Liberty-Interest

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25-6774 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence…
25-6728 Shannon Day v. Texas Texas 2026-02-05 Pending IFP constitutional-error court-records due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-interest 1) Did denying petitioner a full and fair hearing on his merits of newly discovered evidence, that was unavailable to him in Court Records, deprived h…
25-6541 Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines 1. whether a state 's application ano enforcement of its Procedural Bars via its highest appellate Court in Certain Cases resultin annihilation Ano …
25-481 Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived due-process federal-funding informed-consent liberty-interest medical-treatment state-action Since the passage of the 1974 National Research Act, federal policy has ensured that no individual faces penalties or loss of benefits for refusing un…
25-5900 Latisha Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment liberty-interest prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT 'S DECISION FINDING NO PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT OR NO IMPROPER INTERFERENCE BY THE DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AM…
25-5879 Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process liberty-interest penal-code racial-justice-act (1) Lower Courts violated United States Constitution 14th Amendment Due Process Right To State Created Liberty Interest To newly enacted 2020 Californ…
25-5792 Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error co…
25-5661 In Re Ronald Freeman 2025-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus liberty-interest strict-scrutiny Tens of millions of persons have been deprived of their liberty for violating marijuana criminal and civil laws that proscribed marijuana. All detaine…
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b). Whether a new judgment, resulting from re…
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 '…
25-5290 Stacy L. Conner v. Ken Paxton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-access due-process judicial-intervention liberty-interest petition-review 1. ) Does our Constitution no longer protect/serve and umbrella each American Citizen equally? or at all?? 2. ) "After assessing all the Facts and su…
25-5214 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-28 Denied IFP atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure Next Term, this Court will resolve a significant dispute among the federal Circuit Courts of Appeal : "Whether and how courts may consider the cumulat…
24A725 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause Whether or not Defendant shall receive a fair and impartial de novo Trial/Appeal in any Virginia State, County, or City Court? Whether or not the 197…
24-5811 In Re Jeremy Edwards 2024-10-23 Denied IFP amendment-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-preemption liberty-interest state-jurisdiction 1. Why am I Petitioning The U.S. Supreme Court? 2. Why I didn't exhaust state court remedies? 3. Why I didn't file in The U.S.District Court? 4. Wh…
24-5705 Norris Hicks v. Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied IFP administrative-procedure constitutional-minimum due-process judicial-review liberty-interest parole-guidelines 1. Where the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (TBPP ) fail to follow its own Rules & Guidelines, the Texas Constitution, and the Adminstrative Pro…
24A229 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete bail-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process liberty-interest pretrial-detention Question not identified.
24-5336 Darryl Watts v. New York New York 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-proceeding competency constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest sex-offender-registration Because a New York Sex Offender Registration Act proceeding implicates a fundamental liberty interest, requires complex factfinding that necessitates …
24-5222 Darrell D. Smith v. B. Eischen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Bureau-of-Prisons Equal-Protection First-Step-Act first-time-credits FTC-Earnings imposed-term Liberty-Interest sentence-computation "Imposed Term" 1. Whether "imposed term" used in 18 §3624 (g) , defining the application of FTCs (First Step Time Credits) , has the same credit appli…
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 …
23-7808 Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-26 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment due-process liberty-interest penal-code racial-justice racial-justice-act state-created-right (1) Does the newly enacted 2020 California Racial Justice Penal Code section 1473(f) line 8-10 creates a United States Constitution 14th Amendment Due…
23-1269 Suzy Martin v. Susan Haling, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split debarment due-process government-contractor government-work liberty-interest stigma-plus-test In Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, this Court held that the government impinges on a government employee's constitutional liberty interest…
23-7595 Daniel Levi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines voluntary-consent The Ninth Circuit dismissed Mr. Levi's criminal appeal due to an appellate waiver in the plea agreement. Mr. Levi argues that the appellate waiver in …
23A1008 Darryl Watts v. New York New York 2024-05-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process incompetency liberty-interest registration-hearing sora Question not identified.
23-7450 Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri Missouri 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law May the due process clause of the United States Constitution that require the State Courts to provide to defendants a full and fair post-conviction pr…
23-7418 James Dow Vandivere v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied IFP adam-walsh-act burden-of-proof civil-commitment due-process foucha-v-louisiana judicial-procedure kansas-v-hendricks liberty-interest Whether in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Comstock, 560 U.S. 126 (2010) authorizing civil commitments pursuant to the Ad…
23A986 Dwight Russell, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete fundamental-rights judicial-review legislative-intervention liberty-interest mootness pretrial-detention Question not identified.
23-7367 John E. Garrett v. Richard Clouse Seventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-revocation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest standing 1. Is notice and a hearing required, prior to depriving one of his liberty pending trial and does said liberty qualify as a substantive and/or procedu…
23-1146 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info…
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…
23A762 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-02-21 Presumed Complete criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration This case concerns whether a predatory offender registration scheme that requires the submission of detailed personal information about every aspect o…
23-6779 David H. Jacob v. Rosalyn Cotton, Chairperson, Nebraska Board of Parole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest mathews-test mathews-v-eldridge parole parole-board-discretion parole-procedures 1. Do Nebraska's current parole procedures still meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause under the test set out in Mathews v.…
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…
23-6720 Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. California 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights class-action declaratory-relief due-process first-amendment free-speech good-time-credits judicial-immunity liberty-interest standing 1. Did the CSC deny class member Bruce Koklich his First Amendment Right to Petition for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (DIR) when he was part of t…
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…
23-6164 Albert Carrasco, v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin…
23-6076 Timothy Ricardo Pedraza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility statutory-interpretation texas 1. The question is whether a .State or US Court of Appeals abused its discretion and/or committed plain error for a misapplication of state law (stat…
23-5849 Bryan H. Brown v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arbitrary-action due-process earned-time-credits government liberty-interest procedural-due-process procedural-rights state-statute WHETHER THE COURT ARBITRARILY DENIED THE PETITIONER'S STATE CREATED RIGHT TO EARNED TIME CREDITS
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…
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…
22-1017 Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process in the removal of her foster gi…
22-1022 Evan Scott Grant v. Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners, et al. Nevada 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived amendment-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest parole state-law statutory-interpretation "When confronted with two Acts of Congress allegedly touching on the same topic, this Court is not at 'liberty to pick and choose among congressional …
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether, when a person's liberty is at stake, the right to an impartial judge guaranteed by the Due Process Clause is violated where the trial judge a…
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…
22-6944 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…
22-6917 Stevie Andre Roberson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection false-information liberty-interest parole parole-board procedural-rights texas-parole-statute (1) WHETHER THE MANDATORY PARDON STRUCTURE OF TEXAS PAROLE STATUTE ARTICLE 45.15 § 15 (?) TOGETHER WITH THE REQUISITE AND SPECIAL PAROLE CONDITIONS OF…
22-6599 Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2023-01-23 Denied IFP criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness 1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals…
22-545 Sage Lewis, et al. v. Akron Board of Zoning Appeals Ohio 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process emergency-shelter liberty-interest property-rights rational-basis rational-basis-test zoning zoning-code When a person wants to exercise the deeply and objectively rooted right to use liberty and property for the non-economic purpose of saving lives, does…
22-6182 Stacy L. Conner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion liberty-interest procedural-fairness standing statutory-interpretation 1.) An important Question in the Administration of Justice, which has the potential to effect a large number of american citizens, is: "Does the U.S. …
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…
22-5721 Sealed Appellant v. United States First Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones 1. Whether the government violated petitioner's constitutional due process rights by involuntarily transferring him to, and holding him in, a secure m…
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…
22-5686 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…
22-5201 Jurel Dion Roberson v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest ninth-circuit state-courts state-created-liberty-interest When the State Courts denied Petitioner Wis state created becky interest, LAS i¢ error to deny the Cerhficate of Appealability im the Ninth Circult?
22-5132 Joe Octavio Granado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren…
22-5113 Jerald Francis Gray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions, given the important liberty interest at stake and…
21-8244 In Re Dominic M. Franza 2022-06-29 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest statutory-relief unconstitutional-imprisonment WHEN A PETITIONER'S IMPRISONMENT AS CONCEDED IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A PETITIONER IS BEING HELD AND PUNISHED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW INFRINGING ON…
21-7973 In Re Roberto Villarreal 2022-05-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization 1. Whether applicant/petitioner, denied certificate of appealabihty for habeas relief from the District Court, has no other court to go to but here. …
21-7845 Jennifer C. Rundle v. Windsor Manor, Inc. Virginia 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-petition circuit-court civil-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest motion-to-compel precedent property property-rights state-action A. Should the Norfolk Circuit Court have GRANTED the petitioner's Motion to Compel Discovery and Continue the Trial , to ensure access to Due Process …
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…
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to class of pretial detain…
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…
21-7336 Karsten O. Allen v. J. Mayo, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prison-conditions prisoner-litigation pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-defect state-created-rights virginia-department-of-corrections Aug-S-h'flio -1! bfie.5 4W. lar\quQq£_ af \f\iqiAifi% Cir\A he.jtof-l'in^ hi Chcccd-ians /tyj&rol.'nc} 1 faced j/js tzdab jikh a .s-hs-k - cxpcArd ld…
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…
21-7185 Brian Arthur Tate v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders liberty-interest parole parole-hearing sentencing-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, extends beyond a juvenile o…
21-7103 Roger D. Ream v. Florida Florida 2022-02-11 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment internet-access liberty-interest liberty-rights packingham-v-north-carolina probation-conditions property-rights supervised-release Under the First Amendment, does a person on probation or other form of supervised release have a constitutional right to access the Internet or other…
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for exercise of t…
21-986 Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board Since 1947, Petitioner Vanderveer's Family has owned 3+ acres of land (with a small barn) in the Town of East Hampton, New York. Petitioner asserts he…
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…
21-6552 Keith Carr v. Steve Kallis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-u.s.c.-2241 due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-851 sentencing-enhancement title-21-enhancement 1. WHETHER AN UNLAWFUL APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT PURSUANT TO TITLE 21 U.S.C. 851 AMOUNT'S TO A FUNDAMENTAL MISSCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. WHEREAS THE PE…
21-841 Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing I Can state and federal agencies use private entities, as agents of the government to commits acts of unlawful search and seizure, and deprivation of …
21-6474 Kristie Leanne Sluder v. R. Patrick Bentancourt, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adoption-and-safe-families-act civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process federal-statute ku-klux-klan-act liberty-interest notice-and-hearing standing statutory-interpretation 1. Did Macon County Department of Social Services Violate Conducted two weeks prior to my Foster daughter's placement in a group home? 2. Do foster P…
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 …
21-5888 Wes Joseph Pertgen v. William Gittere, Warden Nevada 2021-10-05 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing disciplinary-proceedings due-process due-process-violation evidence-disclosure habeas-corpus liberty-interest nevada Does Due Process and Liberty Interest exist in Nevada's Disciplinary Proceedings, and when Disciplinary Proceedings are Constituted is Due Process Vio…
21-5821 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2021-09-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-regulation police-power strict-scrutiny Does the constitutional right to "liberty" as contained in the due process clause still mean freedom from physical restraint by government police powe…
21-5632 Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti…
21-342 Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process 1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the pro se litigant initially only argued his property interest in the complaint and then claimed wit…
21-334 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-09-01 Denied article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational basis…
21-302 Arthur G. Jaros Jr. v. Village of Downers Grove, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived due-process first-amendment free-speech home-rule-powers liberty-interest library-trustee municipal-corporation public-office retaliation I. Notwithstanding its Home Rule Powers, did the Respondent Village of Downers Grove Violate Petitioner Jaros' First Amendment Right to Freedom of Spe…
21-5196 Shalen Stoltz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-appeal due-process liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines The Ninth Circuit dismissed Ms. Stoltz' criminal appeal due to an appellate waiver in the plea agreement. Ms. Stoltz argues that the appellate waiver …
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…
20-8323 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, …
20-8324 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 …
20-8230 Jorge De Los Santos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing-conditions sex-offender substantive-reasonableness supervised-release For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin…
20-1582 Wei-Ping Zeng v. Texas Tech University Health Science Center at El Paso, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived due-process employer-policy employment-discrimination liberty-interest stigma stigma-harm summary-judgment wrongful-termination Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the circuit courts of appeals are split: for his/her claim of wrongful termination f…
20-7923 Edward Shane West-El v. Miami Parking Authority, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment kent-v-dulles liberty liberty-interest natural-person right-to-travel 1. Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine? 2. Why was the Petitioner's right to park denied?
20-7642 Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process Doesn't The State Of Florida Have to Obey Your United States Supreme Courts Law In Kansas VHendricks 117S.C.T. 2072 (U.S. Kan . 1997) On Page 2080 . Y…
20-7645 Joshua Horn v. Walmart Stores, Inc. California 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-administration-of-justice judicial-misconduct liberty-interest racial-discrimination systemic-racism 1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive regarding the interpretation of due process and equal protection, the trial court's awarded judg…
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…
20-7420 Tobi Kilman v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-review civil-rights due-process good-time-credits liberty-interest prisoner-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate Whether a prisoner has a liberty interest in receiving time-credits toward the service of his sentence, when said credits are mandated by statute and …
20-7149 Michael John Gaddy v. C. E. Ducart, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied IFP due-process greenholtz-v-inmates liberty-interest minimal-protections parole prison-officials P/HE7HEA Co*lSTl7UTl*riM- &AFE6fVA&OS SAP PoEPk GUZBhlhtQlTZ. I/.1JMA7EA Of Jp£P4SfA PBjAL CMEoT/°J#L_ CjMPL bK, iHZ am) PtZZE AAT/Sf/zd Hyf&J'PMSo'…
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 …
20-6812 Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma 1. Did the Appeals Court err though McCoy might have had a liberty interest in avoiding transfer to a mental hospital for involuntary psychiatric trea…
20-6579 Aimee O'Neil v. Weld County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-procedure legal-representation liberty-interest procedural-protection standing Did AHornty Andrew Poland provide adequate representation 2. Did Weld County Provide fair procedure and equal protection in the courts? 3. Did Count…
20-704 Cesar Santana v. California California 2020-11-20 Denied age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender 1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court…
20-554 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…
20-6057 David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation As of right now, immigration cases use the Esquivel-Quintana standard exposure to statutory penalty for "any 1' prior felony of "sexual abuse of a min…
20-5946 Roberto Antoine Darden v. Barbara Von Blanckensee, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights disciplinary-notice district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest prisoner-rights procedural-grounds qualified-immunity I. May a personal locker be a disciplinary notice wrote in fact if nothing wrote links the sulprit to it? II. May a tribunal limit its review of a pr…
20-5895 Michael Carlton Lowe, Sr. v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedures civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct liberty-interest separation-of-powers standing substantive-due-process I. Did the lower courts infringe on relator's fundamental right of substantive due procedd by failing to treat relators Jwith fundam ental fairness …
20-5858 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor Liberty Interest Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clau…
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…
20-285 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…
20-5471 Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida Florida 2020-08-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power Question not identified.
20-5266 Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board Louisiana 2020-08-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability 1. Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts…
20-49 Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe Indiana 2020-07-20 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review 1. Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights. 2. Whether a clear and convincing standard is…
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…
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.…
19-8713 Michael K. Bailey v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights discretionary-authority due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus liberty-interest parole parole-board prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Can a state prisoner be incarcerated forever based upon falsehoods deliberately created to prejudicially bias future decision makers in the exerc…
19-8536 In Re Robert P. Russell 2020-05-26 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-crime federal-habeas habeas-corpus liberty-interest liberty-interests murder-conviction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation successive-motions Whether Petitioner Robert Peter Russell ("Russell"), convicted of first degree murder under 18 U.S.C. Section 1, retains a federal constitutional righ…
19-1278 Hunter Fussell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-05-12 Denied Response Waived automatic-transfer child-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer liberty-interest state-statute 1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires that a child receive an individualized hearing before being placed in criminal court to be tried as an adul…
19-8354 Nelson Romero v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fundamental-liberty liberty-interest procedural-flaws procedural-violation summary-judgment PCA'vVioVT'CY' PCoSeX QiA.es Ar\oV) 4-o 4Vi iX HoWalTabl-e Coutr+r-e_«jcmndiub £\V)&) TuSe-wienP under W3hf ox DuePPoCeXx tlaUie oX 'The. 14 Vh. Anai…
19-8303 Wadress Metoyer, Jr. v. Delynn Fudge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range truth-in-sentencing Did the 1997 Oklahoma Legislature mandate in its statutory language, phrases provisions, design, purpose and intent in House Bill 1213 effective date …
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 …
19-7643 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2020-02-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony 1.) Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights to Judicial Proceedings under Article IV. Section 1, and Amendment 6; of the United…
19-986 Mary Lou Vosburgh, et al. v. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process government-action liberty-interest mandamus name-clearing procedural-rights reputation reputation-harm When a government actor deprives an individual of his liberty interest in his reputation, is a state court proceeding in the nature of mandamus to com…
19-6892 John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process I. What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis? II. Whether or not the Eight…
19-723 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed.
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" …
19-668 Courtney Bird v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived child-abuse-registry constitutional-challenge continuing-violation continuing-violations due-process erroneous-listing liberty-interest procedural-safeguards statute-of-limitations Courtney Bird alleges the State of Hawai'i systematically violates the due process rights of parents by reporting them as confirmed child abusers on t…
19-6440 Mitchell Lavern Ludy v. James W. Mills, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process liberty-interest parole state-regulations state-requirements Question not identified.
19-6436 Bharanidharan Padmanabhan v. Drug Enforcement Administration District of Columbia 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment administrative-law agency-deference controlled-substances controlled-substances-act due-process federal-agencies individual-rights liberty-interest property-interest state-authority state-law tenth-amendment The DEA relied exclusively on an internal agency precedent to declare that because private market actors on the Massachusetts medical board suspended …
19-6432 Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2019-10-29 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority The Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution provides that the government may not infringe upon a person's protectable liberty interest wi…
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…
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai…
19-6355 Eric Mack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t…
19-6356 Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-6368 Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois Illinois 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review I. Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case, require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review, due to the loss of liber…
19-6292 Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing 1. Did the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's finding that the petitioner was not given the opportunity to have a hearing on hi…
19-6082 Chase Matheny v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-6059 Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-5838 Glenn Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5790 Ronald Frank Lee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Dismissed Response RequestedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5785 Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
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…
19-5551 Jeffrey R. MacDonald v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process federal-law federal-procedure habeas-corpus liberty-interest I. Is actual innocence of the crimes for which Petitioner was convicted and imprisoned a freestanding ground for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? II. D…
19-5548 Andre Thomas v. William Woods, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process federal-detainer liberty-interest probation-bail 1.) Whether Petitioner stated a Valid Constitutional Claim when he asserted that on January 22,2008,the federal detainer deprived him of his liberty I…
19-5519 Rubin R. Weeks v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect liberty-interest parole-revocation state-court-review state-jurisdiction void-judgment (1).Does Petitioner have the Fundamental Rights to be free from the Missouri State Court's void judgment that has him restrained of liberty ? (2). Do…
19-5470 Spencer Tracy Holloway v. Michigan Michigan 2019-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-claim due-process federal-question liberty-interest michigan-state-law post-conviction prosecutorial-disclosure sixth-judicial-circuit state-law supreme-court-rule-10 I WHETHER THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT FOR OAKLAND COUNTY DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE DECISION OF BR…
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release This case presents a fascinating issue of first impression at the intersection of constitutional due process and the confidential judicial complaint r…
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW* WHEN THE STATE COURT COURT SENTENCED HIM TO SPEND 30 YEARS TO LIFE IN STATE PRISON, UNDER A "THREE…
19-121 Kenneth Miller v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment 351 (1973) which satisfies the habeas-corpus 411 US. 345 civil-rights custody-requirement due-process standing 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-prohibition fundamental-rights habeas-corpus liberty-interest second-amendment self-defense severe-restraint-on-liberty standing Is the following question one that jurists of reason would find debatable? Does the total prohibition on the exercise of a person's fundamental Secon…
19-5055 Isaac Decurtis Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied IFP arraignment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction court-rules criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest state-court transcript warrantless-arrest I.) Whether the 'State .Court had causeda conflict within the State Court ignoring its controlling governed caselaw People v, Thomason 173 Mich. App,…
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…
18-9632 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and where the sixth amendment requires that responsibility for the defau…
18-9619 Henry James Lagi v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech government-power liberty-interest standing takings Question not identified.
18-1523 Michael Gannon v. City of Eugene, Oregon Oregon 2019-06-07 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment free-speech liberty-interest proportionality public-forum public-university 1) Do the First Amendment's protections to public streets as the archetype of a traditional public forumextend to city and state public streets and pu…
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 …
18-9486 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…
18-1444 Wilson J. Soto Nieves, et al. v. Department of the Family of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. Puerto Rico 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-process commonwealth-of-puerto-rico constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest public-information puerto-rico-law state-courts Whether the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico can obviate the mandate of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution prohibiting a state to de…
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody-control double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause evidence full-faith-and-credit-clause full-faith-credit judicial-review liberty-interest parole prosecution re-imprisonment retrospective-forfeiture statutory-interpretation #1: WHETHER THE FULL,FAITH, CREDIT CLAUSE : DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE PROHIBITS THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM REPROSECUTING : REIMPRISONING MODI SON JO I SO YH…
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 "…
18-8755 Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,…
18-8599 Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING…
18-8488 Ronald E. Mitchell v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process eighth-amendment false-arrest liberty-interest missouri-corrections missouri-statute qualified-immunity wrongful-imprisonment I was arrested and put in the jail (hole) on Oct. 25, 2016, for an altered ink pen with the APPERANCE OF DRUG RESIDUE, that was found on the top bunk,…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging…
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…
18-8270 Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena California 2019-03-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest minor-child monetary-judgment parental-visitation standing vexatious-litigant Does a vexatious litigant right have a reasonable opportunity to know the claims of the opposing party, who the opposing party is, and to rectify a mo…
18-8246 In Re Dennis D. Jackson 2019-03-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest speedy-trial 1. WHETHER PETITIONER'S 5th AND 14th AMEND. U.S. CONST. RIGHTS AND U.S. FEDERAL LAW AS SET FORTH BY U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENCE BE IMMEDIATELY DISCH…
18-8134 Ramon Vasquez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process false-conviction fundamental-rights liberty-interest substantive-rights Whether 42 Pa.C.S.A. s 9543 (a)(1)(i), applied by the court violated Vasquez Substantive Rights of Due Process by impinging collateral civil and crimi…
18-7373 Warren Ray Patton v. Texas Texas 2019-01-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief 1. Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected du…
18-889 Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber Illinois 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law 1. Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural due process of law, of their federal constitutionally-protected liberty inte…
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…
18-7159 Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson I. WHETVER REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND TME DISTRICT COURT'S RESOLUTION OF PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CHAIN DEBATABLE OR WRONG WITH RESPECT TO EXTENDIN…
18-6921 Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d…
18-6652 Michael Carlton Lowe v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Minnesota 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion due-process federal-question habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-interest standing Did the district court abuse its discretion by answering a federal question on petitioner's liberty interest in a state court? Did the district court…
18-527 Frank Straub v. City of Spokane, Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response Waived at-will-employment at-will-termination constitutional-rights due-process employment free-speech government-employee government-employment internet-publication liberty-interest liberty-interests reputation stigma stigma-damage Whether a government that intends to publish professionally crippling charges against its employee on the internet during the course of an at-will ter…
18-6373 Erwin Eugene Semien v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3585 5th-amendment board-of-pardons-v-allen constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing greenholtz-v-nebraska-penal-inmates liberty-interest official-detention sentencing-credits Question One: Does the Federal time credit Statute 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) use of the non-discretionary language that federal inmates "Shall be given cr…
18-493 Rose J. Spano v. The Florida Bar Florida 2018-10-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-disciplinary-proceedings constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process evidentiary-hearing liberty-interest property-interest Petitioner, Rose Spano, questions the constitutionality of the Florida Supreme Court's decision to deny the Petitioner a right to an evidentiary heari…
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused it's discretion in it's Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secu…
18-6157 Sealed Appellee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver Whether, under the rules governing the construction of plea agreements and in light of due process fairness considerations, sentencewaiver provisions …
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar 1.) Whether ding he tiaevieoce gertd by federal proedural and substantive de proces of law preseribed particubarly by the 7rotected liberty interest i…
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…
18-177 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…
18-129 W. S. v. S. T., et al. California 2018-07-30 Denied biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness 1. Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds "[t]here are no specific factors that…
18-5259 Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction To Be Confronted with The witnesces against Him: To have Compulsory Process For Obtaining Witnesses In His Favor? dbesordoes it Not guaranter In Our C…