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25-1043 In Re Michael E. Tindall 2026-03-04 Pending appellate-procedure ex-parte-communication judicial-ethics mandamus prejudicial-error vacatur-and-reassignment Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit where an appellate panel: 1. Introduced a newly d…
25-6890 Tiffany Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant pro-se-representation procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of appellate counsel when court-appointed counsel failed to file or consult Petitioner about fil…
25-6881 In Re Ryan P. Givey 2026-02-23 Pending IFP americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest custody-proceedings due-process judicial-disqualification Should Chester County Court Judge Clay Cauley Sr. be restrained from presiding as judge in any further judicial proceedings in custody case No. 2015-0…
25-6859 Daniel R. Wood v. Eric Strauss, Director, Montana Department of Corrections Montana 2026-02-19 Pending IFP appellate-procedure federal-constitutional-claims judicial-review justiciability-doctrines procedural-finality state-court-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to terminate all judicial review of federal constitutional claims through the application of f…
25-6860 Corey Myrick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure Garza-v-Idaho miscarriage-of-justice This Court has recognized that "no appeal waiver serves as an absolute bar to all appellate claims." Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 232, 238 (2019). But the…
25-980 Mark DuHall v. Michael Samuels, et al. Colorado 2026-02-18 Pending appellate-procedure electronic-filing jurisdiction mandate-recall notice-of-appeal procedural-rules The question presented for review is whether the Colorado Courts of Appeals may dismiss an appeal pursuant to a court-made rule, C.A.R. 4(a), because …
25-6825 Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending IFP 28-USC-1915 appellate-procedure due-process-clause factual-record-development frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis 1. Whether a court of appeals may dismiss an appeal as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) based on a record that was truncated at the screening …
25-6833 Israel Romero v. Charter Communications, Inc., et al. South Carolina 2026-02-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP 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 …
25-6805 Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-conspiracy federal-question fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus procedural-default 1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respond…
25-6800 In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez 2026-02-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying, sua sponte, the existence of …
25-6783 Ronald Gerard Boyajian v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-uniformity en-banc-review judicial-review mandamus shadow-docket 1. Whether a three-judge panel may usurp the authority of the full court of appeals by intercepting and terminating a petition for a writ of mandamus …
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…
25-929 Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Denied Response Waived 6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ…
25-6733 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-procedure default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct summons-and-complaints supreme-court-rule 1. Supreme Court Rule 20 and Rules of Judicial Conduct Rule 1.1, "a judge(s) shall comply with the law, including the Code of Judicial Conduct ". For …
25-6735 May Chen v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-05 Pending IFP appellate-procedure default-judgment judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct procedural-rules writ-of-certiorari 1. Supreme Court Rule 20 and Rules of Judicial Conduct Rule 1.1, "a judge(s) shall comply with the law, including the Code of Judicial Conduct ". In r…
25-6695 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure en-banc-review judicial-review mandate-issuance notice-requirements procedural-rules 1. Whether a court of appeals violates Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 40 and 41 when it issues a mandate after granting a motion to correct a pe…
25-6696 Evelyn R. Benton v. Berkshire Richmond LLC Fourth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review mandamus record-review summary-affirmance 1. The Record less Review: Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and acts in excess of its jurisd…
25-6674 Justin K. Eaton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant…
25-6601 Melvon Adams v. United States Second Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeals equitable-tolling government-motion jurisdictional-limits time-limitations Some lower courts hold that even when extraordinary circumstances prevent a defendant's timely filing of a notice of appeal in a criminal case, Rule 4…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied 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…
25A818 Dana Escoffier v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2026-01-14 Application appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline motion-for-relief pro-se time-extension Question not identified.
25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-01-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-6531 Rafael Jorge v. Marie Adler First Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP appellate-procedure district-court judicial-discretion jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant Whether a court of appeals can dismiss an appeal by a pro se litigant for failing to file a Notice of Appeal within 30 days of entry of judgment by th…
25A794 Segundo Inga-Inga v. Robert A. McDonald, etc., et al. New York 2026-01-08 Application administrative-review appellate-procedure case-controversy judicial-standing legal-dismissal mootness Question not identified.
25A773 Katherine London v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Denied appellate-procedure due-process first-amendment professional-sanctions rico-litigation zealous-advocacy Question not identified.
25-6471 Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a party to seek an indicative ruling from the district court while an appeal is pending. Whi…
25-6426 In Re Tamas Hampel 2025-12-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-process petition-for-rehearing third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is required to docket a timely filed petition for rehearing submitted pursuant to Fed…
25A739 Triumph Foods, LLC, et al. v. Andrea J. Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2025-12-23 Application appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time first-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari 1. This case presents several significant and complex constitutional issues that warrant a carefully prepared petition for a writ of certiorari, which…
25-710 Erin Uciechowski v. DEA Products, Inc. Pennsylvania 2025-12-18 Denied appellate-procedure due-process legal-review pennsylvania-law petition-for-appeal supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying the Petitioner's Petition for Allowance of Appeal? 2. Whether the Pennsylvania appellat…
25A704 E. D., a Minor, By Her Parent and Next Friend, Lisa Duell, et al. v. Noblesville School District, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-17 Application appellate-procedure certiorari expressive-association nonprofit-organization supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25A711 Dale Sundby, as Trustee v. Marquee Funding Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application appellate-procedure intervention post-judgment pro-se property-refinancing trustee (1) whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) permits post-judgment intervention as this Court held in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S.…
25-6337 Reginald Sanders v. Fitness International, LLC, dba Esporta Fitness, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-filing appellate-procedure judicial-order local-rule petition-rejection rehearing-deadline Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 40(a)(l)'s mandatory' 14-day rehearing deadline may be nullified through administrative filing systems th…
25-665 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Did the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals err when it held there was "no basis for relief" under 10 U.S.C. § 866(d)(2) merely because there was not …
25-6295 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Nicholas Scutari, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review legal-standing 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir, L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportun…
25-6286 Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States First Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation time-limit Is the Appellate Court able to violate 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(D) arguing that this statute is not mandatory but a simple guideline? It is incontrovert…
25-6269 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement 1. Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where, despite a criminal defendant-appellant's repeated invocations of the party presentati…
25A629 Rami Ghanem v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-01 Application appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
25-616 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review judicial-review military-justice Petitioner made an unrebutted showing of good cause to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review his case. Nevertheless, the court denied re…
25-6251 Caleb L. McGillvary v. Michael T. G. Long, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure discretionary-appeal due-process federal-rules jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation 1. Is the use of 3rd Cir. L.A.R. 27.4 to effectively convert an appeal as of right into a discretionary appeal, which denies an appellant the opportu…
25-6197 Edmund Lowell Fields v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief ministerial-duties notice-requirements I. PER THE MINISTERIAL DUTIES SET FORTH IN FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 4(a)(6) DOES "ACTUAL NOTICE" SUPERSEDE "FORMAL NOTICE," AND SHOULD THE…
25-591 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap…
25A553 Shirley V. Remmert v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-13 Application appellate-procedure district-court frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-6089 Curtis Solomon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent due-process panel-rule stare-decisis statutory-right Whether the Eleventh Circuit's recent iteration of its "prior panel precedent rule"—which requires rigid adherence to prior circuit precedent, even if…
25-6056 Ruben Santoyo v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sanctions 1. Jurisdiction after appeal. Whether a district court may impose a punitive monetary sanction sua sponte after a notice of appeal has divested it of …
25A530 John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application appellate-procedure due-process jurisdictional-rule merits-determination party-presentation sua-sponte Question not identified.
25A531 John Koe, aka Nicholas Krudy v. University Hospitals Health System, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-07 Application appellate-procedure jurisdictional-dismissal merits-determination party-presentation procedural-rule sua-sponte Question not identified.
25-6054 Clyde Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether, because the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts are split, a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality o…
25-545 Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Rehearing Relisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-546 Julia Mae Robinson v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-standards federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
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…
25A479 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2025-10-27 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure eleventh-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court Question not identified.
25-5941 Mohammad Reza Assadi v. Randolph N. Osherow, Chapter 7 Trustee Fifth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure chapter-7-trustee due-process electronic-filing jurisdictional-issue notice-requirements Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(b) — and Article III permit a federal appellate court to enter judgment in the name of a Chapter 7 trus…
25-5933 Willie Dennis v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure counsel-abandonment court-of-appeals-inaction deadline-extension pro-se-petition record-access 1. Whether the combined effect of (a) appointed appellate counsel's abandonment and refusal to provide the case file and (b) the court of appeals' fa…
25A461 Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. Tennessee 2025-10-22 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-discretion petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a defamation plaintiff must prove actual harm to reputation as a prerequisite to recovering damages for other injuries, including emotional di…
25A449 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2025-10-17 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law Question not identified.
25A433 Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit Question not identified.
25-5876 William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer…
25-5877 Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review …
25A417 In Re Ramsey E. Clayter 2025-10-10 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights emergency-relief judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court Question not identified.
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…
25-5780 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…
25-375 CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r…
25-360 J. P. v. J. N. New Jersey 2025-09-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights judicial-corruption judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal 1. Did corruption within the NJ judiciary violate the petitioner-plaintiff's constitutional rights? 2. Why was the Appellate team switched to all ind…
25-5733 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied IFP access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal because, although the orders did not end the litigation, they prevented the Plaintiff from litigati…
25-327 Express Scripts, Inc., et al. v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure automatic-stay coinbase-precedent federal-officer-removal remand-order statutory-exception Whether a remand order appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), like the orders at issue in Coinbase, is subject to an automatic stay pending appeal.
25A297 Brent E. Webster v. Redwood Holdings, LLC, dba Wedgewood Inc. Oregon 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-of-appeals pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A301 Michael Anthony Christopher Cochren, II v. White Castle System, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-298 Bi-Qem SA DE CV, et al. v. Trade Links, LLC Second Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-rules docket-notation local-rule order-entry 1. Whether an unsigned and uninitialed document entitled "Courtroom Minutes – Civil," hyperlinked to a "Minute Entry" in the docket constitutes an "…
25-5612 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law procedural-fairness 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 41(b) by issuing a mandate while rehearing en banc was pending, and whether re…
25-254 Khamraj Lall v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-standard sentence-reduction 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violated fundamental due process principles by granting a stay requested by the government to delay proc…
25-5553 Adrian Goudelock v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion legal-argumentation procedural-fairness Where the right to appeal a trial court judgment is provided by statute, "that appeal must accord with due process." Simmons v. Reynolds, 898 F.2d 865…
25A251 Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure legal-filing summary-judgment supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take Precedence over Case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988? When a circuit court judge does n…
25A209 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure employment-discrimination motion-to-consolidate pro-se second-circuit workplace-bias Question not identified.
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Granted Amici (5)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.
25-5321 Jeffrey Ricardo Wimberly v. Michigan Michigan 2025-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation equitable-tolling jurisdictional-challenge michigan-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction While Mr. Wimberly was on appeal he sought and received equitable tolling per Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Order 2020-21. The Court of Appeal…
25-5291 Consuelo Saldana, et al. v. William Campana California 2025-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-jury-trial constitutional-rights indigent-litigants seventh-amendment waiver-inference 1. May California arbitrarily deny a civil jury trial to indigent litigants in violation of the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and article…
25A159 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Craig Jennings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias ninth-circuit record-correction Question not identified.
25-5281 Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error I. "When a State court judgment is shown that counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation including pre-trial, trial phas…
25-116 Nicholas Roddy Ramlow v. Amanda Marie Mitchell Idaho 2025-07-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights first-amendment mootness pandemic-law public-health 1. Whether mask-wearing is symbolic or expressive speech. 2. Whether Petitioner's appeal is moot. 3. Given the cyclical nature of pandemics, the exi…
25-5235 Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law 1. Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred when they concluded that the State of Rhode Island supreme court's retroactive application of a ne…
25-5166 Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process separation-of-powers summary-judgment supremacy-clause 1. Whether a federal court of appeals may refuse to enter judgment following the unrebutted filing of a dispositive appellate brief and summary judgm…
25-5138 Stephanie Mykonos v. Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, et al. District of Columbia 2025-07-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brief-filing court-administration docketing pro-se writ-of-certiorari This request is a matter of why the 3-judge panel did address what was implied by a pro se on to Appellate Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 79 on not dire…
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error 1) Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
24-1323 Peter Kleidman v. Audrey B. Collins, Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied appellate-procedure briefing-rules court-of-appeals legal-theory procedural-fairness supervisory-power Question 1. Is this Court willing to use its supervisory power to formulate a rule (fashioned after FRAP 28(j)) which requires a Court of Appeals, w…
24A1291 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2025-06-27 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari lehman-brothers ninth-circuit state-law-certification supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-1313 Jeremy N. Miller v. Casi A. Miller, et al. Tennessee 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-general-notice federal-preemption state-jurisdiction va-authority veterans-benefits I. The state of Tennessee requires a litigant to notify the state attorney general when a challenge to state law is made on grounds that it is unconst…
24A1280 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-7345 Anita Sue Bryant v. Estate of Laura J. Bryant Indiana 2025-06-03 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal court-of-appeals in-forma-pauperis notice-requirement procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals erred in improperly closing Appellant's case when Appellant specifically requested that the appeal be placed o…
24A1187 Mitzi Baker v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-06-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure deadline-extension justice-standard medical-disability pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-7331 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court federal-review habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Article IV standing requirement. Respondent failed to establish federal question jurisdiction, which made the controversy non-justiciable. Article III…
24-7311 Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th…
24-1193 In Re Sean Murphy, et al. 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation? 2. Whet…
24A1113 Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America Maryland 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari motion-to-stay reargument supreme-court-rules waiver-of-costs Question not identified.
24-7211 Jeffrey Spivack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal The Eleventh Circuit has misapprehended the scope and fundamental nature of Petitioner's appeal: Petitioner filed an appeal contesting the district co…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good…
24-7186 Albertico C. Cruz v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-response QUESTION ONE: Did the Eleventh Court of Appeals, at Eastland, Texas, deny Petitioner's Due Process to an appeal in the normal course by ordering Petit…
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability?
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
24-6926 Elijah Bankston, aka Tommy Lee v. Florida Florida 2025-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-separation manifest-injustice This Court's original jurisdiction to issue the Writ of Certiorari to complete exercising of its authority and jurisdiction is therefore properly invo…
24-6900 Robert E. Hammersley v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-03-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-process legal-documentation procedural-requirement record-submission I. IS REVIEW WARRANTED ON THE QUESTION WHETHER A PARTY IN THE COURT OF APPEALS IS REQUIRED TO INDEPENDENTLY SUBMIT DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO THAT APPEAL A…
24A937 J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini Fifth Circuit 2025-03-28 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-6874 In Re Robert D. Batson 2025-03-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit mandamus pro-se-litigant I. WHETHER ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL HAS CREATED LOCAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHED UPON THE PERSO…
24-1029 Abram J. Harris v. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure district-court jurisdictional-requirements removal-jurisdiction state-court statutory-interpretation 1. Whether an action may be removed to the district court after it has been dismissed in the state court, here the District of Columbia Superior Court…
24-6844 In Re Gayle George 2025-03-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-procedure congressional-oversight constitutional-authority dc-home-rule judicial-review 1. Is the Superior Court (of the District of Columbia an agency of the District of Columbia government, over which Congress retains ultimate legislati…
24-6711 Kris Chapter Jackson v. Soave Automotive Group, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review vexatious-litigant Petition to review a "constitutional question". Petitioner contends that the lower court 's decision has incorrectly interpreted or applied a provis…
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), a court of appeals' decision should be vacated because the appeal became moot b…
24-6696 James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp Second Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-protections due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion recusal 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in violation of and applicab…
24-6676 Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal Should prejudice be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state initiated appeal?
24-6682 Raequan Rucker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-review legal-standing procedural-error I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Rucker's Appeal before that Court.
24-6683 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the determination of the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability follows their own Circuit Prec…
24-915 In Re Bart Wade Reagor 2025-02-25 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus Petitioner submitted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit challenging his conviction in the district court. Petitione…
24-6645 Joseph DeLarosa v. Village of Romeoville, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-conflict court-procedure federal-question judicial-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant dec…
24-6551 William J. Wise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit panetti-standard section-2255 successive-petition The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fundamentally erred by dismissing the appeal of…
24-6462 Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-error statutory-interpretation The records of the guilty plea, sentencing and probation revocation all reveal that the judge and apparently the prosecution incorrectly believed thro…
24-6428 Marc Anthony Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure cert-petition constitutional-adjudication direct-review judicial-mandate supreme-court-rule Whether or not a petyirule announced by the Supreme Cpurt; applies to.petionter ,who N is currently on direct preview ayd ^ertioari, 'and where .-the…
24-6378 Von Clark Davis v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-waiver rule-28j supreme-court-precedent I. a. When a party brings to the attention of the court of appeals, via a notice filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(j), a new d…
24-762 Gary Pisner v. Robert McCarthy, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process judicial-review opinion-explanation procedural-requirements right-of-appeal 1. Is there a minimum amount of explanation in an appellate opinion necessary to meet due process requirements, to verify that an appellate court has …
24-751 Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act After deciding that the salacious Footnote 112 in the Mueller Report defamed Petitioner and remanding his equitable claim, the circuit court held that…
24A686 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court Question not identified.
24A651 Jared Wade Hinman v. Illinois Illinois 2024-12-31 Denied appellate-procedure prison-mailing pro-se supreme-court time-limitation writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24-680 Dennis G. Collins, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court rule-9b sua-sponte waiver Whether a United States Court of Appeals can— sua sponte —affirm a district court's judgment on Rule 9(b) and other grounds that neither the parties n…
24-6171 Demajio J. Ellis v. Linda Carper, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-review district-court-decision evidence-suppression motion-to-suppress summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-6116 In Re Frank E. Pate 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-officer final-judgment judicial-review mandamus prosecutorial-discretion Can the 5th Circuit, ignore the 28 USC 2111 final judgment and review mandates, and allow a case to lay dormant for over 8 years? If so, this negative…
24-6041 Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Second Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing? 2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce…
24-6033 Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit 1. Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evident…
24-544 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure coram-nobis fourth-circuit judicial-review post-conviction-remedy writ-of-error 1. Whether, in conflict with the opinion of this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has improperly limited the post-conv…
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…
24-5810 Andre Wilburn v. Virginia Nguyen, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-defect in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion oath-of-office pro-se-prisoner Whether a district court errs when it dismisses a pro se prisoner's complaint, without leave to amend, for futility reasons when the defects could be …
24-461 Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure due-process local-rule-36 patent-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment This case represents a dangerous trend in patent cases whereby district courts grant summary judgment while ignoring factual disputes and/or weighing …
24-5779 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-discretion error-waiver legal-interpretation procedural-rules rule-of-law [I]. WHETHER THE COMMONWEALTH COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION OR COMMITTED AN ERROR OF LAW, BECAUSE APPLYING Pa.R.A.P. 302(a) TO CONCLUDE WAIVER OF ERROR …
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…
24-414 Reuben Larson v. CommunityWorks North Dakota, et al. North Dakota 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure brief-requirements constitutional-challenge court-rules judicial-discretion procedural-due-process Is a rule of court unconstitutional which mandates that an appeal brief cannot exceed a certain number of pages, and which mandates that the appellant…
24A341 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-10 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation rule-60-challenge Question not identified.
24-5734 In Re Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar 2024-10-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure default-judgment district-court judicial-discretion procedural-motion venue-transfer Question 1. Did the Plaintiff-Appellee answer the prospective New Complaint, which happened to be the Old Complaint under a New Time pursuant to Rule …
24-388 Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services Maine 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-review parental-rights procedural-due-process state-supreme-court Where a State court of last resort is bound by statute to address all questions of law presented in appeals, may that court issue an order denying an …
24A324 Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension trust-interests Question not identified.
24A322 Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure district-court-judgment federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-limit Question not identified.
24A306 Ernest Murphy v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari en-banc-petition extension-of-time pro-se supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-5663 George Ashetzie v. Illinois Illinois 2024-09-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-notification due-process judicial-review pro-se-appeal FILED AN APPEAL NOV. 8TH AOAS^ To A MOV. S/VFE T AC~V DEN\ AL. APP. CRT CLERK CLA\MED APPEAL. WAS REF TED FOR REHEAR\NQ W\TV\ A SUPERVISORY RQRRjPRo…
24-5655 Juan M. Cruzado Laureano v. Popular Democratic Party and Its Governing Board Puerto Rico 2024-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-conviction department-of-justice supreme-court-rule waiver Whoever avails himself of RULE 15 of the US Supreme Court and WAIVES to answer a Certiorari before said forum where a criminal conviction is challenge…
24-324 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics This petition exposes the vacuum in Florida's appellate judicial disqualification mechanism that creates a constitutional infirmity for all Floridians…
24-322 Kristin Bausch v. Jacob Frost, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine agency-regulations appellate-procedure due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction turner-rogers-hearing The issue before this Court is whether the Seventh Circuit of the Western District of Wisconsin had subject matter jurisdiction over the case. The Pla…
24-318 BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue "[I]t takes a cross-appeal to justify a remedy in favor of an appellee." Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 244-245 (2008). This is an "invetera…
24-5549 Norman Paul Felts v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance legal-abandonment pro-se-representation timeliness Should the Fourth Circuit have addressed the merits of Petitioner's appeal even though it was untimely filed because he alleged that his counsel " aba…
24-292 Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review This petition concerns core appellate procedure. In reviewing bench trials, the courts of appeals must "discuss" and "analyze" the district court's fi…
24-5502 William L. Mitchell, Jr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-merits appellate-procedure civil-litigation federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review voluntary-dismissal Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B), the "Effect " of a second voluntary dismissal "acts as an adjudication on the merits. " Gi…
24A248 Ryan T. Thornton v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2024-09-09 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari criminal-appeal ineffective-assistance judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24A244 Richard Rynn v. First Transit Incorporated., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights pro-se rule-60 workplace-injunction Question not identified.
24-5471 In Re Keith Girvan 2024-09-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure eyewitness-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se-petition state-court-findings 1) Do 3rd Circuit Local Appellate Rules 24(c) and Miscellaneous 107, and newly promulgated Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(e) apply to Habeas Co…
24-5439 Richard Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-09-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment 1. If criminal defendant is re-sentenced to, inter alia, death in a capital case, should a reviewing court afford all due process rights on direct app…
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…
24-5435 Orlando Sanchez v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review trial-rights 1. Does the U.S. Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review the trial court's prejudicial error in refusing to instruct the jury on the perfect self-de…
24-5403 Tynia Levesy v. Christopher Scolese, Director, National Reconnaissance Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims fourth-circuit jurisdiction rule-26f rule-56d I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Have Jurisdiction Over Petitioner's Claims of a Constitutional Magnitude? II. Was the Fourth Circuit Court…
24-5400 Javontae Quintez White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-law due-process judicial-review waiver Is a Constitutional Due Process violation triggered when an appellate court holds that an issue is waived if not specifically raised in the statement …
24-214 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment oral-argument Q-1. Whether the restrictive policy and practice of the district court and of the Ninth Circuit not to hear oral argument denies the parties their "da…
24-207 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, et al. v. 245 C & C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights fraud-upon-court judicial-discretion pro-se-representation transcript-integrity 1. - Whether any U.S. Federal Court, could prohibit an adult plaintiff from pro se representation in a civil case, when he/she has demonstrated the ab…
24-5384 Carlton Eugene Hooker, Jr. v. Kevin T. Hanretta, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-rights court-remand judicial-discretion procedural-error 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion on Denying the Appellant 's motion for entry of judgment by remanding the fol…
24-5371 In Re Eric Martin Matthews 2024-08-22 Denied IFP aedpa-constitutionality appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Is the Anti-Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) still Constitutional after this Courts ruling in Jones v. Hendrixs? II. If subject matter jurisdic…
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,…
24-159 The Wall Guy, Inc., et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for The First State Bank Fourth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure bond-surety en-banc-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure governmental-taking judicial-review 1. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to address Appellant's [Wall Guy's] appeal on the merits, when Wall Guy had unequivocally compl…
24-5318 Norberto Serna v. O’Brian Bailey, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process judicial-standard miranda-warning 1. Whether the Court of Appeal imposed a certificate of appealability standard in conflict with Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Miller-El…
24A163 Ryan Lawrence Anthony v. Josh Highberger, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari due-process electronic-filing supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24A148 Jane Doe v. East Lyme Board of Education Second Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari litigation pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
24-5255 Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5223 Michael Domonic Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-issue court-record due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-petition related-cases standing supreme-court takings Question not identified.
24A112 David Hatchigian v. ABCO, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules good-cause pro-se supreme-court-jurisdiction time-extension Question not identified.
24A109 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-requirement notice-of-appeal time-bar Question not identified.
24-95 Jason Lou Peralta, et al. v. Worthington Industries, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied 28-usc-2072 28-usc-455 appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct recusal supervisory-powers 1. Should the United States Supreme Court exercise its supervisory powers under 28 U.S.C. § 2072 to impose a requirement of mandatory disqualification…
24A99 Nicolyn Plummer v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association Second Circuit 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure dismissal human-rights insurance-underwriting motion-for-reconsideration pro-se Question not identified.
24-5081 Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. Colorado 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation 1. Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation pa…
24A44 Tarek Youssef Hassan Saleh v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-filing legal-deadline pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7825 Eduardo Margarito Soto, aka Edwardo Margarito Soto v. Texas Texas 2024-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prejudice record-development oft. *4He VliqhesP Couftd iie\/ietOed) <4V)6 eoU(2e *>eco£el auc( - {AAedt 4o w \z.e ^ppl < c fHj&hAS esArdbUsherf bif a p>QepD/ode(LiTOe oP ^be es/id…
23-7816 In Re William H. Wright, Jr. 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process emergency-motion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review petition-for-review standing In the cost of appeal erred for failure to grant Wright's emergency motion for certificate of appealability for. Because lack of jurisdiction
23A1156 Rona J. Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal jurisdiction pro-se sua-sponte Question not identified.
23-7759 Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning procedural-error reasoned-decision-making supreme-court-precedent (1) May the District Court and Court of Appeals ignore the Supreme Court's decision in Concepcion v. U.S S.Ct 2389, 213 L.Ed.2d 731 (2022) ? (2) May …
23-7749 Carlos Enrique Lopez-Soto v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal due-process government-objection judicial-procedure notice notice-of-judgment standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals could dismiss an action based on untimely notice where (1) the district court's judgment was never notified, and (2) in t…
23-7718 In Re Christopher L. Takhvar 2024-06-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-process legal-review petition-for-writ procedural-challenge standing fcJiSu! l/S L&&/ f,. JTe cjlA XacJ)^<^ A? (f[ (A CW\ I CoM^lci[4 she, ffitfrf -to aspetiL ski cJ^/hf^^al &t ck cnfil fifjhfo C^faPlkinf in tfvjL (J5 …
23-7658 In Re Robert Gene Rega 2024-06-07 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay standing third-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Ciricuit's failure to issue a dispositive order disposing of Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corp…
23-7650 Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC…
23A1087 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23-7630 Jamaal Elwood Dance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure judicial-enforcement jurisdiction plea-agreement WAS THE APPEAL BARRED BY THE APPEAL WAIVER IN THE PLEA AGREEMENT, I.E. SHOULD THE COURT OF APPEALS HAVE ENFORCED AND THUS APPROVED THE APPEAL WAIVER?
23A1082 Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz Texas 2024-06-04 Denied appellate-procedure discretionary-review federal-question page-limits pro-se state-court Question not identified.
23-7608 Carney Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st…
23-7610 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit Does Ohio's App. R. 26 (B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution by applying a time limit to when an applicant can file to re…
23A1076 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant Question not identified.
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing This Court has held a certificate of appealability ("COA") should issue where the petitioner has made a threshold showing that jurists of reason could…
23-7558 Marcus Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-ruling judicial-review merits-denial merits-determination procedural-denial reasonable-jurists Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a C…
23A1054 Rory Cook v. Mark Williams, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23-7529 Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law under Tolau v. Cott…
23-7511 Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure I-l pcul-exi 4^ Coryipl^ 4~kp p ^ oF CourT" +■© Prelude ■++« Sn'gm onol StoJ °.F pfbhahk CGW2e ^^)+hlh T|W| r ^Lf'Sd'CW +* loo lei Csu7T-T><jipmc<SS>…
23-7515 Carlos Davis v. Hemmersbach US, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure contract-law due-process evidence evidence-presentation jurisdiction verbal-agreement verbal-contract Verbal agreements are contracts made by individuals through a verbal exchange. There need not be more information involved in an oral contract than ju…
23-7507 Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-extend ninth-circuit standing time-extension Question not identified.
23-7474 Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not …
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 …
23-7408 Melvin Warren Rivers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-order judicial-review motion-denial probation probation-revocation procedural-appeal revocation Whether the denial of a motion to terminate probation made during a probation revocation hearing but prior to the final revocation hearing is a final …
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…
23-7378 Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause 1) If the Congressional command of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 24(a)(5) requires that certain submissions MUST BE INCLUDED with a motion, is a…
23A981 Alberta Rose Jones v. Donald David Jones Oklahoma 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure jurisdictional-timeliness motion-to-strike procedural-rules supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7366 Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7371 Laron Darrell Carter v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue mandate mandate-rule procedural-law waiver Whether the rule requiring a district court to follow the mandate of a court of appeals is "jurisdictional" such that it cannot be waived by a party.
23-7315 In Re Craig Michael Ralston 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure clerical-error federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure houston-v-lack judicial-review mail-receipt postal-service prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Is a certified mail receipt and date-stamp from the United States Postal Service along with the Prison Mailroom time-stamp enough to meet the requirem…
23A916 Karen E. Ellingstad, et al. v. Kake Tribal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment ninth-circuit oral-argument Question not identified.
23-7185 Lawrence Northern v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Wisconsin 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-of-choice direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-v-machner strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Is State v. Machner Unconstitutional? Subsumed within this question is a subsidiary question: Have Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin and the Eleventh Circu…
23-7170 Edward Revenous Brown v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation district-court due-process federal-habeas federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-error notice-of-appeal state-habeas 1. DiDTtne united states District courtmagistrataw +he southern Dis+ric+in on d for Ml AMI - DADE county>-Florida Error in denying the Petitioners £3 …
23A894 Terrance Brown v. Andrew Beshear, Governor of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rules jurisdictional-prerequisite notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant time-limitation Question not identified.
23A877 Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Big Sky Water & Sewer District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals petition-deadline supreme-court-rules time-extension This case presents two important questions regarding the Clean Water Act: 1) whether the Ninth Circuit erred by determining that a pipe is not a "poin…
23-7130 In Re William Graven 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel TAKING THE HIGH ROAD : My Appeals Panel of 3 Circuit Judges accidentally missed that the District Court Judge had issued 2 Orders, each on different l…
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23-7103 Marilyn Eason v. Cook County Correctional Facility, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-standing pleadings standing vr XYove a. xx©ad asvveodUjd a^^ou^! !po,(YoC- <\3&u-vc Had (Aorvoexx . aXcudAe odemyjU. fe&foIV ate), Xv x uov3r\ -\o aw\£x\d a\2_ cY Ay\^ ' X ©u<^…
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…
23-1057 Paul Johnson v. Matthew Tepper Texas 2024-03-27 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-neutrality party-presentation pro-se pro-se-plaintiff sua-sponte sua-sponte-arguments supreme-court-review Whether the United States Supreme Court will review the actions of a Texas Court of Appeals, which departed from its role as a neutral arbiter by enga…
23-7077 Wayne M. English v. Lowell T. Cage, as Trustee Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-clerk judicial-jurisdiction mail-delivery mailbox-rule postal-service pro-se-litigation timely-filing 1. Is this decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in ruling that the Petitioner's appeal was untimely is in direct conflict with this court in…
23-7043 C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-21 Granted IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-review procedural-due-process standing substantial-rights 1. Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of ap…
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Question not identified.
23-7006 Kelly Porter v. Axelon, Inc., et al. Kentucky 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fraud legal-notice standing workers-compensation 1. De Novo: Whether the Supreme Court 's decision, affirmed the Appellant Court is an abuse of discretion and against the rule of law finding Porter …
23-6955 Donald Kissner v. Michigan Michigan 2024-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-breakdown constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense WAS MR. KISSNERS STATE AND FEDERAL COMSTZTUTIONAL BLGHTS 70 EFF ECTLVE Con STANCE OF APPOINTED APPELLATE yy El. WHERE THE WAS A BREAKDOWN COMMUNEICATL…
23-6930 Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-claim standing supreme-court X-l ffe-h4\fjw>fj\lr\f\u)S rfler\4rin hi$ C /yPL/a-h i^Iap^ I ly'drA RtLpfemp CAtint 'P('pCrs\p?)J~(ItflifliriJ fei/kiJ nP his (Lki)m f/) InuW'Cmd- hy…
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…
23-6910 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied IFP 46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction I. Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject matter jurisdiction? II. Do bedrock ple…
23A813 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington First Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default Question not identified.
23A799 Raul Mendez v. Moonridge Neighborhood Assocociation, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-28 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure due-process frivolous-dismissal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-appeal Question not identified.
23-6846 In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23-6853 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a Co…
23A767 Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-22 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-precedent criminal-sentencing en-banc-review procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review In sentencing a defendant for a non-violent gun-possession offense, what role, if any, should a district court's stereotyped views about firearms in g…
23A759 Warren Chen, et al. v. Razberi Techologies, Inc., et al. Texas 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari court-of-appeals supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-883 Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange Louisiana 2024-02-16 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing Should this case be allowed to conflict with both federal and state cases which hold that a nonparty cannot intervene in a case without adherence to F…
23-887 In Re Eugene Misquith 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review magistrate-judge magistrate-review procedural-fairness Did the Opinion of The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, namely: "After reviewing the briefs and the record, we find no error, And we affirm th…
23-870 Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC v. Department of Transportation Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law agency-action appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure hazardous-materials-transportation-act judicial-review statutory-deadline statutory-interpretation When an aggrieved party petitions for judicial review of the Department of Transportation's final action under the Hazardous Materials Transportation …
23A735 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari medical-hardship pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
23-6677 Michael Isidoro Sanchez v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights colorable-claims due-process indigent-defense of-right-appeal post-conviction-review right-to-counsel smith-v-robbins This case raises an issue of nationwide importance concerning the vital role that courts Bnders review per the "two interrelated tasks" in achieving t…
23A716 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC Federal Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari due-process federal-circuit judicial-transparency summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-6613 Kathy Allen v. Arthur Allen, et al. North Carolina 2024-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rules due-process estate-litigation motion-to-dismiss national-interest north-carolina standing Did the NCCOA and NCSC - Improperly Deny Appellant's Motions for R. 33 Notice of Representation or was violation of the appellate rules and is of Nati…
23-6603 Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-6593 Larry Rush, aka Leroy Thomas v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction petition-denial third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in affirming Mr. Rush's Denial of Habeas Corpus?
23-810 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment since the defendant did …
23A694 Jabari J. Johnson v. Carolyn Hansen Tenth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure failure-to-prosecute pro-se procedural-rules tenth-circuit Question not identified.
23-806 Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure electronic-filing excusable-neglect federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-cause intervening-circumstances judicial-discretion pioneer-investment-services 1. Whether in overview of the textual language set forth in Fed. R. App. P 4(a)(5)(A) (ii) did Congress afford differing terms allowing the lower cour…
23A681 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. California 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-filing forma-pauperis jurisdictional-challenge petition-for-review pro-se Question not identified.
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…
23-791 Peter Thompson v. Gregg Sullivan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court-proceedings due-process fraud ninth-circuit-rules pro-se-filing procedural-due-process record record-exclusion standing 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the lower US District Court of Montana proceedings could be equitably affirmed when the district court…
23-6519 Tonette L. Vazquez v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mediation remand settlement TWec^U€s-Y cxcyre.cc l to o.'p^oP 0 $50,000. 00 -YW oiaaY> MexA»<vY\OY\?vo <z,oAWx- ov~ r»oY x seA se+YW* v'ev'+ of*iOV\ \ S ^ ^ TT^e-c^iAestiovi is…
23-780 Eugene Misquith v. St. Mary's Medical Center Florida 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure florida-constitution florida-statute judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-decline legal-process motion-to-dismiss standing DID THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA, BY DE CLINING JURISDICTION IN THIS CASE: 1. INVALIDATE THE LAW ITSELF WHEN IT DID NOT ASSUME MANDATORY JURISDICTIO…
23A662 Jacques Saade v. Fay Servicing, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-restrictions judicial-economy mortgage-default pro-se-litigation sanctions Question not identified.
23A650 Scott Smith v. Entrepreneur Media Inc., a California Corporation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-12 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari filing-deadline ninth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23A633 Sean P. Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure procedural-relief supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether plaintiffs injured abroad by federal actors may sue in a U.S. court under diversity jurisdiction and foreign tort law, notwithstanding that th…
23-741 Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law Whether the cross-appeal rule, which prohibits the granting of a remedy in favor of an appellee absent the filing of a cross-appeal, is jurisdictional…
23A625 Shaheryar Khan v. Kent Seton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure court-dismissal frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
23-6395 In Re Daniel Lee Beckley 2023-12-28 Denied IFP all-writs-act appellate-procedure federal-appeals filing-deadline houston-v-lack incarcerated-person mandamus prison-mail prisoner-litigation pro-se-filing supreme-court-mandate timely-filing In Houston v. lack , 487 U.S. 266,108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988), this Honorable Court held that when an incarcerated person submits his/her l…
23-6375 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights dismissal-of-appeal due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure plea-agreement supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit-court united-states-supreme-court-law Question #1: Did the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, violate Sells' Right to 'Due Process' and 'access to a Court of Law' guaranteed by …
23-6330 Raymond Ghaloustian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harmless-error harrison-v-united-states miranda-rights miranda-warning opening-brief The Court has held that where a defendant's statements are admitted in the Government's case-in-chief in violation of Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384…
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error?
23-6313 In Re Jason D. Fisher 2023-12-21 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion standing sua-sponte-dismissal DO APPELLATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS HAVE CARTE BLANCHE TO RAISE AND DECIDE IMPORTANT ISSUES IN A CASE WITHOUT EVER SEEKING THE INPUT OF ANY OF THE…
23-6321 Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re…
23A546 National Religious Broadcasters v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari religious-broadcasters supreme-court-rules time-extension trade-association Question not identified.
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…
23-6239 Christopher Everson v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. Second Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court independent-action judicial-procedure mandate-rule rule-60 timing timing-limitations The Petitioner presents two questions: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 60 (d) (1) Provides: "Other powers to grant relief, This rule does not …
23-6214 Sealed v. Sealed Florida 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding judicial-review manifest-injustice parental-rights 1. Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner opportunity for belated appeal of the Lower Court 's decision to terminate h…
23-6224 Terry Daum v. Joseph Corey, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-statute gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-probability sawyer-v-whitley He * i/-e pr& (oa b r it h y Lj //. f/)c,r-Lj hand 1 evidence"0<ZS re a. <S on a es fa hi is fed in for#. d, " dear and under cj°35 fan dar dt Confihc…
23-629 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Since a Certificate of Appealability must be granted when reasonable jurists could disagree on the resolution of a constitutional claim or conclude th…
23A525 Randall Cope v. Thomas Lillard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari prisoner-petition pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
23-6192 David Lewis Holland v. Texas Texas 2023-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation QUESTION 1: Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case l…
23-6148 Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri…
23-6113 Michael Eugene Lewis v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel texas-criminal-law Whether the Petitioner was afforded effective assistance of counsel at trial and on appeal, and whether the scheme in Texas on a Motion for New Trial …
23-6114 Andre Jackson v. California California 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights court-opinion due-process evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-issue legal-relief procedural-error record-development 1. Whether Appellant's cause vs performance was clearly erroneous. 2. Whether the issue of insufficient evidence was a significant, obvious and clear…
23-6127 Shawna Karnes, et al. v. Tiffany Montengo, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception judicial-review jurisdiction rocker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-judgement Does the federal district court and federal court of appeals have the jurisdiction to reverse or modify a state-court judgement though a fraud excepti…
23-563 Obaida Abdulky, et al., as Parents and Next Friends of Anthony Abdulky v. Lubin & Meyer, P.C., et al. Massachusetts 2023-11-27 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence judicial-review legal-standards notice procedural-fairness 1. Whether by failing to allow the Petitioners an opportunity to present evidence under the new legal standards created at the appellate level, the Ap…
23-6089 Christopher Lenard Blockson v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
23A462 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-528 Michael S. Barth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process intervention-rights judicial-access media-representation procedural-due-process recusal standing I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to intervene as of right and permissively in this litigation; and denial of the general public's right of access to …
23-6041 Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO…
23-508 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability when it found th…
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review In the case below, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Final Written Decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board b…
23-5950 Kent Leroy Clark v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-remedy federal-prisoner postconviction-relief 1. Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of re…
23-448 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 as the June 9th, 2023 and June 13th, 2023 arose from an improperly di…
23-5883 Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis Because filing fees are not required for removal of a criminal action under [28 U.S.C.] § 1443, it is not necessary to grant Petitioner in forma paupe…
23A377 Anthony Andrews v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-25 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure frivolous-dismissal imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury Question not identified.
23A373 Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time judicial-review tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari whether the federal courts lack jurisdiction to consider the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history to assess guilt and puni…
23-5865 Jason Dix v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte I. May an appellate court, consistent with due process, relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide th…
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability? 2. Shoul…
23-5822 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-rules jurisdiction jurisdiction-statement motion-for-permission pro-se rule-54b standing Whether, the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, pursuant to Pro Se plaintiffs …
23A337 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure federal-rule-appellate-procedure-4 incarcerated-litigant petition-for-rehearing prison-mailbox-rule timely-filing Question not identified.
23-5772 Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling DID THE UNEITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN SUSTAINGING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS' H…
23-5746 James H. Hayes v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing standing ^ sJfege 4ML ife dMifolCnifeL ^ Kii/^ Q^iarl: desird -(or £ caml<^ CDdcEMfm Uu^5fecteirt(i<Mtdmid 4 Ma.itej© . n ' \ - ' u^S u^f6fsi(2). nttdt & sabst…
23-5750 Todd Ferry v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-violation civil-rights default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-petition state-court 1. Did the State and the Federal Habeas courts' decision that ineffective assistance of trial and direct appeal counsel issues were defaulted because …
23-5716 Jimmy Zavala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10(e) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-petition motion-to-correct procedural-rules rule-10e successive-appeal 1. When should the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) be recharacterized as a successive appeal? 2. Do the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedur…
23-297 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York Indiana 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata The Indiana courts ' judgments violated Newman 's Constitutional rights to due process in the absence of hearings in the trial court, by impositions 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.
23-5569 Francisco Gutierrez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record?
23-5559 Jarrish Outlaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-remedy manifest-injustice manifest-of-injustice standing supreme-court-review writ-jurisdiction WHETHER OR NOT THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT WAS IN ERROR TO DENY THE PETITIONER 'S PETITION TO INVOKE ALL WRIT JURISDICTION ON A MANIFEST OF INJUSTICE FO…
23-5560 Anthony Ravon Ruffin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts jones-v-hendrix judicial-review ninth-circuit rehab-act standing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment in my case. Court's denial of relief presented in my appeal regarding Onfri …
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…
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Question not identified.
23-5537 Euphrates Earl Bean v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights contracts due-process equal-rights judicial-review standing takings vested-rights If J fife. 3 no-tic a of pap -le Ilin&JrAe, an "ckXiaahon of contracts"-inferred ?H Vou OLr\ appeal is ibe.re.'3 ^)iJ It Courts V16 kfe drticlz XS&cf…
23-204 WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases, in cont…
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Question not identified.
23-5480 Jesus C. More v. Florida Florida 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure competency-hearing due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar procedural-rules remedies separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction 1.) IN LIGHT OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON 'S ASSERTED SEPARATION OF POWERS PRINCIPLES IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPES " NO. 78 AND 81, IS TRIAL PROCEDURAL JURISDI…
23-5487 Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5471 Scott A. Shreffler v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure clerical-error due-process evidentiary-hearing houston-v-lack notice-of-appeal prisoner-mailbox-rule pro-se-filing timeliness QUESTION I: ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S APPEAL FOR UNTIMELY FILING OF NOTICE OF APPEAL, BASED ON PETITIONER'S ADMITTED CLERICAL ERROR OF MI…
23-5384 Wayne Lee Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-discretion due-process judicial-process legal-petition merits-review procedural-issue supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Wk^ther We, Lowe-C C^rt $Vovii Ia flowed co^/\$c I +o w't%d •froAA Vchho/ie-C 5 ApP&^ j foiow/Mj H\e ?^Hf\ovier Kac$ Aie.fi / -Pof Brief, fWi \AJ(S$ ^…
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER A COA?
23-137 Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant was its intent clear that a substituted appellant cou…
23-5337 Noel Brown v. State Correctional Institution at Somerset, Administration Office, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-rules default-judgment due-process federal-rules inmate-accounts notice-of-appearance standing stare-decisis 1. Does the substantial holding in case on point Commonwealth v. Spotz, No.9 MD 2008 . In which the Commonwealth Court, Senior Judge Kelly, held that …
23-5221 Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-66 Norbert A. King, II v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation 1. The lower court endorsed the Government's supplementation of the "record" with new documents mid-appeal. Does the lower Court's decision, which dem…
23-5124 Quincetta Yvonne Cargill, aka Queen, aka Tonya, aka Angela Scott, aka Antela Scott, aka QuincetTucker, aka Quincetta Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing right-to-counsel Where the defendant-appellant acted prose at trial prosecuting several viable issues for appeal, does the exclusion of the appellant's opinions, reque…
23-5077 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief In a first appeal of right, did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") violate defendant-appellant Ronald Boyajian's ("Peti…
23-25 Michael Charles Ward v. James V. Chafin, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied absolute-immunity appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 In 2010, Petitioner Charlie Ward was convicted of aggravated stalking and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The prosecutors who obtained that convictio…
23-11 Gary Victor Dubin v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure claims-processing-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion temporary-disability Whereas, in Petitioner Dubin's three separate timely appeals, filed by him both as an attorney and as personally representing himself and nearly one- …
23-5006 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure case-consolidation consolidation due-process judicial-discretion prejudice procedural-fairness relevant-issues 1. Wether, Consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant may suffer prejudice, when a Court will order a Consolidation of Cases, where one case …
22-7777 Saria Walker v. R. Castriotta, et al. South Carolina 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias rule-interpretation standing 1.) Why is the Constitution " Right To Due Process " NOT being Upheld ? 2.) Why is Rule 221(b) Not being Upheld in the South Carolina Court Of Appeal…
22-1201 Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard if it maintains the authority …
22-1188 Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal …
22-7732 George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. Florida 2023-06-08 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure deadlines discretion dismissal motions In case 2D21-2195, the Second District Court of Appeals initially issued an order that granted the appellant's former counsel's motion to amend the in…
22-7737 Stewart Hines v. Gwendolen Cleopha Nelson South Dakota 2023-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure beneficiary-standing civil-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation real-party-in-interest rule-60b-motion standing trust-beneficiary trust-representation trust-trustee trustee-rights 1. Whether the sole beneficiary and sole trustee of a trust is the real party interest and can represent that trust pro se? 2. Whether the sole benef…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Did Reprise His Grounds from His Motion…
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7648 In Re William M. Windsor 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure exceptional-circumstances federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-order in-forma-pauperis judicial-review jurisdiction-challenge state-court-authority void-orders I. Is a federal court order void when jurisdiction is never determined? If so, every order of the DISTRICT COURT and 11TH CIRCUIT are invalid, and thi…
22-1143 Renee Sweet v. Douglas County Board of Commissioners Colorado 2023-05-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights colorado-revised-statutes constitutional-rights courtroom-security douglas-county-colorado-zoning-resolutions due-process property-rights property-taking zoning zoning-resolution The following questions are presented: 1. Is a zoning resolution, having been adopted, a policy, or the equivalent in law of a zoning ordinance, havi…
22-1138 John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine The question presented for review is whether vacatur is required where a case becomes moot solely by the action of defendants who had prevailed in the…
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Where the initial review collateral proceeding is the first designated proceeding for a prisoner to raise a claim of infective assistance of counsel a…
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…
22-7574 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment mental-illness notice-of-appeal pro-se-motion separate-document-rule separate-judgment statutory-interpretation timely-appeal The entire erroneous reliance of the court of appeal in Ahmed v. Shoop, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 31469 (6th Cir., Nov. 14, 2022), is upon 28 U.S.C. § 2101…
22-1105 Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court For decades preceding 2010, this Court and several circuit courts held it was improper for a trial court to sua sponte grant summary judgment, without…
22-7499 Judy Thorpe v. Rosemarie Cipparulo, et al. New Jersey 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-certification due-process equitable-review judicial-review legal-review manifest-error prejudicial-error trial-court-decision Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev…
22-7478 Marla Faith Crawford v. David Patrick Corrigan, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error rehearing-en-banc standing 1) Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by refusing to pole the rehearing en bac and affirming the US District Court dismissal of petitio…
22-7454 In Re Reginald Swinton 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an…
22-7433 Carlos Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granting a CoA on the basis that the Petitioner was not able to argue his case without appointed counsel.
22-1036 Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco This case presents an intractable conflict between the rights of appellants in the Fifth Circuit to enjoy equal protection under the law and meaningfu…
22-7322 Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by denying a certificate of appealability?
22-7325 Noel Brown v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review court-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion prisoner-appeal standing 1. Did the Denial of Appellant's motion for in forma patiperis, by the U.S. Court of Appeals, violate Rule 24(A)(5), of the Federal Rule oj: Appellate…
22-7313 Rakim Moberly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-standard compassionate-release criminal-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-step-act notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appeal 1) Did the Petitioner's Letter to the District Court Clerk, which stated: "5:19-Cr~136-DCR Dear Court Clerk I received the decision from the court to…
22-994 Wall Street Apartments, LLC, et al. v. All Star Property Management, LLC, et al. Washington 2023-04-13 Denied access-to-court appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-hearing decision-based-on-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review meaningful-hearing scrutiny-of-state-court-proceedings Appellants seek review of a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petition of review of the Washington Court of…
22-7252 Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it denied the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing despite the petitioner's showing that his…
22-7215 Robert William Wazney v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure direct-review due-process exhaustion-of-remedies jury-instructions post-conviction-relief retroactivity state-court-jurisdiction Subsequent Petitioner's conviction/ while his case was under direct review, State High-Court held in an unrelated case—Stukes [1]—that the trial court…
22-7220 Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit 1) Musk MESimamens conchors fer assaul voitn intenb te ou Ader and LAorions. assaull le vacated because ray, are nck supported. by soPhiciend eindence…
22-7160 Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions 1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi…
22-7161 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2023-03-30 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process finality procedural-fairness time-limitation timeliness transcript-denial 1* JtA.i.-bb«. Served ijKe^ ' 1~ke )-f's order S| fcce "flte rwo'floh K^A-S snUrwiH^d feM.es «.ppe.|(«.n.'f' five opp^r-fi** rfy "t^ ^utUe ^ A-f*pl' «…
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…
22-944 Lois Yankah v. Sgt. Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadline fugitive-disentitlement fugitive-disentitlement-doctrine speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether an appellate court may dismiss an appeal which has been postmarked by United States Post Office before the filing deadline, filed by court cle…
22-7114 Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit DID THE APPEALS COURT FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERROR BY DENYING PETITIONERS CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE APPELLATE COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASS…
22-7096 Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to …
22-7033 DeAndre Forrest v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceeded his guilt during trial? 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Er…
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic…
22-6942 Kwame Burrell v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion right-to-counsel state-constitution THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO PROTECT PETITIONER'S FUNDAMENTAL DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO SUBSTITUTE APPELLATE COUNSEL SUBSEQUENT TO HIS GUILTY PLEA WHEN ORIGIN…
22-6897 Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6851 David Freeman v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d appellate-procedure due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation sixth-amendment state-post-conviction (1) Under these circumstances, does a court of appeals violate the fundamental principles of party presentation and Petitioner's due process rights? …
22-6804 Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court 1. Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an appeal . 2. Whether the…
22-6805 Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation This Court should grant Certiorari to determine whether the Appellate Court's construction of a statute pursuant to People v. Rineland, 2015 Ill App (…
22-6788 In Re Kent Williams 2023-02-15 Denied IFP access-to-courts administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing Should this court order the Minth cirout court of Appeals to discontinue its practice of serding its litigants to a third Party (zdao Dept.of orrectio…
22-6767 Travis Ray Thompson v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure covid-restrictions district-court due-process excusable-neglect federal-courts frap-4 habeas-corpus notice-of-appeal standing - Whether the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion finding Petitioner had not shown excusable neglect for not filing his Notice of Appeal in the Dist…
22-758 Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC Utah 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-immunity procedural-rules record record-review standing u.r.a.p-11 1. Whether the Court of Appeals allowing materials not on the record conflicts with the requirements of U.R.A.P 11? 2. Whether judges have qualified …
22-6671 Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington I. Does trial counsel render ineffective assistance when counsel fails to request a mid-trial Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978) hearing when the…
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6630 John Butler v. Howard Sissem, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure correctional-facility federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing prisoner-rights standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third Circuit, did in fact have jurisdiction concerning Petitioners' appeal under the Federal Rul…
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights when it ignored this Courts precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, B…
22-6603 Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-6610 Nicodemo S. Scarfo v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-appointed-counsel court-appointment due-process en-banc-petition legal-remedy petition-for-certiorari standing withdrawal-of-counsel WHAT REMEMDY IS AVAILABLE FOR PETITIONER, WHERE COURT APPOINTED ATTORNEY IS GRANTED WITHDRAWL FROM FILING A PETITON FOR CERTIORARI, WHEN THE ATTORNEY …
22-6611 Joseph P. Counts v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights cohen-collateral-order due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-counsel notice-of-appeal pro-se standing timeliness urgent-matters Question not identified.
22-671 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-46 appellate-procedure case-law judicial-administration judicial-review panel-composition patent-law statutory-interpretation written-description 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 46 and principles of sound judicial administration preclude a court of appeals from adding a new judge to form a new panel and …
22-6557 Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur 1. Cumulative Finality: When a Plaintiff has not requested cumulative finality for an interlocutory appeal, the Circuit Court of Appeals did not deter…
22-637 In Re Larry Elliot Klayman 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing Petitioner Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit styled Klayman v. Rao et al., 21-cv-2473 (D.D.C.) (the "Rao Case") in the U.S. District Court for the Distric…
22-645 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference appellate-mandates appellate-procedure civil-procedure compliance due-process false-statements federal-agencies judicial-deference judicial-review Whether federal agencies are exempted from the rule requiring strict compliance with appellate mandates. Whether judicial deference to federal agenci…
22-6425 Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability?
22-578 Richard Behar v. Department of Homeland Security Second Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Amici (2) agency-records appellate-procedure confidentiality foia-exemption-7c freedom-of-information-act party-presentation-principle presidential-administration privacy-interests statutory-interpretation 1. Whether documents obtained and used by a federal agency in the legitimate conduct of its official duties are not "agency records" and thus never su…
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen…
22-6328 Versiah M. Taylor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing I. IF AppkIeD IHE USCA MISTAKENLY HEIGHT OF SCREENNG KHEN IT SCREENED 2 NOTICE OF APPEAL AND REASONS FOR C.OA.. π THE USCA OVERLOKED DENNINO IF DISADV…
22-6249 Ruben James Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-to-reopen notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-deficiency 1. Whether a pro se litigant's "Notice of Appeal" explaining why he submitted out of time constitutes a liberally-construed "Motion to Reopen Time to …
22-6251 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. California California 2022-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review medical-treatment reasonable-time-to-consult right-to-counsel 1. Why did the Court of Appeal court issue a pro-forma component, 0902, in Appel v. National, that Appellant could not file a defendant's request-Auth…
22-6218 Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-6220 Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6196 Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing (1) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S EX POST FACTO CLAIM? (2) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTR…
22-6198 Darrel Thorn v. Racetrac Petroleum, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-leniency meaningful-opportunity pro-se pro-se-litigation standing This case raise the question whether the procedural treatment currently to Pro-Se Litigants by federal courts comports with due process or whether mor…
22-6153 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review 1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant to Miller …
22-6105 Eric Malmstrom v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-precedent en-banc federal-courts judicial-review stare-decisis Must a federal court of appeals adhere to the principle of stare decisis and abide by prior circuit precedent absent an intervening decision from this…
22-6111 In Re Katrese Nickelson 2022-11-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-sealing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard motion-to-quash service-of-process standing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detainer writ-of-mandate 1. Whether Assembly Bill No.2819 's mandatory automatic and permanent case sealing requirements in limited unlawful detainer cases extends to sealing…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court …
22-6043 Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6034 Francis Stock v. Chanelle Braswell, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-filing notice notice-of-appeal prisoner-rights service-of-process standing Is Prisoner entitled to notice of Dismissal by the U.s. District court under +he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? when Prisoner filed his Notice of …
22-5953 Robert Lee Swinton v. New York New York 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal After a defendant has shown his counsel a desire to appeal, can counsel take a defendant's appeal of right and fail to file a Notice of Appeal in the …
22-5924 Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence I. Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing sufficiency-of-the-evidence claims - a standard and scope of constitutional dimension …
22-391 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing (1) Does California anti-SALPP statute Code of Civil Procedure § 425.16 protect illegal, unlawful activity? (2) Can an Independent Calendar (IC) judg…
22-392 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins by denying Bel Air's motion to defer its ruli…
22-5911 Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me…
22-5912 William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5904 Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD CLARIFY AND RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE STANDARDS TO BE UTILIZED WHEN DECIDING THE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO…
22-5865 Charles Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is…
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified.
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from …
22-5740 Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-284 Gary Frisby, pka G-Money v. Sony Music Entertainment, dba RCA Records, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisprudence appellate-procedure case-consolidation copyright-infringement judicial-review musical-composition procedural-error sound-recording subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power This Petition involves tw o consolidated copyright infringement cases (Case 1712 and Case 4167) regarding a hip-hop "beat track," i.e., the background…
22-5668 Thomas Guerriero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule, which bars consideration of arguments not raised or decided previously, should be overturned.
22-5620 Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver 1.May the government use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen register orde…
22-5603 Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5607 Steven Justin Villalona v. Mr. Hansen, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine federal-rules-civil-procedure filing houston-v-lack notice notice-of-judgment pro-se pro-se-prisoner statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Court's holding in Houston v. Lack — was based on equity or the interpretation of the word filed? 2. Whether district courts may pres…
22-5598 Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
22-5571 Wamel Allah v. L. Latona, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure brief-submission briefs circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure dismissal due-process government-misconduct government-response judicial-review procedural-due-process Whether The (U.S. Court of Appeals For The Second Circuit), "Decisions and Orders" dismissing Petitioner's Appeals Without a response from the Governm…
22-5551 Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-206 Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System, et al. New York 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process pension pension-benefits property-rights standing state-constitution state-retirement-system state-statute The word "substantial" is not found in the governing statute, CPLR 5601 (a), or the New York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals as…
22-5511 Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5499 Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERROR IN DENYING THE COA AND NOT TAKING INTO THE COUNT THE COMPLEXITY AND SEVERITY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATION?…
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF…
22-5395 Michael Gorrio v. Correctional Officer Francis, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rico civil-rico-conspiracy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review well-pleaded-facts I. DID THE APPELLANT'S AMENDED COMPLAINT OF 43 PRESENT SUB-SECTION WELLPLEADED FACTS, AS TO PLAUSIBLY STATE A CLAIM TO SUPPORT THE COURT TO OVERCOME M…
22-5392 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed: to disregard the US Supreme Court 's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, t…
22-5375 Nathaniel Waugh v. A. Ralph, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-principles court-procedure due-process evidence-application judicial-review legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice standing Court proceeded (l auordt^ -}o Justice" Or deprived p^frfioner o-f0) whiMitr lower '■S^Ws-farrtW rights? CX) k ^editr Congress J * ^ o4^ [auf Conducte…
22-5376 Jerico Matias Cruz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis standing (I) P&£D{L ?UkPrtTTf^F~(LfLu^ £ /tidtZoa; fy&l#rKpfafrzrSG>frPP/£LOMfr *** fvgo?4- f>Auf£A& r toj&ty A7V&&H&T- s*)OTZ&*J rF/Z/Kjzsszzotf <rz> J=Aj f…
22-5339 Maria Navarro Martin v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief standing state-court-decision state-law if ame^tleyl <£i/^r Gvudc-T -a Jk^encfoui tUui* r an fFHciregj o-r i wc^'wiploTle Le^s^. fl*£fx r wial v 1/ (xl do-eAfVclujd^/ cJv&ytj e_ Uik urn chc…
22-128 Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas Texas 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment Is it repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States when th e rights of a decorated police offer, who was a victim of sexual assault and…
22-122 Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania 2022-08-09 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court 1) Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law…
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Abraham Fisch's case raises a pressing issue for this court's consideration: Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far depar…
22-5317 Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP Fourth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022, when it "reviewed the record and found …
22-5325 Malcolm Bernard Benson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-registry due-process standing statutory-interpretation Sd jp/6/lJNt fill jzsjfc/y h/stfof/h o# dh£u)lwtf at*/ dtpoS/M /V fa foriVitfc/dr S/rfa"/j&}/ b£/vA£ 7%£ /■A/'/'dpy /•#/{
22-5272 J. R. v. North Dakota North Dakota 2022-08-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-findings juvenile-court standing Did the Juvenile Court's record contain substantial Evidence to Support the Courts' Jurisdictional Findings as to Father. Did the Juvenile court abus…
22-5258 Jeremy Lafitte v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal pleading procedural-error rule-8(a) Question not identified.
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b 1) Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability ("COA") to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds? 2)…
22-5222 Travis Lee Combs v. Washington Washington 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings Question not identified.
22-5194 Maxo Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DIS MISSING PETITIONER'S "NOTICE OF APPEAL" FROM THE DENIAL OF A MOTION TO VACATE, FILED PURSUANT …
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard QUESTION ONE: IN FILING FOR A COA, CAN A SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE RECORD BY AN INDIGENT BE CONSIDERED A SUBSTANTIVE PART OF DEMONSTRATING "A SUBSTA…
22-31 Arizona v. Brian Mecinas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-iii-standing civil-procedure intervention mootness munsingwear-doctrine political-question standing vacatur 1. Whether the motion to intervene was timely. 2. Whether the opinion below should be vacated as moot under Munsingwear.
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari on 2^ 2o2.\ , o-F * / fl/ot/ ct 0-£ h'lt*y ,o4 7'or-i cUt/rts- flc-t [FT cA) rel"tvu /o OhArtat 7Ay /A 1 n (rr*-yry V, Ur\AA /cr$ub/r\ J$6/o^\ . -f…
21-8273 Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari VJHer-rPCfc T've /I'P'P cals pjjp I i ^w^/^-pro t//at/p£^riTitfw€Z 'S /ionot-l fofc CerT?T/HCA t£ PP /dpPcALA'S/C/r'f U/^5 P/(/<£]> utJ-ri/WcLH ofc A…
21-8256 Ortaz Sharp v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi…
21-8175 Adrian Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review Where the Court of Appeals itself grants a Certificate of Appealability and specifies the issue to be decided, the parties fully brief the merits, and…
21-8147 John P. Tomkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion 1. Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.…
21-1545 Allen Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board District of Columbia 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process gun-rights license-revocation standing vagueness 1. Can the government render moot a fully briefed appeal challenging the denial of a license to carry a pistol by granting the license — though not co…
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…
21-1541 Quannah L. Harris v. Jerry Biddle, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-limitations standing 1. Does Rule 4(a)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure limit equitable relief as it is part of the broad powers granted to the Federal Courts? 2. W…
21-8072 Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant, by failing to directly appeal his sentence, procedurally default his claim that the court had no jurisdiction to imprison him pursuan…
21-7972 Demajio Jerome Ellis v. Indiana Indiana 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing supreme-court-appeal DID I HAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF DIRECT APPELLATE COUNSEL WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL FAILED TO TIMELY NOTIFY ME OF THE DID THE INDUANA COURT OF APPEA…
21-7962 Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a certificate of appealability is not warranted is in irreconcilable conflict with this Court's decis…
21-1468 Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by sua s…
21-7938 Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 Through local rule or case law, some federal appeals courts, including this Court, require lower courts to explain their opinions or orders sufficient…
21-7932 Sameer Muhammad v. Florida Florida 2022-05-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-constitution judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction mandate trial-court-authority WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WAS WITHOUT JURISDICTION TO ENTER AN ORDER REINSTATING THE PREVIOUS ORDER VACATING OFFENSE UNDER DOUBLE JEOPARDY PRINCIPLE …
21-7895 Antoine Mayes v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA…
21-1442 In Re Adriano Kruel Budri 2022-05-16 Denied appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing Did the Panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit ") err by dismissing for want to prosecution a pending Appellant 's …
21-7875 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency Does a defendant have a Constitutional Right to Effective Counsel from beginning to end, while in their Direct Appeal? And if that defendant has not w…
21-7882 In Re Lin Ouyang 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals court-rules exceptional-circumstances final-judgment finality-of-judgment frivolous-appeal mandamus statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed petitioner's appeal as frivolous and stated that "No further filing will be entertained in this close…
21-7873 Charlie Branner, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process georgia-appeals-court motion-for-reconsideration service-of-order service-of-process state-court writ-of-certiorari Was it Court error for the Georgia Supreme Court to deny writ of Certiorari, when the Georgia Appeals Court failed in its duty to Serve All Parties, u…
21-7765 Rafael Lora v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence judicial-review standing On Direct Appeal, the Appeals Court denied, neglected, avoided, and failed to document the appellants submitted evidence (appendix) and did the same f…
21-7738 Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7692 Manuel Geraldo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due Process in effecting petitioner's opportunity toibe heard.
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review (1) WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT "DENIED" PETITIONER'S "REQUEST FOR REVIEW" ON THE SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S WRIT OF MANDAT…
21-7630 Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the courts of appeal as to whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degre…
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred when the Court dismissed Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability when other juri…
21-7482 Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi…
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-7422 Edward Shane West-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access delegated-authority due-process government-authority in-forma-pauperis judicial-review standing tax 1. Where does Charles P. Rettig and his employee's that are on his staff get the Delegated Authority to question the Plaintiff Edward Shane West-El re…
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7360 Marc N. Greenberg v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fundamental-fairness notice-of-appeal supervised-release I. Whether the technical requirements of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(l)(B), addressing the contents of a Notice of Appeal, trump an indiv…
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS …
21-7347 Anthony Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction statutory-interpretation 1.) WHerAer rde peiwciples of egutaBle rouing spply 40 G8USC 22S(), DUEN MAE gLOBAL CORONAVRUS THT A HA BEN pURSiNg RAgNS DIgE OND SOME EXTROORDINARY …
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent (1) Did the lower courts erroneously employed the wrong legal standard (2) Was the Court Of Appeal decision in conflict with controlling opinion of t…
21-7203 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab Oregon 2022-02-25 Denied IFP adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing 1) Does 14 justice(?) for appellee Commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal, on grounds that Petitioner failed to serve the notice of appeal within…
21-7123 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process florida-constitution florida-supreme-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction record-keeping records standing 1. Can the Supreme Court of Florida Rule on whether to accept Jurisdiction on a case which has no records ? 2. Should imprisonment without any record…
21-7110 Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues, willfully denying a second request, a failure to execute its …
21-7102 Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6975 David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida Florida 2022-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access Does an innocent citizen representing themself against criminal allegations, prior to trial have a due process right pursuant to the Fifth, Sixth, or …
21-6961 Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error Question not identified.
21-6958 Vorarut Vorasiangsuk v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit formatting-deficiency motion-to-exceed-page-limit motion-to-supplement prisoner-rights pro-se Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion and violated Mr. Vorasiangsuk's due process right when it misconstrued the second …
21-1033 Edward Mandel v. White Nile Software, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied appellate-procedure bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-procedure discharge due-process judicial-review non-dischargeable-claims settlement-agreement 1. Where the court of appeals did not allow evidence, witness and expert testimony at trial on the Settlement Agreement, should this Court summarily g…
21-6828 James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida Florida 2022-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure I. Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily "dismiss as unauthorized " a prison Petitioner's is Sta…
21-6791 Daryoush Javaheri v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights crawford-vs-us due-process judicial-review res-judicata spencer-v-kemna spencer-vs-kemna standing Did the lower courts fail to apply the "capable of repetition yet evading review" doctrine in the instant matter, as expressed in Spencer v. Kemna, 52…
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…
21-920 Kalab D. Willman v. United States Armed Forces 2021-12-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete…
21-6673 John Beatty v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-20 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel smith-v-murray strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is the standards set forth in Smith v. Murray, 536 (1986) and Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387, 396 (1985) the appropriate test for appellate counsel's p…
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas 2021-12-17 Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN AFFIRMING THE TRIAL COURT WHERE EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE BEYOND A R…
21-6636 Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality In Sending And Receiving Derogatory Eknails Of Female Abuse, Racism, Hom…
21-6637 Kenan Ivery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-12-16 Denied IFP appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW WHEN THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS PROCEDURALLY DISMISSES HIS OHIO APP.R. 26(B) APPLICATIO…
21-6579 Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of …
21-881 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2021-12-14 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest court-jurisdiction due-process filing judicial-bias procedural-irregularity vexatious-litigant 1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the summary denial of Petitioner's application for leave to file appeal where the application had been previou…
21-6508 Daniel Jones v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion motion-for-counsel pro-se-litigant standing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT. OF APPEALS DECISION ERR AS A MATTER OF LAWIN DISMISSAL OF APPEAL PURSUANT TO 25 U.S.C.§ 1915(e), BASED SOLELY ON DEN…
21-6550 Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing Whether a prisoner may appeal to the United States Supreme Court under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 to contest his grounds under the Correct Constitution, regardi…
21-6553 Chad L. Enderle v. Iowa Iowa 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process heemstra legal-retroactivity pending-appeals retroactive-application retroactive-availability statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent 1) Do the federal Supreme Court cases issued subsequent to the Iowa cases determining the retroactive availability to Heemstra require the Iowa law to…
21-805 Douglas Norberg v. Nevada Center for Dermatology, et al. Nevada 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights common-law court-rules due-process judicial-precedent precedent stare-decisis unpublished-opinions 1. Is Nevada Supreme Court Rule 36 allowing appellate decisions to be unpublished and unable to the cited as precedent a violation of the rule of star…
21-816 Melvyn Gear v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation This case presents two questions for review. 1. In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §…
21-6457 Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6417 Mausean Carter v. Maryland Maryland 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law Question not identified.
21-6351 Holly Harvey v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-standard standing sWtub/u diced upp-eoj i or ab(mdioml upm o~kW ri c^kf +o uoa'weM l fU i ocluis Yk J1 *$>\WvV Reor^ 7 * qOhod is kV\fes\\old i<\ (k{\ o^'^-to 4 ^ "Y…
21-6329 Steven Blakeney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
21-6252 Ryder Shane Altman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f…
21-6243 Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg…
21-694 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure business-interruption certification-motion civil-rights due-process federal-state-relations insurance-contract insurance-contract-law judicial-discretion standing state-court-certification supreme-court-jurisdiction Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit abuse its discretion and so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
21-648 Edward Hedican v. Walmart Stores East, L.P., et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-03 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) appeal appellate-procedure certiorari civil-procedure intervention legal-standard motion-to-intervene post-judgment standing statutory-right timeliness In Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, this Court will determine whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Kentucky Attorney General's m…
21-6139 Yency Nuñez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable…
21-601 Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. Amy Berman Jackson, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irs judicial-review pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing Question 1: Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespecte…
21-578 John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. Nebraska 2021-10-20 Denied appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska (Neb. Const., art. I, § 1-3) coupled with the Equal Protection Clause of…
21-5999 Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness 1. This Court in Holguin-Hernandez recently held that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review to …
21-5995 Christopher Emory Cramer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure conference-in-chambers due-process eighth-amendment federal-rule federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10(c) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure-43 fifth-amendment judicial-proceeding record-completion record-on-appeal sixth-amendment I. Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a "hearing or trial," or "proceeding," under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) such that a …
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to …
21-545 Michael B. Ellis, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification recusal standing Do courts of appeal nationwide exhibit a pattern and practice of refusing to adjudicate EVERY issue presented by the Class of disrespected, unrepresen…
21-523 Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation Fifth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification 1. Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the …
21-510 PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised…
21-5916 Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-5895 In Re David Angel Sifuentes 2021-10-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure banister-v-davis case-precedent constitutional-provisions judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition rule-21 rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion sixth-circuit-jurisdiction I. Is Sixth Circuit required to docket Petitioner 's Wirt of Mandamus filed around August 10, 2021 and the Rules of Appellate Produce Rule 21 require…
21-5869 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure executive-committee judicial-transfer nunc-pro-tunc standing transfer venue void-ab-initio 1) whether the 7th Circuit shall transfer pending Appeal # 20-2419 and Appeal # 21-1591 to a different circuit; 2) whether the Orders of the Executiv…
21-5818 Cynthia Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits that changes to the legal rights and obligat…
21-5785 Gregory Albert Darst v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing Question 1. Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate EVERY ISSUE presented by the Class of unrepresented litig…
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as…
21-5761 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael J. Buseman PC, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied IFP adverse-parties appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process jurisdiction pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing 1) Has the Appellate Commission/Court determined Petitioner needed to have Served Respondents on Adverse parties the appeal Understanding his path, Wh…
21-5762 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing 1) Does the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing Petitioner's appeal on the jurisdictional ground of lack of device of the service of appeal…
21-5764 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Roberto Rios, et al. Oregon 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-parties appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-review service-of-process standing 0 Was -Hoe. 4ppella+e Commissioner j^sA-Ted i*\ hM/mj defied apphecchin -&r Appellate Cou.r+ -Ah^ fees —00 dhe basi5 of y/... given otll dbe CAreum …
21-5750 Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility New Hampshire 2021-09-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing Is conflicted cansel- Actual/Real conflict of intrest ineffective Counsel? And aviolation of Constitutional Rights? Do ABA (or state eQvivilent> ethi…
21-422 Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o…
21-5623 Felix Roberts v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review judicial-discretion motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-rehearing procedural-timeline recusal rehearing time-limits Of the Fifth Circuit Court of Ho. On Hay 3, 2021, Judge.James C. Petitioner didn't know until May 10, 2021;Appeals, denied Petitioner COA , Petitioner…
21-5580 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether Site United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decision…
21-5573 Richard M. Miller v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction standing writ-of-certiorari Did 'Ihe Intermediate Appellate Court Of Special Appeals Of Maryland Err When Denying Petitioner His Absolute Constitutional Right To An Appeal Or Bel…
21-5555 Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court Sanction vs. Washington delete US 068 (4284) lower Courts to present defense atheists to Violate co defendants Cig to a fair an…
21-301 Mario Lamont Sims v. Bank of New York Seventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment first-impression judicial-conduct judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-openness judicial-transparency judicial-tyranny Whether the conduct of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals was so outrageous that due process principles would absolutely bar the anonymous three judge p…
21-5468 Fredrick Mackie v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeal due-process in-forma-pauperis knowing-and-intelligent-waiver pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel Petitioner was convicted of escape from a halfway house and was sentenced in 2019 to 41 months in prison. He personally signed a pro se notice of appe…
21-5421 Michael A. Payne v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction-challenge magistrate-orders motion-to-reconsider pandemic-impact Ho\ij Comc . +hc. 5uPre.m£Cour-t oP oh»D in CA3e Klo. 3iO£±- og SLB refUsee i to accept JunadxtAion <x PPc.ll nnt3 MEA/iornndu aa'1 bk]o\jUin& 4hc. …
21-229 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York Indiana 2021-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-review takings This case presents a singular question of the outer limits of a citizen's Constitutional due process and other related Constitutional rights in legal …
21-5378 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-16 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct I. Is a capital sentence invalid, and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights, when during the final closing argument ad…
21-5343 Jimmie Washington, aka Jim Washington v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure cheney-standard cheney-test civil-procedure immediate-relief injunction injunctive-relief judicial-review mandamus mandamus-petition stay writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether a court of appeals failure to grant a first and second amended petition for writ of mandamus conflicts with this court and other court of a…
21-5337 Garrett McElveen v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics Wherein M. McElveen's original public defender became the lead State's Attorney, does not an appearance of impropriety exist? By extension, does not t…
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen…
21-5292 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-bias recusal summary-adjudication writ-proceeding A three-judge panel of California Court of Appeal, in an extraordinary writ proceeding reviewing an interlocutory trial court order denying motion for…
21-5243 Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN ISSUING AN UNELABORATED OPINION DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AFTER DENIAL OF A COA…
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 …
21-5188 Malik Nasir v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation ninth-circuit standing third-circuit Question not identified.
21-5157 Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Third Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken…
21-5074 Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit err as to forfeiture of the claim r…
21-5061 Henry Johnson Lucas, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2021-07-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fourteenth-amendment legal-interpretation standing supreme-court-rules virginia-law I. The quEstiON pResENtEd is WhEthEr thE VA. SUPREME COUt VIDLAtEDpEtitiONER'S DUE PROCESS OF LAWINVIOATION OF AMEND. 14 oF thE UNitED StAtESCONstitut…
20-8477 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release 1. WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S PETITION AS MOOT BEFORE ALLOWING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY APPEAL TO SHOW THAT HIS APPEAL MEETS…
20-1823 K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2021-07-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court Whether a due process violation under the 14 Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal fi…
20-1792 Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-1793 Aura Moody, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, J. M. v. National Football League Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-amend procedural-due-process standing 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS HAD THE AUTHORITY TO DISMISS THE APPEAL BECAUSE IT ALLEGEDLY "LACKS AN ARGUABLE BASIS EITHER IN LAW OR IN FACT " WITHO…
20-8343 Joseph Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing On third direct appeal, did the fractionally different appellate Panel plainly err by failing to force district court compliance (mandate rule) with t…
20-1754 Lawrence Joey Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-argument prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1. Is it objectionable for a prosecutor to argue to the jury that a lack of evidence does not give rise to a reasonable doubt? 2. Is the Eleventh Cir…
20-8319 John J. Wilson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure criminal-counsel direct-appeal due-process florida-bar-investigation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation plea-bargaining torture 1. Can same criminal counsel misrepresenting defendant in the same L.T. case, and other cases in the trial court documenting instances of "torture" t…
20-8281 Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion when the Second Circuit's very own decisions re…
20-1710 Zafar Bakhramovich Yadigarov v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-writ appellate-procedure coram-nobis delay due-process judicial-discretion legal-diligence legal-standards procedural-standard sound-reasons writ-of-error As petitions for writs of error corum nobis are not subject to any formal deadlines nor any statutes of limitations, the nation's courts generally den…
20-8196 William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1) Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United State…
20-8161 Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation peleai^ on OkM A^feadLsaJA/V proper eAj{d-€AAce O^A'tJC U5C §a^b6io)j (tiod UOkfiAkrfwr V(L CaofK Of red \vi d&yu^i HIajl moIIq^v
20-1658 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor First Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the First Circuit lack subject matter jurisdiction to rule while an earlier-filed Sarbanes-Oxley matter with identical causes of action is not …
20-8123 Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling CAN AN APPEALS COURT DENY A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A PETITIONER WHO HAS SHOWN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT IGNORED PRECI DENTIAL RULINGS FROM THIS…
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements Question not identified.
20-8108 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-8012 Jack Vo v. California California 2021-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law judicial-review public-interest standing supreme-court-discretion supreme-court-review voting-rights i) TV*6 O.S, oulX 6iRa*jT 4&oin- t°/o of CA*>e S. /tKJ6 too 611/& to CAse^ 'Hh'rr w-^e iMpercr/mse 10 Pvbihc . U\<& 1>hS OAf^, Rv&HT \ (+A<> M€fci <r …
20-7968 Charles Ahumada v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions 1. It is settled that criminal defendants have the constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal as of right, up to the point at which an appellate…
20-7954 David Armando Butler v. Florida Florida 2021-05-07 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process florida-district-court standing trial-court written-order WHETHER THE FLORIDA DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL DENIED THE PETITIONER DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO GRANT HIM A DIRECT APPEAL ON THE MERITS BY VIRTUE OF THE …
20-1553 Reiyn Keohane v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process gender-dysphoria mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing vacatur Petitioner Reiyn Keohane is a Florida prisoner who challenged the denial of medically necessary care for gender dysphoria under then-applicable Florid…
20-7932 Virgil Delano Presnell v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP 2254-limitations 2254(d) appellate-procedure factual-findings federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus implicit-findings judicial-interpretation state-court state-court-findings wilson-v-sellers Does Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), permit a federal habeas court to assign "implicit" factual findings to a state court's order when appl…
20-7933 Erika Jacobs v. 35 West Apartments Oklahoma 2021-05-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-court judgment-reconsideration judicial-review post-trial-motion standing state-court supreme-court-jurisdiction trial-court-decision Question not identified.
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record I. Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Mr. Walker's case because the indictment failed to state an offense against the …
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington VOVve.VW-r T\\& Ur^cA CVcAeS SeX>e*\^V\ (XifcoiV Coor^V D^r ■ Appe^S Brr<sd 1 U^Vie-n I dr Oejo\.ec& PeA\Vv,one-r vS AppUccA*or\ For A Op (CO A} ^ U.…
20-1477 Randy R. Bell v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-discretion district-court due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice-of-appeal standing Did Northern New York District Court Judge David Hurd lack jurisdiction to issue a decision, dismissing petitioner's complaint, as a result of fraud u…
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review 1) Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri, because it adds a fourth factor,…
20-1456 Walter Osborne v. Douglas E. Kellogg, et al. Florida 2021-04-16 Denied appellate-procedure change-of-venue civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-bias legal-review procedural-fairness recusal standing venue Can I get an impartial review via 5th DCA. Answer is absolutely no, based on what I have documented for 10 years. So 5th DCA should help me obtain a …
20-7733 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mandamus unlawful-detention Question not identified.
20-7753 In Re Derrick Adrian Johnson 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process standing Question not identified.
20-7734 Imeh U. Affiah v. Texas Southmost College, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fabricated-evidence judicial-review legal-review procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment This case involves some questions meriting argument: Why? (a) The US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit and the US District Court Southern Division, Browns…
20-1417 Miguel Estivill, et ux. v. Philip Von Kahle Florida 2021-04-08 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing fraud-allegations judicial-conduct judicial-duty judicial-review motion-for-rehearing standing Where the 3DCA neglected their prime duty to Rule by affirming the Trial Court's order which was in clear violation of R. Jud. Admin. 2.215(f) and Flo…
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court I)CAN A STATE PROCEDURAL RULE OR STATE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT PRECLUBE A FEDERAL COURT FROM REVIEWING A DEFENDANTS FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONIAL CLAINS? 2) CAN…
20-1411 Starline Tours of Hollywood, Inc. v. EHM Productions, Inc., dba TMZ, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-participation ninth-circuit-interpretation pragmatic-approach technical-construction Whether the Ninth Circuit's undefined requirement for meaningful judicial participation impermissibly abandons this Court's longstanding mandate that …
20-1389 Kaboni Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied appellate-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-barriers record-on-appeal record-reconstruction statement-of-proceedings supplemental-record third-circuit transcript Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10 affords litigants multiple tools to ensure a complete appellate record. Rule 10(c) states that if a hearing tra…
20-7618 Krystal Alexander-Jasmin v. Santa Monica Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-witness governmental-immunity judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in its dissent from well-established Constitutional and case law authored by its own court, and law authore…
20-7602 Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DISCRETION SUSTAINING/AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER BECAUSE NO SUBSTANTIAL QUESTION WAS PRESENTED…
20-7597 In Re Gary Peel 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-delay mandamus seventh-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus Whether a Writ of Mandamus should issue directing the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to issue a dispositive decision upon Gary…
20-7570 David Travis Frazier v. Herbert H. Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review limitations-period standing statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-judgment When a Court enters a judgment that is later determined to be void ab-initio, and a petitioner appeals from that decision, does that start the limitat…
20-7541 Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order All Circuit Courts have various Local Rules or Internal Operating Procedures (IOPs) that use Summary Orders to reduce judicial workload. The Second C…
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard The district court vacated Petitioner's death sentence because his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance. On appeal, Respondent contested only…
20-7376 Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism Question not identified.
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-7308 Michael N. Kelsey v. New York New York 2021-03-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement Are New York State's criminal appellate procedures deficient, and/or prejudicial to a criminal defendant's due process, equal protection and/or state-…
20-7310 Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's trial counsel was not ineffective under Strickland v. Washington for failing to investiga…
20-7320 Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Washington 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation Whether in reviewing a claim, appellate court must 1) apply de novo review where a superior court trial judge failed to make specific findings on the …
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a "second or successive" petition under the Antite…
20-7294 James Peter Sabatino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights communication-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process mootness statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S APPEAL AS MOOT, IN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S SUBSEQUENT RULING REAUTHOR…
20-7296 Dane Schrank v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum oral-argument reasoned-decision sentencing-guidelines standing I. Must Circuit Courts provide reasoned decisions to deny parties oral argument under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2)? II. Does a policy…
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 …
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Question not identified.
20-1188 Marilynn Thomason v. Beneficial Financial I Inc. Idaho 2021-02-25 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1956 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure constitutional-authority court-records due-process equal-protection idaho-appellate-rule-28 judicial-discretion Whether any State Supreme Court, state appellate court, state district court and/or any clerk of such court has the constitutional and statutory autho…
20-7196 Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services Virginia 2021-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation 1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal…
20-7180 William Hugh Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief…
20-7182 Anton Tuomi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest faretta-rights faretta-v-california guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel waiver-of-rights Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in concluding that petitioner was not denied his right to counsel when the state court accepted petitioner'…
20-7184 Mitchell Wagner v. Archie D. Scarborough, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-complexity legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel standing IS if A Violation of The Petii Loner 's Cons fI futioNA L Rims To Counsel WhEN APPelle Te Court FaILs To Recognize an Already Approved and accepted …
20-1117 Philip Jay Fetner v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-matters chapter-conversion conflicts-among-federal-courts constitutional-mandate constitutional-mandates equitable-mootness jurisdictional-deadline national-legal-standard supervisory-role timing-of-conversion-order Petitioner asks this Court to review two questions arising from closely related orders issued by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in two bankruptcy…
20-7132 Roy Lee Dykes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure bail bond bond-motion criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard motion-denial Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Dykes' Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-1090 Thasha A. Boyd v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts federal-employment judicial-review retroactive-legislation statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection 1. Whether the 60-day deadline for seeking judi­cial review pursuant 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(B) and the FRAP sets a bar to an appeal, as the Eleventh Ci…
20-7100 Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an "Alternate Variance Sentence" Which Was Designed To Insulate The …
20-7013 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdiction remand removal removal-and-remand standing texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? The decisions in this case conflict with a recent decision of this Court and…
20-7012 Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of…
20-1024 Geoffrey M. Young v. Adam Edelen, et al. Kentucky 2021-01-28 Denied appellate-procedure civil-complaint civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigation rule-11-sanctions rule-12-dismissal sanctions standing 1) If a trial court never construes the allegations in a civil complaint favorably to the plaintiff or never construes them at all, are all of its Civ…
20-6967 Justin Loper v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A…
20-6981 Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue 1) Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an appellant —Represented or Pro Se—is afforded a full, fair, & meaningful appeal, to inlcude: Ini…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons I. DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FAIL TO FOLLOW ITS OWN LAW AND THAT OF OTHER CIRCUITS WHEN IT DISMISSED MR. MCAFEE'S APPEAL ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE B…
20-6932 Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6945 Robert White v. Kubotek Corporation, et al. First Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) timeliness timely-filing Does the "act" of mailing a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion for reconsideration in time for normal US Mail Second Day delivery to the US …
20-6950 In Re John Poullard 2021-01-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure rule-60-motion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment 1. Can the United States District Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Clerk of Court refuse to file my FRCP(60)(B)(4) motion for relief from the 2-1 decision…
20-6877 In Re William M. Windsor 2021-01-14 Dismissed IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-laws federal-law jurisdiction remand removal texas-courts Can Texas courts be allowed to violate federal law on removal and remand? The decisions in this case conflict with a recent decision of this Court an…
20-6883 Christopher Brent Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury? Whether courts of appeals reviewin…
20-6833 Clorey Eugene France v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-01-11 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-law free-speech standing state-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
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…
20-6755 Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
20-6765 Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review Did the Fifth Court of Appeals commit error for concluding that Appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was not debatable among jurists wh…
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED?
20-6696 La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights Question 1: (A) Does the Federal Rule, [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a l…
20-6707 Cary Lee Peterson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judgment procedural-irregularity standing transcripts Whether the Court of Appeals erred in issuing an unpublished opinion, without including the Bill of Costs or Attorney's Fees or Costs of Appellate Pro…
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority I. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory authority to issue the Writ of Certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Circuit Court"…
20-6603 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error WHETHER: A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE ONLY APPROPRIATE REMEDY WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IS IN CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCAL DEPARTURE OF FEDER…
20-6588 Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment Should a certificate of appealability issue because reasonabl e jurists would debate whether a criminal defendant was deprived of the effective assist…
20-6469 Hector Valentine v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit's Erred in not addressingconduct has been rendered non-criminal byanintervening Whether the Third Cirauit's Erred in not ad…
20-6457 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief 1. Whether Petitioner, after presenting trial court motion in an alternative court action in an amended (Amend.) black letter brief presented Pro Se b…
20-6403 Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment Question not identified.
20-6404 Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-692 Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality 1. The Due Process clause of the United States Constitution entitles a person to impartial and disinterested tribunal in civil cases. This neutrality …
20-6354 Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing I. In the Third Circuit, the Prison Litigation Reform Act has been applied to require separate, duplicative fees from joined litigants. But the distr…
20-619 R. S., et al., Individually and on Behalf of Their Son, A. S. v. Board of Education Shenendehowa Central School District, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure autism civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-reopen pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limitations Whether an appellate court may sue sponte dismiss an appeal which has been filed within the time limitations stated in the Federal Rules of Appellate …
20-6252 David Boyle v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rules civil-rights constitutional-remedy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus Jimenez-v-Quarterman judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations How can Ohioans reset the statute of limitations pursuant to 28 USC 2244 (d)(1)(A) when Ohio Rules of Appellate Procedure prohibit the only remedy rai…
20-611 Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue Whether or not the Right to Sue, Right to Access Courts to Be Heard, and Procedural Due Process Rights in the US Constitution require that a Court of …
20-6234 Karen Moynihan v. West Chester Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process endrew-f-v-douglas-cty-sch-dist individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review special-education standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit third-circuit-court Did the United States District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disregard this Honorable Court's Opinion on the Individuals with Disabilities Ed…
20-562 John Yearwood, et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act appellate-procedure constitutional-claims district-court forney-v-apfel judicial-review national-importance res-judicata standing standing-to-appeal Whether the decision below denying the Petitioners' standing to appeal the district court's final judgment on their constitutional claims under the Ad…
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…
20-545 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…
20-6052 Donald R. Conway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion when upon reading Appellate Counsel's single-issue Brief, that, in context, was a matter of law a…
20-479 David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker Ninth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal 1. Whether this Court should reverse the decision below under Sineneng-Smith. 2. Whether this Court should grant, vacate and remand in light of Sinen…
20-5934 Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error WHETHER A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS COURT, WHERE …
20-5919 Astarte Davis v. Joseph Wilson, Judge, Superior Court of California, Marin County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-upon-court judicial-conduct standing void-judgment 1. Is non-judicial conduct/actions by judges in their official capacity as judge, and in their individual capacity for non-judicial actions subject to…
20-431 John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al. Washington 2020-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Trial court granted stay of discovery for Motion to Dismiss only - stay not available for Summary Judgment. Motion to Dismiss was granted without conv…
20-5916 Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process Under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on A basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-409 Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation.
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused it's discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appeal…
20-5826 Chris Anthony George v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-petition sua-sponte 1. In United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575, 1578 (2020), this Court held that the Ninth Circuit "departed so drastically from the principl…
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT err in denying my motion (Staples) for a Certificate of Appealability?
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.…
20-312 Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit Louisiana 2020-09-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law The question presented is whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a pa…
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Petitioner was not entitled to issuance of a certificate of appealability?
20-278 Marguerite Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction mandate-issuance standing Does the 11th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due…
20-5509 Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order Whether Court of Appeals erred.) ujk.em it disposed. of -ike. Constitutional question presented, by habeas petitioner bydevxyinc) his application Von…
20-5502 Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision [1] HOW? COULD JUDGE ELIZABETH G, RICE OF THE 13th JUDICAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION,FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE WRIT…
20-5524 Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel by denying an Appellant/Defendant the opp…
20-5467 Carlos Michael Lopez v. Texas Texas 2020-08-24 Denied IFP adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process garza-v-idaho inherent-powers sua-sponte-dismissal waiver Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738, 749-50 (2019), holds that a defense attorney offends the Constitution by failing to file a notice of appeal upon the c…
20-5431 Walter Ackerman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search I. Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law of the case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government wa…
20-5388 Michael J. Buck v. Texas Texas 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process appeal appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process inherent-powers sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal waiver 1. Does due process require courts to "treat at least some claims as unwaiveable" on appeal? See Garza, 139 S. Ct. at 145. 2. Does due process guaran…
20-5389 Milkiyas Bayisa v. United States District of Columbia 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct rebuttal religious-references I. WHETHER THE PROSECUTOR' S REPEATED REFER ENCES TO GOD DURING REBUTTAL CLO SING ARGUMENT CONSTI TUTED HIGHLY PREJUDICIAL PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT RE…
20-5353 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation DiDthE CoUtERR N P/EA DEFENDANT while HEWAS UNDER HUENCE IN thE Psychiatric MEDICINE REMEON MEDICA/ FiLE CE.C.F. NO.8 atPE SEE.B.O.P. ID #341 that inr…
20-5316 Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing 1. Abbednee toe Slate Covort decrvgor Patt "here v3 NO Beguiremeut Hye Court ufoven Hae ly <feadanit of tHe Elemieats of @ach Chinogs" Coatrory to Sup…
20-5201 Travaris Crawford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas …
20-81 Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process employment en-banc-petition judicial-administration judicial-review rehearing-denial rehearing-en-banc supervisory-jurisdiction wells-fargo Did the Eleventh Circuit, by denying Ms. Berber's petitions for rehearing en bane, so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial admini…
20-67 Delaney E. Smith, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contradictory-rulings due-process en-banc-panel federal-removal notice-of-appeal racial-discrimination standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals forfeited subject matter jurisdiction to make rulings when Court failed and then refused to file Notice of A…
20-5149 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-claim objective-standard standing 1. Did The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Commit an Abuse of Discretion By: (a) Exceeding the Scope of Review Defined By 28 USC. § 1355) (b) Failure …
20-5107 Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware Delaware 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the State Court allowed an illegal and unconstitutional search, without Probable Cause at the inception, based on an affidavit containing an o…
20-5073 Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless.
19-8881 George A. Foote, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment anders-procedure appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal davis-hatton-procedure direct-appeal due-process state-procedure After appellate counsel opted to utilize a Davis-Hatton procedure, but failed to reinstate the direct appeal, did the Indiana appellate court overstep…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was promulgated by this Court in Helvering…
19-8852 Madhu Sameer v. Sameer Khera California 2020-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights document-access due-process judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing transcript transcript-denial Whether dismissal of appeal for refusal of the lower courts to provide designated records and transcripts for appeal is unconstitutional, and constitu…
19-8859 Brian A. Maus v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure attorney-withdrawal client-rights counsel-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance no-merit-brief 1. Can appellant counsel withdraw off of the petitioners case, because the petitioner wouldn't agree to allow appellate counsel to file a no-merit bri…
19-8827 David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. New York 2020-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction Whether justice is ultimately served when the State of New York Court of Appeals gave no detailed reasoning in denying Petitioner's motion for leave t…
19-8840 Darnell Cooper v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion partial-filing-fee prison-litigation-reform-act standing 1. Should Petitioner have been charged with an initial partial filing fee of 20 percent of the $1,300 dollars petitioner had in his account, to procee…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial p…
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-1422 Nakisha Jackson v. Roy L. Brun, Judge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 501(3)c appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech funding internet-communication jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge legal-records-access misrepresentation personal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation secretary-of-state small-business-administration standing 1. Is it considered "misrepresentation " when an individual is not registered with the Secretary of State (SOS), in their state, to represent an entit…
19-8796 Gary Daniel Rodgers v. R. McIntyre, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-filing due-process evidence legal-equivalence motion motion-to-release notice-of-appeal procedural-requirements Whether Petitioner's timely filed "Motion and Order to Release Evidence " satisfies the requirements as a functional equivalent of a Notice of Appeal.
19-8784 Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY?
19-8758 Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. California 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice (1) May a state trial court proceed a personal injury case bypass U.S. Constitution XIV Amendment 's clause of due process and clause of equal protect…
19-8724 Michael Garry v. Trane Company Wisconsin 2020-06-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error (1) The Wisconsin Supreme Court was manifestly wrong in rejecting the Petitioner's Appeal for Review, when it failed to consider mitigating, newly dis…
19-8726 Terrance D. Goodman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process eleventh-circuit holmes-v-united-states judicial-discretion standing 1 Did the Eleventh Circuit violate the precedent of Holmes v. United States, 876 F.2d 1545 (11th Cir. 1989) by issuing an order that conflicts with th…
19-8734 In Re Ren Y. Deng 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court genuine-issue jurisdictional-review material-fact material-facts procedural-rule procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the district court deviation from procedural rule while there was overwhelming genuine issue of material fact disputed in the record granting the …
19-1359 Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant -Appellee City of Tulsa, which was based on an issue not presented on appe…
19-8638 Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (Chicago IL. 60604), review and discredit a previously entered: "Certified Copy of Order of Rem…
19-8639 Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit Question not identified.
19-8585 Van Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation (1) Whether a federal Prisoner has a Right to Present a argument based on a Change in Procedural law on his first motion under Title 28 U.S.C.S 2255 ?…
19-8563 Michael Lee v. United States First Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes 1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r…
19-8560 Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-05-28 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error DID COURT ERR AND ABUSE DISCRETION BY ERRONEOUSLY QUASHING AS UNTIMELY PETITIONER'S OWN MOTION (POCKETED OWN MOTION) APPEAL OF TRIAL COURT'S 08/8/2°/8…
19-8476 Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction oklahoma-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in their Original 1-3-2020 and subsequent 3-B-2020 decision to refuse jurisdiction of his appeal …
19-8465 Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Petition for a Writ of Hab…
19-1288 Alan Singer v. Mondex Corporation Arizona 2020-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure attorney-fees choice-of-law civil-procedure cross-appeal jurisdiction minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver Did the Arizona Supreme Court have subject matter to grant jurisdiction for attorney's fees on behalf of an appellee after it declined to grant review…
19-8424 José Yeyille v. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure coppedge-v-united-states disputed-facts district-court-review due-process in-forma-pauperis legal-conclusions standing summary-disposition 1. Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statemen…
19-8394 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A …
19-8383 Luis A. Soro v. Pedro Lopez Florida 2020-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-review material-facts notice notice-requirement property standing summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Question not identified.
19-8365 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Question not identified.
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. The Eleventh Circuit holds that a notice of appeal is a per se divestiture of a district court's jurisdiction over a motion for return of property …
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Question One A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik…
19-8297 Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky Seventh Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (Issue added by the State Attorney General on Appeal not heard in post conviction court used to affirm appeal failing to address the claims below). Th…
19-8289 Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing 1. Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement…
19-8290 Robert Taylor v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure procedural-due-process standing 1. Did The Circuit Court Abuse Its Discretion? 2. Was There a Violation Of Procedural Due Process? 3. Was There a Disregard For Substantive Evidence…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation I. Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different …
19-8162 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-discretion due-process judicial-precedent mandate mandate-recall post-judgment-relief recall seventh-circuit supreme-court writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus I. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit adopted divergent interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States binding precedent cas…
19-8176 Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error WHETHER THE STATE OF ALABAMA MAY IMPOSE A STATE PROCEDRURAL BAR RULE TO PRECLUDE A STRUCTURAL ERROR CLAIM.
19-8136 In Re Lawrence Crawford 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-writ federal-courts jurisdictional-claims mandamus parties standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus BY WHAT IS ARGUED WITHIN THIS SUBMISSION. DID THE PETITIONER SUFFICIENTLY ESTABLISH THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE WRIT OF MANDAMUS GRANTED?
19-8144 Franco Nicholas Padgett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure concurrent-sentence-doctrine convictions courts-of-appeals federal-postconviction-motions federal-sentences federal-sentencing judicial-review postconviction-motion sentence-challenge sentences Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine applies to challenges to federal sentences when there is no challenge to a conviction. Whether the concurren…
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…
19-8109 Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry Whether a certificate of appealability (coa) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims land issues in the request) and a general assesmen…
19-1156 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr…
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…
19-1129 Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in …
19-7935 Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois Illinois 2020-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure beneficiary civil-procedure due-process judicial-review quiet-title real-estate standing supreme-court-jurisdiction trust trust-assets writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-7967 Kenneth Durant v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights filing-deadlines habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-remedy procedural-due-process right-to-counsel tolling o -K / r i a I -PQch! C\\o^h\ '+° 3. Tke a4<rte 5 reboiM 4 \os>I Assistance C ounS-C ;_L-ne i\/f -Pa \ r 4r (1 a. arG^y^^en 4~D i^e-rPtsc' hv/«ApptelU…
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing 1. In 1985 this Court established that the "some evidence"standard is to be applied to reviews of prison disciplinary cases. In cases where an offense…
19-7924 Shanel Stacz v. ESA Management, LLC, et al. California 2020-03-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-amendments court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction timeliness transfer-petition writ-of-mandate The appellate procedure for Limited Civil cases in California, specifically writ of mandates have taken on numerous procedures in order to have revie…
19-7926 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2020-03-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure fraud misconduct oral-argument standing appeal appellate-procedure attorney-misconduct civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct oral-argument standing Where rules of the court provides that oral argume Whether refusal of California Court of Appeal to vacate a judgment procured by fraud upon the court violated the right to due process of law of the pa…
19-7928 Al Prince v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief WHETHER A STATE CREATED DELAY OF UNINFORMED NOTIFICATION THAT A SECOND AMENDED (CORRECTED SENTENCING)JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION HAD BECOME FINAL AND RIPE …
19-7930 Roderick Pearson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S…
19-7940 Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3…
19-7941 Jane Doe v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process pro-se pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodation standing I. Whether the Second Circuit on January 3, 2020 violated the law by fifth and fourteenth Amendment by dismissing the appeal without ruling on the re…
19-7895 David Dwayne Brown v. Florida Florida 2020-03-06 Denied IFP access-to-court-rights appellate-court-orders civil-procedure due-process pro-se-petitions state-appellate-courts access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-petitions state-courts i. Whether Constitutional right of access to court is violated when State Appellate court does not issue a show cause order as to why pro se litigants…
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a…
19-7872 Samuel A. Wilder v. William F. Krebs Fourth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit informal-brief motion-to-extend pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-ripeness standing waiver-doctrine 1. Whether the court should have assist this prose litigate with time to respond to the Defendant's motion to extend time and Defendant's response to …
19-7845 Omar Weise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing Question not identified.
19-7796 Kevin T. Hawkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit vindictive-prosecution Does the Ninth Circuit circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particular when it results in depriving an individual due pr…
19-7772 John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process where a single judge of the Court of Appea…
19-7668 Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana Indiana 2020-02-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs 1) Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an…
19-7627 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-claim brady-evidence brady-violation capital-case gonzalez-v-crosby ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias kyles-v-whitley ninth-circuit (1) Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's law of implied judicial bias where, rather than considering the professional and social relation…
19-1005 Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re…
19-7621 Allanah Benton v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel DID THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS VIOLATE MS. BENTON'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSELS IN VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONA…
19-993 Irma Rosas v. Austin Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-procedure dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-interpretation motion-to-reopen (1) WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN DISMISSING PETITIONER'S CLAIMS WHEN IT DENIED HER MOTION TO REOPEN HER APPEAL, CONTRARY TO FEDERAL RULE OF APPELL…
19-7556 Erika Jacobs v. Maricopa Integrated Health Care System Arizona 2020-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure arizona-judiciary citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power judicial-process judicial-review judicial-system regulatory-standards standing state-government state-government-bias I. IS THE STATE OF ARIZONA JUDI CIAL SYSTEM GUILTY OF BEING BIAS TO ITSOWNSTATE YREGULATIONS? DOES THG STATE OF ALIZONA JUDICTAL SYSTOM CONSI OER ITSE…
19-7527 Marcus Rashawn Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure binding-precedent due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review meaningful-review precedent-rule second-or-successive-2255 second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing In the Eleventh Circuit, law established in a published, three-judge panel order issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) in the context of an applicati…
19-7493 Charles T. Kirvin v. L. Grant, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect good-cause jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal standing timeliness Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARILY and ERRONEOUSLY Denied APPELLANT NOTICE of Appeal FOR LACK of JURISDICTIO…
19-7483 Lisa Washington v. Diana Deleon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court in-forma-pauperis judicial-bias judicial-recusal jurisdiction procedural-due-process recusal standing Whether the List of California Vio rules Satin "firme (laeliPerks Satis "77 fatale hon Kar Jilerig Qe SCV V177G & kth of Cerhotars on fespondentt 18 f…
19-7405 Francienna B. Grant v. Marshall L. Williams New Jersey 2020-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights damages-denial due-process evidence ex-parte-evidence judicial-fairness legal-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether a Pro Se litigant can prevail in a Legal malpractice case on liability after having suffered damages and be denied damages incurred. Whether …
19-936 Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no "certificate of appeal…
19-905 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-01-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order constitutional-protection defamation due-process malpractice standing The questions posed in the course of appellate actions at FD-07-000190 were made cognizable by stipulation of all represented parties. Each question s…
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas 2020-01-23 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-904 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-01-23 Denied appellate-procedure civil-conspiracy collateral-order collateral-orders constitutional-protection criminal-complaints defamation malpractice pa-constitution us-constitution 1. The questions posed in the course of appellate actions at FD-07-000190 were made cognizable by stipulation of all represented parties. Each questio…
19-7276 Ketut Pujayasa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness Did the District court and Appellate Court err in concluding that Mr. Pujayasa's Motion to Re-Open Time to File Appeal (6) motion, which was sent on F…
19-7266 Mickie Stone v. Centene Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11-usc-1915-e-2-b appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-complaint eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying my motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pa…
19-7229 Asata D. Lowe v. Mike Parris, et al. Tennessee 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process procedural-due-process property-interest state-action state-court-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction substantive-due-process Does the Petitioner have a property interest in (1) Rule 13 and 36 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure and the (2) Right to relief secured b…
19-7163 Paul Anthony Hatton v. Douglas L. Combs, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-enforcement standing state-court-rules state-courts state-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE AN AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO HEAR A 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ACTION SEEKING TO HAVE A …
19-7170 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Q1. What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affe…
19-7150 Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REVEAL INDISPUTABLY FALSE TESTIMONY, ANDI COACHING TO THE 9 YR. OLD CHILD WHO SAYS THE SAME FALSE TE…
19-7117 Vance Edward Ingram, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-power plea-agreement plea-bargaining waiver IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
19-7135 Hye-Young Park v. Charles Secolsky, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure campus-retaliation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation retaliation sexual-violence standing statute-of-limitations I, Hye-Young Park, pro se, refer to myself as "Park" hereinafter. As former Judge Richard Posner problematizes the United States Court of Appeals for…
19-7136 Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-7090 Warren Evans, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure attorneys-fees copyright-law copyright-registration effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure flores-ortega 19-708" ineffective-assistance-of-counsel infringement notice-of-appeal publication-status registration-accuracy right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment Whether a court can invalidate a copyright registr 1. Whether application of the deadline for filing a Notice of Appeal under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure violates the appellant's right to …
19-7073 Anthony Thomas v. Kenmark Ventures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure bankruptcy-law civil-procedure due-process fraud fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-fraud mandate mandate-recall supreme-court-precedent void-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit commit error by failing to recall the mandate based upon this Court's intervening decision in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin. LLP v. App…
19-7033 Ali Darwich v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing after the panel determine the district court ERRED BY CONSTRUING DARWICH'S MOTION AS A MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION FILED UNDER LOCAL RULE 7.1(h)(1)AR…
19-6985 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits I.) WHETHER RLUIPA'S "APPROPRIATE RELIEF " CLAUSE ENCOMPASSES THE REQUESTED RELIEF OF A TRIAL ON THE MERITS AND IF SO, DID PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST OF A …
19-6994 Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
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…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section l) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-6903 Alvin R. Barney, II v. Escambia County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure failure-to-prosecute final-judgment judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal premature-appeal sanction sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction FIRST QUESTION This first question is whether the Eleventh Circuit had the authority or subject matter jurisdiction to dismiss a premature notice of …
19-6874 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1915 abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion judicial-power pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes three-strikes-provision 1.) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abuse its discretion when refusing to file the Petitioner 's Motion for Leave to…
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED DORCELUS' MOTION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
19-6780 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-29 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-box-rule ohio-appellate-rules sixth-amendment time-limitation time-limits A) Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated when appellate counsel failed to: 1) Notify Petitioner (of his appellate rights) in a timely mann…
19-6790 Mark Gerth v. Warden, Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution Sixth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reopened-appeal right-to-counsel Whether Petitioner had a constitutional right to counsel, and thus the right to effective counsel, after the Court of Appeals for the First Appellate …
19-6756 Rene Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-notification appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-notification dismissal due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure legal-procedure notice rule-42(b) rule-42b standing [1] Does the plain language of Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure require counsel, when retained, to notify Appellant of dismiss…
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6734 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing Question not identified.
19-6712 Adam Scott Caward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline…
19-6696 Barbara Myers-McNeil v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-defense language-access right-to-counsel transcript Question not identified.
19-6670 Michael Bridge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker …
19-639 Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang California 2019-11-18 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure california conflicts-of-interest court-disclosure due-process fraudulent-referencing incomplete-records judgment judicial-conflict judiciary-corruption oral-argument-waiver procedural-irregularity record-completeness sixth-district-court-of-appeal The questions presented in this case are: 1. Does due process require reversal of California Sixth District Court of Appeal ' s Judgment of June 4,…
19-6592 Monir George v. Dana Metzger, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Crtifhed Mentil I Defendanis e o ONE: whither a wive is Right Fo Jy Tral Tw who Cn Ao Fo The ert I nt To T Reqes Tr he Dee I THeir pleas. T Constttn…
19-6540 Howard Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing QUESTION ONE: Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the …
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense …
19-591 Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations 1. Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Cl…
19-581 Paul Dovin, et ux. v. Kenneth L. Sweitzer, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-11-05 Denied appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders collateral-orders-doctrine due-process judicial-review pennsylvania-supreme-court procedural-doctrine right-to-appeal standing Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Erred in Denying Petitioners Right to Appeal Under the Collateral Orders Doctrine?
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6451 Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals Rhode Island 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by not allowing Petitioner's appeal to proceed on the merits. The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing …
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6374 Kim Moss v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-25 Denied IFP appeal appeal-of-right appellate-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-to-appeal constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-delay right-to-appeal state-court-procedures state-procedures trial-court-error This case arise where Petitioner lost his Appeal 0^ Right do to Ineffective Assistance of Appellate Counsel and once it was determine by the State Cou…
19-6401 Anthony Viola v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Second Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arkansas-v-sullivan civil-rights constitutional-ruling court-of-appeals due-process error-correction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lower-court-decision statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Title 28 U.S.C. § 2106 Gives The Court of Appeals Error Correction Power. Under § 2106, Error Correction Becomes An Exercise of The Court's Statutory …
19-6289 Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite…
19-6259 Keino S. Chrichlow v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-process civil-rights constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing 1. whether or not an indigent defendant is entitled to equitable tolling, where he was in fact denied the right to challenge his sentence and convicti…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing WHEN A DEFENDANT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) IS HE THEN ENTITLED TO CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? ISS…
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…
19-6208 Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 1.) When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of…
19-459 Texas Brine Company, LLC v. Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC Louisiana 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-bias political-sensitivity random-assignment recusal When a litigant presents a colorable claim of judicial bias, does due process entitle that litigant to an evidentiary hearing?
19-451 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Sixth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellat…
19-6150 Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois Illinois 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict 1. WILL THIS COURT ADDRESS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT AND BOTH THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT AND APPELLATE COURT OVER ILLINOIS RUL…
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger Abstention conflicts with the Supreme Court 's decision i…
19-6098 Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. First Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review 1. On a letter dated September 18, 2019, the Clerk of the Court for the First Circuit, certified the Appeal 17-2105 status, and I quote: " In sum, you…
19-6113 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T…
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE?
19-412 Peggy A. Cianchette, et al. v. Tucker J. Cianchette, et al. Maine 2019-09-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-review judicial-rules legal-precedent punitive-damages remand-standard stare-decisis tort-law Whether, when an appellate court overturns its own controlling precedent, constitutional guarantees of due process require remand to the trial court f…
19-6015 Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5990 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-defect right-to-appeal standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent By Denying the Petitioner the right to appeal based on a minor defect in his NOTICE OF APPEAL, did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals conflict with th…
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing 1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t…
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 …
19-320 Harold Wade, et ux. v. Kreisler Law, P.C. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure functional-equivalence jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules mandatory-claim-processing-rules notice-of-appeal petition-for-appeal petition-for-permission-to-appeal The "functional equivalence" doctrine of Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178 (1962), Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312 (1988), and Smith v. Barry…
19-5885 Olufemi S. Collins v. Mark Gonzalez, et al. California 2019-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure california-appellate-law california-law california-rule-of-court civil-procedure court-rule due-process motion-to-recall parties procedural-dictate remittitur standing Whether in the 2nd Appellate District, Division 5, the Appellant's "Motion to Recall Remittitur and Reinstate Appeal" should be denied and disposed of…
19-5869 Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5875 Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure Whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution once he grants an Order on motion for New T…
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…
19-5814 Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington Twelve days after Mr. Mesta's appellate brief was filed, the Oregon Supreme Court took review of a legal principle that was at issue in Mr. Mesta's ca…
19-280 Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial?
19-5784 Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases.
19-5708 Relonzo Phillips v. DeKalb County Assistant Public Defenders, et al. Georgia 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process federal-question-jurisdiction prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner property-rights standing takings COMES NOW Petitioner Relonzo Phillips, Pro Se, ("Petitioner") and files this Petition for Writ of Certiorari requesting that this Honorable Court gran…
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…
19-5683 Isaiah Jermale Legall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-deadline appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion standing time-limit 1. Whether equitable tolling applies to the time limit to appeal set forth in Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)(1)(A).
19-5648 Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-5552 Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada Nevada 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER? DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P…
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos…
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction The Eighth Circuit has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 47(a) and, in so …
19-5501 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 GVR IFP appellate-procedure counsel-withdrawal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction rehaif rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review withdrawal-of-counsel Whether in light of the Court's opinion in Rehaif v. United States, No. 17-9560 issued on June 21, 2019 this Court should vacate the opinion of the U.…
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-5434 Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs…
19-5439 MacKendy Strachan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-sanctions due-process federal-review judicial-review legal-mail legal-procedure prison standing Question not identified.
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances In the context of the Fourth Amendment, this Court has characterized the voluntariness of consent to a search as "a question of fact to be determined …
19-5408 Gregory Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S NOTICE OF APPEAL.
19-5358 Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-104 Flavio Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights 1. The courts of appeals are divided over whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of his right to appeal or bring a collateral attack can knowin…
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5206 Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist …
19-5253 Jonathan Thomas Wright v. Adam Holley, Acting Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles West Virginia 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-process appellate-procedure due-process due-process-rights fifth-amendment mootness state-agency state-statute stay-order I. Whether it is a violation of a substantial due process rights for a State agency to proceed with punishments in violation of state statute and a St…
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hinth circuit court of Appeals dismissed Frivolous with out having given My Case as present's documentary to oppornutety nne that my Case IS e…
19-96 Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld considers it to be capital punishment when teachers destroy students' career prospects as punishment for the students' …
19-5210 Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-07-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to ALL Notices of Appeal, that must be filed in the trial court, particularly for pro se Prisoner litigants? Sh…
19-86 Maria Jordan v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication appellate-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review 1. Whether the Administrative Procedure Act, as applied to Petitioner by the Fifth Circuit, is unconstitutional. 2. Whether, when dismissing a petiti…
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing (1) Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the…
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPOALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR ON AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION BY-ENTERING ITS DECISION/JUDGMENT, WHICH IS IN CONF…
19-5104 Maurice Samuel Arrington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights court-records due-process evidence-assessment factual-findings federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-standards legal-review standing state-courts supreme-court-precedent Appeals deny prisoners Due Process to determining rather the CoA should issue and merely quoting Slack v. McDaniel and Miller-El? 2. State trial reco…
19-5097 Danny Fabricant v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Ninth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-of-appeals declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-recusal procedural-due-process recusal standing May a Court of Appeals [the Ninth Circuit] ignore an appellant's Request to Recuse itself in an appeal of a district court's Order dismissing a lawsui…
19-5079 Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia Georgia 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver This Court has not enunciated a general rule regarding what questions may be taken and resolved for the first time on appeal when a party fails to pre…
19-5082 Julisa Tolentino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"?
18-9844 Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring…
18-9797 Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal?
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing The Justices of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 refused to recuse themselves from the appeal of a judgment against Petitioners…
18-9623 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-relief asset-freezing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence indigent-defendant PREFACE: In tFis case Defendant argues tFe Plaintiff refused mortgage payments from Defendants wife tFen came after tFe Defendant for tFe Money. TFe D…
18-1507 Augustin Zambrano v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a…
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction.
18A1227 Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen Missouri 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari judicial-review missouri-court supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments.
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…
18-9392 Brent Edward Lovett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel Petitioner Brent Edward Lovett (Prisoner in Custody of BOP, RRC) moves this Court to remand the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, for t…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Question not identified.
18-9362 Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as only a reque…
18-9302 Xing Lin v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-16 GVR IFP 18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness 1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness? 2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v…
18-1436 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…
18-9249 Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit-rules answering-brief appellate-procedure brief-filing civil-procedure deadlines judicial-sanctions motion-for-sanctions notification pro-se-litigation procedural-deadlines sanctions Litigating the Preliminary Injunction Appeal pursuant to the 9th Circuit's Rule 3-3(b), shall the Defendant-Appellee file an Answering Brief "within 2…
18-9264 Robert Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER.
18-9208 Robert Tringham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing Question 1. Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice. Question 2. Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court of Appeal…
18-9190 Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment WHETHER REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE STATE COURT'S SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, SEEKING BELATED DIRECT APPEAL OR REINSTAT…
18-1406 Kristin Roebuck Bethell v. Bryan Stephens, et al. Arizona 2019-05-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-ethics attorney-sanctions civil-rights client-advocacy client-representation conflict-of-laws due-process free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions legal-ethics legal-ethics-and-professional-responsibility professional-conduct sanctions standing writ-of-certiorari Whether counsel Roebuck Bethell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari should be granted after she was sanctioned by the Arizona courts for: (1) believing …
18-1402 Harold R. Stanley, et al. v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2019-05-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-procedure,filing-fees,refunds Can Circuits impose a burden to prove circumstance Can litigants present their case to appellate cour court-administration court-discretion due-process due-process,mandamus,judicial-misconduct,irs,recor irs judicial-misconduct mandamus mandamus-relief pacer,appellate-procedure,records-on-appeal procedural-due-process record-falsification rule-59-motion supervisory-powers Question 1. In Re: DCCoA 19-5047 When a United States judge refuses for multiple months to adjudicate a Rule 59(e) Motion setting forth his acts of mi…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9150 Peter Victor Ayika v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial [1]Whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal where petitioner's rights to Sixth Amendmen…
18-9108 Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance WHEATHER TRE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN : Falling to oRdDER THE RESPONDENT +o Show - CAUSE And PROVIDE. LNDOIctments, TRIaL . TRiaL TRANSCRIPTS, Habeas CO…
18-9119 Kirby Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied 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…
18-9125 Luzetha Wardrick v. Brooks Benton, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-decision civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-court legal-dispute patent procedural-irregularities standing supreme-court-review takings Does federal equitable tolling apply while there is a claim pending in state court to be reopened/refiled under OCGA case law, where the Northern Dist…
18-9129 Delroy T. Booth v. Trevonza Bobbitt, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs court-fees dismissal docketing-fees due-process eleventh-circuit fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant standing I Wow Can Me Couch oF AR PRS For Lhe ENevendy rcuth DiS ge My APRRA\ By SNating "Failed Yo Pay the Dock ering 8 Fi Ving Fees bg Wherg iy Cleasly Shake…
18-1390 Rochell Talley v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process foreclosure notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigant standing time-limits Rochell Talley, the Petitioner, requests this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted given the salient issues of a pro se litigant complying with …
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl…
18-1380 Thomas P. Gannon v. Riverwatch Condominium Owners' Assn., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1927 appeal-procedure appellate-procedure attorney-fees attorney-sanctions civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal due-process judicial-discretion notice-of-appeal procedural-technicality standing 1. Should an attorney be punished with the severe penalty of the dismissal of his appeal where his notice of appeal reports that the appeal is from a …
18-9104 Kurt Zamor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS…
18-9049 Jackie Madore v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation …
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C.. § 2000e) not considered …
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari (is) Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in declining to allow a…
18-8917 Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation (1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran…
18-8919 In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached? Does any Court hav…
18-8901 Daniel H. Jones v. James F. Goodwin, Judge, Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing statutory-interpretation DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE PETITIONER'S ABSOLUTE RIGHT IN FILING AS WELL AS TO APPEAL HIS CIVIL ACTION IN FORMA PA…
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-8863 Neville Turnbull v. Glen Johnson, Warden Georgia 2019-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-process GROUND ONE Whether State's highest court errs by refusing to remedy a Prisoner's Miscarriage of Justice claim, abuse of discretion and cause of willfu…
18-8820 Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Mr. Deck filed a petition for habeas corpus relief from his convictions and death sentences. The district court granted relief as to two grounds, but …
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment IN MARBURY VERSES MADISON, THIS COURT HELD, "IT IS EMPHATICALLY. THE PROVINCE AND DUTY OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IS," DOES THIS R…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REVIEW AND REVERSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S OPINION HOLDING AN APPELLANT IS WITHOU…
18-8790 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2019-04-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate Is mandamus the appropriate remedy into a circuit court to compel its clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall that court's prior mandate?…
18-8729 Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter In light of United States v Peter, 310 F.3d 709 (11th C ir 2002), does the ambiguousness of the nature of the term "material" within Title 18 USC 2252…
18-8675 Joshua Sedillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with…
18-8622 In Re Mark Garrett 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus-petition opinions-below patent reason-for-granting-the-petition rules-involved standing takings writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-1251 Sandy Annabi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of …
18-8545 Debra Ann Lohri v. Specialized Loan Servicing, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-procedure bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process filing-deadline government-agencies mailbox-rule notice-timeliness procedural-technicality statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth…
18-8551 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure-appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard motion-for-relief self-representation standing timeliness Whether or not, the Court of Appeal, state of Arizona, Correctly denied Appellant's Motion To Dismiss, his Appeal, Submitted pursuant to Arizona Rules…
18-8451 Luciano Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with…
18-8428 Samuel V. Martinez v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-conviction due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus legal-ethics professional-conduct right-to-counsel standing state-court-review should not the United States District Court of Clorado have granted the Petitiuner counsel after he informed them that he had an ongoing complaint aga…
18-8363 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal dismissal federal-rules greenlaw-v-united-states gvr in-forma-pauperis neitzke-v-williams party-presentation-rule sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal May the Second Circuit dismiss a criminal appeal sua sponte under Neitzke v. Williams and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) without briefing by any party and witho…
18-8365 Derrick Scott v. Allen Stark, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-filing due-process imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights standing three-strikes Whether the middle district Court and FifthCircuit court of apPeals in Conflict with Congress Plain. and Unambiguaus.mandatery lansudse meaning of its…
18-8358 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits?…
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…
18-8336 London Ettione Dunbar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S REFUSAL TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IS AT CONFLICT WITH THIS …
18-8271 Tony Hernandez v. Darlene S. Sims, et al. Wisconsin 2019-03-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-clerk due-process mailing-rule motion-for-stay petition-rejection pro-se pro-se-guideline standing workman's-compensation Ia) The Wisconsin Supreme Court sent by request to Petitioner Tony Hernandez a guide to Appellate procedure for the self-represented, that also states…
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…
18-8144 Sami Albra v. Selene Finance, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-procedure circuit-rules civil-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure injunctive-relief judicial-discretion standing Does the 9th Circuit's circuit rules supersede the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures, particularly when it results in depriving an individual due …
18-8062 Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services District of Columbia 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion. W…
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-8097 Robert Herrera, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction standard-of-review Why has the Tex Court Crimival Appeals denied my petition, if the Fourth Court of Appeals stated and arqued the Counsels dctions were below a reasonab…
18-8099 In Re Henry Lee Bryant 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1654 appellate-procedure collateral-proceeding collateral-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right statutory-interpretation At the end of Henry Bryant's direct appeal the government informed his appointed attorney (Sheryl Lowenthal) that the lead investigator had been disci…
18-8081 Jared King v. Karen Creed, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights coppedge-v-united-states due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis notice-of-hearing standing summary-judgment Whether the panel that dismissed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1915(e) plaintiffs appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Second circuit, (Parker, Chin & Livi…
18-8029 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (6)IFP 28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l…
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…
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by derming a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7805 Michael Bohannan v. Wesley Griffin Fifth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-rights court-discretion deputy-clerk discretion-abuse due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure indigent-representation legal-access motion-classification reconsideration rule-26(b) standing time-extension DOES A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEPUTY CLERK ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION/AUTHORITY WHEN THEY REFUSE TO TAKE ANY ACTION ON A LITIGANT'S TIME EXTENSION…
18-7841 Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry I. Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.0 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two co…
18-7749 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy Florida 2019-02-05 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certiorari-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-delay mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court of Florida unjust delay of ninety seven (97) days from the State of Florida for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Sem…
18-7741 Robert Sills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO…
18-7657 Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO CALL CRITICAL…
18-7688 Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether a R. 60 (b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pr…
18-7664 John Felix Greer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing (1.) Whether notwithstanding the substance or character of the motion to recall the mandate the tnited tion without first deter -mininq whether a case…
18-7667 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure article-3 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-power due-process federal-courts judicial-proceeding judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. 5' Or. Court of Appeals has so far departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding in light of; 14Jllams v. Taylo…
18-7674 Michael S. Gorbey v. Michael McCall, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process extradition federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation CourT To Federal CourT? 2) CaN A state Habeas Corpus, Filed by A"state PrisoNer CONTract Housed iN Federal PrisoN (withiN the sTarte) be Removed To Fe…
18-7623 James Goolsby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582-c-2 appellate-procedure dillion-v-united-states exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing misapplication-of-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice official-victim-enhancement recall-of-mandate retroactive-amendment sentencing-guidelines I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING TO RECALL THE MANDATE ON THE DIRECT APPEAL TO PREVENT A MISCARRIAGE O…
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…
18-7549 Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments Kansas 2019-01-25 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore "STATUTORY PROCEDURE" violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi…
18-965 Donald Sullivan v. Robert Wayne Pugh, et ux. North Carolina 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial north-carolina oath-of-office summary-judgment Whether or not the presiding judge in the lower court, the judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina and the justices of the North Carolina Sup…
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7546 Sherman Vickers v. Marina del Rey Marina, LLC California 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appellate-dismissal appellate-procedure automatic-stay civil-procedure clerk-error court-dismissal designation-of-records due-process fair-hearing record-perfection right-to-fair-hearing right-to-fair-trial IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS AN AUTOMATIC STAY FOR THE COURT OF APPEALS; CAN THE COURT DISMISS THE APPEAL BEFORE THE PERFECTION OF RECORD ON APPEAL HAS…
18-7517 Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability.
18-933 Shraddha Patel v. Kirit Patel, aka Kiritkumar Ambalal Patel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure deadline federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure grace-period notice notice-of-judgment rule-4(a)(5) rule-4(a)(6) time-to-appeal As explained in her Rule 4(a)(5) motion to extend the time within which to notice an appeal, the then pro se petitioner did not receive notice of the …
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability? 2. Could a reasonable jurist …
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Question One The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont…
18-7462 William Anthony Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-discretion due-process finality finality-principle fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-discretion legal-finality mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice recall-mandate statutory-provisions WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO RECALL MANDATE BASED ON ELEVATING THE PRINCIPLE OF FINALITY TO BE TH…
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns…
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WIT…
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Err by denying a Certificate of Appealbility (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of th…
18-893 West Virginia House of Delegates v. West Virginia, ex rel. Margaret L. Workman, et al. West Virginia 2019-01-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-law federalism guarantee-clause house-of-delegates legislative-standing motion-to-intervene standing west-virginia west-virginia-supreme-court 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia's decision in this case violates the Guarantee Clause of the United States Constitution. 2. …
18-875 Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals…
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea…
18-7316 Alice Annette Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis leave-to-proceed motions pending-motions Where circuit court stated, "[w]e grant Appellants leave to proceed in forma pauperis and deny their other pending motions[,]" Petition Appendix (Pet.…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INTRODUCED AND ATTACKED A STRAWMAN ARGUMENT[ARGUMENT NOT RAISED BY APPELLANT] IN IT'S ORDER/OPINION AS A BA…
18-7213 Akash Dixit v. Christopher Brasher, Judge, Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial Circuit Georgia 2019-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure attorney civil-rights divorce-proceeding due-process family fraud immigration immigration-status international-jurisdiction judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct service-of-process standing unethical visa void-judgment If the unethical conduct by a presiding judge is brought to the notice of the appellate courts, should they appellate courts disregard the unethical c…
18-829 John H. Davis v. Jeanne W. Anderson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship attorney-discipline attorney-removal civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-ethics presumptive-reasonableness seventh-circuit supervisory-power Whether this Court should call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power by rejecting the Seventh Circuit's reasoning in John H. Davis v. Jean…
18-7180 Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-789 Cecilia M. Hylton v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-183 appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process hobby horse-activity-taxation horse-related-activities per-curiam-decision section-183-hobby-loss tax tax-law taxation unpublished-opinion 1. Is petitioner denied due process of law when the court of appeals failed to timely advise her whether oral argument (which each party requested) wo…
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? Whether Lott was denied a constitutional right…
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Question not identified.
18-7031 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal due-process in-forma-pauperis standing THE PETITIONER'S COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING THE PETITIONER'S MOTION TO PROCEED ON FORMA PAUPERIS ON APPEAL? DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DI…
18-6969 Brandon Bivins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review prior-panel-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal three-judge-panels Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" — effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t…
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…
18-6943 Gregory Dean Banister v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (4)IFP aedpa appellate-procedure civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se rule-59(e) successive-petition Question One: In Gonzalez v. Crosby this Court held that a Rule 60(b) motion that either adds new habeas claims, or attacks the court's previous resol…
18-6840 John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause AMEVDMEST DOUBSLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE BAR BETRAL WGEO, UPON DIRECT APPEAL, THE COOLCLUSLOH OF THE APPELLATE COURT IS; OVERLVELMING EUIDEHCE DUES HOT SURPO…
18-6796 Paul L. Muckle v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights code-of-conduct due-process eleventh-amendment financial-conflict financial-interest judicial-conduct judicial-recusal ninth-amendment recusal standing Did the second panel, assigned to hear the appeal, err in denying Muckle's motion to remand the case or recuse itself because it concerns the appearan…
18-6838 Alvin Leon Roundtree v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se section-2255 sixth-amendment standing Whether the district court's failure to construe Mr. Roundtree's pro se motion for specific performance as a motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §2255 - …
18-6813 Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California California 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court…
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appeal ability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and …
18-6687 Hilda T. Kennedy v. Frederic A. Pollock New Jersey 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fee-waiver indigent-rights pauperis standing transcript transcript-fees trial-transcript Is a waiver of the fee for transcribing a trial court on appeal a constitutional entitlement? Can New Jersey limit it's waiver of the fee for transcr…
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Oid the united states court of Appeals forthe Sixth circuit evaluate petitioner's certificate of Appealabityunder the Law? Did the petitioner Show a …
18-6622 Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo…
18-6582 Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Third Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights WHERE CAPITAL COUNSEL INDUCED PETITIONER INTO A WAIVER OF HIS ENTIRE PENALTY PHASE AND A WAIVER OF HIS APPELLATE RIGHTS IN RETURN FOR A GUARANTEED LIF…
18-6496 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were…
18-6487 Alice Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis motions standing Where the circuit court stated, "[w]e grant Appellants leave to proceed in forma pauperis and deny their other pending motions[,]" Petition Appendix (…
18-504 Charles G. Kinney v. Roger W. Boren, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment Hobbs-Act Janus judicial-misconduct NIFLA professional-speech section-1983 vexatious-litigant By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion to cover-up acts by Justice Roge…
18-6381 William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry 1. Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability, while citing the relevant statute but not …
18-501 Alim Adburahman, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction docket-management final-order frcp-15 judicial-authority jurisdiction multidistrict-litigation procedural-conflict 1. Does a United Stat es District Court, as affirmed by the Court of Appeals, have the power to exercise jurisdiction over and dismiss with prejudice …
18-6356 Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus Second Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir WHETHER IT WAS PLAIN ERROR FOR A COURT OF APPEALS TO DENY IN FORMA PAUPERIS RELIEF TO AN INDIGENT APPELLANT WHO LIKE THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE-WAS I…
18-6332 Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding?
18-452 Jesse L. Wesley, III v. Town Square Media West Central Radio Broadcasting, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure civil-procedure de-novo de-novo-review motion-to-amend standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether a district court's decision on a motion to amend a summary judgment should be reviewed with the standard of abuse of discretion or de novo.
18-6276 Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied IFP but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts Question not identified.
18-6249 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl…
18-6255 Christopher Earl Oden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review In Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S. Ct. 1595 (2000), this Court held that a petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability by showing tha…
18-434 Dawn Mosby v. Matthew G. Parilla New York 2018-10-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-practice civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion Judicial-review Legislative-authority legislative-intent notice-of-appeal separation-of-powers timeliness-of-appeal Whether the Appellate Division, Second Department, part of the New York State Judiciary, violated the State Constitution's separation of powers doctri…
18-6235 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El. v. GockreU. 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), it is sufficient for purp…
18-6202 Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate? See Exhibit B Did the Federal…
18-6123 Ameen Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal legal-standing notice-of-appeal procedural-error standing third-circuit 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in dismissing Mr. Green's Notice of Appeal?
18-6107 Jacob Logan Stone v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release Stone was summarily denied a modification of conditions of release based on a procedural ground he had no warning of or chance to brief. On appeal, de…
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation DID THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT AND COMMON PLEAS COURT ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING WILLIAMS AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO REVIEW THE MERITS OF H…
18-380 Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd Fifth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review 1. Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court. 2. W…
18-6031 Noah R. Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just…
18-6005 Trayon L. Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles I. When the government agrees that a claim was properly preserved below, can a court of appeals sua sponte hold the claim forfeited, then dismiss the …
18-5998 Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.…
18-303 Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company Federal Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure counterclaim-dismissal court-precedent due-process federal-circuit finality finality-of-judgment judgment-finality patent patent-law precedent supervisory-power 1. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to assure that precedents are followed and reverse a decision that the district court judg…
18-5889 James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing 1. Will the Court allow U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson (hereinafter "Judge Newson") to deny Appellant's (Welch) Appeal? 2. Will the Court a…
18-5896 Beverly Allen Baker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ® By the end th trial, the government concluded that …
18-5845 David L. Pierce v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing 1.) Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their "ORDER," (Appendix A) that sta…
18-5855 Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel when his appellate counsel failed to raise an issue of tri…
18-5826 John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations Number One = Is the hiatus between the termination of a criminal jury trd and the begining of an aecal e citical stage of crininal froeeding in the 5…
18-5785 In Re Clifford Winkles 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing WHETHER FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 22 IS APPLICABLE TO FEDERAL PRISONERS WHO ARE PROCEEDING UNDER STATUTES 28 U.S.C. § 2241 AND 28 U.S.C. § …
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition…
18-5796 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence 1. Where multiple judges of a court of appeals consider an application for a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action, must the court gr…
18-5797 Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th…
18-5752 Randall B. Causey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4(a)(5) appellate-procedure civil-procedure equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure incapacitation judicial-discretion legal-tolling medical-condition medical-incapacity procedural-rules standing Whether Equitable Tolling applies to Federal Rules Of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) when the Petitioner was incapacitated due to a medical condition?
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review (1) DID THE SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA ERR WHEN IT REVERSED THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA'S RULING AND AFFIRMED THE JUDGEMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT? (…
18-5675 David Pate v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal IS A DEFEDANT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW VIOLATED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT REQUIRES AN APPEAL WAIVER AS PART OF A PLEA AGREEMENT?
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs 1. Is not an appellate court required to appoint counsel to an indigent in a criminal case? if so, is not an indigent appellant entitled to the cost o…
18-5586 William Knight v. Florida Florida 2018-08-15 Denied IFP abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL…
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below?
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority 1.) WIETHER THE UNDISPUTED AND CLEAR VIOLATION OF AN APPELLANTS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL .ON DIRECT APPEAL IS AN EXCEPTIONAL…
18-5471 Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness The Ninth Circuit Court of Appealls (9th) did not follow rules being Federal Rules of Appeallete Procedure 'and precedent caselaw. By either ruling or…
18-5451 Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal 1. May the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sua sponte dismisses a Plaintiff's Appeal for not paying the filing fees, where documentation clearly showed…
18-5459 Zachary David Warnell v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel CAN A STATE, SUCH AS THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHICH HAS AN ESTABLISHED SYSTEM OF APPEAL WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE OF APPELLATE COUNSEL WITH AN ADEQ…
18-5410 Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons 1/ Whether the Ninth Circuit - acting in contravention of Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; and splitting with holdings of multiple courts of appe…
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…
18-5374 Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. …
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
18-5262 In Re Edward McLaughlin 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari 1. WHETHER A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE PROPER REMEDY TO COMPEL THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO RULE ON HIS INDEPENDENT ACTION FRAUD ON THE COURT"T…
18-5294 Herbert Pridgen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing 1. Did the Circuit Court error in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication giving a insufficen…
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON …
18-5258 Howell Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH…
18-79 Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretens…
18-68 Marie Conforto v. Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response Waived appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-government judicial-discretion notice procedural-fairness standing sua-sponte 1. Whether an appeals court deciding a case sua sponte, without hearing or any other chance for the Appellant to respond, is a violation of due proces…
18-5209 Michael Barrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm…
18-5156 D'Angelo Battis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of…
18-25 Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret After a full trial, the bankruptcy court rejected as unreliable the evidence purporting to assert a "lost asset" model of damages in a trade-secret mi…
18-5117 Glendrict Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-motion anders-v-california appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-appeal direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance retroactivity Did the Appeals Court Follow the Ruling in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 328, 107 S.Ct. 708 (1987)(holding that on direct review a new constitut…
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas 2018-07-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Should Mr. Frederiksen continue to suffer and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction, when the lower state courts fail to compl…
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to …
18-5058 Deante Drake, aka Panama, aka Shawn, aka Papa Bear v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-timeliness appellate-procedure court-of-appeals criminal-procedure-rule-18-usc-3742-f-1-a en-banc-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure first-amendment incoming-prison-mail legal-mail-delays mandamus-or-certiorari petition-clause rehearing-en-banc statutory-construction timeliness Whether when a Fed.R.Crim.P. 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f)(1).(A) Brief is. filed for rehearing en banc, that the Court of Appeals governed under Fed.R.App.P. 4…
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…
24A547 Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A323 Frederick David Pina v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit Denied appellate-procedure certiorari-petition insurance-dispute judicial-hierarchy mandate-stay supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.