-19 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution by deny…
18-7062 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then dis- allowing it, i…
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings As the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney were not acting as advocates for the people when they permitted Petitioner's co…
18-760 Oberist Lee Saunders v. Wayne Ivey, Sheriff, Brevard County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied civil-rights conditions-of-confinement constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment hutto-v-finney kingsley-v-hendrickson pretrial-detention qualified-immunity rhodes-v-chapman sanitation-standards (1) Whether, consistent with Kingsley v. Hendrickson, 135 S. Ct. 2466 (2015), a Fourteenth Amendment conditions-of-confinement claim brought by a pret…
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing 1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha…
18-7025 Tyree Marquez Burt v. California California 2018-12-13 Denied IFP coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure Under long standing precedent from this Court, although a trial judge may instruct a deadlocked jury about its duty to deliberate, it cannot coerce a …
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr…
18-6997 T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel 1. May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to c…
18-736 Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA New Jersey 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to pro…
18-730 Moses McCormick, et al. v. Kim A. Browne, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 amendment amendment-futility civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 standing In light of this Court's recognition in Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 635-658 (1980), "A Municipality has no immunity from liability under 19…
18-6938 Jarrod Phillips v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure boykin-precedent boykin-v-alabama civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the lower courts denial is contrary to this Honorable Supreme Court's holding in Boykin v. Alabama in the Plea matter. Whether the lower cour…
18-6941 John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Wyoming 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona…
18-727 Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona Arizona 2018-12-07 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-condition newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing-rights Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a natural life sentence to (1) appointment…
18-6925 Warren Tarver v. Florida Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTHEENTH AMENDMENT FOR A PERSON TO BE DETAINED FOR AN OFFENSE THAT IS LEGISLATIVELY DESIGNATED A…
18-6893 Joseph C. Garcia v. Carmella Jones, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP clemency clemency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity minimal-guarantees parole-authority state-law texas-law woodard-precedent 1. Whether Texas's failure to provide Garcia with a clemency proceeding that comports with Texas law violates the minimal due process rights —includin…
18-6916 Troy Lincoln Powell v. California California 2018-12-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment 1) DOES THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY ON A SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL DEFENDANT VIOLATE THE FIFTH, SIXTH, EIGHTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS?
18-6885 Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment With the decision to classify testimonial or non-testimonial statements per Crawford v. Washington 124 S.t 1354 as to whether Confrontation clause app…
18-6889 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity 1. Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a p…
18-6890 In Re Joseph C. Garcia 2018-11-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress 1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress …
18-6877 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t…
18-6881 Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security Mississippi 2018-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/ or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights unde…
18-6834 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER RULE 58 FOR A FINAL JUDGMENT IN DISTRICT COURT FOR A FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY HABEAS PETITION UNDER THE EIGHTH AND FOURTE…
18-6843 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2018-11-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi…
18-691 Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. Missouri 2018-11-27 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees …
18-6823 James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii Was the Plaintiff, under The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the Constitution, and The Fair Employment and Housing Act and The Civil Rights Ac…
18-665 James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law 1. Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state …
18-6769 Kenneth G. Middleton v. Ronda Pash, Superintendent, Crossroads Correctional Center Missouri 2018-11-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief 1. Whether the continued incarceration of a state prisoner who has presented a truly persuasive case of actual innocence violates the Eighth and Fourt…
18-6777 Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four…
18-6782 Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four…
18-6752 David McGuire v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-20 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process …
18-643 Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure This Court has deliberately left open whether a U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"…
18-6728 Francisco R. Quintana v. Colorado Colorado 2018-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-claims criminal-procedure defense-evidence due-process evidence exclusion-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment materiality-requirement right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment What showing must a defendant make to establish that the erroneous exclusion of defense evidence at trial violated the defendant's Sixth and Fourteent…
18-6730 William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. California 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
18-6739 David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection I. Whether under Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015), inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal inje…
18-640 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-16 Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel when his lawyer is paid by a third part…
18-6726 Billy Brantley v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Where the State must present "some" evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process…
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the trial co…
18-6703 David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond…
18-6651 Antonio Cobb v. Florida Florida 2018-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure WHETHER FLORIDA ERRONEOUSLY DECIDED THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE DID NOT DENY PETITIONER A TRIAL IN ACCORD WITH FUNDAMENTAL STANDARDS OF DUE PROCESS, GUARANTE…
18-6656 Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED OF HIS SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL, DUE PROCESS, WHERE BOTH GREGORY AND BRENDA RUSHLOW'S IN-CO…
18-6673 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction WHETHER, AS HERE, TENNESSEE'S REFUSAL TO EXTEND DNA POSTCONVICTION PROTECTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLED GUILTY VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AS PR…
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review (1) Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable cl…
18-6636 James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct 1.Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court …
18-6595 John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c…
18-595 James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this Court's decision in Haines v. Kerner permits a United States Court of Appeals to create a special and unique pro se pleading standard for…
18-6580 Wiliiam Scott Fitts v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Georgia 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel normative-legal-issues plea-bargaining right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. The constitution requires special consideration in assessing the accuseds conduct in guilty pleas especially when parole consequences is adetermina…
18-6544 Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does due process under the Constitution's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a State trial court to make an EXPRESS independent competency determ…
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation The questions presented by this petition is Under The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments rules is one of great concern, gravity, and public importance a…
18-6552 Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when th…
18-6554 Walter Collins v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-life-sentence opportunity-for-release reasonable-opportunity-for-release Whether a mandatory life sentence for a crime committed by a juvenile that does not allow him a reasonable opportunity for release violates the prohib…
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United S…
18-6513 Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
18-6527 Jedediah C. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2018-10-31 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred…
18-6507 Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR…
18-6475 Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias WHETHER THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ERRED IN LIMITING MR. STEEN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH WITNESS JOSEPH FARLEY'S BIAS WHERE MR. STEIN WAS PREVENTED FROM INQ…
18-553 Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. South Dakota 2018-10-29 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas 1. Was Rodney Berget arbitrarily deprived of his entitlement to conflict free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determ…
18-6438 Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler California 2018-10-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment Question 1. The Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront and Cross-Examine His Accussers. Scientific Evidence …
18-6462 Juan Carlos Mendez v. California California 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment In a child molestation case, the defendant took the stand and denied that any abuse had occurred. The prosecutor then cross-examined him at length reg…
18-545 First Advantage Background Services Corp. v. Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. California 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof class-action due-process fair-credit-reporting-act federal-statute forum-state fourteenth-amendment harm nationwide-class-action non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Under the Fourteenth Amendment, a state court may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant unless the conduct giving …
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the …
18-6418 Denver Ivan Wilson v. Florida Florida 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the trial Courts denial of Petitioners Writ of Habeas Corpus Filed Pursuant to florida Rules of Court 3.850 (m) alleging that Petitioner Could…
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial WHETHER THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS AND JUDGMENTS ARE FINAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECTION 1257. WHETHER CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTM…
18-6364 Phap Buth v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP barnes-v-united-states burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-re-winship Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allows reliance on an inference that is at best more likely than not, but not beyond a reas…
18-490 Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen Virginia 2018-10-17 Denied civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit…
18-492 David Souza v. California California 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct Does it violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the holding in Berger v. United States, 295 U.S.…
18-484 Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas Texas 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-review state-court substantive-review texas Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner's right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the …
18-487 D. A. v. D. P., II Indiana 2018-10-16 Denied caperton-standard caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co caperton-v-massey due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias magistrate-ruling williams-v-pennsylvania 1. Did the Indiana Court of Appeals decision in this matter conflict with the due process standard which was declared in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal …
18-6330 Jose Arnaldo Rodrigues v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether federal habeas review of a silent state court denial of competency-related habeas claims must consider the state court's appellate opinion on …
18-6337 Travis W. Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction…
18-476 Cowlitz County, Washington, et al. v. Jule Crowell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care monell monell-doctrine municipal-liability objective-reasonableness section-1983 serious-medical-needs subjective-intent 1. Whether a pretrial de tainee alleging Fourteenth Amendment claims of deliberate indifference to serious medical needs under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 must …
18-463 Bernard Morello v. Texas Texas 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution if the state applies…
18-6309 Warren Justin Hardy v. California California 2018-10-12 Denied IFP comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment Whether, in a case with racial overtones, the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis, or infer a likelihood o…
18-6296 Alexander Robert Jacome v. California California 2018-10-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourth Amendment's substantive due process clause, or allow the respondent's co…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Phyllis Young, a retiree, rents three bedrooms in her family home using the name Aloha Bed & Breakfast to make ends meet. She welcomes everyone as gue…
18-455 Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court 1. Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution…
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…
18-6233 Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui Florida 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Florida erred in not vacating Judge Michael Flowers Orders Granting the Respondent's Verified Petition to "wrongfully …
18-6238 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy 1. Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain an…
18-6262 Richard Penunuri v. California California 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
18-6224 Lamond Latney v. Anthony Parker Fourth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings Question not identified.
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts 1. Whether a claim made in th e habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invoke s the same constitutional protections, but labeled di…
18-6176 Michael Lucero v. California California 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou…
18-409 Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights Whether Petitioner has the standing to "invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed... even if the legislature refuses to act…
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appal, without reaching the merits of the case, violates the Petitioner's fundament…
18-407 Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia Virginia 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search I. Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment…
18-6124 Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OTHER BAD ACTS TESTIMONY; THE EVIDENCE WAS NOT ADMISSIBLE UNDER EITHER MRE 4…
18-6126 Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing I- WHETHER THE U.S DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA AND THE U.S COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT INCORRECTLY TREATED PETITIONER'S Fed.R…
18-6135 James K. Kahler v. Kansas Kansas 2018-09-28 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense?
18-6093 Brian Tate v. Maryland Maryland 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights developmental-capacity diminished-capacity due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-defendant juvenile-justice maryland-rule-4-242(c) mental-illness Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, and MARYLAND RULE 4-242(c), requires…
18-6105 John Patrick Wallace v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence exculpatory exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal witness witness-rights Doc's The State Create A Dibertr Interest Under The fourteenth Amendment Cluause of The United Statei's Constitution Br Dioluting It's Own State leew …
18-6106 James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
18-6050 Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest Question not identified.
18-6044 Richard James Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania Does the right to due process guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and upheld by the precedent of Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S.Ct 189…
18-6023 Lamar Atu Blackwell v. Matthew Hansen, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus postconviction-procedure postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington swarthout-v-cooke unreasonable-application webb-v-texas Whether this Court's opinion in Webb v Texas, 409 U.S. 95, 93 S. Ct. 351, 34 L. Ed. 2d 330 (1972) applies to prosecutors as well as judges; Whether t…
18-5977 Syed K. Rafi v. Yale University School of Medicine, et al. Second Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-restraints due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment spending-clause state-action state-actor 1 If Government Requires or Induces A Private Party to Engage in Law Enforcement, All Relevant Constitutional Restraints Do Apply? Does The Federal G…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review (1) In a federal habeas corpus proceeding where the state court did not hold a hearing or receive evidence to adjudicate facts on a claim, has the hab…
18-324 Douglas Leone, et ux., as Trustees Under That Certain Unrecorded Leone-Perkins Family Trust Dated August 26, 1999, as Amended v. Maui County, Hawaii, et al. Hawaii 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (3) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment economic-benefit economically-beneficial-use fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment investment-use just-compensation land-use lucas-v-south-carolina-coastal-council natural-state property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings takings-clause Whether holding undeveloped property as an "investment" or using it as a "park" in its natural state constitutes economically beneficial or productive…
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction? Whether the withheld …
18-5922 Robert Joseph Sarhan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court res-judicata violated-supreme-court-precedent administrative-law civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court manifest-injustice res-judicata void-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and other Courts involved acted in a manner inconsistent with due process and violated the U.S. Supreme…
18-293 Janos Farkas v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dispositive-motion due-process federal-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment motion-practice standing time-limits time-to-respond Does a federal court deprive a party's constitutional due process right when allowing only three days to respond to a dispositive motion?
18-283 Charles Coleman, et al. v. Campbell County Library Board of Trustees Kentucky 2018-09-05 Denied Amici (2) due-process federal-due-process-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure prospective-only retroactive-relief state-law state-retroactivity-doctrines tax-relief unlawful-taxes 1) Whether a state can circumvent the requirements of the Due Process Clause to provide taxpayers retroactive relief from unlawful taxes by making its…
18-5881 Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. The Hoopskirt Lofts Condominium Association Pennsylvania 2018-09-05 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights condominium-law constitutional-violations due-process fair-housing-act fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights racial-discrimination Whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act enables racially motivated majority members of a condominium association to purge a minority member o…
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONVICTION OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED STATE-CREATED LIBERTY INTEREST GUARANTEED UNDER THE FOU…
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard When a reviewing court on collateral appeal #1 dismisses as "non-cognizable under law" a Cumulative Effect/Aggregate Prejudice claim, asserting multip…
18-5849 Jose Soza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-postconviction Q. (1): Whether state trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to present evidence that the alleged cr…
18-263 Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. Illinois 2018-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th…
18-253 Michael Felix v. New York New York 2018-08-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis I. Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment? Whether a cou…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5761 Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. Illinois 2018-08-24 Denied IFP best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing (1) Whether a state court's application of a "best interests" standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, vio…
18-5714 Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. …
18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues: 1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti…
18-5708 Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings WHETHER PETITIONER HAS BEEN DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R…
18-226 Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri Missouri 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release …
18-5648 Anthony Lamarca v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5669 Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit…
18-209 Ram Mehta v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2) Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to do due process under the Fou…
18-5598 John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is or should have been presumed correct. And whether Petitioner sustained his burden of over…
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin 2018-08-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT CAN BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR A SEPARATE, NEW AND DISTINCT CRIME WITH WHICH HE HAD NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND…
18-5621 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata Does fraud vitiates every judicial proceedings, if so, did the Fourth Circuit Court's decision [at App. 1] affirming the district court's reasons base…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth Questio…
18-5583 Stephen Brian Turner v. Melody Smith, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity judicial-review parole parole-conditions quasi-judicial-role right-to-marry standing 1. Whether, despite federal laws stemming from the Fourteenth Amendment which grant prisoners the right to marry, it is constitutionally permissible t…
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for filing to file a motion for continuance to …
18-5553 Christopher Williams v. Texas Texas 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Texas has adopted a corpus delicti rule requiring that an extra-judicial confession have a quantum of corroboration before a conviction can be had bas…
18-5558 Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment WHETHER THE STATE DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS GUARANTEED RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN IT PERMITTED THE PROSECUTION TO INTRODUCE TO THE TRIAL JURY A BUNCH…
18-5564 Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon Oregon 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill…
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When a criminal defendant has posted bond and is entitled to be released from jail subject only to administrative processing, does the defendant's rig…
18-5525 Jonathan E. Jouette v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach charging-instrument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentencing felon-in-possession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states Whether application of the rule pronounced in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 598, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), barring the sentenci…
18-5529 Dewey Steven Terry v. Phillip Earley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment employment-retaliation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech Question not identified. question-not-identified retaliation settlement-negotiations Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 'error' when the court concluded that Petitioner's First & Fourteenth Amendment Right was not violated during t…
18-5531 Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard The questions presented are whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised Culver's Sixth Amendment rig…
18-166 John M. Probandt, et al. v. Dennis P. Walker Nebraska 2018-08-08 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law deprivation-of-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment internal-affairs-doctrine negotiable-instrument preemption state-courts uniform-commercial-code Is the State Courts' intentional refusal to apply the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Commercial Code ("Neb. UCC") (a preemptive and uniform Code w…
18-5514 Robert Allen Wilkins v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure counsel due-process evidence sanctions standing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment The Circuit Court arrod tuopuapp uoym Procseing b4 Wilkns was wearing his untform whon apow 9y Jail Counsdlor for the a tinly obrection 6etoro /011 do…
18-5517 Mike Peter Gallardo v. Arizona Arizona 2018-08-08 Denied IFP capital-jury capital-punishment citizen-jurors due-process eighth-amendment fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-composition sixth-amendment Almost a decade ago, this Court unanimously held that, "If a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for …
18-5495 In Re Billy Ray Irick 2018-08-07 Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment …
18-5446 Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the State violated Story's Fourth, and Fourteenth, Amendment Constitutional rights, When the Waco Police lied on a Affidavit for Arrest Warran…
18-5455 In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis 2018-08-06 Dismissed IFP but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings Question not identified.
18-5467 Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida Florida 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light …
18-150 Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua…
18-157 James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney …
18-5434 Troy Victorino v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death…
18-5442 Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts -CAPITAL CASE- REQUEST TO CERTIFY CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH 28 U.S.C. § 2403(b): How is Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) (2012) "Hearsa…
18-5419 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli Second Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis even though granted by the state courts and the Northern District Court. Was petitioner erroneous…
18-120 Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American …
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5360 Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and t…
18-5365 Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether Michigan v Tyler, 436 US 499, Michigan v. Clifford, 464 US 287 (1984) authorizes firefighters and police to unreasonably withhold sustenance a…
18-5352 Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-105 Modesta R. Sabeniano v. Citibank, N.A., et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review perjury Whether petitioner Sabeniano was denied her constitutional right to due process when the Court of Appeals dismissed her appeal without giving her the …
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…
18-100 Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden Georgia 2018-07-23 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction 1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co…
18-5300 Gary Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment The Critical question in this case is Whether a trial Attorney Can Constitutionally Stipulate Elements of a charged Crime over the expressed objection…
18-5240 Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the letha…
18-5246 Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas Texas 2018-07-17 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING…
18-5239 Deshawn T. Terrell v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment felony-murder fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing miller-graham-precedent Does the mandatory sentencing provision for the offense of felony murder under Ohio Revised Code § 2929.02(B)(1) violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Ame…
18-5243 Curumulathu Jacob v. Virginia Virginia 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction notice-clause sixth-amendment stare-decisis void-ab-initio Can a state maintain a judgment which was entered absent jurisdiction under its own stare decisis ruling and which is a violation of the Sixth Amendme…
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment 1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we…
18-5211 Taylor B. v. California California 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice miranda-rights police-interrogation 1) When the subject of a police custodial interrogation is a child, should investigating officers be required to obtain an express waiver of Miranda b…
18-60 Amira Olivia Gunn v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech speech-protection Whether Gunn was convicted of speech protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to the States under the Due Process Clause…
18-44 Julia Kwok, et al. v. Mingo Energy, LLC Oklahoma 2018-07-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment homestead homestead-property judicial-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure notice notice-requirements oklahoma-law oklahoma-power-of-sale-mortgage-foreclosure-act property-rights The question presented for review is whether failure to give proper notice and adhere to the dictates of the Oklahoma Power of Sale Mortgage Foreclosu…
18-49 Georgia Plumb, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Washington 2018-07-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure fourteenth-amendment note-possession procedural-due-process property-rights residential-mortgage standing summary-judgment Whether the Plumbs' procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the state when final summary judgment and judgment o…
18-5165 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings Question not identified.
18-34 Pablo San Martin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen…
18-5122 Thomas Overton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst …
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him at trial violated Bryant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment r…
18-5078 Bruce Pace v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte…
18-5088 Emanuel Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-…
18-5101 Sean P. Reilly v. Jennifer Davis Florida 2018-07-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-statutes fourteenth-amendment injunction injunctions standing time-limitation time-limitations Whether a Florida Court deprived Mr. Reilly of due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by creati…
18-13 Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas Texas 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c…
18-5084 Daniel Burns v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete…
18-5091 Kevin Don Foster v. Florida Florida 2018-07-02 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst …
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o…
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin…
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ…
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff…
18-5054 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte…
18-7 Choctaw County, Mississippi, et al. v. Jessica Jauch Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (4) 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 capias county-liability due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-detention procedural-due-process qualified-immunity section-1983 The Sheriff's Department detained Respondent for ninety-six days pursuant to a capias issued by the state circuit court following a grand jury's indic…
18-5010 Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews California 2018-06-28 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition…
18-5012 Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments bec…
18-5014 Marcus Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go…
18-5018 Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution wh…
18-5021 Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d…
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O…
24A590 Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law Whether the due process clause provides any protection for petitioners in state clemency proceedings that are explicitly required by state law.
24A129 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri Presumed Complete custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights 1. The Due Process Clause of The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees parental rights. 2. Petitioner's dual citizenship was used against him to strip away…
24A302 Garcia Glen White v. Texas Texas Denied atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Question not identified.
25A191 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida Eleventh Circuit Denied constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay fourteenth-amendment legal-review Question not identified.
25A532 Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel Question not identified.
25A669 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution Question not identified.