| 25-1029 |
United States v. Edward Cockerham |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-27 |
Pending |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-conviction felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable b… |
| 25-6921 |
Eliseo Tello-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-sentencing jury-trial-rights sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6924 |
Carlos Miranda-De La Hoya v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure jury-trial-rights sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The decision in Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), shows that Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), can no longer be r… |
| 25-6923 |
Marco Antonio Naranjo-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-27 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review harmless-error legal-standard preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-resentencing |
1. Is remand for resentencing required when it is unclear whether the district court applied the correct legal standard in making a factual finding es… |
| 25-1025 |
Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-26 |
Pending |
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appellate-review brady-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct rule-33-motion witness-recantation |
1. Whether due process and this Court's precedents
(Napue v. Illinois , Giglio v. United States , Kyles v.
Whitley ) require a federal trial court to … |
| 25-6905 |
Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-25 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review continuances criminal-procedure ends-of-justice federal-courts speedy-trial-act |
Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), may be open-ended. |
| 25-6886 |
Justin A. Wadsworth v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-testimony credibility-determinations defendant-testimony evidentiary-standards structural-error |
1) Does the ordinary rules of credibility determinations apply to claims of structural error?
2) Is an-attbrny's .-uncorroborated testimony categoric… |
| 25-6894 |
Ricardo Esquivel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus mootness-doctrine supervised-release-revocation |
Whether expiration of a short federal supervised-release revocation sentence during the pendency of a direct appeal categorically moots the appeal und… |
| 25-6869 |
Juan Fernandez-Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review apprendi-doctrine criminal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6876 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-liability constitutional-limits-on-punishment criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act reasonable-foreseeability |
To what extent may a defendant be held liable for the losses caused by the conduct of their co-conspirators under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Ac… |
| 25-994 |
Beverly Hennager v. Mary E. Deardon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of M.K. Jennings |
South Carolina |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
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access-to-courts appellate-review due-process-clause equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due
Process Clause requires enforceable constitutional
safeguards in state judicial systems where (1) judges
bot… |
| 25-6843 |
Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing witness-testimony |
1) Whether tte District Court exclusion of an material witness testimony was reasonable especially being
a mariner of the Court and then depending up… |
| 25-6847 |
Andre Lamont Rawls v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the judge in the Southern District of Mississippi erred by ordering the 60-month supervised release revocation sentence at issue to run consec… |
| 25-6848 |
Dennis Lenin Carranza-Clavel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review deportable-alien plain-error-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-6849 |
Vincent Terry v. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment neutral-adjudication rule-36-summary-affirmance structural-due-process |
This case arises from a state-court adjudicative process in which the neutrality of decision making was called into question by sworn testimony descri… |
| 25-6821 |
Hugo Almeida-Ponce v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-6827 |
Titus Coston v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 25-6831 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255-motion |
Petitioner sought relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on grounds of ineffective assistance arising from errors and omissions by counsel pertaining to both c… |
| 25-968 |
Kishore Kumar Kavuru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim equal-protection immigration-fraud mandate-rule |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in
denying a certificate of appealability (COA) by
holding that no jurist of reason would find the
petitioner 's… |
| 25-6819 |
Brandon Prawl v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-indictment due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment |
The Petitioner, Brandon Prawl, was indicted for one crime but convicted of a different crime and sentenced to a consecutive 60-month prison term. Does… |
| 25-6791 |
David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t… |
| 25-950 |
Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment |
I
Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district
court's grant of the writ based on ineffective
assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio… |
| 25A902 |
Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6751 |
Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances drug-distribution medical-practice regulatory-definition subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant, who was an authorized practitioner with the authority to admini… |
| 25A891 |
Nicholas Sexton v. Maine |
Maine |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-probable-cause due-process post-conviction-review pro-se-petition procedural-waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 25A894 |
George Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
|
appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6726 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error |
1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25-6717 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. |
Washington |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation |
1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/
SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process
Clause of the Fo… |
| 25-6699 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing |
Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient … |
| 25-905 |
Andrew J. Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors |
1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot… |
| 25A863 |
Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago |
Florida |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6680 |
Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review brief-filing circuit-court due-process judicial-procedure procedural-validity |
Is a judgment issued by a Federal Appellate Circuit valid when the Appellant was never given the opportunity to file the Brief of Appeal? |
| 25-6681 |
Victor Correa v. Scott Wyckoff, Executive Officer, Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights default-judgment due-process federal-procedure judicial-discretion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that it had authority to deny respondents' strategic lawsuit against public participat… |
| 25-901 |
Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering |
Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d… |
| 25A849 |
Michael Prime v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Application |
|
appellate-review cryptocurrency-seizure federal-jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider property-forfeiture rule-41g |
Question not identified. |
| 25-888 |
Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing |
1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing?
2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex… |
| 25-6643 |
Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling |
WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS LEGALLY ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE:
(1) IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DE… |
| 25-6653 |
Randy Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,… |
| 25-877 |
Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction. |
| 25A842 |
Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6639 |
In Re Deon D. Colvin |
|
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
1. Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter?
2. Did the Special Panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have the … |
| 25-860 |
ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions |
1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec… |
| 25-6612 |
Qing Han v. Joseph Auto Service Inc. |
Texas |
2026-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause documentary-evidence exhibit-admission notary-interpretation pro-se |
Whether the Court of Appeals permits an appellate court to give a notice of judgment on the theory that a prose, interpreter-assisted litigant never o… |
| 25-6613 |
Dustin Matthews v. City of Tempe, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ninth-circuit rule-56 summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's Rule 56 jurisprudence by sanctioning summary judgment where the district court failed to credi… |
| 25-835 |
Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC |
Florida |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment |
The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment:
1… |
| 25A820 |
Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
|
appellate-review copyright-infringement judicial-review rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm-precedent |
While she is continuing to evaluate, Ms. Russell currently expects to present several reasons for granting a writ. One is that the Ninth Circuit's dec… |
| 25-825 |
Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal |
1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all
discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil
action on a closed record where adjudicat… |
| 25-6544 |
Louis Olivarria v. California |
California |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review deliberations impartial-jury juror-dismissal sixth-amendment trial-court |
What standard applies when appellate courts review a trial court's dismissal of a juror during deliberations to determine whether the dismissal was ba… |
| 25-810 |
John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari |
1. Does this Court need to intercede because the lower courts have deviated substantially from the norm in judicial proceedings?
2. Did the judges in… |
| 25-6516 |
Auburn Calloway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection judicial-disqualification mens-rea sentence-reduction |
Whether the appellate affirmance of the district court's sentence reduction denial overlooked A) that the district court was disqualified because the … |
| 25-793 |
Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing |
Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord… |
| 25-804 |
George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ftca-claim government-liability service-of-process |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's requirement that
Petitioner serve individual government employees in a Federal Tort … |
| 25A784 |
William M. Hilton v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2026-01-07 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-martial military-counsel military-justice speedy-trial |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6486 |
Marvin Bowman v. City of Chicago Board of Education |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-procedure harm-analysis judicial-error legal-standard summary-judgment |
Whether or not the courts errored when they applied the significant harm standard to this case when this court had already ruled against it? Whether o… |
| 25-6495 |
Jason Elysse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
First, whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it affirms a trial Court's denial of a… |
| 25-6497 |
Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver |
I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo
waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c… |
| 25-6475 |
May Chen v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct rules-of-procedure |
This is a 4th filing of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari following the previous Supreme Court Case No. 23-5501 "May Chen v. MPD et.al.". Due to repea… |
| 25-782 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin… |
| 25A774 |
Raymond E. Butler v. Eli Eddi, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-advocacy disqualification-motion due-process first-amendment judicial-sanctions |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6465 |
Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error |
1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a… |
| 25-771 |
Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury … |
| 25A755 |
Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion |
Question not identified. |
| 25A763 |
Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6443 |
Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee |
Connecticut |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing |
1. Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate… |
| 25-6451 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness |
Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 25A754 |
Martez Abram v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-12-30 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal indigent-defendant mississippi-supreme-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6439 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-6423 |
Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi… |
| 25-745 |
Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the
intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and
… |
| 25-6431 |
Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25-6411 |
Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement |
Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and… |
| 25A724 |
Wade Reeves v. Alisha Gregorio |
Oklahoma |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-authority contempt-proceeding due-process jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 25A733 |
Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
|
appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6416 |
Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25-707 |
Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona… |
| 25-718 |
Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District |
Missouri |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest |
When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res… |
| 25A721 |
Adam J. Sherman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
appellate-review court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice rape-of-a-child trial-defense-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6406 |
Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence |
Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6385 |
Johnathan Morrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline |
Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se… |
| 25-6387 |
Joan Diaz Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-standard sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
The Sixth Amendment provides: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial . . . ." The question pres… |
| 25-6367 |
Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a… |
| 25-6330 |
Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement |
I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25-6332 |
Ángel Forteza-García v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement |
I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25A681 |
Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-sentence legal-procedure supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25A677 |
Evan Norman v. Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment video-evidence |
1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits: Whether an appellate court has jurisdiction under Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1… |
| 25-6316 |
Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver |
Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months?
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 25-6300 |
Anthony Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects |
I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when… |
| 25-653 |
Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity |
Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine… |
| 25-657 |
Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power |
Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh
Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner 's
appeal, constituted such a substantial departure
fro… |
| 25-648 |
Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order |
Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of… |
| 25-630 |
Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication |
1. Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by dis… |
| 25-635 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review?
2. Whether the United S… |
| 25-643 |
Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process |
1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service u… |
| 25-624 |
Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard |
1. Where the court that presided over a defendant's trial and post-conviction evidentiary hearing finds the defendant suffered prejudice under Strickl… |
| 25-6263 |
Sherri Richardson v. Irongate Mutual Homes, Inc., trading as Pear Tree Park Townhomes |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review counterclaims district-court federal-question jurisdiction procedural-considerations |
I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT THAT FEDERAL QUESTION JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL CONSIDERATIONS DI… |
| 25A639 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6256 |
Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. |
Florida |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause |
In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018),
this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. §
1332 claims denied supplemental jur… |
| 25-6234 |
Edwin Riascos Romero v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's sufficiency of the evidence challenge was proper? and
2. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's i… |
| 25-6236 |
Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Florida |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Does the United Constitution of the Constitution of Florida permit the petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be decided based on the facts and retur… |
| 25A621 |
Chad Henry Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6244 |
Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC |
Georgia |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctio… |
| 25-605 |
James Maharg v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error |
Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 25-6203 |
Misael Fabian Medina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard |
Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, such that the r… |
| 25-596 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretio… |
| 25A596 |
Eric W. Singleton v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict |
Question not identified. |
| 25A598 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari consolidated-appeals federal-questions legal-theories supreme-court-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6156 |
Thomas J. Zajac v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance |
Speedy Trial Act
A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and… |
| 25-6170 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-error pro-se-representation self-representation |
1. WHETHER THE STATE APPELLATE COURT COMMITTED PLAIN JURISDICTIONAL ERROR WHEN GRANTING STATE APPELLEE'S MOTION FOR EXTENTION AFTER FILING DEADLINES H… |
| 25-580 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence |
1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t… |
| 25-6141 |
Mark Abercrombie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6143 |
Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY. |
| 25A580 |
Tony Phillips v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25A560 |
Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
|
alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6128 |
In Re Joseph Cammarata |
|
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All
Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight mo… |
| 25-6086 |
Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation |
A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25-6087 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal taken from the district court order denying transcription of audio and video reco… |
| 25A536 |
Adrienne L. Clark v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
appellate-review child-pornography court-martial military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6042 |
Calvin Shaw v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-witnesses appellate-review criminal-procedure government-witnesses ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
I- DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DID NOT FIND TRIAL COUNSELS REPRESENTATION OF MR. SHAW INEFFECTIVE BASED ON HIS FAILURE TO CALL ALIBI WITNESSE… |
| 25-6048 |
Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights |
1. WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
2. CAN YOU APPEAL THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IN FEDERAL COURT BASED… |
| 25-6052 |
David D. Richardson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit |
WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S JUDGMENT WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO AP… |
| 25A526 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split federal-sentencing preservation-of-error sentencing-error |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6033 |
Willie Frank Nelson v. Tanya Demers, Acting Superintendent, Bare Hill Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review district-court judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-impediment statute-of-limitations |
A. The relief sought has common law analogue vi.
B. The All Writs Act empowers federal courts to issue writs "agreeable" to the usages and principles… |
| 25A512 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
|
appellate-review case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure petition-denial |
Question not identified. |
| 25A513 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
|
appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights judicial-system legal-standing petition-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6016 |
Todd White v. ACell, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion … |
| 25-6017 |
John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion |
1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four… |
| 25A499 |
Joan Diaz Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review barker-factors constitutional-rights government-negligence sixth-amendment speedy-trial-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6011 |
John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. |
California |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer |
1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach
Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s… |
| 25-5973 |
Eric Michael Schuster v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review |
Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl… |
| 25-5969 |
James Logan Diez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error |
1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina… |
| 25-5978 |
Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority |
Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amendme… |
| 25-5963 |
Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference… |
| 25A470 |
Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-506 |
Stroma Medical Corporation, et al. v. Samuel Blumberg |
California |
2025-10-23 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process economic-harm punitive-damages statutory-malice substantial-evidence |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires California appellate courts to review punitive damages awards de novo, as this Court held in Cooper Industr… |
| 25-5934 |
David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-law circuit-court de-novo-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fails to distinguish
between issues raised in the trial court and arguments there made, as this… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25A456 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5914 |
Martins Inalegwu v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance |
Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl… |
| 25-455 |
Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani… |
| 25-5888 |
Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction |
1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it?
2. The court violated pro… |
| 25-5896 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-5899 |
Michael Keith Marechale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver |
"Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p… |
| 25-5871 |
Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily
Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight… |
| 25A422 |
Chanson A. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-conviction firearms-prohibition military-justice supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25A425 |
Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial factual-sufficiency firearm-prohibition jurisdiction military-justice |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5846 |
Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court |
Whether a Miranda waiver was voluntary is a question that will always involve a mixture of fact and law on appellate review. All geographic Federal Ci… |
| 25-424 |
Patricia Ashton Derges v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-violations due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether seven constitutional violations — including violations of the Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments — over 120 Brady violations, and more t… |
| 25A407 |
Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5823 |
Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th… |
| 25-413 |
Jean Dominique Morancy, Father of L.M., a Minor v. Sabrina Alex Salomon, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-injunction due-process merits-inquiry procedural-standard younger-abstention |
1. Whether Munaf v. Geren, 553 U.S. 674 (2008)
requirement that courts consider the underlying
merits—not merely jurisdictional questions—before
absta… |
| 25A388 |
Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice |
Question not identified. |
| 25A390 |
John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mandate-rule resentencing withdrawal |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5779 |
Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5781 |
Michael Cobbs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25-5791 |
Raymond White v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review charging-instrument criminal-procedure plain-error plea-review presentence-report |
Whether, in conducting plain-error prejudice review of a plea taken in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, an appellate court may rely… |
| 25-5792 |
Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest |
Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error co… |
| 25-5770 |
Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard |
1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 25-5771 |
Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact |
1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de… |
| 25A369 |
Israel Alberto Rivas-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc ninth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5755 |
Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Granted |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction |
1. Whether or Not the Eleventh (11th) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of… |
| 25A348 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Greg Patrick McAllister, et al. |
Texas |
2025-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process pro-se sanctions texas-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5732 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent |
Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka… |
| 25-5738 |
Mark H. Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error |
Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25A338 |
Earl Howard v. New York |
New York |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25A339 |
Devin W. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 25A341 |
Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review courts-martial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice trial-record |
Question not identified. |
| 25A342 |
Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5694 |
Eric Brenes-Colon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous findings-of-fact judicial-discretion record-support standard-of-review |
Whether a district court's findings of fact must be reversed when they are unsupported by the record? |
| 25-5692 |
Pete Szmurlo v. TK Elevator Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-injunction-act appellate-review due-process rule-65 subject-matter-jurisdiction tro-duration |
1. Whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) exceeding 14 days becomes a de facto preliminary injunction requiring immediate appellate review under … |
| 25A325 |
Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-petition due-process extraordinary-circumstances illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect |
Question not identified. |
| 25-316 |
Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla |
Florida |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
1. Whether a state court's denial of
meaningful appellate review, based on
the absence of a transcript that the court
itself suppressed or failed t… |
| 25-318 |
Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate
of Appealability?
2. Whether the District Court should … |
| 25A308 |
Ynddy Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5647 |
Kolby Reshaad Moore v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency murder-conviction reasonable-doubt |
WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED … |
| 25-287 |
Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh… |
| 25-282 |
Carina Conerly v. Sharif Tarpin |
California |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination government-conspiracy |
1. WHETHER, The California Supreme Court Erred in denying Petitioner's Request For Review?
2. WHETHER, The Third Appellate District Court Erred by no… |
| 25-5600 |
In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard |
|
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… |
| 25A275 |
Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5570 |
David Curran v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below … |
| 25-262 |
Aleksandr Pikus v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review legislative-compromise presumptive-prejudice prosecutorial-neglect sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure "to ensure that the purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Ac… |
| 25-5568 |
Donna Marie Conner v. Xfinity, United States General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Question not identified. |
| 25-260 |
Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter |
First Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 |
1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when
the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate
have been disrupted so significantly that they ca… |
| 25-5545 |
Miguel Angel Homedes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-argument due-process evidentiary-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether improper prosecutorial statements in closing argument are sufficiently flagrant to warrant reversal, where they inserted facts not directly in… |
| 25-5547 |
Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz |
California |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division |
Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review s291778on july 23 25—despite a documented record of procedural due process violat… |
| 25-5551 |
Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Jack Warner, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-exhaustion |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err and abuse their discretion in failing to grant a Certificate of Appealability (CoA) based on the fact that the Washington… |
| 25-5526 |
Fouzia Lakhloufi v. Mohammad Ali Nimber Abuzanet |
Oregon |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review covid-19-impact default-judgment dissolution-of-marriage due-process judicial-discretion |
1) Did the Oregon Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not reversing and remanding to the trial court after it found a plain error in this dissolu… |
| 25A255 |
James Webb Hunter v. S. F. |
California |
2025-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari jurisdictional-deadline state-court supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5517 |
Joshua Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard |
Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha… |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Question not identified. |
| 25A244 |
Tremon Staley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand |
Question not identified. |
| 25A247 |
Logan A. McLeod v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attempted-crimes court-martial factual-sufficiency military-justice ucmj |
Question not identified. |
| 25A220 |
Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25A225 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5457 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 25-5426 |
Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court |
The following question stems from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Johnson.
1. Whether the U… |
| 25A212 |
Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction |
Question not identified. |
| 25A196 |
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-murder criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence texas-criminal-law |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5383 |
Oscar Barrios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error |
Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo… |
| 25-5384 |
Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings |
1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard
facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself
agreed to consider?
2. Did … |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5367 |
Clevern A. Granger v. Andrea Tack, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-172 |
Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review counterclaims due-process ejectment rooker-feldman summary-judgment |
Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT applied the incorrect standard, when affirming the lower tribunal's judgment, which g… |
| 25-5342 |
Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard |
Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 25-169 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether a district court, after first deciding it lacks subject matter jurisdiction and dismissing with prejudice a cause of action, retains the p… |
| 25-160 |
Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea |
1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, … |
| 25-5322 |
Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment |
Whether Certiorari should be granted to resolve a conflict between the Court of Appeals Second Circuit and the United States District Court, Eastern D… |
| 25-5305 |
Victor Mondelli v. Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure-rule-17 district-court-dismissal guardian-ad-litem improper-discovery mental-health-competency |
Can a District Court dismiss a plaintiffs case by demanding improper discovery from him in connection with a Federal Rule of Civi Procure 17 inquiry a… |
| 25-152 |
Paul Mula, Jr. v. Alan Mula, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice-doctrine rico-statute-of-limitations trust-law |
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously held that the RICO limitations period began to run when Petitioner fir… |
| 25-5294 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error |
1. Whether petitioner was afforded due process in the decisions rendered by the
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, since that "if the underlying judg… |
| 25-137 |
Jaden T. Floyd v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice pre-docketing-delay speedy-review |
Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy a… |
| 25A145 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-trafficking sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5267 |
Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination |
Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation… |
| 25-5255 |
In Re Alex Anderson |
|
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5256 |
Leroy A. Garrett v. PDV Holding |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-procedure equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-technicalities procedural-fairness |
Where United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit way to manage the proceedings filed by Petitioner, according to Conley v. Gibson ; omitted … |
| 25-5236 |
Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes substantial burden upon religious practice and did it erroneously find impermissible bind… |
| 25A122 |
Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-90 |
Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen… |
| 25-5152 |
Zachary Charles Fowler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a advisory-range appellate-review criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Is a sentence that falls within the advisory guideline range categorically one that does not create unwarranted disparities among defendants with simi… |
| 25-5154 |
Elijah Muhammad v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process four-corners-doctrine plea-agreement |
1. Whether a court should only look at the "four corners" of the plea agreement language when determining whether a breach of the plea agreement occur… |
| 25-5156 |
Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay |
Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 25-5159 |
Laron Gregory v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury-verdict motion-review |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Sixth Appellate District's denial of Petitioner's "Motion to Review Judgment Regarding Defective Jury Verdic… |
| 25-5149 |
Jerrell Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-69 |
Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim that a litigant has forfeited her appellate rights and its refusal to conduct the required de novo review on a… |
| 25-62 |
Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires |
1. When a judge ignores or removes the requirements for a mandatory hearing as set forth in the language of a statute, and thus violates the separatio… |
| 25-5108 |
Howard Griffith v. New York |
New York |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review clean-slate-act constitutional-rights criminal-record-sealing due-process rape-first-degree |
If a defendant can demonstrate that the conviction for his/her sexually violent offense is unconstitutional, should it be deemed to be a further viola… |
| 25-53 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-law first-amendment independent-review preservation-rule state-courts |
It is a "rule of federal constitutional law" that in "cases raising First Amendment issues," appellate courts must "make an independent examination of… |
| 25A47 |
Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5082 |
Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit |
At its base root; this case involves a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket OPERATED BY select members of the Pennsylvania judicial elite that incl… |
| 25-5050 |
Carlos Caraballo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review |
Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense… |
| 25A19 |
Adrian Goudelock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure jury-selection party-presentation prosecutorial-theory wholesale-exclusion |
This case presents exceptionally important questions relating to the principle of party presentation and the extent to which federal courts of appeals… |
| 25A33 |
Raymond Poore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari filing-deadline judicial-procedure supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-20 |
Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure |
1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended
and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis… |
| 25-5041 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals violates- due process by declining to recall a mandate
where a petitioner demonstrates that he was convicted of a non-e… |
| 25-16 |
Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri… |
| 25-5003 |
Eric Richard Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion |
Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci… |
| 24-1322 |
Barings L.L.C., et al. v. AG Centre Street Partnership, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review bankruptcy-plan chapter-11 creditor-vote material-alteration plan-confirmation |
Whether an appellate court can materially alter a consummated plan of reorganization without permitting a new vote of creditors or whether a material … |
| 24-7523 |
Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Peitioner direct review where the district court erred when it instrcuted the jury o… |
| 24-7508 |
Curtis Dwayne Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review felony-conviction firearms-possession judicial-discretion second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions are attempted bu… |
| 24-7518 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith |
Florida |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing |
1 SHOULD THE TRIAL COURT 'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONER 'S
MOTION FOR UNSUPERVISED TIMESHARING SHOULD BE
REVERSED BECAUSE THE ORDER DENYING THE MOTION … |
| 24-7497 |
Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation |
I. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was "contrary" to Faretta v. Arizona, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)… |
| 24-1308 |
Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC |
Florida |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law |
This Petition presents the question of whether state law supersedes the federal substantive law of res judicata in determining whether a federal final… |
| 24A1278 |
Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1270 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1293 |
Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform |
Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t… |
| 24-7455 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1.
Whether does an ascribed congressional federal
statute precludes procedural redress of a timely
invoked United States Constitution claimed injury… |
| 24-1264 |
David M. Kirk v. Citigroup Global Markets Holdings, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review due-process financial-fraud jurisdictional-challenge punitive-damages venue-transfer |
1. The first and most important question presented is whether this case is of high national importance. This case is one of a string of seven recent f… |
| 24-7409 |
Pablo Jacobo Felix-Samaniego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Should the court of appeals indulge a presumption of reasonableness for a within-guideline-range sentence where the Sentencing Commission has subseque… |
| 24-7396 |
Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on convictions … |
| 24A1205 |
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7361 |
Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress. |
| 24-1225 |
LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification |
In Lehman Brothers v. Schein, 416 U.S. 386 (1974), this Court encouraged federal courts to certify uncertain questions of state law to state high cour… |
| 24A1173 |
Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-leave state-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1210 |
Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal |
1. Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and f… |
| 24-7316 |
Miguel Yepson-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 24-7303 |
Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
The Appellant respectfully requests the Court to determine the applicability of Oregon Revised Statute 14.270. Appellant finds ORS 14.270 to be in vio… |
| 24-7289 |
Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt |
Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in… |
| 24-7292 |
Germaine Ramsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case |
Whether the Court should GVR in light of Thompson v. United States, 604 U.S. ___, 145 S. Ct. 821 (2025). |
| 24-1197 |
Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence |
I. The Appellate Court erred in not reversing the District Court's ruling that Farag's motion for a declaratory relief is frivolous, and not reversing… |
| 24-7257 |
Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver |
I.
In a he-said-she-said case involving allegations of physical assault with self-defense being raised as an affirmative defense, is defense counsel i… |
| 24-1181 |
Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver |
This Court has made clear "in both civil and criminal Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 243 (2008).
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471,… |
| 24-7208 |
Cornell Slater v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals opinion is in direct contravention of this Court's holdings in Peugh v. United States, 569 U.S. 530, 541 (2013); and Rosa… |
| 24-7215 |
In Re Jamie Varieur |
|
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process strickland-standard summary-order writ-of-mandamus |
The question presented is whether, as a matter of procedural due process, a writ of mandamus directing the Second Circuit to consider and issue a deci… |
| 24-7174 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when the Appellate Court denied Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application on Jun… |
| 24-7175 |
In Re Kevin Ogden |
|
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights |
Did The Supreme Court Of New Mexico Lack Jurisdiction To Rule And Convict The Petitioner Prior To Trial?
Did The Supreme Court Of New Mexico Apply Th… |
| 24-7179 |
Jordash Tanksley v. Deshawn Jones, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7183 |
James Little v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing |
James Little pled guilty to a single petty offense arising from the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After a successful appeal challengi… |
| 24-7164 |
Martin B. Brown v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure procedural-fairness |
1) This Argument respectfully ask this Honorable Habeas Court (To Single Out) the November 15, 2022 Egregious Delay of Appeal where none of the Pa.R.A… |
| 24-1140 |
Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa |
The gravamen of the institutionalized persons' 2021 complaint is that Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) is choosing not to follow the Religious La… |
| 24-7149 |
Samuel James Weaver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? |
| 24-7124 |
Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in their ruling alleging Rodger's brief in support of his motion to proceed inform a pauperis fails to identify disput… |
| 24A1060 |
Martin Castillo-Quinones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
|
18-USC-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-requirements |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1053 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review breach-of-peace first-amendment freedom-of-expression independent-review-doctrine procedural-preservation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1118 |
Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), federal judges are statutorily disqualified from hearing cases whenever their "impartiality might reasonably be questione… |
| 24-1079 |
Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari to correct the error of the Court of Appeals below, where the Court of Appeals, contrary to binding authority of… |
| 24-7011 |
Donald Turner v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding |
Whether the standard for appellate review of a Second Amendment claim raised before a sentencing proceeding and decided on the merits by the district … |
| 24-7014 |
Scott Anthony Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exigent-circumstances exception to the exclusionary rule in the first instance on appeal or, instead,… |
| 24-6974 |
Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence |
I. WHETHER THE IL STATE ACCOUNTABILITY LAW AT THE TIME OF PET ITIONER'S CONVICTION WHICH OMITTED "MERE PRESENCE" NOT BEI NG SUFFICIENT TO CONVICT WAS … |
| 24-1055 |
William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals declined to follow this Court's opinion in Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992) by holding that Petitioners h… |
| 24-6927 |
Bryant Cobb v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Fifth Appellate District's affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress is repugnant to the … |
| 24-6917 |
Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction |
I. Wid the S.C. Supreme Court ettor by barches Rebitiowers.Fedecsl Fachsaal ip dicate Hoa. his purported uiaivecof bis 6" Rmendonent Righ-bo—fective a… |
| 24-1041 |
In Re Sally Priester |
|
2025-04-01 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure writ-of-mandamus |
The question presented is whether this Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to pro… |
| 24-6886 |
Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role |
Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 24A917 |
Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda |
First Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review bankruptcy-court discretionary-ruling reconsideration standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6830 |
Khalid Alboushari v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's sentence of 92 months' imprisonment without properly considerin… |
| 24A906 |
Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6815 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 24-999 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law |
In Lehman Brothers v. Schein, 416 U.S. 386 (1974), this Court encouraged federal courts to certify uncertain questions of state law to state high cour… |
| 24-991 |
Joshua Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review child-sexual-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence psychological-evidence |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit fail to follow this Court's recent decision in Diaz v. United States, 602 U.S. 526 (2024) in fa… |
| 24-6750 |
Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers |
The United States Constitution vests the "judicial power " in Article III courts.
Florida 's Constitution has similar language, however, it proceeds t… |
| 24-6725 |
Fernando Yates v. Spring Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights eeoc-brief judicial-error legal-ethics perjury |
Where the Fifth Court of Appeals erred in ignoring relevant evidence, and failed to properly consider the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Amic… |
| 24-6734 |
Christina Alexandria Taylor-Loper v. Sam's Club/Walmart Associates, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities appellate-review certification civil-rights judicial-procedure ninth-circuit |
I. Why didn't the United States District Court Establish Disabled or Women Certified Victim Ombudsman Help to all Americans with Yearning to key of IE… |
| 24-6716 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 |
(1) . Wat is the peeper mamer of ensuring flat the remedy offered in the name of section 2255 las bean adequate and effective to test the legality of … |
| 24-958 |
Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge |
In its prior decision in this case two Terms ago, this Court unanimously held in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), that the Second Circ… |
| 24-6704 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
This case poses a constitutional question of national importance. Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper and unduly burdensom… |
| 24-951 |
Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review |
Given a jury verdict and resulting judgment in a civil case, does the appellant generally have the burden to show that any error was prejudicial to th… |
| 24-6695 |
Edward Deloach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines |
If a defendant is convicted for attempting and conspiring to file a false lien under 18 U.S.C. §1521, but the document he submitted to a federal agenc… |
| 24-6660 |
Xiaorong Lan v. University of Texas at San Antonio |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure credibility-of-evidence material-facts standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Should UTSA's summary judgement be granted when unsolved genuine issues of material facts are presented, and the credibility of evidence is questio… |
| 24-6654 |
Willie Alsha Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment jury-instruction multiple-conspiracies trial-rights |
Whether a multiple conspiracies instruction cannot, as a matter of law, be given where a defendant proceeds to trial alone. |
| 24-6657 |
Leopoldo Villareal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine?
Did th… |
| 24-6642 |
Hubert Glenn Sexton, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights counsel-waiver due-process self-representation sixth-amendment |
Under Tennessee law, defense counsel in criminal trials has the power to make strategic decisions, including decisions to exercise or waive rights gua… |
| 24-902 |
Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict |
In Ashe v. Swenson, this Court recognized that the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes relitigation of facts found by a jury. 397 U.S. 436 (1970). What, … |
| 24-878 |
Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel |
1. Where Petitioner's duty to report her claim to the bankruptcy court was unclear and unsettled, would application of judicial estoppel to her claims… |
| 24-6572 |
Victor Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing |
1. Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreeme… |
| 24-6562 |
Derek Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines |
1. What are the admissive effects of a defendant's guilty plea? Specifically, does an unconditional guilty plea admit facts alleged in an indictment o… |
| 24-869 |
Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend |
Should a court dismiss a plaintiffs claim, using its inherent authority or otherwise, because they first filed a motion for leave to amend to join the… |
| 24-6538 |
Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel w… |
| 24-6545 |
Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order |
In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts… |
| 24A777 |
ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance |
Question not identified. |
| 24A780 |
Thomas M. Adams v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial jurisdictional-challenge military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6512 |
In Re John David Stahlman |
|
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, WHEN ISSUING ITS OPINION IN UNITED STATES v. HITE, 769 F.3d 1154 (D.C. C . Cir. 2014) C… |
| 24-6515 |
Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b |
1. Can a petitioner use the 60(b) Rule to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded a merits review, when habeas relief was denied by … |
| 24-6523 |
Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 24A770 |
Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard |
Whether a certificate of appealability ("COA") required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) may be denied following a division among state appellate judges on the … |
| 24-6485 |
David C. Lettieri v. Wyoming County Sheriffs |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-review court-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rights |
1. Does an appeal court have the ability to ingrone facts?
2. Does a judge have a right to revoke an informa paupris without notice?
3. Does a revoke … |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies (i) to habeas filings made after a prisoner has exhausted appellate review of his first petition, (ii) to all second-in-t… |
| 24-6469 |
Ramien Collins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did the appellate commit reversible err denying Petitioner's direct appeal on the issue where the district court allowed the admission of chemical ana… |
| 24-6456 |
Doran Maurice Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mississippi-law |
1a. Did the Circuit Court of Madison County violate [text unclear due to OCR quality]
2a. Did the Circuit Court of Madison County violate [text uncle… |
| 24-6459 |
Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review |
Due to a lack of guidance from the Supreme Court, lower courts apply a variety of standards of review to the issue of whether an individual's consent … |
| 24A742 |
Jose Lewis Bosquez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review arizona-courts certiorari criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24A743 |
Joseph Lee Conley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari extension-of-time federal-question jurisdiction supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6407 |
Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Should a conviction be reversed and remanded for a new trial where the district court erroneously fails to give a lesser-included offense instruction,… |
| 24-6366 |
Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether, post- Booker and Gall, this Court should grant the Writ to provide clarity on an important, but unresolved area of law, to wit: whether ap… |
| 24-6360 |
Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit |
Whether The District Court's Pro-Forma And Blanket Denial of A COA Order Adopting The Magistrate's Report and Recommendation (R & R) Manifestly Erred … |
| 24A705 |
Angelo Graham v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant due-process legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-access |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6330 |
Michael R. Capps v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claim-of-error court-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure legal-objection preservation-of-issues |
Rule 51(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that a "party may preserve a claim of error by informing the court . . . of the action … |
| 24-763 |
In Re Bo Zou |
|
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-recusal legal-ethics procedural-irregularity |
1. Whether district judge John D. Russell may hear his Client's Case after he left his former law firm only one month.
2. Whether the panel of the Te… |
| 24A700 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance |
Whether it is a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual … |
| 24A703 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process personal-safety pretrial-release substantive-rights |
For a criminally accused, such as the Applicant/Petitioner, conditionally released subject to certain terms and conditions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 314… |
| 24A695 |
Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction |
Whether it is a violation of constitutional ex post facto principles to apply the current version of Florida's registry statute (and its removal provi… |
| 24-6303 |
Javarus T. Leach v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Did the Gourt violate defendant rights vhen the Gourt granted money to subpoena, in order to prqnare a defense that vas not.
2. Did the Cburt viol… |
| 24-6267 |
Robert Moore v. New York |
New York |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals judicial-precedent legal-doctrine stare-decisis supervisory-power |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory power to clearly establish what is meant by "stare decisis", where the New York State Court of Appeals sanc… |
| 24-6284 |
Christopher Duncan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 24-6286 |
Frank James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-defect jurisdictional-error |
Whether a defect in an indictment -- of whatever kind -- is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct that is b… |
| 24-724 |
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal |
1. Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred b… |
| 24-6239 |
Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals approached this matter of first impression, re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, … |
| 24-6242 |
Kent Booher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights |
I. Did the Court of Appeals err when it failed to address the issues raised by the appellant after his appellate counsel filed an Anders brief and mov… |
| 24-6255 |
Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination |
i) The defendant has been, since September 2017, committing fraud and assault against jail its custom ers (billions of consumers) maliciously shipping… |
| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A645 |
Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the United States Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of Hughes v. United States 263 F.3D 272,… |
| 24-6205 |
Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. |
South Carolina |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment |
1. Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated
Petitioner's due process rights under the Fourteenth
Amendment by limiting its review to the… |
| 24-6191 |
David Godwin Frank v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review coram-nobis ineffective-assistance judicial-precedent procedural-delay writ-of-error |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling, affirming the district court's decision denying Mr. Frank's petition for writ of error coram nobis on the ground t… |
| 24-6187 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 |
In actions brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, it is well-established that interlocutory review of a denied motion for summary judgment can only be … |
| 24A616 |
Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24A605 |
Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6162 |
Gregory A. Tolliver v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion |
Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)? |
| 24-6165 |
Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A596 |
William Stenger v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-648 |
Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity |
1. Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when there are no material disputed issues of fact and all the United States Supreme Court and Circuit … |
| 24-6120 |
Leprinceton Dewon Burks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court legal-theory mandatory-findings rule-12d |
A. Whether a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 12(d) requirement that a district court deciding a motion must state its essential findings is ma… |
| 24-6108 |
Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER AN APPELLATE COURT VIOLATES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT BY DISMISSING AN APPEAL BASED SOLELY ON PROCEDURAL DEFICIENCIES, … |
| 24-6113 |
Laura Hammett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous due-process judicial-discretion summary-affirmance |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the appellant's due process rights under U.S. Const, amend. XIV by affirming each of the district… |
| 24A550 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-595 |
William L. Harris v. City of Kent, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment stare-decisis |
With clear precedents having been established by federal Appellate Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution regarding when a 4th Amen… |
| 24A534 |
Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California |
California |
2024-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeal criminal-appeal direct-appeal penal-code |
does the holding of the California Supreme Court in People v. Villatoro, 54 Cal.4th 1152, 1165-1168 (2012) (now embodied in California Criminal Jury I… |
| 24-590 |
Brian Kelsey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard |
Under this Court's precedent and that of several
circuit courts, an error of criminal law is preserved for
appellate review if it was "brought to the … |
| 24-6054 |
Joshua Matthew Stockton v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-interpretation legal-standards procedural-challenge supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-585 |
Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation |
Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical
rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic
injuries violates the letter and s… |
| 24A522 |
Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review disability-accommodation due-process pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6029 |
Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure |
I. Whether the trial court violated Glenna Mary Duram's constitutional protections of due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence f… |
| 24A511 |
Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal state-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6020 |
Justin Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 24-567 |
In Re Martin Akerman |
|
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process mandamus rule-39.8 second-amendment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit erred in denying the petition for writ
of mandamus (Case No. 24-3028) on November… |
| 24-6014 |
Ronald Cox v. Ronald S. Weber, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Did The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Err When It Denied Relief To Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel On Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Claim; C… |
| 24A505 |
Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari corporate-entity monetary-sanctions ninth-circuit procedural-violations |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5984 |
Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds |
In Mckaskle v. Wiggins, 05 U.S. 16% C1934), this Honorable Court held that [the prose _defendadt must be. allowed to control. the organi zation _ond_c… |
| 24-5995 |
Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 24A496 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254 |
Question not identified. |
| 24A483 |
Samuel Boima v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 24-517 |
Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application, over dissent, to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of … |
| 24-518 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue "opinion[s]" in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed… |
| 24-5915 |
Willie D. Orr v. Zorian Trusewych, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court in-forma-pauperis legal-procedure motion-to-proceed summary-judgment |
I.
DID THE U.S.DISTRICT COURT, FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF
ILLINOIS, ERR WHEN THE COURT GRANTED THE DEFENDANTS
SUMMARY JUDGMENT?MOTION FOR
II.
WHAT… |
| 24-5898 |
Herman Felton, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus pro-se-petition |
1. Why was I denied an Evidentiary Hearing?
2. What's the reason for refusing to hear my case?
3. Why did the Courts agree with the Constitutional vio… |
| 24-5876 |
Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica |
California |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing self-representation |
1) Whether the Due Process Clause applies to self-represented parties, which is
a self-executing constitutional right and needs no enforcement statut… |
| 24-478 |
Omnisun Azali v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Ohio's statutory law "allow ed" Petitioner Omnisun Azali ("Azali") to "act in self-defense[.]" Ohio Revised Code § 2901.05(B)(1) (effective Mar. 28, 2… |
| 24-5857 |
Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability judicial-explanation meaningful-review petitioner-rights procedural-due-process |
Does an appellate court have an obligation to provide sufficient explanation for denying a certificate of appealability to enable a petitioner to seek… |
| 24-5868 |
William J. Webb, Jr. v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure faretta-hearing pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the trial court ordered petitioner to proceed pro se without conducting a proper Faret… |
| 24A425 |
Brandon Green v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-appeal extension-of-time pro-se second-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5855 |
Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
1. COA Standard. The COA inquiry requires courts to, among other things, conduct a general assessment of a defendant's claims. In his COA Brief to the… |
| 24-5835 |
Jaylin Godbolt v. California |
California |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-grounds |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5837 |
Ruben Aguilera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 |
[1] May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the "occasions" clause of the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 24-5838 |
Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy |
When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 24-448 |
Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC |
Virginia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law |
1). The XIV Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the due process of law. Can a state appellate court refuse to provide full appellat… |
| 24A385 |
Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 24A386 |
Thomas L. Wheeler, et al. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights courts-martial due-process military-justice ucmj |
1. This case presents an important constitutional question regarding the "judge-alone special court-martial" first authorized by Congress in 2016. Con… |
| 24A392 |
Rhobashi Holmes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5762 |
Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the First Circuit 's refusal to grant a
sentence reduction under the First Step Act,
despite intervening changes in sentencing law,
conf… |
| 24-5765 |
Robert Lance Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented. |
| 24-5769 |
Tanya Tyson v. Quiktrip Corporation |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review default-judgment jurisdictional-challenge petition-of-error service-of-process supreme-court-procedure |
Did the Supreme Court err in their (APP C) June 12, 2023 Order dismissing my Motion to Dismiss the Default Order of October 11, 2021, asserted in my f… |
| 24-5749 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court |
1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE LOWER COURT DECISION BASED ON THE ASSERTIONS OF FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM, FAILURE… |
| 24-5737 |
Matt Jones, aka Mack Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal motion-to-suppress speedy-trial |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, erred in its unprecedented decision in not reversing the District Court's failure to Dismiss the Indict… |
| 24-5740 |
Douglas O'Neal v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process jurisdictional-issues pro-se-petition procedural-limitations |
Whether a state appeals Court Can turn a blind eye
to a Pro se petitioner's Prime fatte Showritg 6F Distrie¥
Court's lack of Subject matter jurisdicti… |
| 24A339 |
Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Granted |
|
appellate-review constitutional-review due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5733 |
Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process property-dispute title-fraud |
Was it fair & just, bad faith or a misinterpretation of the law that on FEB 29 2024 Circuit Judges CLIFTON, CALLAHAN, and H.A. THOMAS, sustained Molly… |
| 24A336 |
Michael Tyrone Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-384 |
Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's "common course of conduct" test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences amo… |
| 24-5708 |
Andrew Ocanas Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issues legal-petition supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5695 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms.
O… |
| 24-358 |
Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
"Like the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are as binding as any statute duly enacted by Congress, and federa… |
| 24-5674 |
Gilbert Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5686 |
Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24A310 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A313 |
Richard Alan Haase v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Texas |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension due-process mortgage-dispute property-rights texas-law |
Question not identified. |
| 24A304 |
Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-proceeds forfeiture health-care-payor honeycutt-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-344 |
James T. Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether certiorari review should be granted where the eleventh circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the … |
| 24-5613 |
In Re Lyndon C. Davis |
|
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
i) Whether on the Sixth Amendment, the Prosecutor deprived Petitioner's "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" testimony of evidence denied him due proce… |
| 24-5621 |
Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Are varied definitions of the clear error standard of review and results of such definitions pertaining to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permissib… |
| 24-5611 |
Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions |
1. Whether federal courts of appeals exceed the "judicial power" assigned
under Article III of the Constitution when they issue non-precedential decis… |
| 24-5586 |
Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit |
1. Conflict between the Third Circuit Court and U.S District Court.
2. The Court of Appeal departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr… |
| 24-314 |
Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Connecticut |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure procedural-due-process |
Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's Order Denying Petitioner's Petition for Certification to Appeal to that Court which upheld the Connecticut Sup… |
| 24-5572 |
Ramon Lopez-Alvarado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appeal- ability where claims show that jurists of reas… |
| 24-5571 |
Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation |
In proving felon status, is there a conflict between appellate courts where one court holds that trial counsel is not ineffective for offering a stipu… |
| 24-298 |
In Re Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. |
|
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review cheney-conditions district-court jurisdiction ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus |
When this now nine-year-old case was before the Court in 2018, this Court denied the Government's application for a stay of proceedings in the distric… |
| 24-5555 |
Jermall Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review government-motion judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-action summary-judgment third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion for Summary Action. |
| 24-5542 |
Timothy Allen Honea v. Fred Webb, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review court-jurisdiction judicial-procedure legal-documents service-of-process writ-of-certiorari |
Are public Defenders Fred Webb, Bob Boykin and Robert Sharpe, People Act Mg under color of law?
Was Superior Court Judge C. Winston McNeest out of hi… |
| 24-5524 |
Kenneth W. Blair v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN OVERRULING BLAIR'S MOTION TO COMPEL THE DISCLOSURE OF THE… |
| 24A257 |
Jonathan High v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the court of appeals erred by denying the Petitioner's claim on direct appeal that the district court erred in denying his motion for a judgme… |
| 24-5514 |
Christopher Jensen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court |
1) When for A Whit of Cerbirar To decide which leecrd es tle altinse attihat al
2) do tu< dide_rihal Kecard 2 atturabe ac Cortect wtep.
3) When ted … |
| 24-257 |
Harley Marine Services, Incorporated v. Conrad Shipyard, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority appellate-review clearly-erroneous contract-interpretation corporate-liability fifth-circuit-ruling |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar… |
| 24-244 |
In Re Scott Douglas Ora, Individually, and In His Derivative Capacity as Trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on Behalf of the Leo Robin Trust |
|
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conditions-precedent due-process mandamus trial-by-jury waiver |
Ever since the Plaintiff discovered on July 6, 2017 that lyricist Leo Robin had been awarded a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce which it subs… |
| 24-231 |
Rakesh Dhingra v. Charles Esposito, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation fact-finding federal-officials judicial-procedure |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the civil district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil complaint without the civil court c… |
| 24-218 |
Damon Balar Cook v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-judgment due-process insufficiency-of-evidence rule-60(b)(4) |
1. Whether the petitioner Damon Cook was prejudicially denied an opportunity to be heard on his insufficiency of the evidence of force claim in violat… |
| 24-5401 |
Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MS. ESTEP'S ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY ALLOWING TH… |
| 24A196 |
Michael Scott Hoover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-188 |
Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a summary judgment decision by the district court that failed to provide a reason fo… |
| 24-5341 |
Charis Mapson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A176 |
Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A170 |
Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et al. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rico federal-question financial-institution investment-fraud summary-order |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5292 |
Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense |
For the Supreme Court of the United States to Correct these errors from the
Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas and any error found from any other… |
| 24-143 |
Lena Lasher v. Peter Riccio, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
|
anti-asian-racism appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hate-crime identity-theft |
1. Is Identity Theft an exceptional circumstance to reinstate a complaint?
2. Did the Appellate Division err in finding no error by the Middlesex Cou… |
| 24A153 |
Arthur Lopez v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. |
California |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review california-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-review supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24A152 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-access judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5282 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing |
WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING? |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
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| 24-5253 |
Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5239 |
John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5235 |
Nohmaan Malik v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity anders anders-procedure appellate-review circuit-split due-process guideline-commentary kisor kisor-standard |
Whether the appellate court should
not have dismissed under Anders
and allowed Petitioner to challenge
the Guideline commentary as violating
due p… |
| 24-5237 |
Warren Alexander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release |
Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required … |
| 24A126 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-discretion state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate |
Question not identified. |
| 24A125 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5225 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts |
A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Wa… |
| 24-5224 |
Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Question not identified. |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very
contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This
prohibition cannot be applied literally … |
| 24-5204 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act |
Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order … |
| 24-116 |
Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment material-fact probable-cause summary-judgment tolan |
I. Whether the denial of Mr. Madero's appeal to
Respondent's motion for summary judgment was in
error, under this Court's ruling in Tolan , as there… |
| 24-5143 |
Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. HAYEK'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HIS STATEMENT AND THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COUR… |
| 24-5116 |
Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-history-category due-process federal-crime-of-terrorism offense-level sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-paradigm terrorism-enhancement |
(1) whether the court below erred by upholding the application of Section 3Al.4's Terrorism Enhancement when the evidence presented at trial, or lack … |
| 24-5106 |
Stoney Prior v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability |
1. Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence?
2. If the district court rejects a jur… |
| 24-52 |
Gunes Biray v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process sec-enforcement securities-law securities-regulation whistleblower-protection |
Does the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) possess absolute immunity from appellate scrutiny when it arbitrarily or capriciously … |
| 24-5093 |
David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24A33 |
Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-conviction constitutional-rights criminal-appeal death-penalty due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 24A32 |
Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit, when granting summary judgment to the movants, clearly ignoring Nevada state court judgments that concluded the LVMPD viola… |
| 24A27 |
Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5028 |
Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver |
Before 2014, Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure required certain enumerated types of motions to be filed before trial, and stated that… |
| 24A2 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23A1174 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1359 |
Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority |
Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific… |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1350 |
Robert Korman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. |
California |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process extrajudicial-evidence judicial-bias judicial-bias-and-prejudice judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics legal-procedure recusal |
Whether proof of a judge's commission of bias and prejudice against a litigant in a case alone mandates his immediate disqualification and reversal of… |
| 23-1345 |
Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test |
Under the federal habeas statute, a prisoner "always gets one chance to bring a federal habeas challenge to his conviction," Banister v. Davis, 590 U.… |
| 23A1162 |
Donte Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7800 |
Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. |
Georgia |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp |
1. The Appellate inquires whether the Administrative law Judge made correct judgment that the claimant did not sustain compensable injuries to his hea… |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7793 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate |
Has the Lower Federal Trial Court known as U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit Court i… |
| 23A1148 |
Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure jurisdictional-requirements petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1335 |
Harley Marine Financing, LLC v. Tug Construction, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bareboat-charter clearly-erroneous contract-breach evidentiary-support findings-of-fact maritime-law trial-record vessel-condition |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar… |
| 23-7763 |
Barry Steven Gahagan v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7760 |
Samreen Riaz v. Kaweah Health Medical Center, et al. |
California |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias conflicting-issues court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-error petition-for-writ-of-certiorari petition-review procedural-due-process standing |
Did the Supreme court of California (S284004) in error, abuse discretion and show bias in denying Petition and application for stay on May 1st 2024 an… |
| 23-7750 |
James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-misconduct due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-requirement mandate-recall recusal rule-60(b) |
(1) Did the Eighth Circuit abuse it's discretion in failing to recall the mandate of the panel decision affirming the district court without a final d… |
| 23-7729 |
Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review |
What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact? |
| 23-7704 |
Michael Jarrow v. Heath H. Orr |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-procedure standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1304 |
Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark |
California |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-authority legal-procedure rule-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction summons void-judgment |
1. Can tlie Fourth Circuit appellate district legitimize a VOID judgment under the law, for any reason when a judgment was issued:
a. By a person who … |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att… |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f… |
| 23A1096 |
In Re Eric Drake |
Texas |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1092 |
SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review bankruptcy contract-interpretation corporate-restructuring time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1278 |
Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance personal-restraint plea-bargaining right-to-counsel voluntariness-of-plea |
1. Whether Trial Court erred in accepting defendant Tsai-Fen Lee to plead guilty when the plea was on its face equivocal.
2. Can Lee's guilty plea be… |
| 23-7613 |
Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial |
Is it reversible error when an appellate court overturns a trial court's grant of a new trial when, first, the decision to grant or deny a motion for … |
| 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… |
| 23-7586 |
Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7597 |
William Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure |
When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated
the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles… |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-1245 |
David Timothy Johnson, Sr. v. Urvashi Foster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-power jurisdiction pro-se-litigation procedural-defect shotgun-pleading |
Whether, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, questioned Orders amounts to unlawful denial of due process; an oppressive exercise … |
| 23-7538 |
Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr* Park? |
| 23A1043 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-case court-martial military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7519 |
Willie J. Williams, aka Willie Joe Williams v. Kelvin Malher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts legal-error procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Did the Federal Court(s) and the Appellate Court(s) error by altering
and omitting the Petitioners first allegation and denying the second
docketed … |
| 23-7526 |
Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review |
Question One (1).
The lower Court and the Court of last resort affirmed a decision to allow the Defendant to
introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an… |
| 23-1224 |
Laila N. Hirjee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference |
I. What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be dra… |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23A1025 |
Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. |
New York |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1015 |
Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure corporate-defendant motion-to-dismiss pro-se wrongful-death |
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 … |
| 23-7486 |
Edgar Vazquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing motion-to-dismiss motion-to-suppress standard-of-review |
I. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF VAZQUEZ' MOTION TO DISMISS… |
| 23A1010 |
Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7428 |
Robert Pann v. Julian Ulmer |
Florida |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment default-judgment due-process garnishment jurisdiction notice-requirement procedural-due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-garnishment |
IS NONRESIDENT, PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT XIV PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED;
A; WHEN RESPONDENT'S GAVE SIXTEEN HOURS NOTICE FOR FINAL J… |
| 23-7433 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7438 |
Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure |
Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen… |
| 23-7414 |
Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p… |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1). |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a… |
| 23-7424 |
Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
1. Should this Court resolve a split among the courts of appeals and decide whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability tha… |
| 23-7395 |
Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California |
California |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Because His Case resettle. onimpotaal guedtion 03 Lau) andéhe porharak night. og he peonle "summary dismissal ixtheloae.og paliZirnerk., serious gl… |
| 23-7398 |
Jamaal Parker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation |
This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits.
First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23-1194 |
Erik Hentzen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Can Strickland v. Washington's "prejudice prong," be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level "… |
| 23A973 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7340 |
Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations |
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| 23-7341 |
Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error. |
| 23-1169 |
Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… |
| 23-7297 |
Marcus Bennett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-7292 |
Morris Fuller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1150 |
Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23A940 |
Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica |
California |
2024-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process legal-extension miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review pro-per |
Question not identified. |
| 23A931 |
Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23A919 |
Jurgen Marku v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the trial court erred by allowing the jury to be informed that a codefendant entered a guilty plea to murder and robbery charges. |
| 23A913 |
Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park |
Florida |
2024-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A906 |
Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7183 |
In Re Joshua George Nowland |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7174 |
Richard Lee David Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence |
1. Whether the admission of two prior drug convictions for the purpose of arguing in closing that "[t]he defendant possessed that crack cocaine, and h… |
| 23-7134 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Can reviewing judge rely on information not provided to the issuing judge for determining whether substantial basis exists showing do the McCleskey su… |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal?
I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-7133 |
Garry Hines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable
2. Whe… |
| 23-7113 |
Nicholas Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing procedural-rights standing |
Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal? |
| 23-7107 |
Brock Melancon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission |
(1) Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing… |
| 23-1049 |
John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te… |
| 23-7051 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias |
1. Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial… |
| 23-7025 |
Stevie Wyre v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court |
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| 23-7032 |
Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing |
1 ST QUESTION
WAS JUDGE STEVEN BOUGH ALLOW TO RENAME MR.GREGORY'S 28 USCS 144
PETITION AS A 28 USCS 455 PETITION?
2ND QUESTION
WAS MR.GREGORY DENIED … |
| 23-7002 |
Ayoob Wali v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal |
Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen… |
| 23A842 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6994 |
Donald M. Reynolds v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g… |
| 23-1008 |
Gwyneth K. Murray-Nolan v. Scott Rubin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law context due-process expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent legal-interpretation standing |
1. Whether conduct must convey a particularized
message to be protected as expressive under the First
Amendment.
2. Whether the full context of conduc… |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED… |
| 23A834 |
Raymond Pierson v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc. |
California |
2024-03-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari legal-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6946 |
Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. Royce C. Lamberth, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6904 |
Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23A821 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-03-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief |
Whether South Carolina's appellate courts failed to apply an exception to the mootness doctrine, where, as a result of an unconstitutional parole revo… |
| 23-963 |
Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure |
Florida legal scheme does not allow its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an opinion even in exceptional cases wher… |
| 23-971 |
Gary Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure courts-of-appeals final-judgment rule-41 rule-60(b) rule-60b voluntary-dismissal |
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) empowers district courts, on just terms and under circumstances specified in that Rule, to "relieve a party or i… |
| 23A819 |
Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction |
Question not identified. |
| 23A817 |
Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-03-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process medical-disability pro-se time-extension veterans-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23A812 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process post-conviction summary-denial |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6884 |
Alexander Yoichi Duberek v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-6861 |
Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court |
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. |
| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images?
II. Whether the C… |
| 23-6841 |
Ronald D. Houston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
The United States Courts of Appeal disagree as to a district court's power to preclude appellate review for significant procedural error required by G… |
| 23A781 |
Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6814 |
Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation |
Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t… |
| 23-6815 |
Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission |
Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr… |
| 23-6818 |
Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. PRIDE'S ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY IMPOSING A 110… |
| 23-6809 |
Warren Lee Mackey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony |
Circuits are applying different tests to gauge prejudice resulting from testimony that improperly bolsters or vouches for the testimony of another wit… |
| 23-912 |
Dora L. Adkins v. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate-judge standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit") properly AFFIRMED the district court's and magistrate judge's orders. Pet.… |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 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… |
| 23-6754 |
Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a "miscarr… |
| 23-6733 |
Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable
tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based … |
| 23-6734 |
C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay 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… |
| 23-6724 |
Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
In Blackledge v. Perry, 417 U.S. 21 (1974), and Menna v. New York, 423 U.S. 61 (1975), this Court held that a defendant who pleads guilty can still ra… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6718 |
Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6704 |
Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Deliberately Any Malicious VIOLATER Petitioner. Liaw.
(Te Aimendnenlr CZ S Constitvtional. /2TEHT leith [Sedge Barker's (Two) [Consecutive Sanehen Or… |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
1) Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to
the Due Process of Law when the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court denied
relief without… |
| 23-6697 |
Jorge Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-reasoning discretion due-process judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall motion-denial procedural-due-process reasoning |
In order to permit meaningful appellate review of whether a court properly exercised its discretion, a court must provide at least a brief statement o… |
| 23-850 |
Lucinda Jones v. David W. McKeague, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment-act due-process due-process-claim federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction non-merit-claim standing |
I. Does the Declaratory Act of 28 U.S.C. § 2201 afford jurisdiction over non-merit claims for due process violations?
II. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2201 compe… |
| 23-851 |
John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal … |
| 23-848 |
Wen Lian Patience v. Shannon Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment-immunity judicial-misconduct pleading-requirements prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983-claim |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit and district court exhibited negligence, violated their discretion, and permit judicial misconduct?
2. Whether the trial cou… |
| 23A726 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6674 |
Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT, IN EXPANDING THE CRITERIA REQUIRED BY PLAIN ERROR REVIEW ON APPEAL, HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE… |
| 23-6680 |
Mark Mayo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error |
Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro… |
| 23-6682 |
Karyn M. Kelley v. Kevin M. Kelley |
New Hampshire |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-attachment judicial-procedure property-rights standing |
I-(a) Did the highest state court err when it affirmed the trial courts orders, which Karyn M. Kelley requested a jury trial under her rights to be he… |
| 23-6664 |
Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6650 |
Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent |
Does Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364, 113 S. Ct. 838, 122 L. Ed. 2d 180
(1993), prevent federal habeas corpus relief regardless of substantive prej… |
| 23A710 |
Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group |
Illinois |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discriminatory-practices due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion petition-for-leave |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6634 |
Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 |
A. What is the appropriate standard of review when an appellate court improperly grants a motion for summary dismissal that has the practical effect o… |
| 23-6618 |
Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth
Amendment violated when testimonial statements are
admitted for the truth of the matters as… |
| 23-823 |
Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing |
1. Whether enforcing the statutory requirement
of the appearance of conflict-of-interest, 28
U.S.C. § 455(a), will restore the public's recordlow conf… |
| 23-6599 |
Devon Blevins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure first-degree-murder insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the court of appeals failed to correctly apply the standard of review for claims of insufficiency of evidence to support conviction of a crime… |
| 23-6585 |
Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability
II. Shoul… |
| 23-6587 |
Pedro Andres Bravo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review federal-habeas-review final-judgment gonzalez-v-thaler habeas-corpus state-court-finality state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134 (2012), that a judgment becomes final (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)) when the… |
| 23-797 |
Marco Gonzalez v. Salem Shahin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rules judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal post-judgment-motion time-extension |
This Court has made clear that the time requirements contained in the civil rules are claim-processing requirements that are subject to waiver and for… |
| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23A673 |
Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-766 |
Scott Douglas Ora v. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |
California |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review burden-of-proof conditions-precedent due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver |
1. In this case of perilously profound impression, did the Court of Appeal violate the due process rights of Appellant when it arbitrarily disregarded… |
| 23-761 |
Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa |
Florida |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing |
Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r… |
| 23-6465 |
Lewis Slaughter v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6476 |
Phillip Thomas Green v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness rebuttal sentencing-guidelines |
With the understanding that federal sentences are accompanied by a presumption of reasonableness if they fall within a properly calculated advisory gu… |
| 23-6482 |
Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
MAY A COURT ENFORCE BRADY AND NAPUE VIOLATIONS THAT JEOPARDIZE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL AND DOES THE BRADY/NAPUE ISSUES ARISE WHEN A CHANGE… |
| 23-757 |
Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review clear-error de-novo de-novo-review likelihood-of-confusion multifactor-test standard-of-review trademark-infringement |
1) Whether the determination of a likelihood of confusion for trademark infringement is a factual finding, reviewable for clear error, or a legal conc… |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6462 |
Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6464 |
Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6439 |
Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity by … |
| 23-6442 |
Pedro Hernandez Zarate v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-hearing meaningful-review statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal writ-of-certiorari |
Wherther Duye Process and the statutory right to appeal, requires the Court of Appeals to adequately explain the decisions made in a defnedant's case … |
| 23-6446 |
William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding… |
| 23-6441 |
Marc Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights |
1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the
courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioner's counsel faile… |
| 23A621 |
Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. |
Texas |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review direct-appeal fact-finding property-dispute stay-of-proceedings trial-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6404 |
Jamar Hunter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
1. Was the Third Circuit's reversal of Petitioner's suppression of
evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States
Constitution? |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23A605 |
Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A594 |
Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6386 |
Michael Andrew King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination criminal-procedure due-process due-process-rights evidence jury-instructions jury-trial mask-obstruction witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether an appellate court's traditional deference to credibility determinations made by jurors in returning a guilty verdict should give way where th… |
| 23-6376 |
Judy Thorpe v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System |
New Jersey |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-decision administrative-law appellate-review due-process government-benefits judicial-discretion manifest-error pension public-employee-retirement retirement state-law state-pension |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 23-6342 |
Ya-Sin El-Amin Shakir v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review jury-finding mental-health sufficiency-of-evidence |
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| 23-6328 |
Andrew Fields, III v. Patrick J. Bouldin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-justification pleadings procedural-dismissal standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing Appellant's Appeal without considering Appellant's Confidence Conviction. |
| 23-6329 |
Russell G. Finnegan v. David L. Chidester |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure jurisdiction pro-se-litigation signature-requirement standing |
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| 23A579 |
Deonte Marques Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte |
Does the exception to the contemporaneous-objection rule in Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) apply to claimed errors arising from a district court sua sponte am… |
| 23-6315 |
In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia |
|
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements lower-court-interpretation precedent-analysis res-judicata rooker-feldman standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6311 |
David Clum, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process judicial-review manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice supervisory-powers writ-of-certiorari |
SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE IT IS SHOWN FROM THE RECORD THAT THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AN… |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a
violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-6305 |
Brendan Hunt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat |
A jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a "true threat" takes it outside the First Amendment. The consequence is that the stat… |
| 23-654 |
Malka Leeal v. Newrez LLC, dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review case-caption civil-procedure claims-raised-or-could-have-been-raised district-court final-judgment legal-obligation res-judicata same-transaction summary-judgment |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN ITS BURDEN TO ESTABLISH ALL FOUR ELEMENTS OF RES JUDICATA AND CONDUCT DE NOVO REVIEW. (I) IT INVOLVES THE SAME … |
| 23-650 |
Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.
Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis of
constitutional alternative theory error in jury instructions must decline to find the erro… |
| 23A544 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6243 |
Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 23-631 |
Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error |
Petitioners were charged with fraud offenses, all of which had as an element "intent to defraud" and most of which also had as an element "scheme to d… |
| 23A536 |
Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23A531 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6208 |
Pleadro J. Scott v. Miami Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
advocacy appellate-process appellate-review case-law civil-procedure court-procedure discretion due-process incomplete-record judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-construction |
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| 23-6187 |
Jamar Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Rehearing |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when
the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of
… |
| 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… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. Selective Remand
Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa… |
| 23-6179 |
Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge |
Whether The Evidence Was Insufficient for the Verdict to Stand. |
| 23-6181 |
Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6186 |
Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT… |
| 23A512 |
Kimra Bowers v. Payson City |
Utah |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review de-novo-review disorderly-conduct final-judgment jurisdiction justice-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-591 |
Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts ' adherence to issue preclusion doctri… |
| 23-599 |
Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. |
Maryland |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing |
1. Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court… |
| 23-602 |
William Shupp v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in… |
| 23A503 |
Kathy Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process erisa judicial-explanation life-insurance rule-60-motion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6146 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6147 |
Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut… |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6112 |
Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability |
I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT FAILED OR REFUSED TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ON ONE OR MO… |
| 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… |
| 23-6117 |
Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing |
Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)? |
| 23-6092 |
Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder |
Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6097 |
Montrez Duncan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional |
Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and mandatory-consecutive sentence on a count… |
| 23-6098 |
Ricardo Dinnall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the parties in … |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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thot to of the thee required pr… |
| 23A466 |
Melissa Ing v. Tufts University |
First Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review first-circuit judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A460 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review |
In states that offer unitary review of direct appeal and post conviction relief matters, when an appellant's court appointed counsel gives the appella… |
| 23A458 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6079 |
Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails… |
| 23-6083 |
Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power |
Detling appealed the district court's denial of his Speedy Trial Act motion to dismiss, a three-judge panel rejected the Government's argument but the… |
| 23-549 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia to issue an improper Order stating the Court had no s… |
| 23-6053 |
Nathan Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing |
Did the First District Court of Appeal of Florida violate questions in the Petition alleging that it conflicts with relevant decisions of this court?
… |
| 23-529 |
Matthew Hayko v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23A432 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6005 |
Ehab Sadeek v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden |
In the admitted absence of established circuit precedent, was it plain error for the appellate court to affirm Petitioner's 405-month sentence based o… |
| 23-5993 |
Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error |
Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial … |
| 23A427 |
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority |
Question not identified. |
| 23A425 |
Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5983 |
Eric Spencer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 23-5978 |
Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Dismissing Mr. Person's Appeal Pursuant to An Appeal Waiver When He Argued that His Plea was Not Knowing and Volun… |
| 23A414 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 23A406 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5951 |
Rodney L. Love v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 23-5935 |
Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence |
After a United States District Judge orders the appointment of counsel sua sponte "in the interest of justice," may a United States court of appeals s… |
| 23-5915 |
Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-457 |
Terrance Nelson Cates v. Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial medical-evidence summary-judgment |
1. Does a circuit court of appeals' appellate review of the grant of a federal summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 require the a… |
| 23A389 |
Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5901 |
Albert Randolph v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance new-trial |
Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Writ of Habeas Corpus for New Trial.
Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Motion for New Trial. |
| 23-5904 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj… |
| 23-5886 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice |
Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a… |
| 23-5858 |
Anthony Schneider v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor |
A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). The f… |
| 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… |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
WHETHER BY REASON OF AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, IN REFUSING TO GRANT RELIEF PURSUANT TO PHASER ABDALLAH'S AGGRAVATED IDEN… |
| 23-5850 |
In Re Lawrence Smith |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
One whether officials violate the Eighth Amendment when they deliberately indifference to a serious medical need of an incarcerated person? |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
1. In a case in which the victim died from a single gunshot wound and the
factfinder did not find that the death-sentenced codefendant fired the fatal… |
| 23A359 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker |
Question not identified. |
| 23-419 |
USIC, LLC v. Northern Illinois Gas Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction final-order new-argument postjudgment-motion summary-judgment tolling |
1. If a federal court of appeals construes a filing below as a postjudgment motion tolling the time for appeal, does that court have authority to reve… |
| 23-5807 |
Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation |
1) Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory … |
| 23-5808 |
Rodney Jennings v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability doyle-rule doyle-v-ohio habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
Did the court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claim under Jackson v. Virginia, Doyle v. Ohio, … |
| 23-5814 |
Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5818 |
Eduardo Martinez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements |
(1). Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relie… |
| 23-5788 |
Roberto Buendia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was "plain" conf… |
| 23-394 |
Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. |
New York |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment |
1. Where a trial court deciding summary judgment resolves genuine issues of disputed material fact adversely to Plaintiff instead of ruling on the law… |
| 23-5766 |
Richard Todd Haas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence |
Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-5774 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-policy civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus-petition public-confidence standing |
Several federal appellate circuits have endorsed the view that a federal district court's refusal to recuse is better resolved earlier in interlocutor… |
| 23-5779 |
Donovan Romo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5733 |
Donald D. Higgs v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review legal-issue standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Was the district court's dismissal with prejudice of defendant's lack of standing improper?
2. Did the United States Court of Appeals fail to have… |
| 23-5724 |
Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
1. Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its description in allowing only one opinion of the justice in affirming the conviction and sentence set forth?… |
| 23-5714 |
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge |
During petitioner's trial for capital murder, the jury foreperson told the other jurors misleading and prejudicial information about petitioner's prio… |
| 23-5689 |
Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's… |
| 23-5671 |
Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the defendant was denied effective assistance of cou… |
| 23-327 |
John Canada v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review clear-error fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress ornelas-standard ornelas-v-united-states probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
Whether the review of the evidence in a suppression-hearing record "in the light most favorable to the government" conflicts with Ornelas's standard o… |
| 23-5664 |
Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5668 |
Maurice Bellamy v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion |
I. Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment
II. Whether the cruel, heinous and atr… |
| 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… |
| 23-309 |
Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation |
Does the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment and/or the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require a criminal court to modify its policies… |
| 23-5654 |
Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim… |
| 23-281 |
Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review |
Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion of de novo? |
| 23-285 |
Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Tyson Foods Incorporated, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine district-court federal-antitrust-law judicial-procedure private-enforcement public-interest standing |
Does a district court order permitting significant interference with private enforcement of federal antitrust law implicate an interest sufficiently i… |
| 23-271 |
Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. |
Minnesota |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation |
(1) When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 an… |
| 23-273 |
Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment |
Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie… |
| 23-5626 |
Arun Dhavamani v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5627 |
Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n). |
| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 23-252 |
United States, ex rel. Michelle Calderon v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review causation civil-penalties civil-procedure due-process false-claims-act materiality summary-judgment |
Did the Appellate Panel erroneously uphold the granting of summary judgment in favor of Respondent in finding no evidence of causation for a jury to c… |
| 23-5592 |
Beau John Greene v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania |
Beau Greene is an Arizona death-row prisoner. Due to recent amendments to Arizona's death-penalty statute by the Arizona legislature, the sole aggrava… |
| 23-247 |
S. C., Mother v. Philadelphia Department of Human Services, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-findings judicial-review legal-error misapplication-of-law state-court-opinion |
1) Did the Opinions of the Pennsylvania Courts constitute erroneous factual findings and / or misapplications of properly stated rules of law, as well… |
| 23-5586 |
Nestor Leon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure document-submission due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-dismissal petition-process standing subpoena-duces-tecum |
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| 23A233 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5551 |
Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little |
Kentucky |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
This case presents issues of first impression for this Court arising under UCCJEA.
Did the Madison County Family Court ever have jurisdiction to make… |
| 23-5539 |
Trezjuan Thompson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents |
1) How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifie… |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
ISSUE 1: The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for
IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a
life sentence after either a guilty… |
| 23-5489 |
Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test |
1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts
decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United
St… |
| 23A191 |
Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5464 |
Patrick Okeyo v. USCIS, Newark Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review case-reopening civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing third-circuit |
The Appellant is petitioning to reconsider the decision to reopen case #22-1875 from the third Circuit Court. Respondent seeks eligibility for relief … |
| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
1) Whether this court's wae fo as - a rele? be ion fir Concdusron that fe: t made _-+he eat showin of dea na, tot het Hae eli Tia —_———i prsceducal cu… |
| 23-5456 |
John E. Gilcrease v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review consecutive-sentence constitutional-rights due-process judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargaining remand sentencing-modification |
Were John Gilcrease's due process rights violated when, after his plea and original sentence
for obstruction of justice that exceeded the maximum stat… |
| 23-5440 |
Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review |
1. When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of
guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorr… |
| 23-5443 |
Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus |
Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5418 |
Billy Noel Catherwood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-circuit national-emergency public-defender standing state-corrections time-extension victim-impact |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5424 |
Caesar V. Vaca v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment |
I. Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and
appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20)
despite abundant legal support for… |
| 23-5404 |
Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention |
Did either / both my appellate and trial counsel perform beneath the standard demanded by the US Constitution?
Was this appeal moot? |
| 23-159 |
Antonio Perez v. City of Miami, Code Enforcement Board |
Florida |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law appellate-review brady-standard civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-disqualification judicial-review standing substantive-due-process |
Petitioner, a US citizen, was deprived of the granny flat in his home by a board where the city had a 99.4% win rate. Review was by appeal only. The c… |
| 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 |
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Brief, fWi \AJ(S$ ^… |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand. |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MAY PROHIBIT
CONSIDERATION OF SENTENCING ERRORS UNDER 18 USC §3582 (c)(1)(A). |
| 23-5333 |
Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit |
1. WHETHER OR NOT, THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ERRED IN THEIR DECISIONS WHI… |
| 23-5307 |
Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process |
When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc… |
| 23-5313 |
Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when the Court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability on Grounds that Dispositive Pr… |
| 23-5323 |
Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness |
Petitioner ask this court for review matters of law that were present at Appellate Court level but not replied.
Because petitioner incarcerated and u… |
| 23-114 |
Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit |
1) Did the decision of the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of … |
| 23-5283 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review |
1.
WHETHER DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE OF FEDERAL
HABEAS CORPUS PREMATURELY FILED IN ORDER TO
EXAUST ALL AVAILABLE STATE REMEDIES COM7$ AS A
FIRST … |
| 23-5289 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-100 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution |
1. Whether the appellate court erred when it upheld, by and through an extremely terse and abbreviated judgment, the granting, by the district court, … |
| 23-5249 |
Ryan David Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5258 |
Octavius McLendon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 grants convicted federal inmates the right, in lieu of
common law habeas corpus, to "move the court which imposed the sentence"… |
| 23-5259 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions |
DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,… |
| 23-86 |
Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation |
1. Whether HBH (concealing its family rela
tionship with the adverse party in the
underlying probate litigation) violated
Petitioner's constitutiona… |
| 23-90 |
Shaomin Sui v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arbitration civil-procedure district-court |
The unpublished opinion of the 4th Circuit Court erroneously upheld the district court's order, concluding the district court did not abuse its discre… |
| 23-5238 |
John Edward Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements |
Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes "raw, machine produced data" and not testimonial statements triggering the C… |
| 23-5224 |
James Scott v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence trial-court-record trial-court-records |
Whether Appellate Court abused it's disereton by
déenmy te Vacate and or Granta Evidentiary hénrine,
where Pro sé petitioner Established, And State d… |
| 23-5228 |
Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness |
Where a district court exercises its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act to deny a sentence reduction to a defendant with a "covered… |
| 23-78 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed |
Petitioner's prayed 9 reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly … |
| 23-76 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Petitioner's prayed reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly si… |
| 23-77 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Tata Consultancy Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review jurisdictional-error mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Petitioner's prayed reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly si… |
| 23-68 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law |
1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-5184 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
1) Can a trial court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay (because prohibited by State Statute) in secrete and … |
| 23-5176 |
Damarco Antonio Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-rights right-of-appeal standing |
Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal? |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of
supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year
prison sentence. |
| 23-5142 |
Joseph Counts v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis |
1. Where 28Use 1455 is
is ambiguoos, what is the
proper or best way for
the lower courts to
handle the
penumbra of filings
in order to
achieve
the mos… |
| 23-5125 |
Justin Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5128 |
In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. |
|
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion?
2. Did the United… |
| 23-40 |
Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence |
In considering the standards set forth in Flury, should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evid… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine
pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5073 |
Cinque Robinson v. Janeen D. Guajardo |
Illinois |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process justiciable-controversy parental-rights parenting-time procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District err in not vacating the abatement of my parenting time, in determining that the circuit court had … |
| 23-5055 |
Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-5049 |
Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility |
1. Whether the Wisconsin courts failed to address the issue presented to them that the prosecutor vouch for their witnesses.
2. Whether the prosecuto… |
| 23-15 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement |
1. Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the issue of trademark infringement was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and t… |
| 23-5029 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing |
(1) DID The DisTricT AND APPELLATE CouRTs VIOLATE APPELLANT'S 1ST, 5TH, 6TH, 8TH, AND 10TH AMENDMENT RIGHTS?
(2) DID The DisTricT AND APPELLATE CouRT… |
| 23-5038 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review |
Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 23-5012 |
Matthew Nix v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court |
1. Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate r… |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding
there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's
verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 23-5004 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5010 |
Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7867 |
Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7879 |
Olyric Robinson v. California |
California |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence |
Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents (i) established by other state courts of last resort or United St… |
| 22-7831 |
Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment |
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| 22-1229 |
Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power |
I. Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction? The bankruptc… |
| 22-7822 |
Darwin Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just… |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 22-7802 |
James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-7810 |
Neiman Nix v. Major League Baseball, Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review banned-substance civil-rights due-process natural-product natural-substance pro-se-plaintiff selective-enforcement substance-ban union-rights |
1. Can Major League Baseball ban a natural substance that is required for
humans to survive?
2. Can Major League Baseball selectively enforce it's b… |
| 22-7811 |
Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata |
Pursuant to the Full Faith and Credit, whether an unauthenticated judgment have res judicata affects as an affirmative defense provided in memoranda o… |
| 22-7812 |
Miguel A. Cisneros v. Trent Allen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure jury-instructions legal-standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7792 |
Diante Turman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing
22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in |
Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing… |
| 22-7796 |
Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-7799 |
Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant |
SHOULD A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ISSUE
TO DEBATE THE MATTER OF COUNSEL BEING
APPOINTED TO AID A PRO SE DEFENDANT
SUFFERING FROM RETARDATION AND M… |
| 22-7761 |
Aaron Keith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection to the period of delay after his motion to dismiss for… |
| 22-1200 |
Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states |
Do the courts of appeals, under Young v. United States, 315 U.S. 257 (1942), have an "independent obligation" to craft and consider forfeited legal ar… |
| 22-1184 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. Barry S. Mittelberg, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules civil-procedure due-process judicial-estoppel property-disclosure standing |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals exercised its discretion in err by not "safeguarding not only ongoing proceedings, but potential future proc… |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7717 |
Christopher A. Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
This Court in Holguin-Hernandez held that a defendant's argument in the district court for
a lower sentence preserves appella te review to the substan… |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7703 |
Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-7674 |
John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1153 |
Hector Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights |
a) Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory "right to be heard" by completely misreading or ignoring the "files a… |
| 22-7639 |
Hulon Verser v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility |
I. The Post-Lowviction Court Mawifestly Erred By Denying
Hulow Versers Posh-Lonviction Pedition ASter Aw Evidentiary
Hearing, Where fl, Lamphell's Tes… |
| 22-1144 |
Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment |
Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals should have voluntarily recused themselve… |
| 22-7619 |
Earl Anderson v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure dismissal district-court due-process in-forma-pauperis standing supplemental-complaint |
1. Whether the Appellate Court erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner Anderson's Original Complaint?
2. Whether the Appellate Court erred in … |
| 22-7610 |
Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment |
Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain… |
| 22-1132 |
Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York ("Court of Appeals") erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal the decision of… |
| 22-7579 |
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… |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 22-7562 |
Joseph Tetak v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue deference-standard federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-precedent stare-decisis state-supreme-court subjective-objective-analysis |
Does the doctrine of stare decisis prevail on a state supreme
court's determination of a constitutional issue in the same manner
as this Court's deter… |
| 22-7549 |
Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity |
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2. D»r> "THE EIGHTH C'tRdUiT C… |
| 22-7540 |
Harry Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue |
1. Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt;
2. Wheth… |
| 22-1108 |
Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error? |
| 22-1103 |
Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court in: Kokesh v. S.E.C., Liu v. S.E.C., a… |
| 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… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7519 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from.
II. When the Circuit Cou… |
| 22-7520 |
Levaughn Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping |
Whether the District Court erred in its two decisions, on August 16, 2018, R. 546 and Hrg. Tr. I; and January 22, 2019, R. 625 and Hrg. Tr. II, denyin… |
| 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… |
| 22-7482 |
Ralph Leroy Menzies v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-appeal appellate-review capital-case due-process prejudice prejudice-standard transcript transcript-reconstruction voir-dire |
1. Does the petitioner's Due Process right to an adequate and effective appeal in a capital case require a new trial where critical portions of the pr… |
| 22-7484 |
In Re Richard Chapman |
|
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review binding-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-mandate due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion record-review standing |
Whether THE TRiAI COUrT AbUSEd itS AUThORiTY
When it Departed From The Appeslate CourT
MAndate In Chapmanl67 S03d1170?
2. Whether THE Appellate CourT… |
| 22-7456 |
Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing |
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deliberately repeating the district court's errors in factfinding and the application of law and in discri… |
| 22-1061 |
Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings |
Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr… |
| 22-1052 |
Patricia Hermann v. Jonathan B. McFarland, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion procedural-motion reconsideration time-extension |
Where a party moves three days before the deadline for an extension of time to file a responsive pleading pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 6(b)(1)(A), a… |
| 22-7414 |
John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding the District Court proceedings, Petition for Writ of Mandamus and other ma… |
| 22-1023 |
Dora L. Adkins v. American Service Center Associates, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1915 amendment amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-dismissal |
1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit") properly AFFIRMED the district court's closure pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 22-1024 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1915 amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-dismissal failure-to-state-a-claim frivolous frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis right-to-amend |
1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ("Fourth Circuit") properly AFFIRMED the district court's closure pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 22-1019 |
CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity |
1. Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must, as a matter of law, give district court decisions granting class ce… |
| 22-1012 |
Janet Austen v. Franklin Herman |
Maryland |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
|
alimony alimony-calculation appeals appellate-review family-law income-calculation income-determination judicial-discretion marital-dissolution permanent-alimony trial-court |
Most importantly, if the trial Judge miscalculated the alimony recipient's monthly income (or pay) was it right for the appeals court to uphold her de… |
| 22-1014 |
Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review |
1. Where a plaintiff adequately argues and preserves a federal claim or a state law claim before the district court, may the plaintiff advance new arg… |
| 22-7308 |
Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni… |
| 22-7307 |
Darek Lathan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing |
Did the appeadl court abuse its discretion by failing to comply
withthe consttution which guarartee me due process of law
which compel the rebuttal of… |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7289 |
Terrick Bishoff v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone … |
| 22-999 |
Janice C. Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cigna Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 appellate-review case-by-case-balancing circuit-split final-judgment interlocutory-orders merger-rules post-judgment-proceedings postjudgment-proceedings pragmatic-finality |
May litigants wait until the end of postjudgment proceedings to appeal, with the scope of appeal including all related postjudgment decisions, or is t… |
| 22-7266 |
Levar Lee Spence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-rights appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus self-representation statutory-authorization statutory-interpretation |
I. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision provide the necessary warrant of authority to Subsume the Constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus ad sobti… |
| 22-7273 |
Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin -Hernandez v. United States , __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails… |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7262 |
Alfred Coppage v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing |
Whether trial Court abused discretion by hearing a motion for Substitution of Judge of Counsel.
Whether Appellate Court overlooked the Correct Standa… |
| 22-990 |
Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment |
Whether in arrogant defiance of 36 years of this Court's precedent in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., the Ninth Circuit, just like the other Appellat… |
| 22-988 |
Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes |
California |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of "equitable tolling" applied so as to toll the one-year statute… |
| 22-989 |
Rodney Lynn Dalton v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
What is the appropriate standard for determining cumulative prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial? |
| 22-7254 |
Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error |
I.
Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) so far depart from the accepted
and usual course of judicial proceedings by chosing to ignore
its own rules and pr… |
| 22-7216 |
Terrell Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo… |
| 22-7211 |
Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
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| 22-7178 |
David Frazier v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts |
Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence.
Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also… |
| 22-7186 |
Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching |
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| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-7144 |
In Re David Priester |
|
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights conviction counsel-representation due-process extraordinary-writ federal-constitutional ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial |
Does the Sixth Amendment require the Assistance of and from counsel be appointed? A Federal and Constitutional matter effecting five trial(s). And see… |
| 22-7108 |
Andrew Ryan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4241d appellate-review competency competency-determination due-process incompetent-defendant statutory-rights timing-violations united-states-v-olano waiver |
I. Whether under United States v. Olano an incompetent defendant waives appellate review of his statutory and due process right to a timely resolution… |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-7074 |
Christopher White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th… |
| 22-7056 |
Alexander Cameron v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-evidence free-speech judicial-procedure standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 22-906 |
Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures |
1. Should the "actual malice" standard for state law defamation claims by "public figures" imposed by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (19… |
| 22-7013 |
Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7029 |
Roger Keeling v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found "ample," rather than "weighty," evidence of guilt c… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7014 |
Michael Hucks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-7004 |
Amit Khanna, et ux. v. Westport Village at Irongate Community Association |
California |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hoa-declaration-bylaws home-owners-association jurisdictional-defect procedural-irregularity standing unauthorized-counsel vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation |
Whether a case without a plaintiff may proceed against persons mis-alleged to be defendants by attorneys who are unauthorized to represent any plainti… |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act.
Whether the peti… |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6956 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT CORRECTLY DETERMINED
THAT THE ORDERS APPEALED WERE NEITHER FINAL NOR
WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION UNDER
THE ALL-WRITS ACT
18 USC … |
| 22-6916 |
Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement |
L. The first question for this Court's review is whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate convictions that ar… |
| 22-6935 |
William Ingram v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure |
Did the trial Court violate Petitioner's Right to Choice of Counsel and the Appellate Court Stipulate to re om?
Did the Texas Appellate Court Violate… |
| 22-6945 |
Derrick Owens v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err by finding that Mr. Owens is a Career Offender pursuant to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines because the Indiana cocaine convi… |
| 22-6918 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCE REVIEW OF PRO-SE PLEADINGS WERE SELECTIVE RATHER THAN THE REQUIR… |
| 22-6927 |
Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6861 |
Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error |
DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO?
WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6844 |
Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6845 |
Jesus Lopez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process? |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6853 |
Joshua Seekins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6840 |
David Omar Caraballo v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing |
WIHETHER THE INSTANT
STATE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS
AS PRESENTED ON DIRET APPEAL. |
| 22-780 |
Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers |
1. Do we have a government of laws and not of men?
2. Must a deciding panel in a court of appeals address all of the issues raised in the opening bri… |
| 22-6820 |
Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence |
The rights to compel favorable witnesses and present a defense are fundamental to our system of justice, and predate our constitution. Yet these right… |
| 22-6799 |
Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment |
1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN REFUSING TO ALLOW THE
PETITI… |
| 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 (… |
| 22-6809 |
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) |
Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues? |
| 22-6771 |
Robert A. Condon v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice remand transcript transcript-discrepancy |
1. Is the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the Armed Forces, which is without findings of fact or law, susceptible to review by this Court… |
| 22-6776 |
J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment |
I. Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other subst… |
| 22-759 |
Michael Gramins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms |
Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter… |
| 22-6751 |
Ernest Kyle Dyer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review conditional-guilty-plea federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-11(a)(2) harmless-error motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining prevail |
When a defendant enters a conditional guilty plea, reserving the right to appeal an adverse decision on a motion to suppress, what harmless-error stan… |
| 22-752 |
Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. |
California |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law |
1. Is California's scheme of procedural due process in its Code of Civil Procedure and Civil Rules of Court satisfactory of constitutionally protected… |
| 22-755 |
Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Thomas L. Dorwin |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court order that Federal Courts of Appeals are obligated to sua sponte review subject-matter jurisdiction issues regardless of the… |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of… |
| 22-6733 |
In Re John B. Myles |
|
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arrest-warrant due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-740 |
Harinder Jeet Singh v. RXR 620 Master Lease, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process emotional-distress evidence-spoliation judicial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether District Court falsified facts in its
order dated 6/10/16 to favor EXCEL, and
falsified facts in SJM ruling dated 3/30/21 to
favor Securita… |
| 22-6678 |
Cortez Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure |
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| 22-6685 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
A defendant sued in a State Court can timely remove the action to the local federal District Court where the party alleges federal question jurisdicti… |
| 22-6687 |
Robert Dee Carter v. Deon Clayton, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review brady brady-materiality charges-convicted circuit-court due-process materiality pro-se-status rule-59 rule-60b |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit depart Brady by artificially heightening the threshold for materiality based on Petiti… |
| 22-6659 |
Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 22-701 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal Constitutional v… |
| 22-6627 |
Kenneth Mobley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable as it was calculated on an excessive amount of loss unjustified by the facts of … |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6638 |
James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6617 |
Winsloe Duhaney v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
After a defendant on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence under the subsection of the criminal statute under which he was convicted, and,… |
| 22-680 |
Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power |
This case falls within Sup. Ct. R. 10(a) which allows the Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory power when a court of appeals has departed from th… |
| 22-6572 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n… |
| 22-6574 |
Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling |
1) Petitioner respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, which d… |
| 22-6558 |
Roshua Marquiston White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Petitioner, ROSHUA MARQUISTON WHITE, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of methamphetamine. He object… |
| 22-6539 |
Israel Romero v. Allwell from Absolute Total Care, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction documentary-evidence federal-question pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-28-usc-1915 summary-judgment |
This is the case the United States Supreme Court has been waiting for years to give light over three crucial issues never decided by any federal court… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
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STATES
CONSTIT… |
| 22-6490 |
Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order |
Can it ever be harmless error for a State to force a Defendant to stand trial on multiple felonies while admitting into evidence as the foundation of … |
| 22-6492 |
Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC |
Florida |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution |
Florida 's adoption of the Federal Constitution Fourteenth Amendment at section 9 of its
constitution reads, "No person shall be deprived of life, li… |
| 22-6425 |
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? |
| 22-6428 |
Jermaine Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing |
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| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Whether it was procedurally and substantively reasonable for the
sentencing court to a) recite statutory sentencing rationale by rote
recitation wi… |
| 22-6421 |
Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence |
Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m… |
| 22-6394 |
Van Raymond Brollini v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness |
L. In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve
conflicting evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses. Neder v. Unite… |
| 22-6396 |
John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact |
John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding… |
| 22-6399 |
Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review |
1. Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice?
2. Manifest Weight of the Evidence.
3. Can a "Juris… |
| 22-6392 |
Adam Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard |
Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United … |
| 22-574 |
Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis |
1. Whether Federal District Court judges in conducting complex bench trials, by issuing ostensible "findings" which fail to specially and specifically… |
| 22-6359 |
Leonid Gershman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity |
Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6370 |
Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT VIOLATED PRECEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCED IN MILLER-EL V. COCKRELL 537 U.S. 3… |
| 22-6348 |
Douglas James Schneider v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation… |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
1) whether the Ninth Circwit's 10-7.22,
ORDER,granting Respondent's
motion To Revoke In Forma
Pauperi's under 28 U.S.C.8
1915(g),Three strikes provisi… |
| 22-6316 |
Kalvin Walker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-6283 |
James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
2. Whether the United States … |
| 22-6241 |
Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6223 |
Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review |
(1) The Pullman-Standard , 456 U.S. 273 (1982), this Court developed which is the
standard for reviewing jurisprudence for issues of fact and issues … |
| 22-6205 |
Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment |
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| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-6214 |
Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. GALLION'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERR… |
| 22-6192 |
Dennis Dean Neff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims |
In unpreserved claims of jury instruction error, what must an appellant show to demonstrate a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome at trial… |
| 22-6159 |
Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony |
Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional right to present a defense in conviction challenges and entitlement … |
| 22-6135 |
Monzell Harding v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes |
Was the district court required by Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted f… |
| 22-6140 |
Taylor Winston Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process judicial-review merits-review ninth-circuit procedural-violation |
CAN THE NINTH CIRCUIT FAIL TO ADDRESS THE MERITS OF A
CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM BASED ON A PROCEDURAL VIOLATION THE
DISTRIC T COURT ADJUDICATED WRONG? |
| 22-6067 |
Yazan Al-Madani v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim |
Question One: Whether under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO ") an entity can be both an "enterprise " and a "victim " - … |
| 22-6068 |
Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6084 |
Jerry Bonton v. David R. Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech medical-privacy mental-health-history standing trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 22-464 |
United States v. Saleem Hakim |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review automatic-vacatur criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation structural-error |
Whether a defendant's erroneous pretrial self-representation categorically constitutes structural error, thereby requiring automatic vacatur of the co… |
| 22-456 |
Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver |
Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a… |
| 22-458 |
TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Dismissed |
|
28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary |
In Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corporation, 486 U.S. 847 (1988), this Court set forth a three-factor test to determine whether it is appr… |
| 22-6045 |
Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights |
I. CONSIDERING A PRISONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM WRONGFUL RESTRAINTS UPON THEIR LIBERTY, DOES 28 U.S.C. § 2254 PROVIDE WHILE FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS… |
| 22-6046 |
Terrioues Owney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass… |
| 22-441 |
Rony Galicia v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion accomplice-confession appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination double-murder sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
This case presents the following questions:
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court's denial of cross-examination into an accompl… |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-6028 |
John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In 1992, the elderly parents created a Trust. Controversy arose when the
petitioner had a child which extended the life of the trust to the year 2036.… |
| 22-5997 |
Tarence Kirkland v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence |
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| 22-5985 |
Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague |
1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally
vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment?
… |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-416 |
Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor |
1. Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated?
2. Whether Columbia University and related parties ca… |
| 22-408 |
Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
|
adversary-proceeding appellate-review bankruptcy-court-order bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice final-order judicial-activity standing |
1. Whether district court's order dismissing case 6:20ap-55 with prejudice is a final order that Eleventh Circuit must review.
2. Whether both distri… |
| 22-5959 |
William A. White v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by United States District Judge J. Phil Grilbert of the United States District Court for th… |
| 22-5952 |
Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings |
1) Did the panel err by deciding that it lacked jurisdiction to case no.22-50192 in CA6U MO. 22-50098.
2) Has The Supreme Court of the United States … |
| 22-400 |
Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules procedural-flexibility timeliness timeliness-doctrine |
Should the federal courts, in an effort to serve the purposes of the public's interest in gaining access to justice, be following timeliness rules app… |
| 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… |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 22-5880 |
Sixing Liu v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confidential-information constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se-petition proprietary-information science-and-technology |
Did the Third Circuit err when, in conflict with this Court, it held that Petitioner failed to "make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitu… |
| 22-5834 |
Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error |
1) WHETHER MR. TORRES WAS ENTITLED TO RELIEF OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING, ON HIS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHERE TH… |
| 22-345 |
Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Connecticut |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-action judicial-procedure procedural-fairness standing trial |
1. Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's Order Denying Petitioner's Petition for Certification to Appeal to that Court upholding the Connecticut App… |
| 22-350 |
In Re Yi Tai Shao |
|
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing |
Do the issues presented below constitute exceptional circumstances that there are no other means to get adequate relief that warrants this Court to ex… |
| 22-5788 |
Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-5792 |
Armad Jamall Gatling v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process merits restitution sentence-enhancement standing |
1. Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing Mr. Gatling's appeal without reviewing its merits?
2. Did the district court err when determining the a… |
| 22-5795 |
Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5752 |
Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly
determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used
on a petitioner with solely… |
| 22-5760 |
Philip Joseph Spear v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice |
Did the appellate court err by overlooking a Constitutional wrong to the petitioner?, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promis… |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ?
II. Whether th… |
| 22-5733 |
Robert Brown, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment |
The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a… |
| 22-5709 |
Erika Jacobs v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction standing supervisory-power |
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| 22-295 |
In Re Deborah Walton |
|
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals?
Did the District Court denying the Petitioner her … |
| 22-286 |
Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
1. May the court of appeals override the parties' factual
stipulation crucial to petitioners' right to recover,
contrary to this Court's precedents as… |
| 22-276 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. |
Utah |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant |
1. Whether application of the contempt analysis
associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to
review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant
orde… |
| 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. |
| 22-5636 |
Kathi Sorrentino v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process erroneous-order federal-statutory-laws judicial-procedure state-laws void-order |
1. If a superior court is mandated to follow a void or erroneous order from an
appellate court, then what does a litigant do to protect their Constitu… |
| 22-261 |
Estate of Najee Ali Baker, By and Through His Ancillary Administrator Jemel Ali Dixon v. Wake Forest University |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process summary-judgment |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals that affirms summary judgment for a defendant in a diversity jurisdiction case, without addressing all well-grou… |
| 22-263 |
Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii |
Immediately after beginning his employment with Respondent as a pharmacist in March 2015, Petitioner became the direct object of his Caucasian coworke… |
| 22-5609 |
Herve Wilmore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue |
Whether the Exception to the Law of the Case Doctrine Permits a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of App… |
| 22-5599 |
Denzell Russell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
2. Have the courts … |
| 22-5600 |
Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing |
1. Where the petitioner-appellont had filed a timely aud sufficient
before
455 Agpinst the U.S. District Court Judge
be certifed that appeal was not t… |
| 22-239 |
Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition |
When a court of appeals authorizes adjudication of a claim in a second or successive habeas petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(3)(A), is the distr… |
| 22-242 |
Cyrano R. Irons v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5574 |
Gregory Lamar Blackmon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certified-question civil-procedure due-process standing state-court-proceedings |
Whether Mr. Blackmon's appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue the trial court erred in its treatment of Mr. Blackmon's decision to be … |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-5567 |
Lamar Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the
Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to… |
| 22-5541 |
Edwin Pawlowski v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error |
Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the examination in light of newDefendant's right to re-cross and evidence presented by the Prosecu… |
| 22-5561 |
Terrance Brooks v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood |
Whether The Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use
of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable… |
| 22-5540 |
David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights |
Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-210 |
Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment |
Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment. |
| 22-5523 |
Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel |
I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT REVERSED THE WELL REASONED DECISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT WHICH HELD THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE … |
| 22-5525 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court |
Whether The United States Court of Appeals, for the Fourth Circuit, affirmance of the District Court's order that the State law determines the time of… |
| 22-5527 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment, Dated, August 25. 20… |
| 22-5529 |
Anthony H. Lett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing |
1. Did. Court of appeals error when denying Petitioner's
Rehaif v.: United States , 139 S.Ct. 204.
2. Was Petitioner 's ineffective assistance claim … |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
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| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent
in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594
2o1g), where this Cort decided … |
| 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… |
| 22-5484 |
Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5457 |
J. Christopher Wreh v. Alex Gianotos, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-denial motion-practice rehearing-request standing supreme-court-procedure time-extension |
WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS TO REVIEW EXCLUSIVELY OF THE JUNE 27, 2022 MOTION FOR
EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE REHEARING WHICH WAS DENIED ON JUNE 29, 2022 BY … |
| 22-5449 |
Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5400 |
Maurice D. Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5390 |
Carina Conerly v. Julie G. Yap, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing |
1. WHETHER. The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred In Finding Petitioners ' Claim
To Be Frivolous after, as stated by the Appellate Court "Upon a re… |
| 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… |
| 22-5361 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory Construction case.
Whether a Plea of Jurisdiction extends to Respondents ' f… |
| 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… |
| 22-5311 |
Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing |
Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction?
Whether the South Carolina … |
| 22-5314 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines |
The Court has observed that "where a party presents nonfrivolous reasons for
imposing a different sentence, the judge will normally go further and exp… |
| 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 … |
| 22-5293 |
Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers |
1.- Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability(C.O.A.), where petitioner sought review… |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
1. Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") in disregard of the rule announced in Buck v Dav… |
| 22-5255 |
Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition |
1.) Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Err in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as Untim… |
| 22-5263 |
Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
I. WhetherWAs the Courtof Appeal's decision
that Petitioner's trial Counsel told the jury
degree of murder was Suficient, is the
Petitioner entitled t… |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5233 |
Carina Conerly v. Yee Yang, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing |
1. Whether The Ninth Circuit Abused Its Discretion By Not Finding That The Lower Eastern District Court Erred By Taking Away Petitioner's Informa Paup… |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 22-5209 |
Adam Paul Blomdahl v. Doctor Jaffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
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| 22-81 |
Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay |
1. Respondent and Louisiana courts delayed eighteen years before sentencing petitioner on two criminal convictions. It is undisputed this delay preven… |
| 22-72 |
Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Minnesota |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-procedure law-of-case law-of-the-case lower-court-jurisdiction rule-60.02 |
The first question presented is whether a lower
court is obligated to abide by the law of the case even
if it claims the appellate court erred.
The… |
| 22-5184 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Do a paritiones need to dotom oO Ccattifitate of appestabdrtity Sear the duriol of oe Civ via bo (b) motion 2
O13 sho couct of AppaUmls properly appl… |
| 22-5187 |
Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California |
California |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment |
Review is requested to clarify whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth Amendment claims arising under Batson v. K… |
| 22-5193 |
Shaidon Blake v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard |
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| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences. |
| 22-5179 |
Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings |
1) Should the U.S. Supreme Court grant a Certificate of Appealability in light of this Court's decisions and the Petitioner's three §2255 application … |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5113 |
Jerald Francis Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review |
What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions, given the important liberty interest at stake and… |
| 22-5105 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t… |
| 22-5086 |
Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure |
1- Plaintiff invoked the violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution of the
United States as to the fact that he was not served with a due pr… |
| 22-5054 |
Tyrik Upchurch v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error |
Did the Court of Appeal s for the Thi rd Ci rcuit so far depart from the accepted
and usual course of judi cial proceedi ngs, or sancti oned such a de… |
| 22-5056 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920) was broadened in 2006 to include crimes of "indecent acts." Article 120 was ream… |
| 22-14 |
Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy |
1. Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was bur… |
| 22-5029 |
Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review |
Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court —when the court ruling or order is made or sought —of the … |
| 22-5035 |
Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit District Court deemed petitioner's due process of law under the Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by to issue a certific… |
| 22-5018 |
Michael Allen Long v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 21-8260 |
Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search |
raised an objection (trial) my attorney (Detective Sams) was giving The second day into my when the Government's key witness The home before the arres… |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8270 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing |
1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred
in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner 's Petiti… |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8253 |
Silas Lee Sneed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) appellate-review attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence hobbs-act statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states-v-taylor |
An attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) because no element of the offense requires pro… |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD?
II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO… |
| 21-8215 |
Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one… |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 21-8160 |
Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity |
1. Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a crimin… |
| 21-8141 |
Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. |
Colorado |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures |
Whether or not fraud, solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation specific but not limited to, transcripts and the number of pages thereof; and Its fu… |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8132 |
James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review |
X emn injury selection rebuffed In seating <X laiASftJ ijuror, or<de/>r,v<dlffn <rf the naa/»dcjclecl nw/nber peresnptdfy c.V>ftlle/^ex should have ke… |
| 21-8140 |
Richard Chippero v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated because the evidence was wholly insufficient to sustain his convictions? |
| 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… |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
1. Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a rig… |
| 21-8092 |
Nicole R. Bramwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553a 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3661 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review below-guideline-sentence collateral-consequences downward-variance sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
(1) When a district court commits no procedural error at sentencing – e.g., correctly calculates the guidelines, considers all statutory sentencing fa… |
| 21-1537 |
Donnie T. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447 appellate-review civil-rights civil-rights-removal federal-officer-statute jurisdictional-review pari-materia removal removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 1447(d) of Title 28 of the United States Code expressly provides that an order remanding a case that was removed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §144… |
| 21-8069 |
Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search |
I.
QUESTION ONE: U.S. CONSTITUTION 1\J AMENDMENT
RULE 10. Rules of the United States Supreme Court at (C);
Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State… |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-8033 |
Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co… |
| 21-8039 |
George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial |
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| 21-8009 |
Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey |
At a sporting goods store Petitioner was considering the purchase of a firearm. The store clerk asked Petitioner to identify himself and fill out the … |
| 21-8010 |
Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit, in not allowing Petitioner proceed in forma pauperis on appeal, adopted an opinion from the District Court that conflict … |
| 21-8015 |
Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether, under § 2254(d), a federal court may "look through" to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoni… |
| 21-7999 |
Kristine Arutyunyan v. Cindy Fields, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship federal-question pro-se public-importance standing supreme-court-rule |
1. I petition the Supreme Court to review and reconsider the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of New York decision on the legitimacy of the pro… |
| 21-8000 |
Elijah Johnson v. California |
California |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
How does this Court's "inconsistent verdicts" jurisprudence reconcile with the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee: May a reviewing court uphold a ge… |
| 21-1498 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional violation… |
| 21-7988 |
Donald Tarnawa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re… |
| 21-7980 |
Perry Singo v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-independence political-influence political-interference separation-of-powers state-constitution |
ARE THE ATTACKS ON THE JUDICIARY AND THE
EFFORTS OF POLITICIANS TO CHANGE THE
JUDICIARY SO IT WILL DO THINGS THE
POLITICIANS WANT IT TO DO DENYING … |
| 21-7970 |
Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 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… |
| 21-1468 |
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… |
| 21-7935 |
Jason K. Feister v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers |
THE ISSUE BEING PRESENTED IS WHETHER THE SECOND
DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE
PROCESS. |
| 21-7918 |
Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element |
1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the
court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def… |
| 21-7905 |
Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit |
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| 21-1458 |
EPA Drug Initiative II v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-proceedings patent-invalidation patent-invalidity standing supervisory-power third-party-intervention |
Under this Court's Rule 10(a), certiorari can be granted where a United States court of appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course… |
| 21-7903 |
Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington |
1) Is it unconstitutional for state appellate courts to hinder petitioner's
post collateral proceeding by holding petition pass the 1-year federal
l… |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 21-7876 |
Matthew Alexander, III v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver |
When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs… |
| 21-7886 |
Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment |
(1) Did the "construal" by United States Court of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit in their ORDER of January 10, 2022 amount to a mis-construal by them… |
| 21-1445 |
Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury "meritless," failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K… |
| 21-7865 |
Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant |
Whether, absent the presentation of evidence demonstrating an "independent source" at the district court level and absent specific findings of an "ind… |
| 21-7866 |
Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just… |
| 21-7852 |
Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un… |
| 21-7824 |
Jerome Scott King v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7826 |
Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing |
Magnitude by Not Considering
petitioner Body Cam evidence which
under Mive the case against petitioner,
andanswers petitioners Sole resened
aplWhhe n … |
| 21-7782 |
William Larry Foley v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? |
| 21-7767 |
Michael Don Billups v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7769 |
Lonnell Tucker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-7760 |
William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants |
Did the Supreme Court change the Federal Courts have the eight and the doch, Sn, Protect Aself Crore Raud miscepresembation ancl misconduct and +e eig… |
| 21-7761 |
In Re Shannon Riley |
|
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond |
KANSAS STATE COURT REVERSE A KANSAS APPELLATE M. CAN A
COURT ON A COUNTERCLAIM?
DOES THE REQUIREMENT OF A SUPERSEDEAS BOND
ON A DEFENDANT FACING PUN… |
| 21-7752 |
William Edward Gray v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
The Arkansas law of justification, or self-defense, on the date of Petitioner William Gray's offense, recognized the right of an individual to use dea… |
| 21-7756 |
Robert James Swint v. Robert R. Redfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-review civil-procedure remand standard-of-review |
Was Robert Swint discriminated against pursuant to title VII of the civil rights act of 1964? |
| 21-7737 |
Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy |
1. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in not ruling on my right to have counsel
2. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in ruling on my attorney ineffectiv… |
| 21-7693 |
Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness |
How does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals policy of reviewing plain error only prevent appellate counsel from "raising all claims of error in a … |
| 21-7694 |
Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme… |
| 21-7697 |
Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7702 |
Marvin Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit" or "Appellate Court")–which affirmed the decision of… |
| 21-7705 |
Nolan Woods v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-remedy re-prosecution |
WILL THIS COURT CREATE A BRIGHT-LINE RULE DELINEATING THAT THE ONLY CURE FOR A DOUBLE JEOPARDY VIOLATION CAUSED BY DUAL CONVICTIONS OF THE SAME CRIME … |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A… |
| 21-7710 |
Hernandez Lopaz Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-v-california appellate-review counsel-withdrawal due-process eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-case meaningful-review |
I.
IN COMPLIANCE WITH ANDERS V. CALIFORINA, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), CAN COUNSEL SIMPLY WITHDRAW WITHOUT FINDING THE CASE TO BE "WHOLLY FRIVOLOUS" AS REQU… |
| 21-7711 |
Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT … |
| 21-7687 |
Earl Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio |
Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove … |
| 21-7683 |
Nelson Conto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF APPELLAN… |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7680 |
In Re Israel Romero |
|
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing |
1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Fourth Circuit) err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision by the court in Britt… |
| 21-7659 |
John Doe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's error of admitting the 795-SSA form through the business records exception to … |
| 21-7662 |
Michael Wayne Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7646 |
Jason Delacerda v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. QUESTION PRESENTED NO. ONE - Did the
appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was
insufficient to support the conviction and death … |
| 21-7651 |
Manuel Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy |
1) If a DNA Exculpatory Wearing the-Release Cause-Tested 4th right he had Be-To /e PM iMiAe^e^ o-f fAii /vtvlur^ . W<aA kjo hlAMUr ok/ the DfV/1 £v/D£… |
| 21-7643 |
Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Treso was convicted in large Part vPON evidence made up bu the victim mother and manipulated by her Mr. Treso respectfully petitions this court Fo… |
| 21-7628 |
Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se |
1. Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally fight dissemble avoid or neglect a pro se applicant's petition specifically identify adduce propos… |
| 21-7626 |
Joseph Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 21-1351 |
Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay |
Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate revie… |
| 21-1352 |
Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review |
Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond … |
| 21-1347 |
Kevas L. Ballance v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination… |
| 21-1349 |
Ignis Development, Inc., et al. v. Long Island College Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion new-york-law statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
1. Did the Second Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York (the "Second Department") so far depart from the accepted and … |
| 21-1345 |
Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
1)
Does 28 U.S.C. § 1291 grant lawyers the statutory right to appeal a final order of a district
court suspending a lawyer from the practice
of law?
… |
| 21-7588 |
Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment |
#1. Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal, (Bias and Conflict of Interest was questionable)?
United States Eastern District Of Wisconsin, 2… |
| 21-7589 |
Mark A. Brown v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Court of Appeals finding that the state Courts conviction was based on a reasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence pr… |
| 21-7573 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-abuse judicial-discretion motion-to-continue standing takings trial-continuance witness-availability |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7561 |
Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement |
If an indigent criminal defendant's pro se response to a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), alleges ineffective assistance o… |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
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| 21-7544 |
Erskine D. Salter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review conflict constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-question legal-procedure united-states-constitution |
DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECIDE A FEDERAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT CONFLICTS WITH THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUT… |
| 21-1322 |
Jan M. Sensenich v. PHH Mortgage Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
appellate-review bad-faith bankruptcy-court-enforcement bankruptcy-rule-3002.1 bankruptcy-sanctions inherent-authority inherent-judicial-power judicial-power punitive-fines rule-enforcement |
1. Whether appellate courts may affirm a bankruptcy sanctions order on an alternate correct ground even if the order does not analyze the ground.
2. … |
| 21-1313 |
Martin Gottesfeld v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… |
| 21-7492 |
In Re Jonathan Manwell |
|
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal |
DOES PETITIONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOCATED AND CONFISCATED EXCULPATORY FORENSIC EVIDENCE, TRANSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR A MEANIN… |
| 21-7477 |
Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code |
Conflict
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding, citing 338 U.S. 338 (1950), that the Due Process requirement of United States v. Vasquez is no… |
| 21-7481 |
Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel |
I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err by refusing to review this claim where a judge must disqualify itself where it is actually biased or where the p… |
| 21-7463 |
James Edward Sandford, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7469 |
Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process legal-proceeding pro-se summary-judgment video-evidence |
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| 21-7462 |
John Moses Burton, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-defense due-process grammatical-interpretation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-constraints statute-of-limitations strickland-vs-washington toussie-vs-united-states word-meanings |
With a statute of limitations having a rationale to shield a person from having to defend against prosecution when the ability to mount a defense degr… |
| 21-7443 |
Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762
(2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 21-7430 |
Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1280 |
In Re J. Cory Cordova |
|
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority when it failed to review Petitioner's repeated objections to the subj… |
| 21-7411 |
Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE 11™ CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY PURSUANT TO SLACK V. MCDANIEL, 529 U.S.473, 120 S.Ct. 1595 … |
| 21-7395 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus … |
| 21-7375 |
Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent |
1. What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an
encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop?
2. Whether… |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7346 |
Avian Brule v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release |
(1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
(2) Is a district court's er… |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7338 |
Chandler Saxton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court |
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| 21-7323 |
Russell Hampton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, to comply with the Juvenile Delinquency Act, a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds that the defendant 'ratified' h… |
| 21-1226 |
Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation |
Florida |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver |
Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne… |
| 21-7299 |
Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice |
What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show
with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those
errors may be consi… |
| 21-7315 |
Michael Lynn Cash v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7280 |
Sammie Carroll v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) Did the Gourt of Special Appeals of Maryland err,in ruling that the evidence
adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction?
2) Did the … |
| 21-7273 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Did The United Court of Appeals for The Fourth Circuit Decide an Important Federal Question in A Way That Conflicts with The Relevant Decisions of Thi… |
| 21-7242 |
Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Did ths Court of Appeals err when it held that the trial court didnot commit error in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendme… |
| 21-1191 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires |
Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal "counts as a 'strike' within… |
| 21-1177 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal |
(1) Was Debtor's (Petitioner's) fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court who admittedly early in this case developed and drov… |
| 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… |
| 21-7211 |
Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the Petitioner's (Plaintiff's) Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to Due Process of the Law by permitting such egregi… |
| 21-7198 |
Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a
new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S… |
| 21-7188 |
Elishay Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio… |
| 21-7170 |
Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not
pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial… |
| 21-7172 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur |
Although "an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the trial court enters a permanent injunction " incorporating the sam… |
| 21-1139 |
Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers |
May a federal appellate court, consistent with the
Administrative Procedure Act and the principles of
separation of powers embedded within that Act,
r… |
| 21-1119 |
Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B… |
| 21-1100 |
3M Company, et al. v. George Amador |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's "so fundamentally-unsupported" standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's prec… |
| 21-7081 |
Marko Stasiv v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial |
Was the Defendant, Marko Stasiv, entitled to have a hearing on the question of jury coercion in connection with his Motion for a New Trial when the tr… |
| 21-7072 |
Dontrell R. Wise v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing due-process expert-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was … |
| 21-1094 |
Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review |
I. WHETHER THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT APPLICATION OF BATSON WAS OBECTIVELY UNREASONABLE BY ACCEPTING CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDINGS AND DEFERRING TO TRIAL… |
| 21-1070 |
Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing |
The Arizona Appellate Court, misstated issues of material fact; b) there is a fundamental error in the opinion of the court of Appeals, which misrepre… |
| 21-1062 |
Keith Robert Caldwell, Sr. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-of-defendants due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice safety-act |
1 Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals circumvent the appeals process by ignoring significant evidence which demonstrated that the district court tri… |
| 21-7019 |
Runnie Myles v. Jay Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure due-process fairly-traceable-standard first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation proximate-cause-analysis standing standing-requirement sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the circuit court committed
reversable error when it dismissed
Petitioner's case on an issue of fact
that was never noticed or briefed and … |
| 21-7029 |
David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test |
QUESTION No. 1: Whether a federal habeas petitioner is deprived of his constitutional rights to Due Process as implicated by the 14TH Amendment to the… |
| 21-7033 |
Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C… |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7005 |
Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Ohio |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue |
If an indictment alleges an offense occurring at the county of Ashland
in the State of Ohio, can jurisdiction over the offense be lost if the loca
ti… |
| 21-6984 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fraud judgment judgment-standard legal-appealability motion-dismissal procedural-rules standing |
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| 21-6992 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance |
I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-1049 |
Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process final-order judicial-order laws-of-the-united-states rule-3007 |
1. Whether bankruptcy court violated Petitioner's rights protected by the Constitution and the laws of the United States and by other laws and rules b… |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U… |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within - or below guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale … |
| 21-6912 |
Jamar Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
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| 21-6914 |
Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power |
Question No. one:
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has entered a
decision involving denial of a Constitutional Right which is… |
| 21-1028 |
International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review |
The district court in this case found, as a factual matter, that Respondent did not suffer prejudice from Petitioner's failure to immediately press it… |
| 21-6888 |
Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
I. DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT USED A CROSS … |
| 21-6860 |
Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony |
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| 21-6863 |
Nesly Loute v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand section-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny… |
| 21-6845 |
In Re Willie S. Smith |
|
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acquittal appeal appellate-review constitutional-injury criminal-procedure due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion legal-remedy usurpation-of-power |
(1) Is it clear and indisputable that, respondent Judges have a duty to enter a judgement of acquittal pursuant to "Ball" and Crim. Rule 29?
(2) Is i… |
| 21-989 |
Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit |
Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit?
Must procedures be instituted to assure that Appellate… |
| 21-991 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-precedent klapprott-v-united-states liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp manifest-injustice rule-60-motion |
Did the Court of Appeals, despite the presence of the requisite "extraordinary circumstances", by affirming the District Court's denial of Petitioner … |
| 21-981 |
Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
|
12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing |
1. Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)?
2. Did the Third Circuit err by b… |
| 21-6788 |
Bernard Lindsey v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity |
1. Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner Bernard Lindsey's home provided sufficient grounds, under the Fourth Amendment, to s… |
| 21-6806 |
Armin Wand, III v. Gary Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession confession-suppression constitutional-provisions due-process manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal stay-of-proceedings unreliable-confession |
1. SHOULD ARMIN WAND, III S SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 STATEMENT HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED?
2. DOES THE COERCED UNRELIABLE CONFESSION PROVIDE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE … |
| 21-6780 |
In Re Lori Sklar |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification |
Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order an appellate review do-over when due process compels a permanently removed judge's re… |
| 21-6764 |
In Re Eric Denorris Kennedy |
|
2022-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-rule civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-issues legal-standards procedural-rights standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6755 |
Kenny Pugh v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6744 |
Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6736 |
Steven R. Henson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness |
1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-6696 |
L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure |
1. Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401
2. Did an agreed Recess of trial to allow Respondent to conti… |
| 21-6666 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-6677 |
Shawn Pinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conclusions-of-law constitutional-rights due-process findings-of-fact habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process texas-criminal-appeals trial-court-findings |
IS THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS VIOLATING PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY DENYING RELIEF TO HABEAS APPLICANTS WITHOUT EXPLANATION WHEN THE TRIAL COUR… |
| 21-6690 |
Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii |
1. Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Cor… |
| 21-6660 |
Joshua Vance Jones v. Emily Ridder, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment untimely-filing |
1. Did the Appellate Court err when acting in direct violation of the facts of the case, the Rules of the
Court, and the codified laws of the United … |
| 21-6671 |
Valente Arias-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review |
I. When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), a… |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 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… |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-6664 |
Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire |
First Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana |
In light of this Court's holding in Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275 (1993); and, Massaro v. United States, 123 S.Ct. 1690 (2003; as well as United… |
| 21-6629 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta… |
| 21-6643 |
Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o… |
| 21-6612 |
Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure |
1) Where an incomplete dvi prflle allegedly fom @ Knife handle ,is frlsely ~
scremkfreally cmduded to be a'match' bo a vickins complete DNA profile,
… |
| 21-6624 |
Arthur F. Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
I. WHETHER THE PRIOR EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION RULE SHOULO HAVE PAECLUDED THE OISTRICT COURT AND THE APPELLANT COURT FROM EXERCISING JURISOICTION OVER TH… |
| 21-6580 |
Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan |
1. Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28… |
| 21-6587 |
Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit |
I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE… |
| 21-6557 |
Tekoa Glover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT MR. GLOVER WAIVED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS BY ENTERING A GUILTY PLE… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-6521 |
Jamar Allen v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-provisions court-filing due-process hallucinogenic-drug judicial-process legal-document procedural-rules reasons-for-granting-writ scotus-petition victim-testimony |
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| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-6503 |
Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United State… |
| 21-6490 |
Earl McCoy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury by only applying the McDo… |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-818 |
EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. In 12 U.S.C. § 1735f-15( e), Congress authorized
federal Courts of Appeals to take direct review of the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development'… |
| 21-807 |
In Re Amelia Eng |
|
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction disqualified-judge due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure retroactive-disqualification standing writ-of-mandate |
1. Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order appellate review of Petitioner's appeal before a court of appeal having jurisdicti… |
| 21-6455 |
Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard |
WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION THAT PETITIONER'S FIFTH, EIGHTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED? |
| 21-6465 |
Andrew John Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
L. Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed… |
| 21-6447 |
Logan Bailey Lawrence v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process estoppel government-discretion waiver-of-appeal |
Where the Government strenuously argues for below-Guidelines sentencing, but the District Court refuses, should the Government be estopped from preclu… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6416 |
Bradford S. Davic v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentences mandatory-sentencing sex-offender-registration trial-court-notification void-plea |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW:
IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, AND IS HIS GUILTY
PLEA VOID, WHERE HIS PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED KNOWINGLY… |
| 21-6426 |
Lee Dale White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to "conceal or disguise… |
| 21-765 |
In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company |
|
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss… |
| 21-6348 |
Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476
U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c… |
| 21-6363 |
Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
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<Lcu t 8hi'm*?s t© r«^«ste>n£i v/iolafe h?c 7 0c« her re… |
| 21-6359 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority |
1. Whether magistrate judges exceed the scope of their statutory authority by issuing orders which have the practical effect of granting or refusing i… |
| 21-6325 |
Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-6334 |
Christopher Jason Henry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
I. In the opinion below, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory, ev… |
| 21-6285 |
Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence |
Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Issue I: Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by… |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 21-6274 |
Ricky Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") which affirmed the decision of the District Court c… |
| 21-6240 |
Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review |
Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the
district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose… |
| 21-6258 |
Ramiro Romero v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
andrus-v-texas appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation strickland strickland-standard |
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| 21-6260 |
Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a "particularly defer[entional]" standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv… |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-691 |
FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
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appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings |
This petition seeks only a Grant, Vacate, and Remand (GVR) Order.
This petition seeks a GVR Order regarding two judgments by the Court of Appeals for… |
| 21-6207 |
Philip Bernard Friend v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
The question presented is whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison… |
| 21-6184 |
Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing |
I. Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (Eighth Circuit) granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then den… |
| 21-6185 |
Rodney Smith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
| 21-6190 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-645 |
Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-6100 |
Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review |
The "Clear Error" standard of review has been criticized as "elastic, capacious, malleable, and above all variable." Edward H. Cooper, Civil Rule 50(A… |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
1. Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature enga… |
| 21-6070 |
Alan Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process jurisdiction standing |
I. Whether Court of Appeals abused its discretion en nor protecting Petitioner's Constitutional right ty net be Wearived of liberty, where petitioners… |
| 21-608 |
Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6082 |
Craig D. Miller v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review fundamental-fairness illinois-post-conviction-statute indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reliability-of-proceedings sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether Illinois courts' mechanical, outcome-based approach to the Strickland standard, which routinely requires affirmative proof of a different outc… |
| 21-6045 |
Melissa Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress.
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming that there was sufficient eviden… |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws… |
| 21-6052 |
Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim |
Whether, and in what circumstances, the 4th circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative exhaustion were lack… |
| 21-577 |
Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent |
Under Unitherm and the Federal Rules, can a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court nonethel… |
| 21-6013 |
Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing |
If a district court applies qualified immunity to a case upon adopting a factual basis containing a clear error of fact, with such clear error being d… |
| 21-5996 |
Jayson Thomas Weiss v. California |
California |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6006 |
Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant |
Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress, err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate … |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-6008 |
Keyaira Porter v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure |
For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U… |
| 21-6017 |
Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas |
Why Dod the majority below err in applying this Courts deeisias W Schlup Vv, Dela and Kyles v. Lihitley 4 held that Poti Foner's compelling New evicle… |
| 21-5969 |
Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely? |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-544 |
Joshua O. Thomas v. Farmers Insurance Exchange |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure genuine-issue-of-material-fact inference-standard judicial-precedent material-fact standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and court of appeals have effectively abrogated this Court's binding precedent for reviewing a motion for summary judgment—… |
| 21-5954 |
David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings |
The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual … |
| 21-5942 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines |
DEPRIVATIONS OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS, FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL TO ADA PETITIONER WITH 8TH GRADE COGNITIVE FUNCTION PREDICATED PROCEDURAL DUE PRO… |
| 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… |
| 21-5907 |
In Re Matthew James Leachman |
|
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance |
The Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory provisio… |
| 21-5915 |
Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve… |
| 21-501 |
James Vincent Liott v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Pennsylvania |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure concise-statement concise-statements-of-errors due-process ejectment ejectment-action legal-errors preliminary-objections standing trial-court-procedure |
Did the trial court properly rule on Petitioner's Preliminary
Objections to the Ejectment Action;
Answer : NO
The trial court did not consider the Pet… |
| 21-5887 |
Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default |
Question One: Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate… |
| 21-491 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata |
1. Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by
a "closely interwoven" co-defendant equitably relieves
a non-appealing defendant of the preclu… |
| 21-498 |
James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1.) Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the District Court's dismissal of Plaintiffs' action on grounds that District Court lacked subject … |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-488 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5844 |
James Malcolm Hale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver |
Whether, in a federal criminal prosecution, a defendant who has not reserved in writing his right to appellate court review of an adverse determinatio… |
| 21-5836 |
Christopher Wilson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process expert-witness fraud |
When state court officers knowingly misrepresented material facts to the court and jurors about the case that were fabricated by the stress expert wit… |
| 21-5837 |
Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision |
Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th… |
| 21-5796 |
Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law |
A State Law Is At Issue In These Condemnation Cases On Being Repugnant To The U. S. Constitution; But If No Final Appealable Judgment Has Been Issued … |
| 21-470 |
Eric Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er… |
| 21-472 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund |
1. Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture, a procedure un-supported by rulemaking, is "pure debt collection"… |
| 21-473 |
Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 |
Washington |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process |
1) Did THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHING TON error and fail in its duty when not enforcing, not recognizing and ignoring the civil court case Removal to Fe… |
| 21-475 |
Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference |
Respondent Kenneth Smith has been tried and convicted on three separate occasions for Raul Briseno's murder. During the last two trials, the jury hear… |
| 21-5801 |
Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a "miscarriage of justice" allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-458 |
L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-5761 |
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… |
| 21-5763 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Downtown Eugene, Inc. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure appellate-review board-of-immigration-appeals civil-procedure due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge service-of-notice service-of-process standing |
1) was the Appelate Commissiones justified in dismissing vice of the filed notice of appeal vpan all advesse partieseal, and as it was tre, based on t… |
| 21-5771 |
Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
1. Whether officers had the right to be at Appellant house do to the fact the search warrant for his house was in his Alleged Codefendant's name Dougl… |
| 21-438 |
Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction of a term the district… |
| 21-5729 |
Frank R. Stevenson v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law, as establi… |
| 21-5760 |
Anthony Auriemma v. Broomfield Municipal Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-searches illegal-trials inhumane-conditions judicial-misconduct retaliation |
Many various civil rights violations, inhumane living conditions while incarcerated, illegal trials whether burying their own state investigators sign… |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
1.
THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION
OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS
RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS
A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 21-5738 |
Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5702 |
Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred by failing to Issue a Certificate of Appealability (COA) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A), becau… |
| 21-5705 |
Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett |
First Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva |
Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al… |
| 21-5709 |
Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error when they held that a new constitutional right was not created by the Su… |
| 21-5692 |
Thomas George Craaybeek v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure legal-review loretto-v-teleprompter takings |
LOUDERMI. 1OS S.CT. 1487(198S), AM I NOT ENTITLED TD THE RIGUT TO OUE AROCESS?
ACCORDING TO THE UMITED STATES CONSTITUTION AMENOTONT V AND SMITH V. P… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-5688 |
Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment |
Did the trial Court Judge of the rs wiVPi facts Were Omto/MZ to PHhner in order to ckfe fa the (\-esfordents MobiM fbrS)mmary J\jdf Mart accurst him f |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 24(c), since the elements of Hobbs Act robbery, especially atte… |
| 21-389 |
Sergio Momox-Caselis, et al. v. Tara Donohue, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-procedure liberty-lobby ninth-circuit standard-of-review standards summary-judgment supervisory-power |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of the standards established by this Court in Anderson v. Liber… |
| 21-5642 |
Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary |
Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, … |
| 21-5634 |
Michael D. Forbes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Appellate court s review criminal sentence s for reasonableness . And major variances or departures from the advisory guideline range must be supporte… |
| 21-5635 |
Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence |
DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT NO SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE RESULTED FROM OFFICER PAGAN'S ERRONEOUS TESTIMONY ABOUT HAIR… |
| 21-5564 |
Russell Jay Reger v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
(a) IS an UNCONTESTED VOID JUDGNENT STILL VIENED BY THIS COURT as BEINg "MrRE WAsTE PAPER*?
(B) WHEN An UNCONTRSTED VOID JUDGNENT NULLIPIBS SUBJECTMA… |
| 21-5557 |
Chasmind David Miller v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-conflict due-process judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
1)Did the appellate court issue a decision that directly conflicted with an earlier decision in a case with the same issues.
2)Did the appellate cour… |
| 21-5543 |
Louis Matthews v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment, on a theory raised for th… |
| 21-5519 |
Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search |
4th AMENDMENT CLAIM
Testimony giving during the November 12,2013, Suppression hearing record
demonstrated NO exigent circumstances existed and NO att… |
| 21-284 |
In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd |
|
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk |
I. This Court has long held that it, "has power to issue a mandamus, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, and that the writ will lie in a pr… |
| 21-272 |
Ralph Abekassis v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulations judicial-review mootness second-amendment standing |
Whether, based on this Court's jurisprudence as articulated in City of Mesquite and Honig, the Second Circuit erred in dismissing this case as moot wh… |
| 21-5454 |
In Re Samuel L. Quinn |
|
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
I.
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds
attributable to Mr. Bucio.
II.
Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5422 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-selection due-process federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-independence judicial-selection standing |
Rather than the President of the United States should Federal Judges, Federal and Appellate Judges and United States Supreme Court Justices and Chief … |
| 21-238 |
Keith Foster v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. How can panels of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirm decisions as matters of law, that are in direct conflict with previously established bindin… |
| 21-5410 |
Joydeth Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights when that party h… |
| 21-5414 |
Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN IT VIEWED THE EVIDENCE AT SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THE LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO PETITIONER AND DENIED H… |
| 21-5403 |
Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing |
Questions concerning U.S. Court of Appeals decisions in conflict with the Supreme Court of the United States decisions and case law and the U.S. Court… |
| 21-5404 |
Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
Whether the appellate court erred when it enforced the waiver keeping the Defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights… |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE
STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR
UNDER 1… |
| 21-5342 |
Jamerl M. Wortham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review essential-element jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict waiver |
Whether a defendant waives appellate review of his Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous verdict when the government and defense counsel jointly submit… |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th… |
| 21-183 |
Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos… |
| 21-168 |
Dennis De Jesus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial |
When a court erroneously holds that it lacks jurisdiction to decide a matter, can a cursory statement that the court would deny relief on the merits i… |
| 21-157 |
Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of… |
| 21-5281 |
Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court |
Did Court Supreme $$\qrt3}$ by recalculating not expenses s0t Court Did Supreme $\rt3}$ La allowing exhibits not to be ? include Yes Did the Supreme C… |
| 21-5227 |
Sergio Bahena v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment home-search investigative-alerts search-and-seizure |
1. Did the Appellate Court of Illinois violate Petitioners Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, by denying his petition due to the differentiati… |
| 21-5229 |
Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5236 |
Manvester Evans, III v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment-of-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance out-of-time-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion |
1. Is the Abanoclon men 7 of couse l Loe rhe cleberclqurp Atzek a plea heaaive CL Seurencingy Of Couszizuriaual Ellec rive Assisvauce ot Counsel ° .
… |
| 21-114 |
John A. Clifford v. New York |
New York |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-civil-case jury-deliberation second-amendment standing witness-testimony |
(1) Does the 2nd Amendment apply here; (2) Does the granting of immunity in a federal civil case prohibit cross examination of a complaining witness a… |
| 21-5198 |
Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing |
1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde… |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5190 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Interim Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order district-court-screening final-order judicial-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) rule-59e rule-60(b) standing |
1.) WHETHER JURISTS OF REASON WOULD FIND THAT THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED, WIEN IT DISMISSED THE PETITIONER'S APPEAL FOR A LACK OF JURISDICTION.
2.) WH… |
| 21-5193 |
Vernon Collins v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing |
DID THE NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ERR IN CONCLUDING CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES IMPOSED OUTSIDE PETITIONER'S PRESENCE IN OPEN COURT SOME … |
| 21-5180 |
Eric Miguel Dowdy v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE SIXTH… |
| 21-89 |
Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH… |
| 21-81 |
Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal |
1. Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a
criminal case is enforceable under the standards set
forth in Newton v. Rumery wherein said order
wa… |
| 21-75 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines |
1. In cases where the methodology to calculate the guidelines range for sentencing mirrors the methodology to calculate the restitution amount, if a c… |
| 21-78 |
GLM DFW, Inc. v. Windstream Holdings, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals creditor-priority critical-vendor-payments critical-vendors delegation-of-judicial-function equality equitable-mootness judicial-delegation transparency transparency-principle |
This case concerns the dismissal of bankruptcy appeals as equitably moot without evaluating the merits of the appeals.
Early in the Windstream bankru… |
| 21-5155 |
Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review |
1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t… |
| 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… |
| 21-5129 |
Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of "actual innocence " is
cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case. |
| 21-64 |
Danny James McLaughlin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian |
When deciding whether a criminal fine is disproportionate to the gravity of a defendant's crime, and thereby unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendme… |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit
allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut … |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5102 |
Jaime Meza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence |
I. Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to … |
| 21-5109 |
Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals was required to answer or resolve the legal questions presented to it, or if it may instead "overlook " or "evade " the … |
| 21-52 |
Emmanuel Edokobi v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
1. When reviewing a district court's ruling to dismiss a civil case dismissed on Motion for Summary Judgment should the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 21-43 |
Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence |
Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner 's conviction where the opinion is contradict… |
| 21-5085 |
David James Lola v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights competence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-system |
A Does due process under the sixth
and Fourteenth Amendments dictate
that there is a presumption of
competence for a criminal defendant
to proceed pro… |
| 21-5083 |
Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure |
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| 21-5054 |
Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
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| 21-5019 |
Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit |
Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already … |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5004 |
Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony |
1. DID THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDE THAT BO SHAFER'S IAC CLAIM REGARDING HIS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DURING VOIR DIRE WAS WITHO… |
| 21-5009 |
Eddie Tarver v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence |
1. Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from … |
| 20-8451 |
J. P. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation |
Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl… |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal… |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the
district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from
the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-8424 |
James Erik Godiksen v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure |
Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's… |
| 20-1798 |
Sylvanus Rene v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility |
Does it violate procedural due process for an appellate court, in denying relief on federal constitutional claims in a state habeas corpus proceeding,… |
| 20-1790 |
Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review |
1. There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights unde… |
| 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… |
| 20-8396 |
Renee Denise Bell v. Florida Highway Patrol, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion right-to-petition standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Should a Mandated order issued by a United States Appeals Court [Specifically, the Hon. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals] be struck down by a deci… |
| 20-8405 |
Robert Allen Vestal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-8388 |
Jonathan Aaron Leal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process federal-sentencing illegal-sentence plea-agreement post-conviction-relief |
Should an appeal waiver provision in a plea agreement bar appellate or post-conviction relief from an illegal federal sentence? |
| 20-8365 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-jurisdiction legal-remedy standing |
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| 20-1762 |
Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association |
New York |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court |
(1) Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a "conflict of interest" position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated Decemb… |
| 20-8328 |
Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand. |
| 20-8338 |
Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia |
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| 20-8309 |
Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records |
Whether the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeals below erred by failing to grant Petitioner a 'certificate of appealabi… |
| 20-8316 |
Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 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… |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is it fair and equal justice for defendants who present under that the previously harsh 924(c) stacking is an extraordinary and compelling reason dese… |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as… |
| 20-1709 |
David Ming Pon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review |
Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an "overwhelming evide… |
| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8243 |
Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search |
I. DID THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS
ERRONEOUSLY EXPAND THE DEFENDANT'S
CONSENT TO RETRIEVE A TELEPHONE
NUMBER FROM HIS SMARTPHONE INTO A
CONSENT TO S… |
| 20-8244 |
Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief |
1) Was error Committed by the Appellate Division when it neglected to consider
Appellant 's Pro- Se Supplemental Brief, or to file said brief conside… |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
1. Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illega… |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8204 |
Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor… |
| 20-1677 |
Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo… |
| 20-1644 |
Devon Archer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven … |
| 20-1651 |
Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu… |
| 20-8144 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing |
1. There has been no redress of my grievance.
2. The Defendants did not make a single valid point, but still prevailed in the case. That is unjust.
… |
| 20-8103 |
Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver |
A. Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions as directed by a court order is a waiver completely precluding review of instructional errors… |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
| 20-8098 |
Mohammad Sohail Saleem v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias partiality petition-for-rehearing prejudice |
Did the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third District err in denying Mr. Saleem's Petition for Re-Hearing, when such an abuse of discretion w… |
| 20-8105 |
Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure |
1. Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the "Bias" and
"Partial" behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement
to prove "Structural" Err… |
| 20-8097 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8087 |
William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment |
A) Is petitioner entitled to a constitutional review and his court on his presented claims at the appeal level regarding his Effective Assistance of C… |
| 20-1621 |
Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit… |
| 20-8060 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors |
A. Did the inattention and errors on the court violate Art. 1, Section 9, also known as the "Suspension Clause," of the United States Constitution?
B… |
| 20-8074 |
Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation |
This case concerns a methodological problem in applying the categorical approach. The categorical approach compares the elements of a state crime with… |
| 20-8075 |
Damantae Graham v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony |
This Court ruled that, before a federal constitutional error can be deemed harmless, the prosecution must establish by proof beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 20-8052 |
Vicente Quiroz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus systemic-breakdown |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1608 |
North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best |
North Carolina |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review |
Does an appellate court violate the core princ ipals of Brady in post -conviction review where in its materiality analysis it disregards both evidence… |
| 20-8025 |
Thomas L. Fast v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cold-war cold-war-claims conflict-of-holdings due-process extraordinary-miscarriage-of-justice federal-officer procedural-default structural-due-process structural-rights |
1) Was appellate court's orders supporting lower court's decision's conflict with Supreme Court and appellate court's holdings violate Petitioner (for… |
| 20-1579 |
Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges, TASHIMA,SILVERMAN, and OWENS had
INFRINGED the Rule of NATURAL JUSTICE for NOT giving the Appellant the … |
| 20-1568 |
Teresa Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review |
Why did the court feel it necessary to order the defendant with a death sentence, so that they would not have their conduct or actions reviewed; why n… |
| 20-8002 |
Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw… |
| 20-8009 |
David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7973 |
Zavion Nunley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities |
Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose above-guideline-range sentences much more frequently than their peers i… |
| 20-7985 |
Taji Jemal Lee v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
IS a DEFENDANTS 6TH and 14TH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS VIOLATED by THE PROSECUTIONS INTENTIONAL CONCEALMENT of MATERIAL EVIDENCE? And if so, is i… |
| 20-1560 |
Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination |
1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two … |
| 20-7970 |
Christopher R. Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-misconduct due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings supervisory-power |
Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso… |
| 20-7946 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits |
The First Circuit held that Fed. R. App P. 4la) is jurisdictronal under Bowles v.Russell, 551 4.s. 205, 214(2007),
and dismissed Ms. Birons 2255-proce… |
| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 20-1522 |
United States v. Malik Nasir |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity?
2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c… |
| 20-7882 |
Taurean Potter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Government's use of and failure to correct the false and misleading testimony of one of their witnesses violated Petitioner's Constitution… |
| 20-7870 |
Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary |
When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of… |
| 20-7856 |
Dennis Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held, contrary to this Court's holding in Molina-Martinez, that any error in the District Court's choice be… |
| 20-1498 |
Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor |
Kory Alexander was charged by indictment with first degree murder with the specific allegation that he personally discharged a firearm during the comm… |
| 20-7823 |
Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. … |
| 20-7831 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights controlled-substances-act defective-indictment drug-definition ex-post-facto food-drug-cosmetics-act indictment-defect lack-of-physical-evidence |
I. Did the Appellate Court denied the Plaintiff her constitutional right by denying her Appeal 18-2693 (L) without addressing the District Court 's vi… |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7800 |
Jacqueline Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record |
I. When applying plain error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, may an appellate court consider information outside … |
| 20-7774 |
Kevin Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction |
Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to
use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and
p… |
| 20-1460 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe |
I.
WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT TO
JUSTIFY AFFIRMANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY
CONVICTIONS ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE PROVING
SOMETHING QUIT… |
| 20-7784 |
Bryan Keith Goins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
(1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis
with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my
TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON … |
| 20-7732 |
Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment |
ONE: Petitioner Tina Brown sought state postconviction relief from a 2012 death sentence imposed under the procedure subsequently held unconstitutiona… |
| 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… |
| 20-7707 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DISMISSING MR. LEDFORD'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENTS DUE TO THE APPELLATE WAIVER LANGUAGE OF THE PLEA A… |
| 20-7703 |
Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), because the Fourth Circui… |
| 20-7708 |
Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Mr. Castro Orellana could not show an effect on his substantial rights on plain-error review even though … |
| 20-7673 |
Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis… |
| 20-7686 |
Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record |
1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a… |
| 20-7661 |
Rodney Russell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error |
I. Whether it viola ted due proc ess for the distric t court to a ppoint the
Federal Defender not only to re present a juror for whom a legitim ate
cl… |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is procedurally invalid because the Panel failed to consider, and overlo… |
| 20-7626 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver |
I.
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be
based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the c… |
| 20-7604 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif |
I. When an indictment fails to allege an essential mens rea element, may the appellate court assume the indictment still alleges a federal offense and… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-7596 |
Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione… |
| 20-7599 |
Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera… |
| 20-7572 |
Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel |
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| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7556 |
Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1)& (2), did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct in rely… |
| 20-7558 |
Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal?
2. Whether the plaintiff notified the Courts she was a… |
| 20-1345 |
Keith Arnold v. City of Auburn, Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-authority abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion municipal-harassment parking-regulation parking-ticket |
Has the City of Auburn committed harassment under the cover of abuse of a position of authority against petitioner by giving petitioner a parking tick… |
| 20-7531 |
Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected?
2. Should the violation of Federal Rules of Civil… |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
| 20-7502 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7511 |
Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition |
1. May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district c… |
| 20-7486 |
Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeals can, and should, order an indictment that omits an element of the crime dismissed as part of the appellate remedy given the… |
| 20-7489 |
Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing |
I, WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT RELIED ON CONTROLS TO DENY PETITIONER'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AS LAWFUL EVIDENCE.
2. WHETHER THE FOURTH CI… |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7457 |
Mark Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome
Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which confl… |
| 20-7449 |
Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic… |
| 20-7442 |
Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden |
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| 20-7408 |
Trystan Keun Napper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7409 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-7425 |
Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pronouncement on the some evidence standard has departed from accepted and usual c… |
| 20-1256 |
Malcolm A. French v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error |
The first time this case was before the First Circuit, it remanded for further proceedings on French's motion for a new trial made after information s… |
| 20-1246 |
Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
(1) Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district c… |
| 20-7372 |
Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion |
Whether, under current Rule 12, after a defendant has made a timely motion to suppress evidence that did not include a particular argument, should the… |
| 20-7335 |
Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7345 |
Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation |
I) Whether Trial counsel's failune to inwestigate interview, or loss-examine thealleged Victims, Pretrial, Whenshe was inossession of a resantationtaf… |
| 20-7277 |
Niles O'Neil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to $ U.S. Sentencing… |
| 20-7316 |
Jose Luis Morales v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review district-court-discretion effective-counsel first-appeal post-conviction post-judgment-appeal sixth-amendment state-statutory-right statutory-right |
1. Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel on appeal apply to when the appeal takes place years after conviction and the defendant had a s… |
| 20-7318 |
Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties |
1. Whether an appellate court must apply the standard laid out in this Court's decision in Jackson v. Virginia to determine whether the State has disp… |
| 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 … |
| 20-1216 |
Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the sufficiency-of-the-evidence standard under the
Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v.
Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979)… |
| 20-7298 |
Andrew Watson Bunn v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review capital-case civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition-for-review right-to-appeal standing |
Whether a right to appeal is preserved when the questions presented remain unanswered. |
| 20-7250 |
Eunice Husband v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution |
The fortcommitted Federal hule of Criminal Procedure 52 (b) Plain Error
I. Bias and Abandonment of judicial role by Distict Judge
Appellate Court fa… |
| 20-7262 |
Melvin Stills v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conflicting-opinions court-opinion due-process judicial-integrity legal-procedure merits-review record-completeness waiver |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioner when it issued two opinions that conflicted on whether the record… |
| 20-7274 |
Michael Diabolis Griffis, Sr. v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard federal-courts pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY ESTABLISHED LAW IN FARETTA V. CALIFORNIA AND CONFLICTS WITH THE DECISION… |
| 20-7244 |
Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a "crime of violence" within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(a). |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7256 |
James Timothy Cobb v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-7194 |
Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record |
"Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matter… |
| 20-7195 |
Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence |
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| 20-1161 |
Edward J. Kosinski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness |
1. Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential by itself can establish the fiduciary or similar relationship of "trust and confidence"… |
| 20-7199 |
Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review trial-court-discretion witness-credibility |
Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies… |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous?
II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 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… |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-1130 |
Ericsson Inc., et al. v. TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
appellate-review civil-procedure discretion federal-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law legal-issues preservation-of-issues summary-judgment |
1. Whether, notwithstanding the ordinary rule that a pretrial denial of a motion for summary judgment is not reviewable on appeal, there is an excepti… |
| 20-7158 |
Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing |
WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ?
WHETHER RULE 3.I9I (J), FLORIDA RULES OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, IS TRULY JURISDICTIONA… |
| 20-7159 |
Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether oa not the lower Covrts' "decision"to "timebar Petitioner' Claims of "Statutory tolling" was in "conflict" with Btatutory Congressional ist… |
| 20-7137 |
Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 |
I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ… |
| 20-7145 |
Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error |
Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 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 … |
| 20-7101 |
Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 20-7106 |
Mark Halper v. Linda Moore, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights colorado-courts due-process judicial-corruption legal-standing real-party-interest real-party-of-interest standing |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the District Court, San Miguel County, CO were corrupt in failing to legally as… |
| 20-1096 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness |
Petitioner asks this Court to review whether he was denied a constitutional appeal on the false preliminary premise that the appellate courts — both t… |
| 20-7070 |
Jeremy S. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review |
1. Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West
Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a ju… |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the court failed to address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and failed to justify its sentence, whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally… |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S … |
| 20-7045 |
In Re Cyrus Linton Brooks |
|
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appearance-of-justice appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-review procedural-fairness |
Did The Review Treatment Accorded The Request For The Issuance Of A Certificate Of Appealability By A Circuit Judge, Fail To Satisfy The Appearance Of… |
| 20-7048 |
Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 20-7018 |
Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C).
II. Whether the district court erred by ap… |
| 20-7019 |
Kourtney Williams v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error |
Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-1047 |
Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated. |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 20-6995 |
Floyd Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment johnson-precedent motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence recanting-affidavit residual-clause |
1. Whether there was a sufficient final determination by the trial court such that the Circuit Court could have reached a determination of the substan… |
| 20-7005 |
Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW IN ALLOWING THE DISTRICT COURT TO SUMMARILY DISMISS PETITIONER'S MOTION TO REOPEN A CASE PURS… |
| 20-6966 |
Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights |
Charles Johnson was convicted of two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court instructed the … |
| 20-6988 |
Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
This case presents an excellent vehicle for this Court to resolve a growing conflict in the Illinois Appellate Courts: Whether the seriousness of the … |
| 20-1020 |
Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings |
Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the… |
| 20-1011 |
Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit… |
| 20-6920 |
Sean Moffitt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition |
(1) Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition, (i.e. motion to amend) during the pendency of appeal… |
| 20-6921 |
Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-992 |
John Vigna v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error |
In this criminal case, the Maryland court, in a trial for sexual abuse of a child, excluded evidence of the petitioner's character trait of appropriat… |
| 20-969 |
Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6) |
1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing |
1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political… |
| 20-6827 |
Abdul Majid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search |
L Whether, in reversing the District Court's grant of a motion to suppress drug evidence, the Court of Appeals can override the lower court's findings… |
| 20-6855 |
Stacia O'Neil v. Marisa Berquist, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review arbitration commercial-disputes due-process uniform-arbitration-act |
Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts denied the Petitioner Due Process of Law under the 14th Amendment, when it denied a timely fil… |
| 20-6893 |
Patrick Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 |
The United States District Court for the Central District
of Ilinois and the Seventh Circuit Court should have
issued a COA to review the denials of t… |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions
To Sever
a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To … |
| 20-6854 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied plain error review in rejecting Petitioner's argument that he should have received a minor or mitigating ro… |
| 20-6861 |
Justin Lee Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error |
The United States District Court, Southern District of Iowa - and the Eighth Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of the Petit… |
| 20-6862 |
Montecarlos Gant v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights |
(1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6864 |
Brian David Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the district court erred in sentencing Petitioner by d… |
| 20-944 |
Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark |
Tennessee |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition |
1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents ap… |
| 20-6842 |
Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
A. Whether the majorit y opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under th… |
| 20-6836 |
Julian P. Gutierrez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Petitioner received Effective Assistance of Counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, viz.:
a. Whet… |
| 20-925 |
Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447(d) 28-usc-1448 appellate-review civil-rights-removal district-court-order federal-officer-removal remand-jurisdiction removal-statute |
The question presented is the same as that presented in BP p.l.c. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No. 19 -1189 (to be argued Jan. 19, 2021):
… |
| 20-922 |
Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal |
1. Federal regulations provide that "[i]f the date designated for execution passes by reason of a stay of execution, then a new date shall be designat… |
| 20-917 |
800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications |
1) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff
Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Prima… |
| 20-6789 |
Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6798 |
Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether, during review of the petitioner's prior application for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court, the petitioner was entit… |
| 20-6781 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-894 |
Barbara Andersen v. Village of Glenview, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss motion-to-strike standing summary-judgment trial-court |
Whether the trial court properly disregarded Andersen's Motion to Strike relative to the Motions to Dismiss filed by the Respondents herein.
Whether … |
| 20-900 |
Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-884 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447d appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-issue remand-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-6768 |
Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established law in eval… |
| 20-6737 |
Christian Alejandro Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process knowingly-and-voluntarily plea-bargain right-of-appeal waiver-of-appeal |
Was a dismissal of the appeal improper considering the court of appeals' reliance on a waiver of appeal pursuant to a plea bargain in which Mr. Perez … |
| 20-871 |
In Re Bryant Moore |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 2… |
| 20-875 |
Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine issue … |
| 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? |
| 20-6732 |
Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand. |
| 20-6714 |
Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights |
(1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6698 |
Richard H. Morrison v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-burden habeas-corpus legal-burden procedural-standard state-courts state-jurisdiction |
DO THE STATE HAVE THE BURDEN, AND THEN THAT BURDEN SHIFT BACK TO THE DEFENDANT TO CHALLENGE? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6647 |
Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-817 |
Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability?
2. Whether the District Court should ha… |
| 20-814 |
James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law |
This Court has recognized three immutables: 1. Appellate courts are limited to reviewing the trial court record for errors of law and do not decide is… |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-6621 |
Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure |
1) Ms. Smith alleged that her appellete course! was ineHectue —
Tor Failing 40 raise: on appeal that hertrial counsel wos deficient
For not moving to … |
| 20-6618 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
Does An Appeal Brought Under 28 U.S.C. § 1455 Associated To Other Avenue Of Relief Grits When An Appellate Court Fails To Adequately Resolve Impartial… |
| 20-793 |
Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial |
Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp… |
| 20-6601 |
Savannah Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits th… |
| 20-6572 |
Deshawn Legrier v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record |
In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held that knowledge-of-status was an element of the crime set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g… |
| 20-6577 |
Victor Mondragon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review |
I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MONDRAGON A THREE-LEVEL DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY?
II. DID THE PANEL ERR BY E… |
| 20-6585 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights |
One and Two
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn… |
| 20-6590 |
Jimmy Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear
error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's
guidelines… |
| 20-788 |
Wilbur S. Veasy, et al. v. Fraternal Order of Police Jim Fogleman Lodge #50, Inc. |
Florida |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-court appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process procedural-impropriety standing summary-judgment |
Whether, by affirming that Petitioners lack standing, in the face of evidence to the contrary and procedural improprieties, the Florida Fourth Distric… |
| 20-783 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 20-6556 |
Harvey Bass v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BASS' SENTENCE WHERE BASS' SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE IN LIGHT OF THE S… |
| 20-6569 |
Quincey Frye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record |
Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… |
| 20-769 |
GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Until the Federal Circuit's decision in this patent case, every Circuit had held that an issue resolved on partial summary judgment, and not reopened … |
| 20-6516 |
Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6527 |
Byron Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6497 |
Andrey Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts appellate-review civil-forum civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review self-representation |
The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower court's blatant and outright refusal to administer justice, when law warrants otherwis… |
| 20-6510 |
Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde |
Nevada |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se |
In United States v. Olano, this Court held that, under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals should correct a plain forfeite… |
| 20-6487 |
Andrew Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6494 |
Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility |
WHETHER ERRONEOUSLY ADMITTED EVIDENCE CRITICAL TO PROVING AN ELEMENT OF THE CHARGED OFFENSE CAN BE DEEMED HARMLESS BASED ON THE APPELLATE COURT'S DETE… |
| 20-749 |
Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. |
Texas |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions |
Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply (1) the proper standard of review and (2) perform the correct factual and le… |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
(1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota… |
| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 20-6474 |
Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-6437 |
Tommy Pena v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance |
Mr. Peña's 360-month sentence was an upward variance of 222 months, or 160%, from the high end of the total advisory guideline range of 123-138 months… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-… |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for … |
| 20-6402 |
Eric Treantos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos |
1. Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States, 543 U.S. 22… |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a
formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-708 |
Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
|
28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland v. Wa… |
| 20-6381 |
Domenico Anastasio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6388 |
Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-6367 |
Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury? |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-687 |
Walter L. Allen v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain federal-court legal-procedure property-rights standing takings |
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| 20-6363 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-6364 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance |
Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge… |
| 20-6336 |
Eric Troy Snell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines |
1. Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under "assumed error har… |
| 20-6299 |
Brayan Jassiel Leyva-Peraza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split discretionary-review due-process judicial-discretion knowing-and-voluntary plea-agreement supervisory-powers unconscionability |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held the plea agreement in this case was not … |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-6319 |
Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-656 |
Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review |
What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the … |
| 20-627 |
E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing |
Florida |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity |
Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme… |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-616 |
Stephen Durr v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-to-vacate procedural-rights standing statute-claim statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6213 |
J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 20-6226 |
Carlos Maez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
The Sixth Amendment requires that no person be convicted of a felony except on a finding by a jury that the government has proved its case beyond a re… |
| 20-6209 |
Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry |
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO REVIEW THE JUDGEMENT BELOW WHERE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT DENIED CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILTY IN CONFLICT WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS … |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law?
2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 20-6192 |
Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6155 |
Jordan Sandoval v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness |
(1) Currently, the circuits are split in defining the role of appellate courts in conducting a meaningful substantive reasonableness review of a Defen… |
| 20-6140 |
Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel when it addr… |
| 20-6129 |
Matthew R. Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error |
The Fifth Amendment requires that no person be held to answer for a felony unless on indictment of a grand jury or without due process of law. The Six… |
| 20-6131 |
Deandre M. Smith v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review corroboration demonstrative-evidence due-process felon-in-possession recanted-statements |
1. Does a State appellate court violate a criminal defendant's right to due process on appeal under the Fourteenth Amendment—by denying the defendant … |
| 20-6123 |
Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property |
Whether – in a case involving a racketeering charge based on predicate incidents for "dealing in stolen property" – possession of an item that is one … |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o… |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse… |
| 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… |
| 20-6059 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6027 |
Michael Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-483 |
Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions |
Did The United States District Court District of Nevada (hereinafter "NV Court ") err in its Report and Recommendation Order For Case Terminating Sanc… |
| 20-5980 |
Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 20-5988 |
Ziyad Yaghi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gvr plea-process sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court should GVR the lower court's decision denying a Certificate of Appealability in this case because its denial violates principles of… |
| 20-5952 |
Patrick Muraca v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure jury-instructions jury-request operative-term trial-court |
1. Whether a trial court must provide a definition for a term of operative significance when it is requested by a deliberating jury?
2. Whether the C… |
| 20-5968 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA DENIED PETITIONER ACCESS TO THE COURT PURSUANT ARTICLE 1, SECTION 21 OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION WHEN IT DECLINED… |
| 20-448 |
Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel |
I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were … |
| 20-5922 |
Julia Hook v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions |
The question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual … |
| 20-5936 |
Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence |
(1) Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG §2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded, indirect conflict with precedent from the Sixth, Eighth, and N… |
| 20-5924 |
Patricia Wynn v. Mark Butler, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Labor, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-intervention due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-proceedings legal-review procedural-standards supervisory-power |
Whether the Court below "so far departed from the accepted and usual of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower course court, … |
| 20-5930 |
Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
"does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them". |
| 20-442 |
Kelly Colvard Parsons v. Richard Jearl Parsons |
Tennessee |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees divorce-decree marital-property modification property-rights retirement-benefits vested-interest |
1. Did the Appellate Court of the State of Tennessee err, as a matter of law, when
it concluded that Wife did not obtain a vested, nonmodifiable prope… |
| 20-430 |
Justin Marques Henning v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence |
Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the… |
| 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… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 20-5903 |
Christopher Younger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence under the facts of this case, and considering the recommended Sentencing … |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 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… |
| 20-5880 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript |
1. an statutorily On instad they acquind bypothetinal jurisdiction.
2. convictien have @right to control dfense and right to Casist in Ocon dleeose 9… |
| 20-417 |
Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts |
Two questions are presented:
0 Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent… |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5852 |
Robert Louis Brandon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error |
1. Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty … |
| 20-5853 |
Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central
thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority
of … |
| 20-5804 |
Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing |
Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, when petitioner's request For counsel was denied, because … |
| 20-389 |
Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights |
Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal?
Did the Ninth … |
| 20-5800 |
Robert L. Rose v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability discretionary-ruling federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure reasonable-jurists rule-70(a) |
In order to appeal a final order in a habeas corpus proceeding, a state prisoner must obtain a certificate of appealability. See, 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(… |
| 20-5816 |
Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver |
1. When a defendant raises a new theory on appeal in support
of a suppression motion filed in district court—in this case, a
lack of probable cause fo… |
| 20-5817 |
Thomas Lewis v. Jonathan Decker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules grievance-procedure jurisdictional-challenge procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5783 |
Chia Jean Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review |
The government requested and received a deliberate indifference instruction in the criminal jury charge, over Lee's objection. The Fifth Circuit Court… |
| 20-5794 |
Scott T. Wilbert v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion |
1. Should certiorari be granted because the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed the denial of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment suppressio… |
| 20-367 |
Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar… |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-5713 |
Jean Dufort Baptichon v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-rights district-court-ruling evidentiary-rulings frivolousness frivolousness-standard in-forma-pauperis procedural-discretion procedural-rulings reconsideration-amendment |
1. What, in this case, are the appropriate inquiry for determining when an in forma pauperis litigant's factual allegations justify a § 1915(d) dismis… |
| 20-5730 |
Jimmie Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
I. The district court improperly designated Mr. Butler as a career offender, and this was not harmless error. The district court made a rote, less tha… |
| 20-5742 |
David Tachay Heard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review |
1. Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eye… |
| 20-5706 |
Mark Berg v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
I. When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party (as… |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5657 |
Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing |
WHETHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT DF APPEALS
ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY FAILING TO RULE
ON
APPELLANH'S
APPEAL WHICH WAS REMANIDED
LUNOD SIHL 1A
2. WHETHE… |
| 20-5675 |
Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court |
Did the 144 Circuit err in accepting "facts" by the accepted usual course of judicial procedure? Did the 144 Circuit exercise of the Supreme Court's p… |
| 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… |
| 20-5646 |
Sean Justin Owens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-5639 |
TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence |
When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim … |
| 20-5641 |
Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the law regarding allegations of Counsel being ineffective regarding Plea Negotiations … |
| 20-5604 |
Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine |
Under this Court's decision in United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1993), does a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the governme… |
| 20-5618 |
Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether, by erroneously affirming Petitioner's conviction based on a finding that the district court lacked authority to hold an evidentiary hearing a… |
| 20-282 |
Sheldon Carmon v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employers-liability-act notice-of-dangerous-condition railroad-liability summary-judgment witness-credibility |
In this Federal Employers' Liability Act case, was summary judgment for the defendant railroad properly granted when (1) the courts below required pro… |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a
"complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5568 |
Alex Alberto Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps. |
| 20-5586 |
Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
| 20-5549 |
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration |
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
| 20-5458 |
Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
A district court's guidelines calculations are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines … |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
THE PETITIONER, CONTENDS THAT His CASE IS
VERY SIMILAR. TO TRANTINO V. STATE OF N.S. _
PAROLE BOARD. AFTER HAVING SERVED THE PUNIT IVE ASPECTS OF HIS … |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5516 |
Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim reasoning that I am procedurally barred when a debate e… |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
I.
In a state in which the death penalty is authorized only upon
a finding of an enumerated aggravating circumstance, does due process
require that ev… |
| 20-5533 |
Gayle McNamara v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
A defendant who has shown that the district court mistakenly deemed applicable an incorrect, higher Guidelines range has demonstrated a reasonable pro… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5489 |
Rodney Lavalais v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error |
1. When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic reversa… |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the… |
| 20-5494 |
Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review |
Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-5453 |
Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review |
Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5446 |
Jin H. Zheng v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity |
Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order has previously been granted the Government (in a separate case) by the Seventh Circuit. Petitioner… |
| 20-5449 |
Carolyn R. Dawson v. Kevin Pakenham |
Texas |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure forcible-detainer no-evidence-motion property-rights summary-judgment texas-law |
There appears to be a split and/or confusion within the courts regarding "Motions" for No-Evidence Summary Judgments Appeals and a Forcible Detainer "… |
| 20-5452 |
Judy Thorpe v. Justin Swidler, et al. |
New Jersey |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review certification-denial civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review manifest-error prejudice supreme-court-of-new-jersey trial-court |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 20-5424 |
Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision
in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007). |
| 20-191 |
Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and co… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant
to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution?
charging, s… |
| 20-175 |
Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation |
Does a litigant forfeit an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not in a … |
| 20-5361 |
Luis Torres-Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
For purposes of applying the abuse of discretion standard and presumption of reasonableness on appellate review of a within guidelines sentence, does … |
| 20-150 |
ThermoLife International LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appellate-review appointments-clause chenery-doctrine constitutional-appointment patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers rehearing unconstitutional-appointments |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit violated the
Chenery doctrine by making new factual findings in
the first instance on appeal to affirm a decision of
th… |
| 20-5328 |
Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony |
A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts
of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws"
duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin… |
| 20-5300 |
Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-134 |
Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check |
L. In a civil rights lawsuit, should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues?
I. While w… |
| 20-5299 |
Antonio Benson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense |
I.
Whether the ruling of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the opinion of the
Tennessee intermediate appellate court, that the Petitioner wa… |
| 20-5298 |
Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re… |
| 20-5251 |
Michael Owen Harriot v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar |
IS WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S LACK' AUTHORITY SEE 28 U.S.C. § 1291, ON ITS OWN TO RAISED § 2401(b)'S TIME BAR WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT'S OPINION DID … |
| 20-5254 |
Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor |
DID the COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA IWA l court i)£MV
MR.13ROWU H'S COMSTltTUTIbWAL RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL ON Ttffc
MVSOEIAEAMOR CHARGES OP ReCJ&WtWC STOLEN… |
| 20-106 |
Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review |
In 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Petitioners Gary Tanaka and Alberto Vilar for securities law-related offenses, but vacated the sen… |
| 20-5238 |
Wilbert Hayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif |
Whether, on a post-Rehaif claim, the Circuit Court of Appeals should not consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Ol… |
| 20-5216 |
Brent Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review |
Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)? [Petitioner requests GVR in light of Davis v. U… |
| 20-5227 |
Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-5200 |
Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
WHETHER A STATE COURT OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH A DECISION OF A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AND OTHER STATE COURT OF APPEA… |
| 20-5212 |
In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton |
|
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fact-finding factual-findings habeas-corpus judicial-discretion trial-court |
(1) Whether the Texas Count of Criminal Appecls and individual judges thereof as the ultimate factfinders in Texas habeas corpus proceeding abused the… |
| 20-5213 |
John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Karen Slusher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment interlocutory-order substantive-objections |
Question not identified. |
| 20-76 |
Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna |
California |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure contempt-of-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure |
(l) Where Judge of the Superior Court violated a Court Order issued by a previous Judge (Appendix "D" p. 23a), (2) where Lawyer from State Bar of Cali… |
| 20-5167 |
Jean McIntosh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing |
1. Was the Court of Appeals decision to dismiss the appeal in error? |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
On 7-08-2029 I filed case 19CV6332 at the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York, against the domestic assassinations program of the U.S. C… |
| 20-5150 |
Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution |
1. Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous?
2. Does the petitioner have a fundam… |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
1. Whether an appellate court may, sua sponte, impute the actions of a third party to a § 1983 claimant as the sole basis for extending qualified immu… |
| 20-5124 |
Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review |
(1) whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as the
ultimate factfinder in Texas habeas corpus proceedings
abused its discretion and erred wher it … |
| 20-5071 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5108 |
Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. … |
| 20-5070 |
Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5053 |
Deandre Lornell Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing departure judicial-discretion presumptively-reasonable procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance variance-standard |
Whether the district court's decision when imposing sentence that a defendant failed to sufficiently justify a "reduction" from the Sentencing Guideli… |
| 20-5066 |
Everett L. Spillard v. Superior Court of California, Humboldt County, et al. |
California |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-courts transcripts |
1. Can Superior Court and it's DA Violate all Judicial mistakes and misconduct can't be ruled an J?
2. Can all the Courts in the State ignore the Law… |
| 20-5069 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process evidence-disregard fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation public-interest standing supreme-court-rules |
1. By re-affirming the final opinion of the magistrate judge from the District Court,
"The Court does not weigh the evidence", 3 Appellate Judges sai… |
| 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. |
| 20-5039 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
2. Whether Petitioner is Deprived of his Pers… |
| 20-5022 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing |
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GoGmu TAG Tferrion Fo^ <A)Fir oF Ceen'oRe
feUouiifOGr Ttfe OF>PoBG&tfto "pe£ Cu.iRtUM"3
Crpi-nion oF Tfc … |
| 20-5023 |
Carter Vincent Anderson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeal erred in review of claim presented which clearly show ineffective assistance of counsel on both trial a… |
| 20-1 |
Nicholas E. Davis v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver |
Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 20-5014 |
Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review |
Whether the trial Court Violated Mr.Peralta Statutory and Constitutional Rights by Relying on Dr. Beth Hers sexual Abuse Finding because she based Her… |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 20-5018 |
Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
I. Petitioner asks did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the District Court for the Northern District of Florida apply f… |
| 19-8923 |
Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error |
I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg… |
| 19-1478 |
John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins |
whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections where the… |
| 19-8895 |
Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing |
1) I F it Confuses my litagation
under Distr
ict court rute 636. jurisdiction , powers
and temporany assigwment 5b). a judge has
power to desigrate a … |
| 19-8887 |
Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) |
Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-8842 |
Angel Prado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial |
The ticket was Printed 9:56 the WArNiNg An sva CCourt Distriet The Middle recorded stop 9:58AM. Was MHX agree Lindsay D Trooper IN for ISoue the Momen… |
| 19-8863 |
Michael Strausbaugh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals contravenes the Certificate of Appealability is denied based on the Unsheltered Court Records determined in and whether t… |
| 19-8879 |
Gurminder Sekhon v. California |
California |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines judicial-process standing trial-transcript |
DiD THE TRIAL COURT VIOUATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE UNDER BOTH STATE ANJ FEDERAL CONSTiTUTIONS?
IN LIGHT OF JACKSON v. VIRGINA, WAS T… |
| 19-8886 |
Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records |
Question One
Did the trial court error in violating the petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights to appeal the petitioner's first conviction, by fai… |
| 19-8869 |
Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE AMENDED ORDER OF THE COURT OF APPEALS VACATING
THE ORDER OF THE DISTRICT COURT AND DISMISSING THE 1983 ACTION
BASED ON THE ROOKER-FELDMAN … |
| 19-1433 |
Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. |
Utah |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change |
Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner Autumn Stavely's and her counsel's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when it sanctioned both … |
| 19-8826 |
Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit |
(i) Was it manifest error for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition for Rehearing, which in e… |
| 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… |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra… |
| 19-8795 |
Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
1. Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to investigate readily availa… |
| 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? |
| 19-8752 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing |
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| 19-8754 |
Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression |
I. Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the dis… |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8719 |
Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-8704 |
Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
IS THE DECISION OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BASED ON AN UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS INASMUCH AS IT IS BASED ON AN INCOMPLETE REC… |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1372 |
Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower courts so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, … |
| 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… |
| 19-8679 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 19-8664 |
Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing |
THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARINY ERRONEDUS/Y DENIED
APPEllanT CERtiFiCAtE oF APpEAlAbilitY StatinG,"PEtitiOn fail
to state any federal Constitutional Cla… |
| 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… |
| 19-8608 |
Kison Robertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
1. How does the uis, court of Apperls upholds The District Count Decision to Letin Evidence thatwas not proven to have occurred in the trial Record? E… |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8616 |
Anthony Helton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-1340 |
David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. |
Arkansas |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court |
Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting… |
| 19-8592 |
Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to determine whether she obstructed justice under Guidel… |
| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 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… |
| 19-8545 |
Duane Blake v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
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| 19-8547 |
Joseph D. Blueford v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial harmless-error impartial-tribunal judicial-discretion jury jury-competence sixth-amendment |
Does a petitioner have the right to a fair and impartial trial when a juror does not hear or understanding the evidence being provided? |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
A. whether the Ninth Ciruit should sue sponte vacate or grant
Conviction/sentence becanse ind: ctment alleged certificuateont
of statnte scope aleordi… |
| 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… |
| 19-8451 |
Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record |
Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … |
| 19-8440 |
Katherine O'Neal v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment |
In determining whether constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless, should a reviewing court focus on whether the error contributed … |
| 19-1281 |
Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) |
Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion as practiced in the Ninth Circuit preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent… |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
QUESTION I
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion
to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8400 |
Roy Allen Nichols v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 19-8390 |
Do Kyun Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-8373 |
Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing |
Did ARIZONA COURT UOTE TW COURTS DETSION A) TONs adv. Mississipei By ENTELUNG QUDENCE oF A 1483. PRAGL CORVICNOI TAT. WAS SEF-ASIDE, DISMISSED. LAs Th… |
| 19-8372 |
Abdul Hakiym Ismaiyl v. Donald C. Nugent |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard factual-findings frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion record-review standard-of-review |
Whether a Circuit court, once the veracity of the factual findings of a Dist. Court has been contended not to exist, and not supported by the record, … |
| 19-8353 |
Curtis Stokes v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Stokes and his codefendants were charged with multifarious felonies. On appeal, Stokes ' codefendant had the most serious charge dismissed for insu… |
| 19-8354 |
Nelson Romero v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fundamental-liberty liberty-interest procedural-flaws procedural-violation summary-judgment |
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tlaUie oX 'The. 14 Vh. Anai… |
| 19-1240 |
Myron Hubbard v. Missouri Department of Mental Health |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1251 appellate-review civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction retaliatory-action supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction void-judgment void-judgments |
Whether the Court of Appeals and District Courts breached its duty, departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding and is of such … |
| 19-8305 |
Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-19 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost |
On Equal Protection Clause; Whether Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to find any unconstitutionality in VA Code § 19.2-165 that only mandat… |
| 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… |
| 19-8261 |
Sean Ath v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the "substantial evidence" test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm P… |
| 19-8262 |
Miguel Algarin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-636 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-statute judicial-review magistrate magistrate-review objection-standard procedural-waiver waiver |
Whether a party's failure to object to a magistrate's ruling under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) creates a jurisdictional bar to appellate review, or merel… |
| 19-8265 |
Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8266 |
James Heard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court |
1. Whether the trial court erred in denying James Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro Se?
2. Whether the appellate court unreosonably applied the… |
| 19-8256 |
Jerry Browdy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BROWDY'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT BROWDY'… |
| 19-1209 |
Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards |
The untrained pro se Appellant respectfully attempts to succinctly present from the trial record, compelling justiciable Constitutional reasons of err… |
| 19-8209 |
Delgen Foye v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-trial speedy-trial standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-8174 |
Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination |
Massachusetts |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi |
1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den… |
| 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 … |
| 19-1189 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 19-8137 |
Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors in granting an up… |
| 19-8142 |
Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. |
Florida |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment |
Whether Anabella Soury, as 50% interest Mortgage Holder in this Mortgage Foreclosure Case, where the judgment is based on a Residential Home Loan, whe… |
| 19-8106 |
Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction. |
| 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… |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to
hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no
reasonable probability that the state's appell… |
| 19-8097 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
| 19-8055 |
Corey Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power |
Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t… |
| 19-8065 |
Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8073 |
Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo… |
| 19-8085 |
Lamar L. Zamichieli v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8048 |
Collyer Goodman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-1153 |
Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments |
This case presents two straightforward questions:
1) the limits the Constitution and Congress impose on
the jurisdiction of lower federal courts; and … |
| 19-1156 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Judgment Issued |
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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… |
| 19-8019 |
Efrain Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly
condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-7988 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review |
Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7993 |
Thomas Victor Sway v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard |
When denial of COA was made in conlusory order without any
precendent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for
appellant court to review,… |
| 19-1120 |
Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment |
I. Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur … |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-7970 |
Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) in excusing his 92-day delay.
II… |
| 19-7943 |
J. H. v. E. R. S. |
Colorado |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights |
1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li… |
| 19-7945 |
Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'… |
| 19-7917 |
Isaac Feldman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a
defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the … |
| 19-7898 |
Richard C. Murphy v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-ethics due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation procedural-integrity representation standing |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abuse their discretion by allowing counsel to continue representation after counsel documented his unwillingnes… |
| 19-7871 |
In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson |
|
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing |
WHETHER OR NOT THE JURISDICTIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER ZBUSCS
Z284)U, 2D72 (FEROUP.-7))C), 8CA), 9CO)-) THE PLANTIFFHAD A RIGHT
HANE
TBOTHE AETIONS F A … |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7826 |
Marlon R. Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records |
Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf… |
| 19-7803 |
Brandon Williams v. Brian B. Kemp, Governor of Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1986 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism negligence section-1986 standing |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism which seeme… |
| 19-7739 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7740 |
Yolanda Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation |
Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r… |
| 19-7748 |
Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review |
i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others?
ii. Whether the United States C… |
| 19-1052 |
Andre G. Dewberry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
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appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea self-representation sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether a guilty plea waives a challenge on appeal to the denial of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself. |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7645 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6). |
| 19-7661 |
Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) |
I. May The Second Circuit Court; Of Appeals Determine That The'Underlying Offense Of
Hobbs Act Extortion? Threatening Physical Violence In Furtheranc… |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IN UNITED STATES V. WASHINGTON IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN… |
| 19-7685 |
Dominic Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review |
Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7671 |
Daquan Ossie Bradley v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law court-trial due-process judicial-review standard-of-review structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana trial-procedure |
Whether a court-trial verdict that is based on a constitutionally-deficient burden of proof is structural error under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. … |
| 19-7675 |
Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing |
WHETHER the us court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied petitioner's request for a certificate of Appealability by failing to grant hi… |
| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
| 19-1011 |
Eric F. Kelly v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand |
Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court-martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm… |
| 19-7647 |
William P. Castillo v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing |
Nevada courts instruct juries that they may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a r… |
| 19-7650 |
D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights |
In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does … |
| 19-7640 |
Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 |
Whether "the remedy by motion " authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered
"inadequate or ineffective " under §2255(e) when a federal appellate … |
| 19-7615 |
William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-997 |
Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… |
| 19-7598 |
Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines |
When conducting "closer review" of a sentencing decision that was based on the district
court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-7585 |
Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure |
OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY
2. OID THE UNTITEO S… |
| 19-7568 |
Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7575 |
Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing |
Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7512 |
Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7480 |
David Paul Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error when it focused its harmless error analysis solely on the weight of the u… |
| 19-7427 |
Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-7463 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988. |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7365 |
Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review |
HAS THE LOWER TRIBUNAL COURT IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, THE FOURTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APP… |
| 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… |
| 19-903 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders constitutional-protection defamation standing wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings |
The questions posed in the course of appellate actions at FD-07-000190 were made cognizable by stipulation of all represented parties.
Each question … |
| 19-915 |
Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
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appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court |
The Petitioners have been denied their right to a jury trial in federal court.
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit mi… |
| 19-7279 |
Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing |
I WHAT LAWS OF CINIL COURT JURIS dICTION E OD SHN PE HE MT T V T I RECIEVED?
2 WHY WERE tHE dEFENDANTS bARELY QUESTIONED CONCERNINg MY COMPLAINT?
3.… |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t… |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste… |
| 19-888 |
Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP |
New York |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte |
Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal when sua sponte and without notice to Petitioner, and w… |
| 19-7273 |
Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether evidence that is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty of crimes, and inadequate when judged under the st… |
| 19-7276 |
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… |
| 19-7293 |
Desmond Bowen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) states: "The court shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary." Indeed, there are factors found in § 3553(… |
| 19-7306 |
Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment |
1. May an United States District Judge construe legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, an argument that we forty itself never wisely in… |
| 19-7282 |
John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7286 |
Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7257 |
Dillon Mvuri v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-reasoning pro-se summary-judgement summary-judgment |
1. Where the district court issues a summary judgement without giving reasons on
the record contrary to Rule 56 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure an… |
| 19-7258 |
Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection |
1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
Subsidiary question: whether the case … |
| 19-7264 |
Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Granted |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation |
Whether Lazar tpata was denied his Right to a Fair Trial where the trial court refused to instruct the jery on second fisal to provide essential jury … |
| 19-7231 |
Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN NOT ISSUING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE PETITIONER DEMONSTRATED THAT JURIST OF REASON COULD FI… |
| 19-861 |
Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review |
Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district… |
| 19-7192 |
Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
DOES THE READING OF 28 U.S.C. § 2244(A) CREATE AMBIGUITY IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(A) READ IN PART "A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO AN APP… |
| 19-7201 |
Casey Lee Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 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… |
| 19-7182 |
Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness |
1. Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold the c… |
| 19-844 |
Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger |
Indiana |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal |
1) Whether Graham's substantial rights and right to procedural due process and fundamental fairness guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violat… |
| 19-7167 |
Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.
Contrary to precedent set in Yeager v. Commonwealth , 16 Va.
433 S.E.2d 248 (1993) and rule 3A:16 of the Rules of App. 761
Supreme Court of Virgini… |
| 19-7159 |
Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Garth Gulick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations waiver |
Are waiving defendants since of mns r ty requd to cimpy w Fe.
CN. P. IAli or (2ol (A) when fng timely anwe? And f me anwer a hn tey ont n aner imey t… |
| 19-834 |
In Re Philippe Buhannic |
|
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreign-litigant judicial-bias legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant state-courts |
Whether the state courts, have the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign Pro se litigant. The denial is so o… |
| 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… |
| 19-7116 |
Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-7119 |
Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit |
WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD
CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT
COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO… |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 19-823 |
Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS |
Ohio |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement |
I. Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parti… |
| 19-7105 |
Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the [18 U.S.C. §3553(a)] factors"?
SUBSIDIARY QUES… |
| 19-7061 |
Charles Edward Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Granted |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97 (1986), the Court set forth a three-step protocol to prevent racial discrimination in jury selection. It applie… |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected
and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the
defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7049 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay |
1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-7038 |
Angela Maxine Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors. |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-791 |
Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver |
Whether federal district courts possess the authority to require appeal rights to be waived as a condition for receiving an award available under law.… |
| 19-7009 |
Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT WHICH HAD NO JURISDICTION OVER A CASE
DISMISS IT WITH PREJUDICE AND,
WHETHER AN APPEAL COURT AFFIRM THAT DISMISSAL WITH PREJU… |
| 19-6996 |
Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation |
DID THE LOWER COURTS ERR IN THEIR DISPOSITION OF PETITIONER'S CASE? |
| 19-781 |
Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing |
Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First Amendment rights? |
| 19-6947 |
Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette |
1. In United States v. Turkette , 452 U.S. 576 (1981) , this Court first held , in a RICO conspiracy case, 18 U SC §1962 (d), that the statute applies… |
| 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… |
| 19-6932 |
Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
In a RICO-conspiracy case, must the government present proof of, inter alia, an existing enterprise, which is engaged in activities that actually affe… |
| 19-6911 |
Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution |
Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when it s distinct… |
| 19-6913 |
Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground?
3) Did the Lower Court overlook the… |
| 19-740 |
Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference |
1. Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inser… |
| 19-6901 |
Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial |
I.
THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN
UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING
ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH
VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY… |
| 19-6877 |
Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel |
Under the Laws and Rules of Res Judicata, ole if an issue was been litigated on and decided by the Court, would the Wish Court be departing from the e… |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-6882 |
Zackary Ikaika Bryton Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-6825 |
Jorge Guerrero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6828 |
Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion.
2. Can the i… |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
1. If the actions of the respondent that led to my termination were "willful ", did
the United States Court of Appeals Err in affirming the United Sta… |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
HAS THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IMPLEMENTED PRATICES FOR
FLORIDN'S JUDIUAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRADICTS THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS
T LTH AND IT AMENOMENT RGHIS F… |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-674 |
James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company |
Delaware |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue… |
| 19-666 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion opportunity-to-cure rule-compliance |
After the appeal had been briefed and submitted to a three-judge panel for a review, Pennsylvania Superior Court refused to review the appeal and dism… |
| 19-6746 |
Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights |
Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's "due … |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6660 |
Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law |
When Opinion reflects Appellate Court relies on States Findings, ..and Litigant has asserted, States Findings are not entitled to deference because, p… |
| 19-6713 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari |
I.) WAe/^er -Ike £/eve/v// CVrcaj*/ erred Ly oLe/vy / tvc^
e-hUoMerk A^/'^ oJiq/Y Far CerAA'c^de dr AppeoJoAl/'d
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/Ao-4… |
| 19-6737 |
Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent |
I. Petitioner asks did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the
United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and u… |
| 19-6710 |
Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur |
This Court has consistently recognized that when a prevailing party's unilateral action renders a case moot before appellate review concludes, the pro… |
| 19-6700 |
Abid Naseer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver |
1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixt… |
| 19-6668 |
Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record |
Petitioners, Andrew J.J. Wolf and R. Hans Kruger, filed a Motion to Stay Second Summary Judgment based upon the fact defendants counsel had chose to u… |
| 19-6674 |
Margarita Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-6656 |
Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements. |
| 19-6613 |
Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment |
Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims, under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim, … |
| 19-6617 |
Melissa Morton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver |
Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev… |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-610 |
Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a "relation back" determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) is: (1) the de novo standard of review appl… |
| 19-6591 |
In Re Kenneth Uncapher |
|
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim |
I. Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial where a member of the jury told the judge he was accosted outside of the courtroom by members of the victim'… |
| 19-6551 |
Neil Timothy Aho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in not finding
that the district court abused its discretion by denying
Petitioner's motion to withdraw his… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6501 |
Alvin Felicianosoto v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-autonomy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel McCoy-challenge mccoy-v-louisiana remand right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on direct review in
failing to remand the case to the district court when a challenge under
McCoy… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONTER'S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO EXCLUDE THE PRIOR TESTIMO… |
| 19-6490 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review capta capta-compliance child-abuse-reporting civil-immunity civil-rights criminal-liability due-process federal-funding immunity immunity-statute kentucky-law misdemeanor-prosecution |
1) Whether CAPTA -based immunity falls within the narrow exception to the rule against interlocutory appeals and whether it meets the standards under … |
| 19-579 |
William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment |
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(d) provides, "If,
on a motion under Rule 12(b)(6) or 12(c), matters
outside the pleadings are presented to and not … |
| 19-582 |
Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law and in splitting from other Circuits by refusi… |
| 19-6447 |
Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky |
WhEther The power appiled in this case to assert Judiciol authority
wos Contrary to this and other circutr in light of thcwhole
record.
WhEther the I… |
| 19-6415 |
Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-6422 |
Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure |
1). why didn't the First District Court oF Appeals,
State of Florida, rule fairly in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal
on the merits of the issues in the… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
(LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS
FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6439 |
Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
1) Should the a.) United States Supreme Court Ruling in Richle v. Magolies 279 U.S.218,225 (1929) and b.) State of North Carolina Resolute Insurance C… |
| 19-6412 |
Dennis Jones v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure |
The State's Court of last resort decided an important Federal Question in a way that conflicts with the right to counsel in a criminal case, where (a)… |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6384 |
Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction |
1. Why thousands of men and women like myself ;in this great country should continue to be
kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a… |
| 19-6349 |
Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DECISIONS BELOW CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND STATE APPELLATE COURTS, AND MISAPPLY THIS COURT'S DECISIONS IN… |
| 19-6351 |
Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i… |
| 19-531 |
Ofra Levin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
New York |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review case-merits civil-procedure due-process injury judicial-review legal-standing merits procedural-timing standing |
1. Whether a party who lacks standing at the com
mencement of the action can obtain, or be granted,
standing, four and a half years after the action … |
| 19-6330 |
Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan |
California |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing |
Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a… |
| 19-6345 |
William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion |
1. DID MOBILE COUNTY CIRCUT COURT JUDGE ROBERT SMITH ABUSE HIS DIBCRETION BY GRANTING EVICTION ORDER IN CIVIL CASE# CVI-O852 WHILE PETITIONER WERE IN … |
| 19-6310 |
Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights |
I. Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the
child was wrongful under Articles 3 and 5 of the Hague Convention of
25 October 1980 … |
| 19-6312 |
Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED
BY DENYING PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF
APPEALABILITY. |
| 19-516 |
Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments |
This case presents clear and intractable conflicts
regarding: 1) the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the
limitations it imposes on the jurisdiction of low… |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-6288 |
Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) where the district court … |
| 19-6277 |
Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review |
When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its "gatekeeping" role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 19-486 |
Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Under what circumstances may an appellate court review the findings of the district court with respect to the validity of the disputed material fac… |
| 19-6252 |
Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice |
WHETHER THE MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU… |
| 19-6258 |
In Re Tiran R. Casteel |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure |
Was the Petitioner restored Prior to the November 2009 Trial ?#1
Was the Petitioners Due Process of Law violated by being Tried in Noveirber 2009, wh… |
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were it that a judge held every reason to believe that Rooker-Feldman doctrine should bar "even [his] constitutional claims, " after a state appellate… |
| 19-6239 |
Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power |
Because requisite exceptions are shown and have been met in the State and Federal
proceedings/ regardless of styling said pleading-presented claims a… |
| 19-6224 |
Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation |
If government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is a way of carrying laws into effect (1 Am J 2d Adm L's 81), then is that pow… |
| 19-6232 |
Jason James Neiheisel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co… |
| 19-468 |
Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review |
What is the correct standard to determine whether a criminal defendant is denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroys the only… |
| 19-463 |
Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation |
Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin… |
| 19-456 |
John Buncich v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) |
Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-6185 |
Aaron Lee Smiley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights due-process forfeiture home-forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement standing |
I. Does a plea agreement need to pass constitutional muster before it waives a person's right to challenge on appeal the forfeiture of his or her home… |
| 19-6171 |
Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony |
1. DID THE STATE APPELLATE COURT AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT
ERR IN DENYING PETITIONER 'S APPEAL BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE
PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF… |
| 19-450 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing |
The Patent Act expressly provides for compensatory
damages. 35 U.S.C. § 284. When the issues of patent
infringement and compensatory damages are tri… |
| 19-6123 |
Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error |
DOES THE FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPEL A COURT OF APPEALS TO REMEDY ITS INADVERTENT AFFIRMANCE OF UNRECOGNIZED STRUCTURAL ERROR THAT WAS APPARENT FROM THE RE… |
| 19-6151 |
Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense by the tri… |
| 19-6125 |
Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never … |
| 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… |
| 19-6099 |
Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred |
1. If the evidentiary hearing was based upon the challenges ' being time barred, yet the
Appellate Court concurred that the fourth and fifth convicti… |
| 19-6110 |
Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived … |
| 19-6112 |
In Re Larry Pouncy |
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2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
1. Whether The District Court Erred When The Court Increased The
Appellant's Guideline Range Four Levels By Finding That The Offense
Involved Between … |
| 19-428 |
Ryan Courtade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
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18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent |
1. When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a "lascivious exhibition" under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court r… |
| 19-6070 |
Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ?
2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS?
BJ DOES A… |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6053 |
Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297.
2. Whether the… |
| 19-6067 |
Francisco Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith |
I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. SMITH, AND CONFLICTS WITH THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT IN UNITED STATES V. DARDEN?
II. WHE… |
| 19-6073 |
Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error |
1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal
.foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON
507U… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
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28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-6035 |
Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions |
Whether Bail Should Have Been Granted in this Case as the Petitioner Rebutted the Statutory Presumptions. |
| 19-6036 |
Arturo Eduardo Dominguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "reweigh the sentencing factors"?
SUBSIDIARY QUESTION: Whether… |
| 19-6001 |
Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case |
1. WERE THE APPELLATE COURTS RULINGS UNPRECEDENT FOR THIS CASE?
2. DID THE COURTS DISREGARD PETITIONER'S COURT DOCKET IN THEIR RULING?
3. DID THE CO… |
| 19-6002 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion
and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Co… |
| 19-6016 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-5972 |
Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari |
Did the lower courts err when they violated petitioner's right to privacy and protection when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order for a Pen… |
| 19-5991 |
Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
(1) Did the lower Courts err in granting Summary judgment to the Defendants |
| 19-5992 |
Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura |
First Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing |
Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5982 |
Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis |
This Court should grant this petition to address when, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a… |
| 19-5948 |
Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility |
In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve conflicting evidence, assess the credibility of witnesses, or view the evidenc… |
| 19-5922 |
Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5904 |
Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald… |
| 19-5892 |
Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. |
Illinois |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings |
Whether the trial court's actions - rushing petitioners straight into trial proceedings without affording them with the mandatory procedural due proce… |
| 19-5846 |
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… |
| 19-311 |
Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion |
I.
In review of a state decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2241,
when a federal appellate court must determine if
double jeopardy protection bars retrial afte… |
| 19-303 |
Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner d… |
| 19-5821 |
Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily?
Did the prosecution violate Brady requi… |
| 19-5836 |
Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5800 |
Darren Denson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Miscondvet when they deried Denson of his dve process rights by witthholding evidence before the econd trial that justifies post-conviction velief In … |
| 19-5801 |
Emory Chiles v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5802 |
Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification |
I. In a case where the identity of the person who brandished a gun is central to the case, is the choice of whether to ask for DNA testing of the gun,… |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §
924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i… |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5824 |
William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Ciruit err in it's ! .
denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S.
District Court's denial… |
| 19-5775 |
Richard James Soldan v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief anders-procedure appellate-counsel appellate-review court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process first-tier-review indigent-defendant michigan-court-of-appeals michigan-procedure plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
MAY THE TRIAL COURT REFUSE TO APPFOINT SUSTITUTE APPELLATE COUNSEL TO AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT CONVICTED ON HIS PLEA WHO SEEKS ACCESS TO FIRST TIER REVIE… |
| 19-5791 |
Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review |
Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re… |
| 19-280 |
Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
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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? |
| 19-5767 |
Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana |
I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,… |
| 19-5760 |
Aly Toure v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights |
1. DID THE APPELMTE DIVISION VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL
SUPREME COURT RATIFIED LAW ?
2. DID THE LOWER COURT OVERLOOK DEFENDANTS SIGNIFICANT… |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5742 |
Robert Gene Rand v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review |
Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5728 |
Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court |
(1) Whether a federal appel late court fai ls to provi de legitimate federal
habeas revi ew when i t rejects an i neffecti ve assi stance of counsel c… |
| 19-253 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-law procedural-due-process summary-judgment |
Whether Rule 36(e) of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure violates the Fifth Amendment by authorizing panels of the Federal Circuit to affirm, wi… |
| 19-5719 |
Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey boyde-standard boyde-v-california capital-case due-process jury jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
In light of this Court's recent Sixth-Amendment jurisprudence emphasizing the constitutional primacy of the role of the jury, should this Court revisi… |
| 19-238 |
In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. |
|
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
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appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether the remand order constitutes an
appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or
resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below.
(2… |
| 19-239 |
Larry Benzon, Warden v. Troy Michael Kell |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal appeals appellate-review capital-case capital-punishment collateral-order-doctrine district-court federalism habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay |
Whether a district court's order staying and abeying a capital prisoner's habeas corpus petition under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), is immedi… |
| 19-5664 |
Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute |
1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE.
2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA… |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5701 |
Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant |
Petitioner has been convicted of violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) (2016), which is classified as a child abuse offense involving child sexual… |
| 19-5674 |
Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 19-5655 |
Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire |
1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER?
2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE … |
| 19-226 |
Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served?
Does a U.S. Court of Appeals hav… |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 19-208 |
Mark A. Beckham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review |
Because only a jury, acting on proof beyond a
reasonable doubt, may take a person's liberty, when,
if ever, is it constitutionally permissible for a… |
| 19-213 |
Charles Fischer v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity. |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr… |
| 19-206 |
In Re Melba L. Ford |
|
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders |
I. When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explan… |
| 19-5610 |
Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution |
First Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curi… |
| 19-5613 |
Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error |
When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in … |
| 19-5590 |
Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
an attorney, denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused (mandatory) de novo review? |
| 19-5563 |
Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 no longer provides that the consequence of not timely making a required, pretrial motion is a waiver. Can an app… |
| 19-5537 |
Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court |
1. Did the Trial court err When it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended indictment ? Cih.3t.38. RRY.7).
2. Oid the court of Appeals err b… |
| 19-5544 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Overtlle Denton Thompson's petition for discretionary review and thereby fail to a… |
| 19-5471 |
J. A. M. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel |
1. Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during i… |
| 19-5448 |
Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5459 |
Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
1S 0 (§LiMiNal defendant Constftutfonaly entitle to a Fate Trial From ow Partial Sudae WHO TS NOT CORRUET to Preside and Cule aver his Trial Court Pro… |
| 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… |
| 19-5436 |
Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-5425 |
Damien Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker |
Whether a sentence imposed under the Career Offender Guidelines is reasonable in light of the subsequent 798 Amendment to the Guidelines, in a case wh… |
| 19-149 |
Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to inc… |
| 19-5411 |
Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50… |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUFFICIENTLY DETERMINED THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE IN ITS SENTENCING OF PETITIONER BY 31 MON… |
| 19-5421 |
Charles Earl Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-138 |
First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver |
1. Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review because it did not raise the issue in the trial court or … |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
IGNORE A MANIFEST
FLORIDA
OF
CAN THE
STATE COURT
DENIAL
Conshitution Amendment 6,
U.S.C.
CON STITUTION ERROR,
under plain errot
Jopy
Compounded
Right … |
| 19-5304 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Appellate count committed a manifest of Constitutional error by failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article il subsecti… |
| 19-5329 |
James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels |
Florida |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition |
1) Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of
Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any
judicial reasoning or analysis… |
| 19-5332 |
Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference |
1. Does federal habeas law allow the application of a "some evidence" standard in upholding state court factual determinations?
2. Is it correct to m… |
| 19-5311 |
Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid |
1. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules o… |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5317 |
Alonzo Vernon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment |
Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra?
Further, whether the Second… |
| 19-5319 |
William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure |
ONE
Having Found That Significant Grounds Existed to
Believe That The Defendant Was an Incapacitated Person,
Did The County Court Deprive The Petitio… |
| 19-112 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC |
Texas |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction |
Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated while the Appellate Court reversed the Temporary I… |
| 19-5290 |
Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review |
Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific deference goes directly… |
| 19-105 |
Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ("Court of Appeals") on the grounds that the showi… |
| 19-5264 |
Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing |
1. Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing
of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the
granting of a certificate of appealability… |
| 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… |
| 19-101 |
Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
The question presented is whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, "unrebutted,… |
| 19-5215 |
Lowrell Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit |
1. RESULTED IN A MANIFEST INJUSTICE?
2. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO EXPAND COA ISSUES TO INCLUDE A CLAIM THE DISTRICT… |
| 19-5222 |
James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel |
DID THE STATE OF TEYAS PROPERLY APPLY THE PROCEDURAL BAR (STATUE OF LIMITATIONS iN WRITNO. W89-85S62T (C-D) PURSUANT TO ART. 11.O7(4 OFTHE CODE OFCRiM… |
| 19-5255 |
Frank Lobacz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S… |
| 19-5234 |
Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals |
1. DOES WASHINGTON STATE USE THE ANDERS v. CALIFORNIA (386 U.S. 738) PROCEDURE TO CIRCUMVENT A MEANINGFUL DIRECT (FIRST) APPEAL, EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE … |
| 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' … |
| 19-78 |
John Doe, aka Cheyenne Moody Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof trial-court |
Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury, explain the meaning of the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard to the… |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5185 |
William Eric Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application |
Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of
appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner?
Alter… |
| 19-5154 |
James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arugments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5137 |
Albert Duval Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Un… |
| 19-5138 |
Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 19-50 |
John DeRaffele v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari |
Does a Pro Se litigant under Supreme Court Rule 10 have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the United States Court of Appeals has upheld a… |
| 19-5125 |
Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors |
Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-5126 |
Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT ERR IN DENYING APPELLANT RELIEF ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DO TO COUNSEL'S FAILIN'G TO-OBOECT… |
| 19-5099 |
James Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance |
The question presented involves the Florida practice and rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the distr… |
| 19-5077 |
Carlton P. Cabot v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review |
A district court's factual determinations are generally reviewed for clear error. In rejecting petitioner's appeal in this case, the Second Circuit ad… |
| 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… |
| 19-5045 |
Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com… |
| 19-5071 |
Erwin Burley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos… |
| 19-5022 |
Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
I. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court Error, when it allowed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the Dis… |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious,
unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-9791 |
Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's |
| 18-9828 |
Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt |
Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving. Conflicting Decisions … |
| 18-9829 |
Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause judicial-review |
Consistent with recalling the mandate to prevent injustice
1) Did the Court of Appeals affirm a Constructive Amendment, which requires reversal per s… |
| 18-1588 |
Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct |
1) Where the district court awarded fees to
Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's
unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh
Cir… |
| 18A1362 |
Marshall Leon Watkins v. Nurse Jones, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9776 |
Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 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? |
| 18-9799 |
Benito Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof |
1. Should certiorari be granted to find that, while a district court need not define reasonable doubt, if it does so, it cannot employ a definition th… |
| 18A1358 |
Michael Bornemann v. Benjamin Paul Kekona, et ux. |
Hawaii |
2019-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1254 appellate-review federal-jurisdiction state-supreme-court supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1574 |
William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law |
Where all court filing fees have been paid to initiate pursuit, what is the appropriate inquiry for determining when only a litigant's factual allegat… |
| 18-9769 |
Ishmael Wahid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals ERRED WHEN not FOLLOWING THE CORRECT STANDARD FOR GRANTING C.O.A. |
| 18-9740 |
Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing |
1. Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant -
Appelart MyRon JEssle as an aider and abetter to armed
bery and ist degree home invasion?Did h… |
| 18-1560 |
Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
|
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing |
Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that "defendants timely responded to Plaintiffs amended complaint … |
| 18A1344 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-1544 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County |
Washington |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte |
The Superior Court of Washington for Spokane County, initiated, sua sponte, and selfprosecuted an action against the Petitioners, who are professional… |
| 18-9666 |
Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated where, in reviewing a defendant's a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process violati… |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9608 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18-9611 |
Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th… |
| 18-9600 |
Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering |
Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
Was the evidence suffici… |
| 18A1285 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9595 |
Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error |
Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the… |
| 18-9597 |
Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Miere The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misap… |
| 18-9577 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion opportunity-to-appeal procedural-remedy relief-from-judgment rule-60(b) standing |
SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO DETERMINE WHETHER FEDERAL CIVIL RULE 6O(b) MAY BE USED TO RESTORE THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL? |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 18A1266 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-circuit jurisdictional-issue patent-law time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-9538 |
Mark Anthony Head v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO CONSTRUE THEAPPELLAN T'S MOTION UNDER RULE 60 (b) AS AN . OBLIGATION BY THE DISTRICT COURT TO ASSERT … |
| 18-9451 |
Denzel Pittman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings |
A defendant, whose age falls on the Adult side of the Miller height line, is entitled under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution to … |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciottas appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct.… |
| 18-9474 |
Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
I.
Whether or not the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in this case is
consistent with this court's holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 … |
| 18-9489 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari |
(1.) why The Honordble! Untrea States District Court
Ordeced the Clerk to Close the Case. without aivin |
me a 30 olay order +o amend. Com plain. 4 9
… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9471 |
Joseph John Viola v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court |
Nine years ago, the State of Arizona in reaction to its becoming aware of an unrelated investigation of petitioner Giuseppe Viola, involving his autom… |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-1471 |
Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
|
anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing |
Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion … |
| 18-9423 |
Ayanna Angle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple… |
| 18-9424 |
Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime ? The Court … |
| 18-9385 |
Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel |
PETITIONER CERTIFICATION TO APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE COURT?
THE HABEAS COURT'S FINDING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS NOT DEFICIENT?
THE HABE… |
| 18-9401 |
Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards |
DID THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN ALLOWING THE [U.S.] DISTRICT COURT TO ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHEN RELYING ON CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDIN… |
| 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. |
| 18-9376 |
Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY THEIR FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE JURISDICTIONAL DEFECTS THAT DEPRIVE THEM OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTI… |
| 18-9382 |
Joshua Wofford v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether the federal court of appeals, while determining whether potential constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt pursuant to the … |
| 18-9345 |
Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing |
WAS THE PETITIONER'S PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO ADOPT THE LOWER COURTS FINDINGS? |
| 18-9331 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Would it be violation of procedural & substantive due process and deprivation of right to meaningful, effective access to courts, if District Courts, … |
| 18-9336 |
Saul Elias Camilo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient
to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when
ineffective ass… |
| 18-9287 |
Carole L. Scheib v. James Rozberil |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte federal-question fifth-amendment foreclosure property-law real-property statute-of-limitations |
Whether in reviewing a rightful claim, an appellate court must apply and follow their own established State rules and laws pertaining to real property… |
| 18-9299 |
Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS
RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE
BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT
IMPROPERLY SE… |
| 18-9283 |
Constance F. Russell v. First Resolution Investment Corporation |
Alabama |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-judicial-act-of-1925 independent-action ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-act no-opinion-ruling rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 standing state-and-federal-constitutional-rights |
Did the Alabama Supreme Court violate petitioner pro Se' State and Federal Constitutional Rights of due-process, when they refuse to adjudicate a case… |
| 18-9228 |
David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings |
Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat… |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-9187 |
Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules |
(1) Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subseque… |
| 18-9203 |
Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court |
(1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have Jurdiction?
Did the United States District Court have Jurdiction?
Did the Penn… |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-9122 |
Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion |
Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) applies to denial of access to court claims?
28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) allocates s… |
| 18-9136 |
J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights |
The first question involves the Florida Practice and Rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District … |
| 18-9089 |
Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
The plaintiff's intellectual property was featured in defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl. Judge Jesse M. Furman of the New York Southern District granted… |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9079 |
Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims |
Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-1370 |
Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci… |
| 18-1363 |
David G. Morton v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court misprision standing standing-issue summary-judgment tila tila-violation truth-in-lending-act |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the lower court's Summary Judgment made void by Respondents' documented violation of TILA, their defaul… |
| 18-9037 |
Rolander Brown v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act |
Whether the "good faith exception" to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act
W… |
| 18-9048 |
Brian Boykins v. Robert Napel, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court right-to-counsel standard-of-review standing trial-court-record |
1. WHERE A FEDERAL COURT MUST GRANT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING AND DENIES, IS THAT ERROR?
2. IN A SHOW CAUSE HEARING TRIAL COURT DEEMED IT NECESSARY FOR … |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 18-1353 |
Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah, 414 U.S. 538 (1974), should continue until a distric… |
| 18-1355 |
Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App… |
| 18-9006 |
Donald Ray Boles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which created a carve-out to the rule later adopted in Apprendi v. New… |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the
same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had
erred in its … |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
| 18-8985 |
Michael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that "extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances" conflicts with this Court's mandate "that … |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8974 |
Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods |
Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation used to confirm quality and quantity of controlled substances constitute scientifically relia… |
| 18-8887 |
Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex post facto clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due process at … |
| 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… |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8865 |
Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver |
Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
I.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP… |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
| 18-8840 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims |
Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledged the particularism of any trial court judge's non - judicial palpable… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 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 … |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
2. Whether the sentence imposed by the… |
| 18-1303 |
Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell |
California |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing |
Can a Single Court of Appeals Justice, Dismiss an Appeal, after shown by all Clerks, the lower court and Appellant in writing, that Appellant timely f… |
| 18-1295 |
Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am… |
| 18-8804 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. |
Texas |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent |
Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without firstobtaining A written WAIVER consent from Pfitib ner,Plaintiff?
Was the op… |
| 18-8766 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing |
(1) Whether a district court, in deciding a motion for a preliminary injunction, is entitled to make factual findings based on evidence that, even if … |
| 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… |
| 18-8800 |
Stephen R. Winn v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-expert-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fair-trial judicial-discretion testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence?
… |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8759 |
Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has held, or wheth… |
| 18-8690 |
Dagoberto Ontiveros v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-appeal anders-v-california appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights direct-appeal due-process legal-ethics legal-frivolity right-to-counsel |
When rejecting a criminal defendant's direct appeal under the provisions of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967… |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit … |
| 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… |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8692 |
Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review |
After the prosecutor admitted misrepresenting her actual reasons for striking a prospective juror, the trial judge was "troubled by" some of the prose… |
| 18-8667 |
Donald James Anson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance |
DOES AN APPELLATE COURT ERR WHEN IT DISMISSES AN APPEAL, BECAUSE "IT LACKS AN ARGUABLE BASIS IN LAW OR FACT" WITHOUT FIRST PROVIDING THE PETITIONER AN… |
| 18-8668 |
Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law |
1. Was COA17-1 134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? COA Decision never addressed "good faith exception" issue state vs fed with a… |
| 18-8674 |
Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties |
Louisiana |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen… |
| 18A1004 |
Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8655 |
Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Mr. Holloway alleges that his post-conviction counsel's ineffectiveness prejudiced the defense when he failed to seek suppression of incriminating evi… |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;… |
| 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 … |
| 18-8589 |
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… |
| 18-8593 |
Dontae Callen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit |
I. Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, does the Fourth Amendment allow a reviewing c… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8559 |
Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,state-laws,federal-law fraud judicial-misconduct legal-mandate procedural-integrity standing |
The Legality of the Florida First District Court of Appeals refusing to uphold their own opinion and affirming an order that goes against their own op… |
| 18-8569 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
In 1988, before DNA was widely available as a forensic tool, Melvin Bonnell was convicted and sentenced to death. Trial testimony established that blo… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-8547 |
Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice |
Mr. Biggs alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the defense of diminished capacity. The facts and evidence in the record… |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply.
Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 18-8531 |
Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors |
I. Did the District Court For The District of Minnesota (district court) fail to give proper consideration to sentencing guidelines and policies while… |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether, on remand, imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum ter superviselease was bot procurally n ubstantively rabl… |
| 18-8506 |
Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL AFTER PETITI… |
| 18-8516 |
John E. Drummond v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing |
I. Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due process claim that can only be effectively presented by combining the record… |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE… |
| 18-8500 |
Nickey Ardd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement |
Consistent with this Court's decision in Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. at 60-61 (1963). When the disclosure of the name of confidential informant… |
| 18-1221 |
Peli Popovich Hunt v. David M. Goodrich, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction-mandate appellate-review arizona-christian-sch-tuition-org-v-winn bankruptcy-amendment-interpretations bankruptcy-amendments-overrule-pre-code-interpreta bankruptcy-court-adjunct-appellate-court-jurisdict bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction-limits bankruptcy-court-power bankruptcy-decision-abrogation bankruptcy-decision-statutory-basis bankruptcy-decision-without-statutory-basis bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction-distinctions bankruptcy-jurisdiction-dominance bankruptcy-jurisdiction-interpretations bernards-v-johnson bnsf-ry-co-v-tyrell calflin-v-houseman challenge-to-federal-law civil-procedure clearly-abrogated-principle cutler-v-rae czyzewski-v-jevic-holding-corp davis-v-dewakelee davis-v-wakelee emil-v-hanley ex-parte-rowland ex-parte-siebold federal-law-challenge federal-law-challenges hamilton-v-lanning intra-circuit-conflicts isaacs-v-hobbs-tie-timber-co jurisdictional-analysis kuehner-v-dickinson-co lower-courts-power-to-ignore-law miss |
Does bankruptcy jurisdiction consistent of more than one type of jurisdiction, and if so, is one type of jurisdiction more dominate than all the other… |
| 18-8463 |
Douglas A. Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC, 1… |
| 18-8468 |
Alfredo Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has … |
| 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… |
| 18-8437 |
Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court failure to grant a Wis.Stat.5(Rules) 809.71 Supervisory Writ to change Jurisdiction of cases 2013AP714 and 2012AP1… |
| 18-8384 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason |
Can the state appeal court deny me my konstitutional
igt to y fiber u
y e e e
ent as to y it dend y Peion r A xt
writ? |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8362 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable? |
| 18-8370 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation |
What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n… |
| 18-8307 |
Dockery Cleveland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto |
I. Because of the unique nature of a cell phone, the intrusion into the owner of the device will be ong oing as long as the device has the ability to … |
| 18-8338 |
Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction |
Is the Illinois Statute effecting Post-Conviction relief to conduct an evidentiary hearing for the facts a unconstitutional denial Due Process under t… |
| 18-8345 |
Gary Lakey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the … |
| 18-8348 |
Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review |
1. The prejudice component of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), presents a mixed question of law and fact. Id. at 698. When a district co… |
| 18-8299 |
Walter Raynard Lingard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution-rights appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-departure due-process judicial-discretion probation-revocation right-to-allocution sentencing-review |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN ITS DETERMINATION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ERR IN DECLINING TO VARY DOWNWARD BASED UPON LINGARD'S STATE PROBATI… |
| 18-8301 |
Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
This Court previously reversed and remanded petitioner's case to the court of appeals. The judges of that court, however, have different interpretatio… |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-1156 |
Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel |
Florida |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense |
1) Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2… |
| 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… |
| 18-8271 |
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… |
| 18-8282 |
Jason Andrew Wright v. Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claim which was brought pursuant to Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
On a Crosby remand, the district court decided not to resentence the defendants. On a Jacobson remand, the district court again decided not to resente… |
| 18-8244 |
Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence |
As a result of state court proceedings, the Commonwealth of Virginia obtained a conviction before a jury for second-degree murder against Justin Corne… |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did 8th Circuit incorrectly apply mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits, at which point they are then free to tra… |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported.
Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th… |
| 18-8216 |
Zavia L. Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence |
Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o… |
| 18-8227 |
Bodey Cook v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8231 |
Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
WIETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE
ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL C LAIM.
WHETHER THE DIS… |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a
defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved
by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8193 |
Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. |
Florida |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders |
Whether the State of Florida court abuse its discretion by decision of denial on Petitioner's legal malpractice cause of action on the statute of limi… |
| 18-8198 |
Brandon Lisi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-8165 |
Michael J. Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 18-1113 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Did the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Err in Affirming the District Court's Dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rubric … |
| 18-8061 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit |
Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 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… |
| 18-8102 |
Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief |
first trivl? If the orginal tri
rial aftorded all of the required
procedurnl protection and if the ins titntional players- the
prosentor the defense a… |
| 18-8103 |
Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner |
Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to … |
| 18-8112 |
Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing |
Should the judgment be vacated, and mabe remanded, in light of [ Buck v. Davis, 580 US. _; : 137 S.Ct. 759, 197 L.Ed2d 107 (2017)-]. Where the Court O… |
| 18-8067 |
Arthur Nop Lew v. California |
California |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury |
In aggravated assault prosecutions where self-defense is at issue, California juries are instructed that state law requires only a danger of a battery… |
| 18-7995 |
Rodney Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
L The trial court sentenced Mr. Martin to 168 months in prison, but the court did not adequately address Mr. Martin's arguments or the Section 3553(a)… |
| 18-8005 |
Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies |
Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a… |
| 18-8008 |
Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment |
"Fraud upon the court" versus a frivolous lawsuit, within the meaning I Rute tn's saving clause by distinguishing from intrinsic and extrinsic fraud. … |
| 18-7953 |
Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a… |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7945 |
Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing |
WHETHER THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS
DECISION TO REVERSED AND REMANDED FOR
A NEW TRIAL IN TWO SIMILARLY SITUATED
CASES AS PETITIONERS CASE, CONFLICT … |
| 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… |
| 18-7924 |
Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY ALLOWING THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE TO BE USED TO GRANT MOTION FOR ISSUE PRECLUSION? |
| 18-7879 |
Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction |
1. DID THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND ERR IN AFFIRMING
TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS ON THE GROUND
OF DOUBLE JEOPARD… |
| 18-1046 |
Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 18-1051 |
James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department |
First Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-1034 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the appeal in this action is so insubstantial as not to warrant further review and should not be permitted to proceed? |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-7808 |
Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various … |
| 18-7829 |
Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing |
Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having… |
| 18-7832 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing |
they roled that the three strickes proursion under 28 U.S.C.S Pauperis regardin Petitoners civil rights complaint alleging he was blatantly deried the… |
| 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… |
| 18-7760 |
Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question 1
This Court held that a court of appeals exceeds its subject-matter jurisdiction when the appellate court bypasses the certificate of appea… |
| 18-7764 |
Marcellus French v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review |
DID THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WHERE THE COURT AFFIRMED THE APPELLATE COURT'S RULING THAT THE USAGE OF HEARSAY WITHIN THE PETITIO… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-1021 |
Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts |
I.
WHETHER AN OBJECTION IS REQUIRED TO PRESERVE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR AN ALLEGED PUBLIC TRIAL VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT CAN RELY UPON A S… |
| 18-1009 |
United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection |
The question presented is whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the … |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7717 |
Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether the trial court committed plain error pursuant to Rule 52(b) by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the preamendment 1B1.3 version of t… |
| 18-1003 |
Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference |
Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t… |
| 18-7698 |
Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver |
DOES TRIAL COUNSEL WAIVE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW OF AN ERRONEOUS RULING ON EVIDENCE IF COUNSEL CHOOSES NOT TO OBJECT TO THE RULING WHE… |
| 18-7650 |
Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc… |
| 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… |
| 18-7665 |
Robert Tommy Garrett v. California |
California |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision |
Appellant submits that the Trial Court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of attempted criminal threat deprived h… |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7682 |
Stacie Demers v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. |
| 18-7634 |
Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony |
I) Reasonable jurists could debate whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim in violation of Evid.R. 803(4) denied A… |
| 18-7644 |
Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review |
Did trial counsel have a conplict of interest by simulttanecusly representing Me. Benitez and a defense witness, violating Mir. Benitez's Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-7645 |
Alhan Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Circuit" or "the Appellate Court") upheld on appeal a se… |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
| 18-968 |
Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis |
Massachusetts |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court |
When a state affords a right of appeal, does a state supreme court denying appellate review, before it, to parties that raise an error of law that is … |
| 18-977 |
John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) |
Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal … |
| 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… |
| 18-7585 |
Lemuel Gay v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Can the sentencing court's statement —that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement —… |
| 18-7502 |
Edjuan Payne v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7566 |
Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. |
| 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. |
| 18-7522 |
Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request |
Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa… |
| 18-7427 |
Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent |
Whether the Court of Appeals' application of "harmless error" analysis to an erroneous jury instruction regarding the critical, specific intent elemen… |
| 18-7438 |
Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands |
Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an "Honorable" member of the legal profes… |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
| 18-7410 |
Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Filth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cou… |
| 18-7430 |
Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
1. WHETHER THE FAILURE TO INCLUDE IN JURY INSTRUCTIONS THE REQUIRED ELEMENT OF SPECIFIC INTENT IS SUBJECT TO HARMLESS ERROR ANALYSIS WHERE THE ELEMENT… |
| 18-7389 |
Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE FEDER… |
| 18-7393 |
Rodrigo Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis |
Petitioner, RODRIGO ROMAN, appealed his ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to di… |
| 18-7400 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility |
Does the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications end once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at trial?… |
| 18-7405 |
Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness |
I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio… |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw?
Did th… |
| 18-7363 |
Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing |
If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented. &
If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denie… |
| 18-7369 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. |
California |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
The question presented is, does due process affirmatively require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when it responds to judicial p… |
| 18-889 |
Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber |
Illinois |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law |
1. Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural due process of law, of their federal constitutionally-protected liberty inte… |
| 18-7301 |
J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review |
THE COURT EALS ERRED BY EMPLOYING AN UNCONSITITUTIONAL STANDARD TO REVIEW THIS PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATION DECISION.
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals … |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e
when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes
s… |
| 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… |
| 18-7236 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alternative-grounds appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clear-error-of-findings-of-fact district-court-discretion federal-civil-procedure federal-civil-rule-60(b) federal-civil-rule-60(d) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60 |
Do a Habeas Corpus petitioner need to obtain a Certificate of Appealability(COA) from the denial of a federal civil rule 60(b) and (d)?
Can the Court… |
| 18-7270 |
Antonio Bryant v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence |
I). Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant. 2o18 IL App (50) I43578-U. is contradictory tothis Court's decision sufficien… |
| 18-7209 |
Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation |
Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level.
Whether a federal court may us… |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund… |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… |
| 18-7219 |
Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness. |
| 18-7191 |
Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa… |
| 18-7182 |
Roy Dean Gates v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order |
DOES THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS HAVE THE AUTHORITY OR THE JURISDICTION TO OVERRULE AN ORDER BY THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT?
IS THE RULING AND OR… |
| 18-7164 |
Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Randall C. Arp, Judge, District Court for the First Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion procedural-fairness standing waiver |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals violated Mr. Knuth's constitutional rights to due process when it "struck" his opening brief and dismissed the a… |
| 18-7160 |
Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff |
New York |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing |
Can the NYS Court of Appeals dismiss my case saying that they don't have jurisdiction to entertain it? |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… |
| 18-7076 |
Evelyn Person v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories |
Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-7077 |
JC Christopher Pulham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7078 |
Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver |
The petitioner (criminal defendant below) claimed that his plea was involuntary, so therefore his appellate waiver was involuntary. The District Court… |
| 18-7072 |
Kenneth Harper v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines |
Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| 18-6971 |
Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-739 |
Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata |
May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn merely because the appellate court disagrees with t… |
| 18-6940 |
Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court |
(1) Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Faretta "clearly established," for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), that a request for self-represent… |
| 18-724 |
City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture |
1. Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny th… |
| 18-6903 |
Curtis McLaurin v. New York |
New York |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell |
Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application - a co… |
| 18-6894 |
David Crosby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING CONFLICTS WITH THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S AND THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT AS IT CONCERNS IMPROPER VOUCHING. |
| 18-6884 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
After invalidating one of four (4) aggravating factors found by the jury, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reweighed the remaining aggravating c… |
| 18-6879 |
Darren Hogue v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-decision due-process federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver-hearing |
Did the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's command that a proper review of a viable Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assi… |
| 18-6853 |
Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
When the "record is silent as to what the district court might have done had it considered the correct Guidelines range," Molina-Martinez v. United St… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T… |
| 18-6857 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing |
1. Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? |
| 18-6862 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law |
(1) When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals. See: Carpenter v. United States,… |
| 18-6828 |
Gregg Thomas v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Petitioner's convictions, and was Petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment Right under the United States Constitut… |
| 18-6837 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review |
If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Inaffective Assistance of… |
| 18-6846 |
Luis A. Pena v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness |
I. Whether The Maryland Appellate Courts In Concluding Pena Failed To Sustain His Burden Of Proving He Did Not Voluntarily And Knowingly Enter A Guilt… |
| 18-6849 |
Steven James v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards |
This case presents two questions of national importance concerning the federal constitutional rights of juvenile homicide defendants (like Steven Jame… |
| 18-6804 |
Shane Roach v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou… |
| 18-6806 |
Eliana Sarmiento v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a d… |
| 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… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
DO A TIMELY FILED MOTION FOR REHEARJNG OF AN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REUIEW THAT IS NEVER RECEIVED, RECEIUE THE BENIFIT OF THE MAILBOX RULE |
| 18-6746 |
Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule |
Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review. Only the Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-6772 |
Donovan Grant v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court |
The First Circuit affirmed a conviction for money laundering based on a financial transaction that was a different financial transaction from the one … |
| 18-653 |
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Vickie McKeever, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore McKeever |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-proceeding res-judicata standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-642 |
Morris E. Zukerman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without… |
| 18-6722 |
Craig Porter v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIRST COURT OF APPEALS ERRONEOUSOY AFFIRMED APPLICANT'S CONVECTION BASED ON STATE PROSECUTION'S ARGUMENTS WETH ROGARDS TO APPLICANT'S REGAT TO… |
| 18-6724 |
Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment |
THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF-
FICIENT TO SUSTAIN MR. OZIER'S CONVICTION
FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND BANK ROBBERY.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RI… |
| 18-6729 |
Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination where t… |
| 18-639 |
Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH… |
| 18-6694 |
Timothy Weakley v. Eagle Logistics, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-discretion due-process inconsistent-position inconsistent-positions judicial-discretion judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine standing v-amendment |
Whether a district court within the context of a judicial estopple claim exceeds the boundaries of judicial discretion when it dismisses plaintiffs po… |
| 18-6695 |
Zafar Mehmood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter |
Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli… |
| 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… |
| 18-634 |
Aed El-Saba v. University of South Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure employment-discrimination national-origin-discrimination pretext pretext-analysis retaliation summary-judgment supervisory-power termination |
Under Rule 10(a) when the trial court changes the language of the stated discharge reason; substitutes another document as the focus of pretext analys… |
| 18-621 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy |
Florida |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco |
Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-6702 |
Brandon Gale Combs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
I. Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate … |
| 18-6663 |
Esau Escobar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence |
I. The Appellate Court holding the Petitioner a bar ce ae =e led To 4 Secinos Provocation lastcvetion tio. Becanse He Tstified that He Anted cust Opoc… |
| 18-6627 |
David Timothy Curry v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts |
Where A State Appellate Court Takes Up An Issue A "Well Opin" Should "They Be Required "To Address Every Issue That Was Presented When they Decline to… |
| 18-6653 |
Rolando Calderin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-error appellate-review constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process inculpatory-statements miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence trial-court-error |
Whether Illinois Trial Court and Appellate Court erred when it failed to suppress'
Petitioner's inculpatory statements that were obtained after petit… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner Joseph David Robertson is an elderly Navy veteran who ran a fire fighting support truck business deep in the Montana woods. He dug some wat… |
| 18-602 |
Jodi A. Smith v. Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics LLC, et al. |
Florida |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure defamation enhanced-appellate-review first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure new-york-times-v-sullivan non-media-defendant private-plaintiff standing supreme-court |
Whether the enhanced appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is required for First Amendment protection in a defamation case wit… |
| 18-6601 |
Stefone Dwayne Palomo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-review appeal appeal-rights appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit-rules frivolous frivolous-issues ineffective-assistance local-rules merits right-to-appeal sua-sponte-dismissal |
I. Does Petitioner's right to an appeal require either a decision on the merits or an Anders review with a finding that all issues are frivolous?
II.… |
| 18-6605 |
Joseph Perrone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-proceeding appellate-review burrage-precedent causation causation-standard due-process government-assertions judicial-procedure record standard standard-of-proof united-states-v-burrage |
Did the lower courts refuse to follow the decision and 134 S.Ct. 881, 187 L.Ed.2d 715 (2014), and thereby violate fundamental principles of due proces… |
| 18-596 |
Marie Neba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines senten… |
| 18-598 |
Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ |
Whether the Second Circuit erred that to grant Appellees motion for summary affirmance while to deny Chien's three motions as moot, indicating so far … |
| 18-6561 |
In Re Jesus Denova Lopez |
|
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY THE RUBBERSTAMP OF THE ERRONEOUS AND IMPERMISSIBLE CONCLUSION OF ERST… |
| 18-6505 |
Brian Powell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |
| 18-573 |
Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment |
This Court held in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438 U.S. 104 (1978), that determining whether regulatory action constitutes a … |
| 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… |
| 18-6497 |
Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error |
Did the pury reasonably, logically and legally infer from the evid1.
ence presented, that petitioner was guilty of violating the statue
beyond a reaso… |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-6437 |
Corey Holder v. Michael Sepanek, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect extension-of-time ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prima-facie-request record-review remand time-extension |
I. Had the Circuit Court of U.S. errored in failing to properly review the record and remand to the district court for consideration and necessary fin… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-6434 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule |
Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review. Only the Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-6403 |
Chester Larvell Starnes, Jr. v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE SIXTH… |
| 18-6404 |
Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6401 |
James Gabriel Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure |
FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 requires district courts to engage in a specific, on-the-record plea colloquy. In reviewing a plea colloquy, is it sufficient for … |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 18-520 |
WeConnect, Incorporated v. Brooks Goplin |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice standing sua-sponte unauthenticated-website website-authentication |
Whether Federal Rules of Evidence 201, 901, and 902 and principles of due process forbid a district court to, sua sponte, take judicial notice of info… |
| 18-521 |
Simpson Juan v. Jneso District Council 1, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure final-judgment judicial-certification multiple-claims multiple-parties remand rule-54b |
If a district court certifies in response to a I.R.C.P. 54(b) remand that one of the judgments in a multiple party/multiple claim action has remained … |
| 18-524 |
Eric D. Gathings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had "carefully reviewed the original file of the … |
| 18-507 |
Jessie D. McDonald v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-judgment due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing void-judgment |
1. Whether the appellate court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings?
2. Whether the district court judgment is void?
… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6350 |
Zavien Brand v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts |
ALTHOUGH NOT ARGUED BY DEFENSE COUNSEL NOR NOTICED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE 28 U.S.C. §2255 PROCEEDING, WAS THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPE… |
| 18-6341 |
John William Lieba, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER, SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE EXISTED TO CONVICT MR. LIEBA? |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6266 |
Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
When conducting their substantive reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as t… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6229 |
Josh A. Wairi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi |
1. Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States, 543 U.S. 22… |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6251 |
Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court |
I. WHETHER THE STATE TRIAL COURT AND APPELLATE COURT ERRONEOUSLY DETERMINED THAT THE FEDERAL DOUBLE JEOPARDY PROTECTION BARRING REPROSECUTION AS A RES… |
| 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… |
| 18-6204 |
Jermaine Franklin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement. |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… |
| 18-6161 |
Terrance Lombard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLY THE CLEAR ERROR STANDARD BY CONSIDERING FACTS ADDUCED AT TRIAL, BUT NOT CONSIDERED BY THE DISTRICT COURT DURING THE … |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER… |
| 18-408 |
Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order |
1. What is the standard for judging allegations of
civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order,
as distinct from a consent de cree? Is it … |
| 18-399 |
John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Because of the numerous, fundamental and pervasive errors and omissions committed by the district court, and because the court of appeals affirmed the… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply § 3553(a)(6), which requires consideration of "the need to avoid unwarrante… |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-6077 |
Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals |
(1) Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition?; and (2) Should the certificate of appealability have bee… |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6068 |
Rodney L. Jones v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion due-process habeas-corpus |
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| 18-361 |
Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… |
| 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… |
| 18-6041 |
Robert Burse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A). |
| 18-6044 |
Richard James Beasley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania |
Does the right to due process guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and upheld by the precedent of Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S.Ct 189… |
| 18-343 |
Raiden J. Andrews v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments. |
| 18-352 |
South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference |
Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step o… |
| 18-353 |
Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Therefore the question presented is whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Responde… |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-5984 |
Murad H. Beyah v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus self-representation standing |
1. Whether where PoSe (Self-Representation Defendant, HASAe MURAD oSIRIS
A BEYAH ChETME, "HASAN MURAD" COMPLnd he had a PRETRIAC
DETENTIal lawsuit ot … |
| 18-5988 |
Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing |
1Whether the court of appeals abused its discrection by dismissing petitioners appeal under 28 U.S.C. 1915 (e) after four years of diliberating all th… |
| 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.… |
| 18-325 |
Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver |
Pursuant to Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), the Fourth Amendment is violated where law enforcement intentionally or recklessly includes false… |
| 18-5962 |
Theadene Mattis v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings |
When police know that a "confidential informant" being used to secure a search warrant is a suspect's spouse, is the failure to note the spousal relat… |
| 18-5970 |
Allen D. Gorion v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in
determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-314 |
Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… |
| 18-5917 |
John Doe v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines when it impose… |
| 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… |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his "sentence" covers an appeal of… |
| 18-5887 |
Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Is a Criminal Defendant Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability When; (1) it is Demonstrated that a Substantial Showing of the Denial of a Constitu… |
| 18-5898 |
Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION FOR DOWNWARD DEPARTURE IS REVIE… |
| 18-5812 |
In Re Richard DeCaro |
|
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception |
Whether the Court should overrule the "separate sovereigns" exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 18-5823 |
Alonzo D. Marshall v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim post-conviction-relief section-23-110 trial-court-discretion witness-credibility |
Alonzo Marshall Has vehemently challenged his guilt throughout these proceeding because he was not involved in the death of Michael Henry. Even though… |
| 18-253 |
Michael Felix v. New York |
New York |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
I. Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment? Whether a cou… |
| 18-5797 |
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… |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
QUESTION I:
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions:
- In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5774 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT'S MAY 259 2017, SUMMARY ORDER IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH A DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPR… |
| 18-5780 |
Peter Vincent Capra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing |
Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of… |
| 18-5760 |
William Benjamin Brown v. Andrew Mansukhani, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Did the District Court Abuse its Discretion By Not Addressing the Court Order?
Did the Respondent Violate Rule 5 by not answering the Court Order?
D… |
| 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?
(… |
| 18-227 |
Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution |
Whether, in light of Class, a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute ba… |
| 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? |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5713 |
Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment |
Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration of the U.S. District Court ruling in issuing the granting of summary j… |
| 18-220 |
Javier A. Carrillo, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Florida |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1635 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal creditor-possession due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-review per-curiam rescission-right standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-possession |
Borrowers exercised timely the right to rescind the transaction in satisfaction of the requirements of Section 1635 [1635(i)]. The creditor did not ta… |
| 18-5647 |
Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion |
Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed … |
| 18-5618 |
Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit |
Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-204 |
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated… |
| 18-200 |
Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones |
Michigan |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency |
Irreconcilable jury verdicts are not grounds for relief, and courts are not to speculate as to why a jury returned an inconsistent verdict. Respondent… |
| 18-5540 |
Darnell Rush v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is Defendant-Appeallant Entied Fo A New Trial where The Trial lourt Erred In Faiing To Suppress His Statement ?
Is Defendant-Appeallant Entited to is… |
| 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? |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5506 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-rem in-rem-proceeding intervention third-party-plaintiff |
In this case, proceedings were removed from a State court to the Federal court. While pending in the Federal court, the Petitioner was granted interve… |
| 18-5542 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur |
Whether when, an Appellate court vacates a forfeiture order on direct appeal 'having found only partial of the District Court's trial order was valid … |
| 18-5548 |
Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |
| 18-184 |
John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. … |
| 18-5492 |
In Re David Louis Colson |
|
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court |
1. Is case which the State was party to, there was a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in the superior court of Arizona who usurped the power of the… |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
whether the United Stater District Court of Northern California abused ito discretion by construing Pettioners Federal Rules of Civ.l Procedure Rule 6… |
| 18-5526 |
Michael P. Lough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Has the U.s. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and Committed reversable error in dismissing Ebroni's 42 U.s.C. 5 1983, Appeal, finding no reve… |
| 18-5468 |
Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum |
(1) Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review.
(2) Whether reliance on acquitted and dismiss… |
| 18-5469 |
Chad Allen Dorton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-146 |
Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children |
Does the harmless-error rule apply to clearly erroneous findings of fact if a district court expressly based its credibility determinations (and its u… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… |
| 18-5412 |
Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) Cvr re \e.S*
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| 18-143 |
Sandra Lee Bart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence |
1. Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent, and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it … |
| 18-117 |
Brian Grimm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
1. When a defendant challenges the reliability of a
dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in
a vehicle, in accordance with Florida v.… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (71h Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5364 |
Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari |
CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DENIAL OF AUSTIN'S PETITION UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2254 FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPU… |
| 18-5341 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5315 |
Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Did the Lower Courts follow the precedence standards set by this US Supreme Court in Anderson V Liberty Lobby (106 S.Ct. 2505) since this was even one… |
| 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… |
| 18-5283 |
David McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim |
Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus releif on an unlitig… |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 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… |
| 18-79 |
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… |
| 18-5236 |
In Re Ferlando Esco |
|
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus |
Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Respondents, and/or Judges, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to decide the m… |
| 18-5223 |
Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard |
Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact? |
| 18-5212 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Did the Eleventh circuit's panels conclusion that the District court did not err in allowing the flight instructions be brought to the jury as it was … |
| 18-5168 |
Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema… |
| 18-5171 |
Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal. |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5148 |
Marcus Blalock v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW; WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE FROM A PREVIOUS APPE… |
| 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… |
| 18-21 |
Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding… |
| 18-24 |
Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist |
Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco… |
| 18-5110 |
Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court |
IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR … |
| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |
| 18-16 |
Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
In Rosales-Mireles, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that "before a court of appeals can consider the substantive reasonableness of a sentence,… |
| 18-5062 |
Norman L. Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari |
I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in sentencing Hunter as a career offender when the offenses ut… |
| 18-5011 |
Xavier Cardona v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines |
1. Was it admissable for the court of appeals to affirm the dist rict court's conversion of petitioner's seized cash into cocaine, when there was no e… |
| 23A1169 |
Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
|
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals judicial-process procedural-rules texas-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1020 |
David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorneys-fees class-action petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit |
Question not identified. |