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25-1026 National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-26 Pending circuit-split firearms-liability predicate-exception Protection-of-Lawful-Commerce-in-Arms-Act statutory-interpretation tort-immunity Whether the PLCAA's predicate exception allows parties to bring the same common-law-style suits against firearms industry members that Congress enacte…
25-988 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending circuit-split innocent-taxpayer-liability internal-revenue-code statute-of-limitations tax-assessment-limitations tax-fraud Whether, under 26 U.S.C. § 6501(c)(1), the IRS may assess tax beyond the Code's three-year limitations period based solely on the fraudulent intent of…
25-6860 Corey Myrick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure Garza-v-Idaho miscarriage-of-justice This Court has recognized that "no appeal waiver serves as an absolute bar to all appellate claims." Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 232, 238 (2019). But the…
25-968 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…
25-6835 Laurence Sessum v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rejected-plea sixth-amendment strickland-test 1. Whether this Court's contemporaneous-evidence requirement from Lee v. United States, 582 U.S. 357 (2017), applies only to accepted-plea cases and i…
25-964 TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the …
25-6804 Robin O'Neill v. Jon Murad, Interim Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections Second Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence proportionality-review 1. Does the mandatory life sentence of Vermont's aggravated murder statute, 13 V.S.A. 2311 (a)(3)(c), violate proportionality principles and due proce…
25-6785 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard Generally, relevant evidence is admissible at trial. Evidence is relevant —in civil and criminal cases alike —if "it has any tendency to make a fact m…
25-959 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that…
25-6789 Richard Brundige v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied.
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.
25-6759 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w…
25-925 Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. New York 2026-02-06 Pending arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process 1. The first question presented involves the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Courts of Appeals …
25-6747 Brad McLennan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (…
25-936 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending Response Waived appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t…
25-932 Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir…
25-923 Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Sixth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political.
25-6718 Otto Melvin Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split deportable-alien individualized-finding sentencing-factors 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…
25A868 Gregory Michael Nierenberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-03 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus post-conviction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-6701 Eskender Getachew v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty Both the Constitution (through the Fifth and Sixth Amendments) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 43) provide that a defendant "must be…
25A866 Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition …
25A862 Clark MacKendrick v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process Question not identified.
25A861 Giordano Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-02 Application certificate-of-appealability federal-procedure habeas-corpus institutional-constraints law-of-case pro-se Question not identified.
25-895 Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a…
25-6669 Ezequiel Rivera v. Nestle USA, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP circuit-split eeoc-charge hostile-environment pro-se-pleading retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether federal courts violate Haines v. Kerner and create a de facto circuit split by narrowly construing pro se EEOC charges to include only checked…
25-6674 Justin K. Eaton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant…
25-6660 Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Petitioner Demetrius Franklin was convicted of first degree murder based on the testimony of a single identifying witness, Shanti Day. The prosecution…
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d…
25-876 Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2026-01-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud …
25-6647 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review 1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i…
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…
25-6641 Ervin Thornton, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac…
25-865 Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. District of Columbia 2026-01-21 Pending Response Waived circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding…
25A825 Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-20 Application administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator Question not identified.
25A824 Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-20 Application circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 Question not identified.
25-863 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response Waived assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in…
25-6620 Raymond Edward Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-standard procedural-due-process 1. In dismissing Petitioner's U.S.C. § 2254 Application, and denying a certificate of appealability, has the district court and the Fifth Circuit Cour…
25-6609 Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire 1. In light of the missing voir dire transcript, did the U.S. District Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Batson claim was procedurally defaul…
25-851 Ashley Grayson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Amici (1) circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di…
25-6579 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus takings-clause Whether an accused's right under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment is offended when a United States Court of Appeals denies…
25-6556 Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debat…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25-820 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-01-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel…
25-818 Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Amici (2) circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release.
25A801 Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC Tenth Circuit 2026-01-12 Application cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment Question not identified.
25-811 Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's ruling that 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3) is non-jurisdictional in nature overrule the Fifth Circuit's jurisprudence?
25-809 Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Amici (1) allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability The first question presented is whether 29 U.S.C. § 1386(b)(1)'s instruction to "reduce[]" any "withdrawal liability" of an employer in a subsequent p…
25-808 James E. McNair v. K. Johnson Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th…
25A799 Eva Migliore, By Her Next Friend Joseph Migliore v. Sunlight Financial LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-09 Application circuit-split consumer-authorization credit-report fair-credit-reporting-act fraud privacy-rights Question not identified.
25-6518 Deandre M. Smith v. Bradley Mlodzik, Warden Seventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-amendment strickland-standard This case presents an important question regarding an individual's entitlement to a certificate of appealability. Regarding that entitlement, this Cou…
25-6499 Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t…
25-6490 Gary Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment I. Consistent with the Second Amendment, may Congress bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as five circuit courts have…
25-770 Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al…
25-759 Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board First Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke…
25-754 Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations …
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…
25-6432 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or …
25A745 Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 Question not identified.
25A743 Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice Second Circuit 2025-12-23 Application circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-6418 Joshua David Havins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant…
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…
25-736 World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s…
25-728 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme…
25A725 PG Publishing Co., Inc. dba Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied circuit-split collective-bargaining consequential-damages labor-relations nlrb thryv-doctrine Question not identified.
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's continued refusal to apply Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (2022), directly conflicts with this Court's holding tha…
25-712 Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation In light of our current toxic and vindictive politics and a circuit split, under a-person-of-ordinary-firmness test, does a referral by one government…
25-6405 Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea…
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the lower courts provided sufficient and adequate process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due pro…
25A708 CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Application circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising lanham-act trademark-law willful-misrepresentation Question not identified.
25A702 Mark Alan Deakins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-699 Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-12-17 Pending Amici (1) arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive …
25-6390 Busch Sereal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non…
25A700 Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-697 Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en…
25-6389 Kingsley Ita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing-procedure I. Does a general appeal waiver in a plea agreement bar a criminal defendant from challenging a sentence on due process grounds when the sentencing co…
25-6388 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-counsel suppressed-evidence voluntary-manslaughter Should a certificate of appealability have issued, where the suppressed evidence, considered cumulatively, would have placed a burden on the Commonwea…
25-6377 Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the Sixth Circuits denial of a COA decide the important federal question related to sufficiency of the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doub…
25-6355 Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet…
25A689 Edward Allen Moore v. Gregory Hancock, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-12-11 Application certificate-of-appealability court-access eighth-circuit habeas-corpus prison-library pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25-6335 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ashley Richardson, Director, Lucas County Adult Probation Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-review habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists state-court-record 1. Whether a district court must review evidence in the state-court record when the habeas petitioner alleges it demonstrates that the state court unr…
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Question not identified.
25-6310 Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non…
25-654 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error 1) Did 3rd Circuit Court err by blatantly accepting District Court 's erroneous interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order, not sig…
25A653 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-04 Application actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min…
25-638 Zhongxiao Michael Chen v. Michigan State University Sixth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure electronic-filing in-forma-pauperis prima-facie rule-12b6 1. Whether a civil action is "commenced " under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 when a complaint is electronically delivered and date -stamped by …
25-6276 Hisan Lee v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-evidence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process federal-court-review judicial-discretion 1. Due Process and False Evidence: Whether due process is violated when a federal court relies ona demonstrably false affidavit from defense counsel, …
25-627 Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice 1. Whether an employer's practice that has no noted effect on employees' collective-bargaining rights and is not motivated by anti-union animus is inh…
25-625 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 This case involves a multibillion-dollar civil RICO class action covering tens of thousands of third-party payors that reimbursed millions of prescrip…
25-6269 Lairon Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2025-12-02 Pending IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement 1. Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where, despite a criminal defendant-appellant's repeated invocations of the party presentati…
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended.
25-6250 Richard Ruston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o…
25-6247 Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel 1. Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner who alleges constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel for faling to object to the Government's Due…
25-613 Marquise Miller v. Legacy Bank Tenth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-discouragement equal-credit-opportunity-act loan-application prospective-applicants 1. Whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq., authorizes a cause of action for individuals who are prospective applicants or i…
25-6239 Elijah D. Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that …
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…
25-6212 Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol…
25-6211 In Re Jordan Monroe 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction ultra-vires QUESTION (1) Where a Court Of Appeals fails or refuses to comply with BLACK LETTER LAW--28 U.S.C. §2253—which is a statute that was duly enacted by …
25-6198 Steven Perez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense…
25-6181 Graham Schiff v. Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct speech-protection I. First Amendment and Certificate of Appealability Standard Whether this Court should grant certiorari —or exercise its supervisory authority —to dir…
25-6169 Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who…
25-591 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap…
25-6166 Gregory P. Burleson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(…
25A591 Nadarius Barnes v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-19 Application appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver Whether, by entering an unconditional guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal the conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted in the…
25A592 William Dahl v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25A585 G'Ante Butler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-18 Application assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on "resist[ing], opposing], impeding], intimidat[ing], or interfer[ing]" with federal officers while they are "e…
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.
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 …
25-6138 Michael Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo…
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
25-6124 Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause 1. Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spend…
25A567 Paul D. Carr v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ninth-circuit pro-se substantial-showing Question not identified.
25A565 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 Whether a district court may certify a class action without resolving whether the plaintiff has introduced admissible evidence, including expert testi…
25A564 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether a "voluntary cessation of offensive conduct will only moot litigation if it is clear that the defendant has not changed course simply to depri…
25-6119 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio…
25-575 Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct 1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law. 2. Whether a law that imposes inciden…
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
25A552 Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-12 Application appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
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…
25A541 United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-10 Application circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s heightened pleading standard requires False Claims Act plaintiffs who plead a fraudulent billing scheme…
25-6076 Martin Ponce Ramirez v. Leo Quiroz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extradition-warrant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-coercion THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY DENIED PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (28 U.S.C. §2253). REGARDING ISSUES: …
25A533 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-07 Application capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
25-559 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-07 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evid…
25-554 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc…
25-6054 Clyde Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari Whether, because the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts are split, a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality o…
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.
25-6038 Daniel Stewart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Pending IFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin…
25A509 Matthew Cline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-04 Application circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud Whether, following Honeycutt, a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely because …
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 …
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous…
25A497 Arthur Torlucci v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 Question not identified.
25-5991 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s…
25-524 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Pending circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s…
25-5986 Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-29 Pending IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c…
25A484 Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
25-5974 Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d…
25-519 Efrain Lora v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing After remand from this Court, Petitioner Efrain Lora was resentenced to thirty years in confinement because he supposedly directed a murder. But the G…
25-5965 Samson Kanla Orusa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance-prescription health-care-fraud jury-instruction medical-purpose subjective-knowledge I. Whether the district court's erroneous instructions regarding what constitutes criminal liability under 21 U.S.C. section 841 (illegal distribution…
25-515 Michael Kail v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation In Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1346 covered only bribery and kickback schemes, expressly excludin…
25A469 Cedric Ray Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-24 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) Question not identified.
25-5951 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus prejudicial-evidence sealed-transcripts 1. Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator …
25A466 Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur Second Circuit 2025-10-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-law loss-sharing oral-partnership partnership-elements partnership-formation Question not identified.
25-5947 Darrell Wickware v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (…
25-504 Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Amici (1) arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard…
25-499 Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response Waived causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment I. To resolve the confusion among circuit courts, the Court should decide whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for analysis at …
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.
25A453 Eric Arthur Walton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release Question not identified.
25A450 Melvin Clark v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete appealability-threshold certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
25-5913 Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow…
25-5908 Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-17 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment 1. May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant …
25-5902 Ramon Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment Whether, in light of a profound and acknowledged circuit split, a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determi…
25-464 Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes.
25-466 Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2025-10-16 Granted Amici (3) circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm.
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…
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi…
25-5893 Frederick M. Hill v. Angela Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fourth-amendment knock-and-talk procedural-due-process sixth-amendment 1. Should the "one fair shot" and procedural due process require the court of appeals to notify a petitioner that an appeal and briefing schedule is …
25-5876 William Housman v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability federal-constitutional-claim judicial-review reasonable-jurists state-court-decision Does a state court's divided decision on the merits of a federal constitutional claim demonstrate that reasonable jurists would debate the claim's mer…
25-441 Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation Fifth Circuit 2025-10-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is Congress's solution to the problem of surprise medical bills. Under the NSA, insurers must cover services provided by …
25-5853 Clarence Santiago v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct?
25-5848 Cedric Milburn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process government-cooperation rule-35b sentencing-reduction There is a conflict among the United States Courts of Appeals regarding the proper interpretation of Federal Rue of Criminal Procedure 35(b). The que…
25A409 Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court Question not identified.
25-425 Steven Duarte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (5) circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)'s categorical ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent …
25A400 Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge 1. whether, when proceeding under § 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3), which allows a beneficia…
25A395 Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment Question not identified.
25-5810 Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " …
25-5796 Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex…
25-400 PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra…
25A391 Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry Question not identified.
25-384 Faisal Ashraf v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process intervening-law ninth-circuit noncriminal-conduct plea-agreement Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for the plainly substantial issue of …
25-390 Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-02 GVR circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv…
25-391 Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), Congress barred plaintiffs from bringing claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or…
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…
25A376 Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25A379 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights Whether, under plain-error review, courts properly consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that …
25-5758 Jerry Otis Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comply with the text and historical tradition of the Second Amendment in permanently disarming all felons, regardless of of…
25-5765 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment (l)(a) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by denying a COA on the merits instead of deciding the "threshold inquiry" of whether a Petitioner has raised …
25-5767 Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error 1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely? 2) Did the United States …
25A368 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard Question not identified.
25-366 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim.
25A361 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-prisoner post-judgment-motion pro-se Question not identified.
25-5744 Anthony Balducci v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment I. Whether a hearing in which a defendant seeks to withdraw a guilty plea, made at his first opportunity and before sentencing, at which he asserts in…
25A351 James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-26 Presumed Complete categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine Question not identified.
25-359 Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to…
25-5731 David Alexander Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet…
25-347 United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1) billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower The circuits are intractably divided over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) permits False Claims Act suits by plaintiffs who possess detail…
25-350 Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen Eighth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split grievance-process inmate-lawsuit mandatory-exhaustion prison-litigation-reform-act unexhausted-claims When a formerly incarcerated person amends a complaint filed while he was in prison and adds unexhausted claims, does the PLRA require dismissal of th…
25-5707 Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris…
25-5708 Jason Ketzner v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP bruen-test circuit-split felony-disarmament nonviolent-offenders rahimi-precedent second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Jason Ketzner, due to prior felony convictions, regardless…
25A331 Jacob Matthew Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied brady-claim certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-right habeas-corpus pro-se In this case, the district court denied applicant's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application—and denied a certificate of appealability (COA)—for one reason and on…
25A333 Ledale Nathan v. Heather Cofer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus pro-bono supreme-court-rule Question not identified.
25A328 Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-22 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-appeal legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-326 Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act Whether a business association that publishes a rule for its members can immunize the rule, and members' adherence to it, from being considered a cons…
25-5674 Byron Neal v. Warden, FCI Terminal Island Ninth Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question detention-legality habeas-corpus savings-clause second-successive-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") erred in construing Neal's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus und…
25-5680 David Petersen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus aiding-and-abetting circuit-split constitutional-rights mens-rea specific-intent 1. Whether the mens rea and actus reus requirements for aiding and abetting liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2 demand proof of specific intent and affirma…
25-311 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to …
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 …
25A305 Ernest Edward Gaines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
25-303 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against its employees "on the basis of disability." …
25-304 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons…
25-5631 Brian Goorahoo v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure Whether, to preserve for appeal a claim that the sentencing court committed procedural error by failing to explain its sentence adequately or relying …
25-5623 Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction D'.cL M-.rvllv Coiv^ of Ajpp-cals trr il a^ f'dfu^S'f or CxxA'f coAx- cf Appt atab'll' ly? Ji) iy d lk< lUd-cJ SUk-s DisUcd too*-/ for DiUricJ ' of ^…
25-5626 Andrew Chafin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two …
25-5607 Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti…
25A282 Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition Question not identified.
25A274 John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
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.
25-263 Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erie-doctrine federalism-interests judicial-discretion state-law-certification supplemental-jurisdiction 1. When a federal court considers whether to certify a state law issue to a state high court, what factors, including federalism interests, bear on th…
25-264 Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of …
25-5575 Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi…
25-5576 Nadege Auguste v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.…
25-5577 Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" …
25-259 January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-05 Pending Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy Whether a public school "violates parents' fundamental constitutional right " when it secretly helps "transition " their child to a new "gender " is "…
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…
25A261 William Housman v. David W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus state-conviction third-circuit Question not identified.
25-5533 Stanton Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) prohibits the use of a defendant's other bad acts to argue he has a propensity to commit a crime. The Government never…
25-240 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-act arbitration-rules circuit-split class-arbitration delegation-doctrine gateway-question Whether the parties' generic incorporation of an arbitration association's rules in their arbitration agreement is clear and unmistakable evidence tha…
25-237 Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover…
25-5490 Travis Broeker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review Broeker s case set precedent in the 8th Circuit that undermines "Burrage " presuming any drug deal that precedes a< death causes it and putting the bu…
25-227 Raymond Poore v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter…
25-228 Detrina Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., dba FITE, dba FITE TV Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied circuit-split personally-identifiable-information privacy-law reasonable-foreseeability statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act The Video Privacy Protection Act forbids a "video tape service provider" from disclosing without consent "personally identifiable information," which …
25-229 Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. Second Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis…
25A218 Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-25 Presumed Complete arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint Question not identified.
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth…
25-211 Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain…
25-5409 Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting 1. The Court should grant review to resolve a circuit split on a vital jurisdictional question for the digital age: Does an entity that purposefully a…
25-5410 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi…
25-193 Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri…
25-184 Deamonte Law v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di…
25-187 Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti…
25-188 JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Amici (1) anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) creates a cause of action against a person who in bad faith "registers, traffics in, or uses" an…
25-5374 Artez Hammonds v. Alabama Alabama 2025-08-15 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment 1. Given an expanding circuit, and now state court, split regarding whether, under Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965) and Carter v. Kentucky,…
25A187 Simon Hessler v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the circumstances present in this case present an extraordinary circumstances sufficient to extend the…
25-5358 Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of …
25-5334 Billy Joe Russell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci…
25-167 Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division Nevada 2025-08-12 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split commercial-real-estate facial-unconstitutionality licensing-restriction occupational-regulation Whether Article III standing to challenge a licensing restriction as facially unconstitutional requires that the challenger first submit to the challe…
25A178 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus post-judgment-motions pro-se-litigation section-2255 Question not identified.
25-159 Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-08-11 Pending CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation land-condemnation natural-gas-act state-law The Natural Gas Act authorizes private companies to condemn land in order to build certain natural gas infrastructure, but it says nothing about how t…
25-162 Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-11 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a…
25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default When a district court dismisses a federal habeas petition, a circuit court must issue a certificate of appealability for any claim in the petition who…
25-153 Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington Washington 2025-08-08 Pending Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are "Arms" presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under…
25A172 Jonathan Seay v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied amendment-timing circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limits section-2255 Question not identified.
25-151 Kim H. Peterson, Individually & as Trustee of the Peterson Family Trusts, et al. v. Krista Freitag, Receiver for ANI Development, LLC, American National Investments, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split equitable-receivership federal-court-authority non-consensual-release sec-enforcement third-party-claims As discussed in a nearly-identical, unopposed petition (24-1192), the extent to which federal courts can exert power over third-party claims and claim…
25A168 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden Which party bears the burden of proving proper venue?
25-143 Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr…
25A156 Thomas Bartholomew Simpson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right evidentiary-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Question not identified.
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic…
25-5259 Antonio Marshall v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris…
25-106 Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the "use, attempted use, or threatened us…
25-108 Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities. 2. …
25-109 Hong Thu Nguyen v. Chris McBee, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied arson certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insurance-fraud Hong Thu Nguyen was charged with arson at two of her places of business. Over objection, the state presented financial evidence that after other busin…
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.
25-5235 Carlton Vose v. Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus state-law 1. Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred when they concluded that the State of Rhode Island supreme court's retroactive application of a ne…
25-5207 Jessica Salazar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the …
25A116 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library Whether a public library's decision to remove certain books because they supposedly espouse "inappropriate" views is subject to judicial scrutiny unde…
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25-85 Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec…
25-86 Ashok Arora v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split declarant-testimony federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception summary-judgment Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion when, at summary judgment, it accepted declarations asserting hearsay facts —supposedly deri…
25-5174 James Bradley Hammond v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus time-limitation WHTHER THE COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE ISSUED AND/OR GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (C0A) FROM THE DISTRICT COURT'S DETERMINATION THAT THE …
25-78 Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick…
25-79 Ton Ton Aquino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Pending appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor…
25-81 Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Pending circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change…
25A88 Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara Seventh Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry Question not identified.
25A79 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner Question not identified.
25A80 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-5144 Gregory Michael Hawes v. Seth Norris, Warden Wyoming 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum Whether this Court should resolve a 9'8 split amongst State Courts of Last Resort, when rulings, influenced by this Courts decisions, unconstitutional…
25-61 Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the …
25-5120 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error 1) Was The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
25-56 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements 1. Federal Rule of Evidence (F.R.E.) 408, regarding compromise offers and negotiations, aims to encourage settlements by making evidence of settlement…
25A58 Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
25-5095 Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant…
25-5087 Tashawn Burns v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Is Hobbs Act robbery a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after United States v. Taylor, 596 …
25-22 Ricky Koel v. Citizens Medical Center, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split emergency-treatment emtala hospital-liability medical-malpractice patient-rights 1. Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception just as the EMTALA emergency imperative displaced a …
25-5054 Eural Black v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-07-08 Pending IFP circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warran…
25A25 Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis Third Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii 1) the definition and scope of religious belief under Title VI when religious belief and secular beliefs are intertwined and 2) the role of the judici…
25A30 Humberto Andres Maldonado v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Question not identified.
25A31 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether, as this Court held in Dairy Queen, the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in trademark-infringement actions seeking monetary relief i…
25-19 Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata, barring claims based on new material facts arising after prior judgments, conflict with this …
25-12 Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-07-03 Denied airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation 1. Have various State and Federal Courts, when asked to apply The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, inconsistently legislated from the benc…
25-10 Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context.
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth C…
25-5021 Dajavan Speaks v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge gun-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment self-defense 1) Is § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to an individual when he was a victim of a drive by shooting and has been convicted of a non-violent pre…
25A5 Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix Question not identified.
24-1329 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-30 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (2) age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment The federal government and 32 states establish 21 as the minimum age for certain gun rights. Since United States v. Rahimi, five courts of appeals hav…
24A1294 Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment Question not identified.
24-7520 Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error At a change of plea hearing, Mr. Romero's testimony established every element of his offense. Although Mr. Romero further testified that his motivatio…
24-1316 Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations 1. Was the Ninth Circuit too demanding under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) in assessing the district court's disposition of the habeas petition? (a) Whether re…
24-1311 Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent …
24-7499 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance Did the lower courts err in applying the standard for determining whether a certificate of appealability should issue in a post-conviction proceeding,…
24-1309 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation 1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur…
24-1295 Brandon Phillips v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive …
24-7477 Arnold Wayne McCartney v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP bifurcated-trial certificate-of-appealability counsel ineffective-assistance mercy-phase structural-error Did the Court of Appeals err in denying the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his constitutional claim related to structural error and/or …
24A1266 Kyle Syphax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court 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…
24-7454 William Demont White, Jr. v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
24-7460 Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen…
24-1289 Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 1. Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered—or will suffer—an Article III injury. 2. Wh…
24-7449 Marco Antonio Casillas v. Janan Cavagnolo, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's practice of adjudicating the ultimate merits of a habeas petition at the COA stage, often on prejudice grounds, violate…
24-7429 Randy Torres v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's final instruction to the jury for the indictment's Special Sentencing F…
24-7425 Joshua Sutherland v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment? Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment?
24-1266 Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-12 Denied Amici (2) arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr…
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 …
24-7401 Alvaro Quezada v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance napue-claim state-court-review Did the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a COA here so clearly misapply Glossip's mandate regarding Napue and Buck's modest standard for granting a C…
24-7403 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation Did the Court of Appeals create a split in Circuits by affirming Movant's convictions and sentences for crimes that were committed simultanously under…
24-7394 Edwin D. Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-disqualification procedural-grounds sixth-amendment 1. ) Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable that a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued under Slack v. McDaniel , …
24-1253 Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations Whether this Court should consider whether the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") Rule, namely, 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n), is constitutional …
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman 1. Circuit Split: Should Rooker-Feldman bar federal review of void ab initio judgments due to jurisdictional fraud, or do Moreno/Nugent compel examina…
24-7355 Curtis Dewayne Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bashara-factors circuit-split counsel-pressure guilty-plea judicial-discretion pre-sentencing-motion Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made after an initial trial that ended with a hung ju…
24-7349 Reymundo Arredondo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements…
24-7335 Curtis Harris v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction Defendants who have two prior felony convictions for "controlled substance offense[s]" qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidel…
24-7338 Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims 1. Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the grounds that the lower court failed to conduct an "Unreasonable Determinat…
24-1211 Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability based on a single judge's assessment of the likelihood t…
24-7295 Riley Dyson Biro v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar state-court-rule 1. Did the Court of Appeals err by denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253 in a case seeking to appeal a district court's order de…
24-1207 Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal Eighth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai…
24A1144 Robert S. Pierce v. Demetric Godfrey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court-discretion habeas-corpus rule-60(b) section-2254 Question not identified.
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default If reasonable jurists from {-this Court 'Jackson v. Indiana '- -the Fifth Circuit 'Benham v. Edwards '- -Texas Federal Courts 'Reynolds v Neill, Hitt …
24-1192 Ovation Fund Management II, LLC v. Nossaman LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) bar-order circuit-split claim-extinguishment equity-receivership federal-court-power third-party-claims Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has the power to enjoin and extinguish claims that belong to non-receivership entities again…
24-7262 Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim When the last state court to review a petitioner's claim issues a reasoned merits decision—but only on a single component of a multiple-component clai…
24-1183 Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the …
24-7239 Ian R. Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats 1. Whether an intent to "harass" or "intimidate" under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an "ordinary" broad meaning or instead is …
24-1173 Evans Hotels, LLC, et al. v. Unite Here! Local 30, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split first-amendment labor-law noerr-pennington section-8b4 sham-petitioning Section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4), prohibits unions from targeting neutral parties, often referred to as seco…
24-7211 Jeffrey Spivack v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals federal-rules-criminal-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice-of-appeal The Eleventh Circuit has misapprehended the scope and fundamental nature of Petitioner's appeal: Petitioner filed an appeal contesting the district co…
24-7212 Dequarn Markeyth Bell v. Lisa Stenseth, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
24-1164 Jacqueline R. Everson v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-rights due-process equitable-tolling erisa-plan statutory-violation 1. Whether the courts are precluded from violating statutory laws affecting the rights of the ERISA plan participants nationwide. 2. Whether the cour…
24-7200 Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo…
24-1158 Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services District of Columbia 2025-05-13 Denied appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good…
24-7189 Hannah Hekel v. Hunter Warfield, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split common-law-harm emotional-injury fdcpa-claims injury-in-fact This case presents three questions: (1) Spokeo v. Robins, 578 U.S. 330 (2016) and TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021) that an injury-in-fa…
24-1155 Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2025-05-12 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (8) circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent…
24-7181 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the standard in Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), which requires only a showing that a conflict of interest adversely affected counsel's p…
24-7167 Derek Rogers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender…
24-7161 Todd Sheffler v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel…
24-7163 Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar QUESTION No. 1: DOES THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO REVIEW THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY A COURT OF APPEALS …
24-1143 Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are "for," as Brulotte and Kimble require.
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?
24-1131 Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking …
24-7114 Daniel Flint v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy 1. Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is "in custody," even though no other statutory remedy is available …
24-1122 Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent Under Missouri v. Seibert, 542 US 600 (2004), a mid-stream Miranda warning may not be effective. This was a plurality opinion and the Circuits are spl…
24-7093 Alfred Velazquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review presentence-report sentencing-error structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
24-1111 Damon Peterson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offender life-sentence parole-commission 1) Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued because reasonable jurists would find debatable or wrong the district court's conclusion …
24-7083 Raul Otero Cazares v. Jason Johnson, Director, Division of Adult Parole Operations, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-precedent criminal-procedure de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Petitioner Raul Otero Cazares was convicted of the rape of his long-time domestic partner ("Doe") in a trial where they told very different stories re…
24-7084 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Denied IFP aedpa-deadline attorney-negligence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit invert the certificate of appealability standard by basing its denial on disagreements with other reasonable jurists? 2. …
24A1038 Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds Question not identified.
24-7075 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.…
24A1035 Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-25 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conditions-of-confinement educational-access habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability?
24-7072 Du Truong Nguyen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation What is required to prove concealment money laundering?
24-7058 Todd Cannady v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights violated when the Ninth Circuit denied his Certificate of Appealability petition for a procedu…
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment I. WHETHER ADMISSION OF UNCORROBORATED HEARSAY UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 801(D)(2)(E), WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PROOF OF A CONSPIRACY OR EXTRINSIC COR…
24-7036 Jose Padilla-Galarza v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by the First Circuit conflicts with Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), where petiti…
24-7037 Marlon Edgardo Siguenza v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review post-traumatic-stress-disorder In this noncapital habeas case, Marlon Siguenza alleges that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to investigate and presen…
24A1001 Malcom Anwar Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-18 Presumed Complete 18-U.S.C.-section-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-history rehabilitation-evidence sentencing-reduction This case concerns whether a motion for compassionate release filed under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) may be denied based solely on a defendant's cri…
24-7020 Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
24-7021 Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-04-17 Denied IFP circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a…
24-1078 Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights 1. Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against a servicemember's ability to bring tort claims "incident to service" is only triggered when the injury was…
24-7010 Kenneth Hartley v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability ( COA) complies with…
24-6994 Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t…
24-7000 Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation Whether the Fifth Circuit failed or abandoned it's Constitutional duty to review Mr. Crawford's Certificate of Appea ;ability (COA) process, because h…
24A973 Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split copyright-infringement striking-similarity substantial-similarity summary-judgment total-concept-and-feel Question not identified.
24-6954 John Stephen Routt v. Michael Miller, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge pro-se-petition (1) Did the Court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability by merging Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2254 (d)(1) and (2) with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (c)…
24-6956 Jimmy Dale Stone v. David Louthan, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit 1) Did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and the Due Process Clause by denying Jimmy Dale Stone's petition for a COA and fin…
24-6967 Robert Lee Crider v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims ex-post-facto felony-conviction habitual-criminal subject-matter-jurisdiction Question # 1: When Crider showed the district court that his 1990 convictions were not defined as authorized elements of the instant offense within th…
24-1066 Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation In Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on this question: "Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 ap…
24-1063 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-08 Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds…
24-6934 Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2025-04-07 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud 1. Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract—formed through mutual assent and valid consideration—violates t…
24-1046 Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2025-04-03 Granted Amici (35) bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 33 (2022), holds that "the Second Amendment guarantees a general right to public…
24A941 Kansas City Life Insurance Company v. Christopher Y. Meek, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-split class-certification concrete-harm injury-in-fact Whether a class may be certified where some members suffered only legal injury from a pure breach of contract with no monetary harm.
24-6914 Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) is applicable to a case in which the state court rejected the petitioner's claim o…
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24-1035 Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. U.S. Oncology, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure qui-tam relator 1. Is a qui tam relator barred by the "public disclosure" of its own prior complaint? No other circuit court has so held. 2. Does the public-disclosu…
24-6896 In Re Nicholas Lee Blair 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b 1. What is the proper statutory definition of the terms "lascivious exhibition", "engaging in", and "sexually explicit", as written in 18 U.S.C. § 22…
24-1034 Ulysses Charles Sneed v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review sixth-amendment Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's application for a COA as to his constitutional habeas claims where (i) a circuit judge found that…
24-6876 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that the state …
24-1020 Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), a federal court must apply existing state law, as the D.C., First, Fourth, and Fifth…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-1025 Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (6) circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar In Keller v. State Bar of California , 496 U.S. 1, 13-14 (1990), this Court held that it is constitutional for states to require attorneys to join and…
24-1026 Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) ballot-access circuit-split direct-democracy first-amendment procedural-requirement voter-rights When a neutral, procedural requirement burdens voters' advancement of direct-democracy measures to the ballot, does that requirement affect any intere…
24-6843 Albert J. Townsend v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process I. WHETHER PETITIONER SUFFICIENTLY DEMONSTRATED THE SUBSTANTIAL DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABI…
24-6853 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a COA where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right was demonstrated because reasonable jur…
24-1016 RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Pending CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114.
24-6836 Christian Genao v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule …
24-1011 Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act. Whether c…
24-6814 Jason Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet had occasion…
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…
24-6818 Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a…
24-996 Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. Third Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits an employer from discharging an individual "because of such individual's . . . religion.…
24-994 National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar Second Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) article-iii-standing circuit-split consumer-rights personal-information third-party-disclosure video-privacy-protection-act Whether a consumer claiming that he was harmed by disclosure of his personal information must plead that his information was revealed to the public to…
24A892 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus stay-of-execution successive-petition Question not identified.
24-6776 Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus mental-incapacity procedural-timeliness Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate whether an evidentiary hearing should have been granted to …
24-6761 Eric Vaughn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release If a criminal defendant receives a term of supervised release, the district court will specify the conditions that the defendant must follow. See 18 U…
24-975 Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits public entities, including local law-enforcement agencies, from discriminating…
24-6740 Royel Page v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied IFP buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703…
24-965 Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso…
24A858 Tiante Dion Scott v. Jason Schultz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction Question not identified.
24-953 Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits …
24-6690 Arjune Ahmed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault Petitioner Arjune Ahmed was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The district court declined to give him separate trials on the two kidnapping alleg…
24-6692 Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody…
24-948 Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd Ninth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), a court of appeals' decision should be vacated because the appeal became moot b…
24-939 Kendall Streb v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining reasonable-jurists sentencing-guidelines The "reasonable jurists" test was created only as a threshold to discourage frivolous habeas appeals. It was never intended as a sky-reaching wall o…
24-940 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with …
24-6679 Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability Under agency principles, petitioners are held responsible for the mistakes of their lawyers, including the late filing of a federal petition. How do t…
24-6681 Sharif El-Battouty v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-discretion evidentiary-rulings indictment-sufficiency special-interrogatories venue-determination Question i D,d H\e Court' of Appeals -err in not issuing. a certificate cP appeal a bill ly Iyy not reviewing District Court's decision to not Speda\ …
24-6683 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability clisby-rule constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the determination of the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability follows their own Circuit Prec…
24A836 Cedric Allen Ricks v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24A837 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 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split ejectment-judgment fraud-exception property-rights rooker-feldman supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-6661 Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand WHETHER THE SIXIH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY REFLECTS A DEVIATION FOR THE DIRECTIVE SET FORTH BY THE C…
24-6666 Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impr…
24-6634 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans…
24-6635 Jory Leedy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause 1) Does the Sixth Circuit's holding in Ramos v. Rogers, 170 F.3d 560 (6th Cir.1999) making a plea unasailable "so long as the judge follows the proper…
24-6643 Mark Douglas Huber v. Randy Valley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
24-905 Martha G. Bronitsky, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Jorden Marie Saldana Ninth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-code chapter-13 circuit-split debtor-contributions retirement-accounts unsecured-creditors Whether, under the Bankruptcy Code, debtors can voluntarily contribute to their own retirement accounts rather than pay back unsecured creditors—and i…
24-892 Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries?
24-6579 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance habeas-corpus judicial-review state-proceeding 1. Does a brief written by the prosecution in a State habeas proceeding, and then rubber-stamped by State judges, qualify as a judgment entitled to de…
24-6584 Colton Bagola v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Whether first-degree murder, under 18 U.S.C. § 1, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
24-879 James Timothy Norman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony 1. Given that the Eighth Circuit is the lone holdout in an 11-1 circuit split on the meaning of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3), should the Eighth Cir…
24-880 NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., fka Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split credibility-determination material-fact non-moving-party self-serving-testimony summary-judgment Whether, contrary to the decisions of multiple other circuits that properly preserve the province of the jury to decide genuinely disputed issues of m…
24-883 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (3) adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure evidence-destruction spoliation summary-judgment When a party destroys evidence "with the intent to deprive another party of the information's use in the litigation," Federal Rule of Civil Procedure …
24-6576 Simaron D. Hill v. Todd Ishee Fourth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process procedural-ruling slack-standard In the Uis Court 9 F appeals For the YW circuth ecide an ih pockant fed eral question in q way that contlids with Slack me Danie (2000) Fn Slack v. M…
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…
24-6549 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's truncated no-prejudice analysis on Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective during jury selection violated th…
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…
24A773 Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights (1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv…
24A775 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-row federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 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…
24-848 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with this Court's totality-of-thecircumstances standard under Monasky v. Tagli…
24-6525 Richard Stephens Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-law statutory-interpretation substantial-step 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability when its appeals court made such decision off of the Circuit's wrongful eval…
24-6505 Jerome Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen…
24-845 Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., forecloses a qui tam FCA action or claim if "substantially the same…
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 …
24-6491 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied IFP asset-freezing certificate-of-appealability due-process hybrid-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Has the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel been met when a trial court freezes and takes control of the Defendant's assets, appoints c…
24-6495 Billy Joe Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a defendant who is erroneously denied his Counsel of Choice in Violation of the Sixth Amendment, which is structural error, waives his right t…
24-6478 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion section-2255 1) Where the District Court denied Movant's 2255 petition on procedural grounds, did the Court of Appeals violate Movant's rights to Due Process and t…
24-831 Eddie Lee Evans v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment murder-charge supreme-court-precedent Did a 17 year unjustified delay in filing a murder charge violate petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments andthe cle…
24A757 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability custodial-status federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6452 Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those who have been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen…
24-820 Daniel Rutherford v. United States Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Granted Amici (7)Relisted (2) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr…
24-823 Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarm…
24-816 Phillip Joshua Yellin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-31 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability credibility-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit In Miller-El1, this Court held of the relatively low level of showing necessary from a habeas Petitioner like Phillip J. Yellin to be entitled to a …
24A750 Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-31 Presumed Complete arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality Question not identified.
24-808 Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment Well-settled legal principles dictate that a judgment entered in the absence of personal jurisdiction is void. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4…
24-6400 Tac Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment guest-rights home-entry search-and-seizure standing Whether a guest who has substantial connections to a home and its residents has Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a search of the home that occur…
24-6409 Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion medical-conditions sentencing-relief 1. Did the lower courts err in not requiring or at minimum presuming consideration of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" prior to denying Eric Jam…
24-6410 Antoine Wiggins v. United States Third Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing…
24-6395 Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-restoration criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication sell-standard When ordering that a criminal defendant be forcibly medicated to restore competence under Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), must a district …
24-6397 Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-standard judicial-consistency procedural-fairness rule-12b6 The standard for dismissing claims under Rule 12 (b) 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is variable across the circuit courts. It is as variabl…
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
24-789 ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law 1. Whether under the mandate of Erie v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), a federal court is permitted to apply federal common law rules of construction i…
24-6370 Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication 1. Is the Fifth Circuit's refusal to apply this Court's definition of an adjudication "on the merits" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) debatable am…
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the rule from SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80, 93 (1943), which requires courts to evaluate agency action …
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 …
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Question No. I Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues prese…
24A717 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 1. This case presents an important, recurring question that has divided circuits regarding the reach of this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512…
24-765 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan…
24A709 Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion Question not identified.
24-6322 Todd Erling Becker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit apply the correct certificate of appealability standard in denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims? 2. Is Petitioner…
24-6326 Mark Allen Hayden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de…
24-759 Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements This case concerns the correct interpretation of two clauses of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) that have resulted in two circuit splits. …
24-6329 George Ivory v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations rule-15 While pursuing habeas relief on an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel theory, George Ivory learned that the Government materially misrepresented the st…
24-6310 Descart Austin Begay, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP circuit-split evidence-rule fabrication impeachment prior-consistent-statement witness-testimony Subsection (i) of Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) allows for admission of a declarant's prior consistent statement only when offered "to rebut a…
24A691 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension Question not identified.
24A694 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6294 Christopher Lloyd Burnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split counsel-substitution court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights sixth-amendment What standard governs a criminal defendant's motion to substitute retained with court-appointed counsel?
24-6297 Donald Sherman v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability discovery-rights due-process factual-findings ninth-circuit state-appellate-courts 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to address Sherman's argument that the state appellate courts factual findings made without notice, an opportu…
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing I. The insured under a policy insuring against accidental death, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") an…
24A680 Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard First, does a Circuit Court retain jurisdiction to consider the merits of an appeal from an order granting federal habeas relief if a state court vaca…
24-6286 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…
24-6288 Jose Estrada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split citizenship-status double-jeopardy identity-fraud passport-application perjury Jose Aguirre has been known by two names— Jose Lopez Aguirre and Jose Estrada-Aguirre—and has been known to have born in two places—Ojos Calientes, Ch…
24-734 Strategic Technology Institute, Incorporated v. MGMTL, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split computer-program copyright-law fair-use menu-command potential-market 1. Whether the scope of protectable matter in a computer program is a question for the Court, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Te…
24-735 Raymond Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation This case raises a fundamental question that has split the Circuits regarding the intersection between the use of the Internet and federal criminal la…
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…
24-728 Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test 1. Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce, both directly and under Pike v. Bruce Church (among many ot…
24-6233 Dearick Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines; and 2. If so, whether a s…
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial Question not identified.
24-711 Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness 1. Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity? 2. Must artwork be popular, prosperous or promoted to be reasonably accessible online?
24-6229 Terrell Jason Armstrong v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance 1. Whether the district court erred in summarily denying an evidentiary hearing on claims that trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for fa…
24A704 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-01-01 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-6218 Anthony McCarary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui…
24-689 Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split emergency-medicine emtala hospital-liability medical-standard-of-care patient-rights Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the…
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,…
24A642 William White, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus prison-mail pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
24-686 Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee…
24-6199 Leon Paul Kavis, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-consultation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-duty flores-ortega ineffective-assistance trial-counsel Could reasonable jurists debate that trial counsel's duty to consult with a defendant on whether to file an appeal pursuant Rose v. Flores-Ortega, 528…
24-6202 Kayne Russell Donath v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied IFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline The district court increased Mr. Donath's sentence based upon his prior state of Iowa conviction for assault causing bodily injury or mental illness. …
24A622 Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission First Circuit 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedy investor-protection sec-enforcement securities-law Question not identified.
24-6182 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied IFP capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review 1) There is a circuit split among the courts of appeal in the procedures a court applies when reviewing applications for a certificate of appealabilit…
24-672 Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation 1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s…
24-673 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Denied arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection 1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband's advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action. 2. Whether th…
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.
24A609 Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 Question not identified.
24-6170 Robert E. Carter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud The Federal Appeals Courts are split on whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates the federal fraud statutes and whether depriva…
24A597 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction 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)?
24-6145 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error The question presented is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for…
24-6147 Mohamed Osman Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sting-operation Petitioner, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was convicted of Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a(a)(2)(A), arising from a governme…
24A582 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default Question not identified.
24-6128 Jonathan High v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §…
24-643 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza Fifth Circuit 2024-12-12 Denied circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6126 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split discretionary-sentence extraordinary-compelling-reasons federal-criminal-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(¢)(1)(A) ca…
24A571 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition state-court-judgment Question not identified.
24-6107 Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-10 GVR IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18…
24-6112 Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether …
24-6091 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop 1). Why has The United State Court of Appeal For the Tenth Circuit entered a decision so far departed from the accepted and usual courts of judicial p…
24-628 BNP Paribas SA, a French Corporation, et al. v. Entesar Osman Kashef, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied circuit-split class-certification district-court interlocutory-appeal manifest-error rule-23f Whether the courts of appeals have discretion under Rule 23(f) to grant interlocutory review solely because a district court's class-certification ord…
24-629 Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act 1. What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO? 2. Can …
24-630 Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not…
24-6077 Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior…
24-610 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer Eighth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah , 414 U.S. 538, 554 (1974), this Court held that "the commencement of a class action suspends the applicab…
24-594 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 Can 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bar courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over cases like Dr. Seale's?
24-597 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that dismissals under Heck categorically constitute strikes under the PLRA.
24-6060 Albert Trampis Dogskin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split false-information judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-error Whether there is an exception to an appeal waiver in a plea agreement where the district court relied on false or unreliable information in sentencing…
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 …
24-585 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…
24-6048 Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1727 (2024), to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the int…
24-6033 Frederico Bruno v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing judicial-review third-circuit 1. Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability and granting an evident…
24-6035 Jamel Muldrew v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing Guidelines a…
24-6036 Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. California 2024-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant immunity under section 230 of title 47 of the United States Code should remain unresolve…
24-6041 Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Second Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing? 2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce…
24A513 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24A518 Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure electronic-data forfeiture-law property-rights Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 2253(a), electronic data files are distinct forms of property from the physical devices or medium on which they are stored.
24-576 Nutramax Laboratories, Inc., et al. v. Justin Lytle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification daubert-standard expert-testimony predominance-requirement rule-23 When a plaintiff seeking to certify a class relies on an expert to establish that classwide issues predominate, must the expert testimony satisfy the …
24-6028 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and, more specifically, must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's a…
24A509 Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
24A510 Sprout Foods, Inc. v. Gillian Davidson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Presumed Complete circuit-split fdca-preemption food-labeling nlea private-enforcement sherman-law Whether a state law that wholesale incorporates federal food labeling regulations as its own requirements can circumvent the Food and Drug Administrat…
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 …
24-563 Karl W. Nichols v. Lance Wiersma Seventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-standard circuit-split constitutional-law due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence The Western District of Wisconsin notes that there is both an inter-circuit and intra-circuit split in the interpretation of the cases Trombetta, Youn…
24-5997 Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 GVR IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. __, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 1…
24-6006 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled…
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?
24-6000 Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. 2251(a), by …
24-556 Joe Fernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-18 Granted Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis…
24-550 Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II Ninth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t…
24A488 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 Question not identified.
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response Waived circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation 1. Does the two-factor equitable tolling test supplied by this Court in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010) apply to all federal equitable to…
24-5953 Ellva Slaughter v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied IFP circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion Whether Duren's "systematic exclusion" prong can be satisfied by proof that a distinctive group has been consistently underrepresented in the jury-sel…
24-5957 Jeramy Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question 1: The Circuit Courts are split over whether district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence without a showing…
24A464 Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation certificate-of-appealability eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5938 John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for the forfeiture of the contents of property, such as real property or electronic devices. 2. Whether a…
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 …
24-520 James G. Connell, III v. Central Intelligence Agency District of Columbia 2024-11-06 Denied agency-disclosure circuit-split evidence-standard foia glomar-response judicial-review When a federal agency responds to a request for records under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, it may assert a "Glomar response," neith…
24-5893 Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy 1. Whether, when determining if two charged conspiracies violate double jeopardy, the court should assess the degree of difference between two charged…
24-5905 Huosheng Xian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio…
24-5907 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b Plaintiff, was represented by an attorney, Staci Childs. Staci Childs had the responsibility according to the United States District & Bankruptcy Cour…
24-494 American Warrior, Incorporated, et al. v. Foundation Energy Fund IV-A, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay circuit-split statutory-injunction void-vs-voidable Under the Bankruptcy Code, the commencement of a bankruptcy case triggers an "automatic stay"—a statutory injunction proscribing various acts involvin…
24-5890 Ushery Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the search of a person's residence based solely on that person's status as a known drug dealer. 2. Whether Le…
24-493 Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still …
24-495 Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 The Ku Klux Klan Act provides a federal cause of action against "two or more persons" who "conspire," as relevant here, to deprive "any person or clas…
24-5880 Eric Schmidt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i…
24-5883 Charles Victor Flint v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether § 2252A(b)(2)'s recidivism enhancement applies to a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than the corresponding federal…
24-476 Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata This case raises important federal concerns regarding policies favoring arbitration and the well-established doctrine of res judicata, where circuits …
24-481 Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation Whether in denying Petitioner a reasonable accommodation for, inter alia, up to three additional bathroom breaks per shift, the Seventh Circuit correc…
24-482 Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause.
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…
24-5869 Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines To resolve a circuit split, this Court should grant the Writ to determine whether, in applying the dangerous weapon enhancement U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)…
24A420 Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split emtala hospital-liability medical-treatment patient-stabilization Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the…
24A423 Sean J. Trahan v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute …
24-473 Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Deployed in "tens of thousands of circuit and district court decisions," App.15a, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine stops lower federal courts from exercisi…
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…
24-5837 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…
24A410 Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2024-10-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness Question not identified.
24-5824 Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment DID THE COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT LEGAL ERROR IN DENYING PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY STATING THAT NO JURIST OF REASON WOULD NOT DEBATE THE…
24-460 Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
24-5794 Juan Daniel Sierra-Jimenez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-agreement circuit-split plain-error-rule plea-agreement prejudice-prong sentencing-review Whether a Circuit Split exists related to how lower courts examine Defendants' compliance with the third prong of the plain error rule (prejudice pron…
24-440 Harold R. Berk v. Wilson C. Choy, et al. Third Circuit 2024-10-18 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affidavit-of-merit circuit-split expert-testimony federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction state-procedural-rules Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court.
24-5781 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment 1. Whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in essentially holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a violation of …
24-433 Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-17 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the private-nondelegation doctrine.
24-5774 Dwayne Barrett v. United States Second Circuit 2024-10-17 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci…
24-5776 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec…
24-426 Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine The determination of whether a named plaintiff in a class action has Article III standing to bring claims on behalf of others has been addressed by …
24A356 Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-16 Presumed Complete capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness Whether the "capable of repetition, yet evading review" standard is given a flexible interpretation in election law cases.
24-418 Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy A patent holder cannot "charge royalties for the use of his invention after its patent term has expired." Kimble v. Marvel Enterprise, LLC, 576 U.S. 4…
24-5757 Damian Cortez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant 1. Whether this Petition Should Be Granted to Resolve a Conflict Between the Decision Below and Decisions of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits tha…
24-5758 Eriston Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to…
24-5759 Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal Whether the Court should resolve the split between the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, In re Victoria Station, Inc. and In re: A…
24A353 Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession Question not identified.
24A344 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability drug-trafficking ineffective-assistance jury-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5719 Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation The U.S. Supreme Court's holdings in Taylor, Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis have consistently required the application of the categorical-approach, or the…
24-392 Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. Second Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied Response Waived arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation (1) whether a plan participant can only bring a lawsuit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), as a represen…
24-397 Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-09 Denied admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability 1. Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on…
24-5723 Terrell Trammell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen-standard circuit-split double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms-possession second-amendment There is a circuit split with Question I whether § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional or not pursuant to Bruen such as to impact Trammell's conviction. As …
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…
24A326 James Franklin Snyder v. Glenn Armstrong, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appealability certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24A327 James Franklin Snyder v. Al Ramirez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Question not identified.
24-377 South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another.
24A314 Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review Question not identified.
24-366 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, as several circuits have held, all Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors and subject to the harmless-error test from Neder…
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.
24-5650 Roberto Yepez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether, as the Second and Seventh Circuits have indicated, the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised re…
24-345 FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-26 Granted CVSGAmici (20)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action.
24-334 Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-24 Dismissed agency-jurisdiction circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction merits-defense state-law-claim When state law vests a state agency with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim, should a federal court decide for itself at the outset whether to dismis…
24-5619 Francisco Tineo-Santos v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se rule-60-motion Whether The DENIAL of a Pro Se Application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA ") with the United States Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, In R…
24A291 Charles Garo Avetian v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Presumed Complete circuit-split electronic-filing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant Question not identified.
24-327 Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") generally prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine. An "unsolicited advertisem…
24-5615 Merl Simpson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations Where a criminal judgment is amended to impose restitution obligations that were generically imposed but left undetermined in the original judgment, d…
24-318 BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue "[I]t takes a cross-appeal to justify a remedy in favor of an appellee." Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 244-245 (2008). This is an "invetera…
24-5572 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…
24-5583 Carlos Sanchez v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP §2254-petition circuit-split conflict-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus speedy-trial 1) Whether the law permits conflict counsel to file for continuance which in effect denied Petitioner his right to speedy trial 2) Whether the Eleven…
24-5568 Steven Gantt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 1.) Whether attorney's decision to dismiss §2255 motion without prisoner's consent would provide valid grounds for Rule 60(b) relief? 2.) Whether the…
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…
24-5557 Michael Avenatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a…
24-295 Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with other circuits and a plurality opinion of this Court, that a criminal defendant can v…
24-5553 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-16 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p…
24A263 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari The first question is whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (The Eleventh Circuit) erred in holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court o…
24-287 Jennifer Root Bannon, as the Special Personal Representative of the Estate of Juston Root v. David Godin, Boston Police Officer, et al. First Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split credibility-assessment deadly-force evidence-weighing factual-determination summary-judgment 1. Did the appeals court improperly create new summary judgment standards under which a court may assess the summary judgment record by making fact…
24-5528 Terrace Tyrone Perkins, Sr. v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eighth-circuit impartial-jury pretrial-identification (1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional …
24-5529 Jose Muyet v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction I. The judge-made "concurrent sentence doctrine" allows a federal court to decline review of a prisoner's challenge to his sentence on one count of co…
24-5535 Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi…
24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion Nearly all federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. In many of those pleas, the defendant signs an agreement promising not to file a future 28 U.S…
24-279 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-11 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w…
24-5519 Matthew Peddicord v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning.
24-267 John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation 1. Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the "prevailing party" under 17 U.S.C. §§ 505 and 12…
24-264 Jay A. Liestman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) imposes an increased mandatory minimum and maximum sentence on a defendant who "has a prior conviction . . . under the laws of …
24-5484 Irvin Abreu v. United States First Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation The First Circuit affirmed application of a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), based on Petitioner Irvin Abreu's prior state-court conv…
24A241 John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus Does a South Carolina Supreme Court's Decision Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio…
24-249 A. J. T., By and Through Her Parents, A. T. & G. T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-rights educational-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Whether the ADA and Rehabilitation Act require children with disabilities to satisfy a uniquely stringent "bad faith or gross misjudgment" standard wh…
24-5446 Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS" AS PART OF 18 U.S.C. CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE …
24-5456 Robert Paul Durrell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release The supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for viola…
24-5438 Michael Bowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22…
24-5427 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement 1) Did the district court create a split in circuits by denying relief on charges —in the indictment that violated Congressional Intent/ where the D…
24-5433 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu…
24-224 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Dismissed Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law This petition presents a question nearly identical to that already before the Court in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980. The circuits ha…
24-5416 Christopher Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Question not identified.
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…
24-5409 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony Whether, under the categorical approach as applied to "violent felony" enhancements under the Armed Career Criminal Act and "crime of violence" enhanc…
24A217 Tyron Felder v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-appeal habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se Question not identified.
24-5400 Javontae Quintez White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-law due-process judicial-review waiver Is a Constitutional Due Process violation triggered when an appellate court holds that an issue is waived if not specifically raised in the statement …
24A211 Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Whether a state waives a procedural-default defense when, in its answer to a state habeas petition in district court, it raises the defense to some cl…
24A214 Emmanuel G. Louis, Jr., et al. v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split contract-void military-lending-act predatory-lending service-members Question not identified.
24-5392 Stephon James Whitney v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split en-banc-review firearm-possession prohibited-person second-amendment section-922g Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of Rahimi?
24-5385 Marc Anthony Colon v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit trial-counsel witness-preparation Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA ") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c…
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Question not identified.
24-181 Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i…
24-5344 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied IFP circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors 1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider the cumulative effect of cou…
24A181 Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Denied circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-170 Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Do the statutory terms "visual depiction" and "lascivious exhibition" refer to the same, or different things?
24-172 Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide ide…
24-5324 Marnell Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-procedure due-process joint-possession Does the 3rd Circuit's interpretation of constructive possession doctrine, especially in joint constructive possession cases, violate the 5th Amendmen…
24-5335 Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant A WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAROSA IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U…
24-5327 Daniel Lopez, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules revocation-hearing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b) defines the procedure for supervised release revocation hearings. The Ninth Circuit has split from other ci…
24-5329 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol…
24-5322 Richard Tipton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-14 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede…
24-5308 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard 1. Whether a federal circuit court is patently wrong in denying a Certificate of Appealability in a capital case where a state habeas petitioner ident…
24-5311 Kurnicus Hayes v. Arnold Patrick Fifth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-custody 1. Whether Mr. Hayes ' 2254 petition satisfies the 2 prong requirement established in Slack v. McDaniel for COA to issue on a petition that has been …
24-5314 Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing 1. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence" if it "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p…
24-5318 Norberto Serna v. O’Brian Bailey, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process judicial-standard miranda-warning 1. Whether the Court of Appeal imposed a certificate of appealability standard in conflict with Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Miller-El…
24A165 Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-12 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules pioneer-factors summary-judgment Question not identified.
24A162 Reuben McDowell v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-notice stone-v-powell third-circuit Question not identified.
24A139 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus medical-extension pro-se-petition sixth-circuit time-limitation Question not identified.
24-130 Desiree Martinez v. Channon High Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica…
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 …
24-5243 Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
24A134 Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 Question not identified.
24A135 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction Question not identified.
24-5249 Farid Fata v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies berkovitz-gaubert-test circuit-split discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement sovereign-immunity Q 1 - Given the Supreme Court case law Precedents since after "Arbaugh v. Y&H. Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 515-16 (2006)", and amid a Circuit Split, is exhau…
24-5231 Dean Terry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to…
24-5233 Jose Carlos Belmont v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-gateway newly-discovered-evidence standing state-vacatur successive-writ takings Question #1; May State prisoners, burdened, with first-time innocence showings , proffer as new facts, State vacatur orders for the innocence gateway…
24A122 Azibo Aquart v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule Question not identified.
24A123 James H. Roane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Presumed Complete borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this…
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 …
24-102 Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government "effected [a] prohibition" of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of …
24-108 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Amici (6) bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge discharge-ability honest-and-reasonable-attempt income-tax-return late-filed-returns late-filing tax-debt tax-debts The Bankruptcy Code provides that an individual debtor's unpaid tax debts are dischargeable so long as they meet certain requirements. For older tax d…
24A118 Ty-Ron Steven Anderson v. Chris King, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-remedies certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-property pro-se Question not identified.
24-5168 Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea…
24-5164 Joel Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
24-88 John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix 1. Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits …
24A104 Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-immunity healthcare-litigation medical-center public-health-service statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5166 Nicholas Joseph v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon…
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely? 2. Whether the Co…
24-86 Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-machine fax-machine-definition rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) telephone-consumer-protection-act 1. Whether there is an implied "administrative fea- sibility" prerequisite for class certification, as held by the First, Third, and Fourth Circuits, …
24-5155 Bradley W. Berry v. Donnie Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-amendment federal-case-law federal-court-of-appeals griffith-v-kentucky judicial-review retroactivity state-constitution 1. Whether the decision by the federal court of appeals is correct as applied to the Petitioner regarding a certificate of appealability. 2. Does the…
24-5142 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex…
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine when substantial dou…
24-5127 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with t…
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear…
24A85 David Vargas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit Question not identified.
24-61 Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan Fifth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review In Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, the Court set forth the standard of review for denials of benefits provided by employers under the Employment…
24-64 Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-19 Dismissed Amici (1) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o…
24-5108 Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error 1. Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability'— that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, …
24-5109 Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit 1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe…
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…
24-5105 Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The …
24A46 Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights Whether the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10101(a)(2)(B), which protects the "the right of any individual to vote in any …
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation (1) 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 or…
24A31 Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute Question not identified.
24A26 William Hudson v. James T. Vaughn, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
24-5042 Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a…
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o…
24-9 Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th…
24-5016 Michael Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, …
24-5014 Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The Sixth Circuit deliberately applied a more demanding standard for showing prejudice for ineffective assistance of counsel than the standard establi…
24A1 Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation 1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is …
24-5008 Glynzo Clark v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic "burglary" under 18 U.S.C…
23-1364 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-review standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou…
23A1177 Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2024-07-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights in-forma-pauperis judicial-review motion-to-vacate pro-se Question not identified.
23-1361 William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act circuit-split disclosure-refusal freedom-of-information-act internal-revenue-code judicial-review tax-returns taxpayer-disclosure Is § 6103 a specific statute displacing FOIA, so that the remedy for taxpayers to compel disclosure of their returns and return information is a suit …
23-1352 Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-27 GVR Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires 1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action. 2. Whether the…
23-7816 In Re William H. Wright, Jr. 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process emergency-motion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review petition-for-review standing In the cost of appeal erred for failure to grant Wright's emergency motion for certificate of appealability for. Because lack of jurisdiction
23A1164 Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
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.…
23-7809 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-26 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official In Reed v. Goertz, 598 U.S. 230, 234 (2023), this Court held that Rodney Reed has standing to pursue a declaratory judgment that Texas's post-convicti…
23-7806 Arthur Seale v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court-remedy federal-prisoner-appeal postconviction-relief 1. Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of re…
23-7804 Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should …
23A1154 Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape Question not identified.
23-7782 Jake Paul Heiney v. Heidi E. Washington Sixth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause cross-examination-limitations expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence 1. To convict, the statute required the medical provider to be engaging in "sexual contact " which was "medically recognized as unethical or unaccepta…
23A1140 Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus state-postconviction wilson-v-sellers Question not identified.
23A1131 Michael Craine v. AFSCME Council 36, Local 119, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-sector-unions Question not identified.
23-1327 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez 1. Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind,…
23-1329 Francisco De Aragon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived aedpa certificate-of-appealability habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington This case arises from a habeas petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment …
23-7754 Alejandro Carrasco v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh…
23A1122 Anthony Pandrella v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element Question not identified.
23A1114 Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-7714 Derek Gerrish v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos…
23-7701 Robin Jones v. Angela Reaves, Warden, et al. Georgia 2024-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights court-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review petition supreme-court 1. The methods of on et GLAS apd. cee nck erolvcked Yoyo Skche Court BS geview, dhaul&' o Fedecrs counk obderss TneSeckwe Assishonct & "Taiok Counsel …
23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Question not identified.
23-7688 Chaves Hodges v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
23-7683 Keon Lamont Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences?
23-1293 United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law?
23-1286 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Amici (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split equal-access-to-justice-act expert-evidence federal-agency judicial-review litigation-standards substantial-justification Whether the government's decision to take a case to trial is "substantially justified" (28 U.S.C. § 2412) when the government's case relies solely on …
23-1287 Ian Brenner v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure confrontation-clause consent due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction magistrate magistrate-jurisdiction standing strickland-standard surrogate-expert a. Whether denial of a Certificate of Appealability is proper when the magistrate judge who entered judgment lacked jurisdiction because the Petitione…
23-7676 Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "…
23-7679 Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor The circuits uniformly hold that Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence and therefore can support a related conviction under 18 US.C. …
23A1094 Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness Seventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-1279 NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) and conferred power upon it to adjudicate unf…
23-1283 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response Waived adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation The Family and Medical Leave Act makes it "unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, …
23-1275 Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Judgment Issued Amici (48)Relisted (9) circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a pr…
23-1276 Young Israel of Tampa, Inc. v. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-forum public-forum religious-speech rosenberger-precedent viewpoint-discrimination Whether a public transit agency's ban on advertisements that "primarily promote a religious faith or religious organization" violates the First Amendm…
23-7649 Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §…
23-1269 Suzy Martin v. Susan Haling, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split debarment due-process government-contractor government-work liberty-interest stigma-plus-test In Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, this Court held that the government impinges on a government employee's constitutional liberty interest…
23-1261 Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation 1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been…
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability ( "COA") consistent with the standards set by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)…
23-7628 Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment In Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), this Court held that under Ti…
23-1257 Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force In Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), this Court held that unarmed, nondangerous suspects fleeing officers can't simply be shot. But the decision…
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing This Court has held a certificate of appealability ("COA") should issue where the petitioner has made a threshold showing that jurists of reason could…
23-1255 Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant L Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate o…
23-1250 Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh Ninth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits—a categorical rule requiring the admission of expe…
23-7590 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus miller-el-standard plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60-motion (1) Where two judges on the lower court panel found that "no reasonable jurist could conclude that the district court abused its discretion" in denyin…
23-7558 Marcus Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-ruling judicial-review merits-denial merits-determination procedural-denial reasonable-jurists Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a C…
23A1054 Rory Cook v. Mark Williams, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
23-1239 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Judgment Issued Amici (36)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment.
23-7554 Rawtavious Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)?
23-7524 Antoinne Lee Washington, aka Antionne Lee Washington v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standing DID THE PANEL OF THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DECIDING THE MERIT OF AN APPEAL NOT PROPERLY BEFORE THE COURT TO JUSTIFY THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APP…
23A1040 Al Dorsey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
23-7535 Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness Whether A COA Should Issue Because Jurists Of Reason Could Debate Or Agree That Congress Could Did Not Authorize Federal Enforcement Of § 1591 To Pure…
23-7530 Deandre Lenier Neal-Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus meaningful-review merits-denial procedural-denial reasonable-jurists standing Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a C…
23-1232 Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory …
23-1228 Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt Eighth Circuit 2024-05-21 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution Under Nieves v. Bartlett, probable cause does not bar a retaliatory-arrest claim when the plaintiff shows "that he was arrested when otherwise similar…
23A1034 John Paul Salvador v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-21 Presumed Complete bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split late-filed-return nondischargeable-debt tax-debt Question not identified.
23-7522 Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten…
23-7513 Russell Foreman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten…
23-1218 Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard applied to preserved nonconstitutional errors—which asks whether there is a "reasonable probability" …
23-7470 Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel 1A He appeal of the duial fa 28 e224 Pebtion t>/ Raeary ee lo "MMer-El v Cockrell 37 VS 322" the US PRES Guei * 9 "case Govern He vance of aX Ca Oe Go…
23-7483 Edgardo Esteras v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric…
23-7467 Joseph Thomas Saari v. Kris Rish, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error first-amendment mootness retroactivity right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the panel of the Eighth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
23-7464 Michael Grady v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice despite Petitioner's willingness to knowingly a…
23A1008 Darryl Watts v. New York New York 2024-05-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process incompetency liberty-interest registration-hearing sora Question not identified.
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2024-05-13 Granted CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the…
23-7427 Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether this Honorable Court should grant Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, where Petitioner has demonstrated that his rights to a fair …
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two…
23-7416 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review 1) Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), w…
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…
23A996 Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment Question not identified.
23A993 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation (1) 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 or…
23-1196 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA) from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by his showing that reaso…
23-7397 Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction I. A procedural § 2244 one(l)-year statute-of-limitation(s) ruling (Doc.l)(Doc. 1875) (Doc. 1893) governed by Federal Rule 36 of Appellate Procedure …
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."…
23-7386 Jose Caban v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl…
23-7388 Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder…
23A982 Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-05-03 Presumed Complete administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa Whether the Fourth Circuit properly imposed an "administrative feasibility" requirement for class certification that conflicts with the approach of si…
23-7357 Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief?
23-7360 Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the Third Circuit and Fourth Circuit concerning whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recus…
23-1174 Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) ("Rule 704(a)") allow an expert to opine that a person's conduct complied with the person's legal duties? Does R…
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion I. Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment —other than on purely legal grounds — against a party when the court has not allowed that party to…
23-7338 Damon Sean Bellis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its regulation, the court mu…
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d…
23A966 Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Presumed Complete arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction 1. This case raises an important, circuit-splitting issue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seg. ("FSIA"): Whether the e…
23-1164 Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, as six circu…
23-7308 Marvin Holmes v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-law habeas-corpus 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability? 2. Did the Distric…
23A958 Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-04-25 Presumed Complete blank-form-rule circuit-split copyright-law copyrightability creative-works feist-standard Question not identified.
23A952 Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC Third Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split concreteness-test fair-debt-collection-practices-act statutory-harm transunion-standard 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…
23-1143 Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver 1. Given the judicial unwillingness in other circuits to permit the United States to stand on technicalities and this Court's guidance in Arbaugh v Y&…
23A945 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver Question not identified.
23-7268 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un…
23-1131 Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka Fifth Circuit 2024-04-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse…
23-1127 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath Seventh Circuit 2024-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-agency administrative-corporation circuit-conflict circuit-split e-rate-program false-claims-act government-funding telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-of-1996 Whether reimbursement requests submitted to the E-rate program are "claims" under the False Claims Act.
23A934 Damien Ford v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus indigent-status procedural-error successive-petition supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-7238 Richard Lee Devito v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court duty-to-investigate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el miller-el-standard panel-rehearing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-law strickland strickland-ineffective-assistance Did the Circuit Court, initially composed of one judge, err by exceeding the "threshold inquiry" as prescribed by this Court in Miller-El? Did the Ci…
23-7226 Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict …
23-7212 Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction A case was filed in State Court. It stated on its face a Federal Question. Petitioners removed to District Court. Respondent moved to remand. A reman…
23-7205 Luke Joselin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft…
23-1095 Patrick D. Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-09 Judgment Issued Amici (2) circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie…
23-1097 J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as five circuits ha…
23-1099 Innovation Ventures, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Wholesale Outlet & Distribution, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-injury circuit-split consumer-behavior price-discrimination robinson-patman-act secondary-line-discrimination volvo-standard volvo-trucks-v-reeder-simco The Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 13, prohibits "secondary line" price discrimination, which is "price discrimination that injures competition amon…
23-7163 Kyle Melkonian v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government …
23-7141 Keith Martin Molineaux v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brady-material certificate-of-appealability confession-fabrication false-confession habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell Under Miller-El v. Cockrell 537 U.S. 322 (2003), should the Petitioner's novel claim that his confession was fabricated be encouraged to proceed furth…
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 …
23-7122 James Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-7128 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied IFP accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief Whether, when both the state trial court and the federal district court agree that a habeas petitioner has pleaded a claim that, if true, would warran…
23-1072 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-02 Denied Amici (3) 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig…
23-1067 Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C…
23-1061 Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma Eighth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de…
23-7096 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m…
23-7062 Clark D. Thomas v. McKendley Newton, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability discovery-and-counsel-denial double-jeopardy due-process equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner's claims that: A) The district court violated Petitioner's D…
23-1050 Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o…
23-7035 Anderson Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi…
23-1034 Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process penological-needs prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings procedural-due-process superintendent-v-hill wolff-v-mcdonnell Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process…
23-1022 Nancy Martin v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a district court to "determine that there is a factual basis" for a guilty plea before accepting …
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target 1. Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a "primary defendant" under CAFA'…
23-1007 Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. Second Circuit 2024-03-13 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci…
23-6976 Juan Cabrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes.
23-1002 Tony R. Hewitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-12 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s…
23A831 Bentley Streett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether and how the inevitable-discovery doctrine applies to a defective warrant.
23-6950 Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc…
23-6939 Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and excul…
23-6942 Paulino Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi…
23-6915 Raynaldo Ray Quiroga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice In Bousiew v. United u.s. WA ty%> i)$ Sxt iuom , mo ued £dJea8(i<WX4his murt held -Hw "Actual Innocence^ Is more -Bw a mere legal insufficiency., 11- …
23-6924 Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error QUESTION No. 1: Does &U£.ederal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v.…
23-980 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud This petition presents two important questions that have divided the federal courts of appeals. First, the circuits have split three ways concerning w…
23-975 Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (38)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which …
23-968 Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response In Rayonier, infra, this Court held that the Federal Tort Claim Act (FTCA) "makes the United States liable (with certain exceptions which are not rele…
23-962 Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-6889 Richard Wayne Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare…
23-6892 Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split rodriguez-v-united-states sentencing-regime serious-drug-offense state-law-interpretation state-sentencing-regime statutory-maximum Does "maximum term of imprisonment . . . prescribed by law"—as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act to define "serious drug offenses" that are predic…
23A818 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability collateral-review davis-decision retroactive-application section-2255 successive-motion Question not identified.
23-959 Colin Montague v. United States Second Circuit 2024-03-04 GVR Amici (4) circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U…
23-6885 Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT OR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MADE THE CORRECT RULING REGARDING DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS AND FAIR TRIAL CONCERNING THE USE OF A POLI…
23-953 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency In the middle of his federal death-penalty trial, Brandon Council had a delusional breakdown, asking his attorneys to "subpoena God." The District Cou…
23-954 Precision Drilling Corp., et al. v. Rodney Tyger, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split detrimental-effects donning-and-doffing employment-compensation fair-labor-standards-act job-specific-hazards labor-law preliminary-or-postliminary-activities protective-clothing wage-and-hour Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, which exempts from required compensation all activities that are "preliminary" or "postliminary" to employees' p…
23A803 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement Question not identified.
23-6868 David Wayne Nelson v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct Did the U.S. court of appeals err when it denied a Certificate of Appealability and/or remand to the district court to allow the petitioner (Nelson) t…
23-6869 Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending Un…
23-6848 Stewart Smith v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel partial-pcra-jurist pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct WAS PETITIONER'S GUILTY VERDICT OBTAINED AND SUSTAINED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, BIAS,…
23-6853 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination procedural-denial standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's holdings, in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2008), and Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. 100 (2017), it is inadequate for a Co…
23-6854 Danny Lee Hampton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment 1. IF I WERE DONALD TRUMP WOULD THIS COURT GRANT REVIEW OF THIS CASE TO DECIDE WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DENIED A COA IN THIS CASE GIVEN THAT…
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…
23-6842 Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-27 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment bruen-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment standing Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci…
23-925 Michael Shane McCormick, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split consultation-duty criminal-appeal criminal-conviction defendant-consultation defense-counsel flores-ortega lower-court-confusion reasonable-effort sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment, counsel's duty to "consult" regarding a criminal appeal has two independent requirements—"advising the defendant about the …
23-928 Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states (i) Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), which prohibits the "harbor[ing]" of anyone who is in the United States illegally, …
23-933 Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation Congress has determined that individuals should not be denied access to federal court based on their economic circumstances. To effectuate that impo…
23A791 Mark Habelt v. iRhythm Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete appellate-standing circuit-split lead-plaintiff non-party-appeal pslra securities-class-action Question not identified.
23A786 Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques…
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Question not identified.
23-6823 Troy Raynard Alexander v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether the lower court abused their discretion by denying Mr. Alexander a C.O.A. as it is debatable amongst of jurists of reason …
23A770 Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute Question not identified.
23-6808 Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —…
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…
23-894 Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi…
23-897 Cidney Bowdean Ingram v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process duty-to-retreat home-invasion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions porch-as-part-of-home I. A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) SHOULD BE ISSUED WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT DECIDED THAT TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO REQUEST A JURY INSTRUCTION T…
23-890 In Re Batia Zareh 2024-02-20 Denied Response Waived bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) by authorizing coverage a…
23-6784 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances QUESTION 1: Equitable Tolling: Whether the Holland Court's direction to review with flexibility the circumstances warranting equitable tolling is cons…
23-6790 James Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the …
23A756 Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenges death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-884 Marco Antonio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm…
23-888 Alfredo Felipe Rasco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure deportation-consequences guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky rule-11 rule-11-violation Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to deny my C.O.A. and the district court's denial of my motion to withdraw my guilty plea contravenes this Cou…
23-872 Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez Sixth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use 1. Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? 2. S…
23-876 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-14 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation 1. Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a "coal…
23-879 Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment.
23-6749 Craig Alan Morrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu…
23-6752 Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent WHETHER ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED FEDERAL LAW WHEN DECIDING MERITS OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT GRANTING CERTIFICATE OF…
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 …
23-6735 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence 1. Should the Court of appeals recall its mandate denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA) when Petitioner has demons…
23-871 Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fair-warning flavored-products food-and-drug-administration marketing-applications Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev…
23-867 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2024-02-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard (1) Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States un…
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address any or all of the above claims and, if so, whether t…
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…
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23-859 Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response Waived attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en…
23-6702 Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses 1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of specific stat…
23-6703 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied IFP appeals capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus rhines-stay 1. Is a COA required to appeal a district court's denial of a motion for stay of the habeas proceedings made under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005…
23-846 City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that the community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage, contrary to its own p…
23-840 HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability-determination arbitration arbitration-delegation circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory nonsignatory-liability standing The signatories to a contract agreed to arbitrate any claim or dispute arising out of the contract and delegated to the arbitrator the power to determ…
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.
23-6661 Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias. 2. Whether the Un…
23-832 Moshe Porat v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Relisted (5) 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i…
23-825 Salvatore Delligatti v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-31 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us…
23A704 Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-6619 Edward Lee Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u…
23-6600 Richard Daniel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split covered-offense discretionary-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion sentencing-package-doctrine sentencing-reduction Where a defendant was sentenced for multiple offenses, some of which are now covered by § 404 of the First Step Act while others are not covered, does…
23-6602 Sylvester Cunningham v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie…
23-6585 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…
23-805 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit ignore the process re-emphasized by this Court in Buck v. Davis and MillerEl, by refusing to issue Cristopher P. George a COA, t…
23-803 Shannon Donoho v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Relisted (4) child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b…
23-795 Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim…
23-799 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev…
23-6545 Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 …
23-6552 In Re Vincent Pisciotta 2024-01-24 Denied IFP arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con…
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…
23-6523 Mark David Galloway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur…
23-788 Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the…
23A660 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 Question not identified.
23-6489 Robert E. Harrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court 1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen…
23-6494 Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 This petition is concerned with the denial of a new trial motion under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, filed well after the …
23-6499 Pete Manning v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction In federal sentencing, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines typically call for a higher advisory Guidelines range if the defendant has been convicted of a p…
23-6503 David Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise…
23-776 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A…
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Federal courts do not hear divorce disputes. That is because our system of federalism retains for the states special expertise in domestic matters. Th…
23-764 Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing?
23-754 Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment 1. Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? 2. Does a Court of Appeals impermiss…
23-6480 Joseph D. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to: (1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te…
23-6459 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-comment mistrial-motion self-incrimination 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 Fifth Ame…
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…
23-6464 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.
23-752 Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor…
23-748 Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et…
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review 1. Are a district court's findings that a habeas corpus petitioner's attorney abandoned him "from the beginning" and "for the entirety of [his] state …
23-741 Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law Whether the cross-appeal rule, which prohibits the granting of a remedy in favor of an appellee absent the filing of a cross-appeal, is jurisdictional…
23A634 Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 Question not identified.
23-734 Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea…
23-6421 Remberto Rivera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente…
23-6424 Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h…
23-6413 Donald Bill Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d…
23-720 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-04 Denied Amici (1) appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Plea agreements often include a general waiver of the right to appeal. Circuits are divided over whether the inclusion of such a term bars a defendant…
23A608 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials Question not identified.
23-6397 Jaime Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert…
23-6382 Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli…
23A595 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim habeas-corpus rule-60b section-2254 Question not identified.
23A591 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23A592 Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing Question not identified.
23-6361 Victor Grant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t…
23-6347 Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019).
23-6332 Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error?
23-6336 Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Under Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 50 (2007), a district court imposing an outside-Guidelines sentence "must consider the extent of the deviati…
23-677 Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction This Petition presents two separate but related questions concerning the ability of a plaintiff, in an action properly removed to federal court pursua…
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…
23-658 Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification commonality federal-rules-of-civil-procedure policy-uniformity rule-23 significant-proof uniform-policy Where class certification is based on allegations that a defendant's policy or practice has injured class members, what constitutes "significant proof…
23-661 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary When an arbitration agreement delegates gateway questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, may a court still interpret the agreement for itself to …
23A561 Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete circuit-split disabilities-education idea individualized-education-program placement stay-put Whether and to what extent a school district has obligations under the stay-put provision when a student's existing placement becomes unavailable.
23A563 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b Question not identified.
23A550 Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination post-employment-benefits title-i Does Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability with respect to benefits earned during an emplo…
23-6244 Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,…
23-635 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure 1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never …
23-638 Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that…
23-639 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas This case implicates two persistent conflicts of authority with regard to how courts are to determine whether a person suffers from an intellectual di…
23A538 Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud Whether deceit aimed at influencing a victim's spending decision, without contemplating economic injury, is property fraud under the mail and wire fra…
23-6224 Terry Daum v. Joseph Corey, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-statute gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-probability sawyer-v-whitley He * i/-e pr& (oa b r it h y Lj //. f/)c,r-Lj hand 1 evidence"0<ZS re a. <S on a es fa hi is fed in for#. d, " dear and under cj°35 fan dar dt Confihc…
23-6227 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability under Title 28 U.S.C., Section 2253(c)(2) when the court …
23-625 Tel James Boam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1) child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,…
23-629 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Since a Certificate of Appealability must be granted when reasonable jurists could disagree on the resolution of a constitutional claim or conclude th…
23-6203 Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Petitioner ask this Honorable Court to resolve the Circuit split, whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establish…
23-6210 Andrew Pierson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience 1. Whether exceptions exist for the general proposition that the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not apply to foreign searches and seizure. An…
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion 1. Whether this Court should adopt an objectively reasonable approach when evaluating whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supporte…
23-615 John Felix Castleman, Sr., et ux. v. Dennis Lee Burman, Chapter 7 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 circuit-split debtor-rights homestead homestead-exemption property-rights valuation Whether, when a debtor in good faith converts a bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 after confirmation of a Chapter 13 plan, the post-petition, pre-conversio…
23A514 David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se Question not identified.
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did…
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…
23-596 Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence 1. Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading by construing my pro se Rule 59(a) motion expressly seeking a …
23A510 Larry Coates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete auer-deference circuit-split kisor-deference sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity stinson-precedent Question not identified.
23A509 Melynda Vincent v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Tenth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete bruen-test circuit-split constitutional-history firearm-possession non-violent-felony second-amendment Whether the federal ban on felons' possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), is consistent with the Second Amendment as applied to non-violent f…
23-6156 David Joseph Meister v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability complete-defense constitutional-rights false-confession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense substantial-showing-of-denial Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show…
23-6157 Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states 1. The circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the decisio…
23A499 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner mootness section-2255 supervised-release Question not identified.
23A496 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision 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…
23-6151 Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines This Court's precedent precludes the use of clearly erroneous facts to influence a criminal defendant's sentence. Here, the district court assumed the…
23-583 Amina Bouarfa v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-30 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (3) administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review nondiscretionary-criteria revocation visa-petition Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria.
23-577 Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-29 Denied administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board The Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board) is authorized by statute to exempt certain transactions involving rail carriers from the antitrust law…
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…
23-579 Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65?
23A483 Salvador Magluta v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement Question not identified.
23A474 Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets Question not identified.
23A476 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights Question not identified.
23A477 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Question not identified.
23A478 Rufus E. Dennis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor Question not identified.
23-568 Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Muhammad Baasiri, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1603 circuit-split complaint-filing-time dole-food-precedent dole-food-v-patrickson foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination standing Whether a defendant's status as an instrumentality of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1603(b)(2) "is determined at the time of the filing of the com…
23-570 Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th…
23-572 Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules Where a parent who has voluntarily agreed to be bound by team rules for their minor to play in an extracurricular academic setting including rules tha…
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…
23-6117 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)?
23-6118 T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review In the absence of an explicit definition, is the definition of "controlled substance" in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or st…
23-565 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act?
23-552 Ambassador Animal Hospital, Ltd. v. Elanco Animal Health Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split fax fcc-regulation hobbs-act junk-fax-prevention-act marketing telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement Defendants sent brochures to Ambassador's fax machine inviting the veterinarian to call a salesperson and RSVP to attend a free educational dinner pro…
23-555 Louis A. Wilson v. United States District of Columbia 2023-11-22 Denied 18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute "extraordinary and compelling reasons" authorizing a district court…
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…
23-6099 Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas Texas 2023-11-22 Denied IFP circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard 1. Should the Court resolve the circuit split regarding whether Padilla applies to denaturalization consequences flowing from a guilty plea? 2. Did t…
23-6082 Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps by ignoring Borden and expanding "robbery" (as enumerated as a "crime of viole…
23-6087 Ronell Whitehead v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied IFP 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe…
23-537 Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree…
23-6063 Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena 1. Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness, who would have offered exculpatory evidence at trial. 2…
23-6065 Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § …
23-6048 Elvis Redzepagic v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation…
23-517 Jeffrey Pratt v. Tony Helms, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Camden County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct johnson-v-city-of-shelby meritorious-claims pleadings-doctrine 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit, in contravention to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the precedent set forth by this Court in Johnson v. City o…
23-521 Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl…
23-515 Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment Is the Seventh Circuit correct in its view (contrary to that of other courts of appeals) that a district court may, in response to a motion made pursu…
23-6016 Malik Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253(c) certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interference-with-right-to-testify postconviction-relief prior-criminal-history right-to-testify sixth-amendment 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 r…
23A435 Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications Question not identified.
23A421 Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration Second Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split evidentiary-standards fair-notice fda-regulation Question not identified.
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO…
23-506 Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited Second Circuit 2023-11-14 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality if it shows the arbitrator "might reasonably be thought biased,"…
23-508 Micah Sherif Matthews v. Chris Tripp, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the United States District Court For the District of Iowa erred in denying Petitioner Matthews a Certificate of Appealability when it found th…
23-509 John Doe v. Rollins College Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix 1. Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits as to the proper test for sex discrimination under 20 U.S.C. § 1681 in Title IX of the Ed…
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…
23-5998 Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-code dangerous-weapon due-process innocence sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapons-statute 1) Dio-me coiviTiTaT| 0NjA| An1cj SHoujcJ debATE that pOfSOAMT 6o3.^i A KidEIGHTH c\rco\T demV thepET\T\ofNicr /\ Err uh^THE peTiiioiOcr OKi A COA 7…
23-495 Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Amici (1) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. …
23-479 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but …
23A410 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-5967 Andrew Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-7 circuit-split civil-procedure due-process exemption-law settlement-valuation standing trustee trustee-conflict Does the U.S. Trustee Program create conflicts of interest vis-a-vis the debtor in chapter 7 cases where the judge, trustee, and trustee's lawyer are …
23-5962 Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate …
23-476 Centinela Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre West, LLC, et al. v. Shalimah Abdullah, as Legal Representative and Successor-in-Interest of Eric Holloway, Deceased, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-5950 Kent Leroy Clark v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-remedy federal-prisoner postconviction-relief 1. Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of re…
23A404 Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Presumed Complete circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this court held that laws that "defin[e] regulated speech by particular subject matter" are "obvious[ly]" content-based an…
23-5939 Brett Northington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea…
23-5946 Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence L. As held by other Circuits, the physical restraint enhancement in US.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone, and the Ele…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Question not identified.
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Question not identified.
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
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.
23-5913 Julio Rolon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §…
23-5899 Rande Brian Isabella v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error double-jeopardy fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense manifest-constitutional-error sanabria-rule sanabria-v-united-states trial-termination After the Government Concedes To Actual Innocence With Jeopardy Attached, and The District Court Terminates Jeopardy In the Substantive Offense Over D…
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
23A379 Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers Fourth Circuit 2023-10-26 Presumed Complete arbitrability arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act non-signatory Question not identified.
23-5875 Andres Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied IFP agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C…
23-5869 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid "irreconcilable and mutually exclusive" standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St…
23A367 Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-24 Presumed Complete bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination Question not identified.
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…
23-424 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f…
23-5846 Jong Whan Kim v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense?
23-5852 Kareem Davis v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas…
23A356 Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-19 Presumed Complete burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case Question not identified.
23-414 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence 1. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 permits a district court to order a new trial "if the interest of justice so requires." The district court he…
23-417 Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment 1. Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non…
23-5836 Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel 1.) To be issued a COA : Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right as enunciated in Sl…
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, …
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability? 2. Shoul…
23-5815 Emily Claire Hari v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu…
23-5818 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…
23-5790 Brock Brian Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru…
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention, as this Court held in Brendlin v. California, or…
23-5786 Mark Andre Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's…
23-390 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements Whether, to establish a "direct effect in the United States" under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), a plaintiff must make an extratextual showing that either the…
23-392 Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause dictate a single national policy that prohibits local schools from maintaining separate bathrooms base…
23-5768 Frank Nathan Escalante v. Jim Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-rights standing 1. Was Petitioner's due Process Violated at any time through Judicial Proceedings? 2. Was Petitioner's Trial "fundamentally unfair"? 3. Has Petition…
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,…
23A319 Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States District of Columbia 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete appellate-waiver circuit-split material-support-for-terrorism military-commission-review military-commissions-act plea-agreement Question not identified.
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Question not identified.
23-5749 Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D…
23-5755 Dewayne Joseph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied IFP circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as …
23-5761 Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court First Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle …
23-365 Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn Second Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil…
23-367 Starbucks Corporation v. M. Kathleen McKinney, Regional Director of Region 15 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the National Labor Relations Board Sixth Circuit 2023-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split federal-district-courts national-labor-relations-act national-labor-relations-board preliminary-injunction unfair-labor-practices Whether courts must evaluate the NLRB's requests for section 10(j) injunctions under the traditional, stringent four-factor test for preliminary injun…
23-5712 Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (3)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal Question not identified.
23-5713 Delvarez Long v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act bars federal courts from imposing or lengthening a pris…
23-5701 Dennis L. Walls, Sr. v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review third-circuit 1. Did the Third Circuit in denying Petitioner a COA (Appendix A) substantially deviate from this Court's established procedures in Miller-El v. Cockr…
23-5706 Darrell Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution The question presented here is, "can the courts prosecute (indict, try and sentence) indigent Companies without legal representation?" Without legal r…
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
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…
23-5691 Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief …
23-5698 Roy Christopher West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity 1) Whether the Sixth Circuit's Threshold Determination of No Compelling Reasons Under the First Step Act of 2018 for Compassionate Release is Erroneou…
23A288 DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-02 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder-of-cases sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23-337 Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law circuit-split competition-analysis judicial-review less-restrictive-alternative procompetitive-justification restraint-of-trade rule-of-reason sherman-act This case presents two critical questions regarding the legal standards governing the Rule of Reason, which determines the outcome of nearly every She…
23-5672 Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li…
23-324 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate than t…
23-321 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the District Court and Sixth Circuit Erred When Both Found That Mr. Davis Was Not Entitled to the Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability f…
23-322 Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression 1. Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the "reasonable impression" of bi…
23-305 Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment I. Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing. II. Whether the court can decide t…
23-306 The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived actual-loss avoided-costs circuit-split damages defend-trade-secrets-act federal-statute misappropriation trade-secrets unjust-enrichment Whether a plaintiff may seek avoided costs as a measure of unjust-enrichment damages if and only if the plaintiff has suffered a "compensable harm bey…
23-308 Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 (1976), is permissible only when…
23A265 Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Presumed Complete arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o…
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?
23-286 Windsor Oakridge Healthcare Center, LP, et al. v. Valerie Turner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-287 Vernon Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Debra Ann Blackmon, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Latasha Bracks Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct Does the PREP Act completely preempt state law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such…
23-288 Novato Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Angelina Martinez Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-291 Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioner's constitutional challen…
23-292 Riverside Healthcare and Wellness Centre, LLC, et al. v. Latifa Khan, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Nafiu Khan, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-294 San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-295 San Marino Gardens Wellness Center, LP, dba Pasadena Park Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Susan Olmes, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to the Estate of Michael Olmes Ninth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case …
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Question #1: Did the fifth Circuit err by denying a COA for failure to properly consider the F.R.C.P.60(b)(6)under the framework in which successive p…
23-5639 Damaso Rivera-Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge convicted-felon criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rehaif-v-united-states strickland-standard In light of the facts of this case, was the defense counsel ineffective in light of this court's precedent in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (…
23-5619 Jordan Winczuk v. United States First Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt…
23-5620 Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit flouted this Court's relevant decisions and precedent by declining to even grant a certificate of appealability regard…
23-267 Marilyn Williams v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure final-decision interlocutory-ruling rule-41 rule-41(a) voluntary-dismissal Does an interlocutory ruling that dismisses some (but not all) of a plaintiff's claims with prejudice become an appealable "final decision" if the pla…
23-268 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas…
23-259 Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine Sixth Circuit 2023-09-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav…
23-5601 In Re Michael Kenny Carter 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-5602 Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs…
23-5603 Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation This appeal presents this Court with an opportunity to resolve an conflict in the Circuits concerning the construction of Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), namely w…
23-5566 Scott A. Anthony v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter…
23-5572 Joseph W. Fischer v. United States District of Columbia 2023-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i…
23-240 David L. Smith v. Securities and Exchange Commission Second Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-relief disgorgement due-process judicial-review rule-60b4 sec-enforcement standing takings void-judgment Is Petitioner entitled to collateral relief from an extra-legal "disgorgement" order, which the SEC had no power to obtain, and the district court had…
23-227 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights 1. Whether words printed on clothing are pure speech, and thus presumptively entitled to First Amendment protection—as the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Ci…
23-234 Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction Did the Ninth Circuit, in a post-conviction appeal by a sentenced Nevada State prisoner, commit reversible error in its pro forma, non-reasoned blanke…
23-236 Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Judgment Issued administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danco's drug Mifeprex for termination of early pregnancy based on the agency's expert judgmen…
23A235 Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete 17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property Question not identified.
23-5556 William L. Gladney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined…
23-5562 Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing WHETHER THE UNITED STATES OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ON THE SAME JUDTIC…
23A229 Richard Summerall v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-11 Denied access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-prisoner Question not identified.
23-217 E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-08 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence—…
23-219 Sherman Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp…
23-5546 Richard Sansbury v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec…
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…
23-213 Brian O'Grady v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence subject-matter-jurisdiction wildland-fire wildland-fire-response In Rayonier, infra, this c ourt held that the Federal tort c laims Act (F tcA) "makes the u nited States liable ( with certain exceptions which are no…
23-5522 Javier Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t…
23-5535 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court? II. Whether 28 U.S…
23-204 WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases, in cont…
23-196 Jade Mound, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied budgetary-considerations circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability latent-danger public-safety warning-duty When the government is alleged to have tortiously neglected to warn the public of a known, latent danger, whether the de minimis cost of posting such …
23-5490 Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth (1) Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule; and if so, (2) What it is the appropriate method to deter…
23-5497 Malik Woods v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review standing supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals run contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent in Miller-El v Cockerell, 537 US 322, (US 2003),…
23-5488 Dywane Tousant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Has Made a Substantial Showing of the …
23-5462 Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package 1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat…
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23A182 Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 Question not identified.
23-175 City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-08-25 Judgment Issued Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Ei…
23-5439 Steven Huffman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five members of this Court vacated a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Cri…
23-5437 Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance 1. Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process and fundamentalsairness where the district court applies a sophisticated means enhancement based u…
23-5438 Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction ONE Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that…
23-5420 Bruce Wanzo, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit 1. Whether appointment of counsel on counsel in detracting from the intended issues raised in the Certificate of Appealability(misconstrued by the Nin…
23-5421 Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied IFP capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review strickland-v-washington I. Where a state court and federal court deny a habeas claim on contradictory grounds, do their conflicting rulings suggest that "reasonable jurists w…
23A165 Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India Seventh Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity Question not identified.
23-5397 Emanuel Beach v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement 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?
23-155 Isaac Luna Ashton v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel tenth-circuit Whether the United States District Court For the Northern District of Oklahoma erred in denying Petitioner Ashton a Certificate of Appealability when …
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech.
23-147 Leander Mann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied aedpa-statute circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus habeas-petition statute-of-limitations 1. Whether equitable tolling stops the clock on the AEDPA statute of limitations during periods of extraordinary circumstances, as the Second and Elev…
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER A COA?
23-5369 Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922…
23A133 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search 1. Because recognizing a Bivens action "is 'a disfavored judicial activity," it is settled that no Bivens claim may lie where "there is any rational r…
23-5351 John P. Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability citizen-united-v-fec due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medicare-fraud post-conviction-relief section-2255 yee-v-escondido This case is one of more than a dozen Medicare fraud cases among varous circuits where physicians, like Dr. Ramirez, were convicted under multiple err…
23-5338 Keith A. Penn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied IFP attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one …
23-5345 Henry Robledo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim?
23A123 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal Question not identified.
23A122 The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete avoided-costs circuit-split Defend-Trade-Secrets-Act remedial-damages trade-secret-misappropriation unjust-enrichment Question not identified.
23-131 Falkbuilt Ltd., et al. v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived alternative-forum circuit-split civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens gulf-oil-corp-v-gilbert international-comity international-litigation jurisdictional-dismissal multi-defendant-case piper-aircraft-co-v-reyno Whether, in a multi-defendant case, district courts are legally prohibited from dismissing any defendant under the doctrine of forum non conveniens un…
23-5331 Al Douglas Wordly v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
23-5309 Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.…
23-120 United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c…
23-122 Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan Third Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation The question presented in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), prohibits individual arbitra…
23A113 Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. Texas 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation Question not identified.
23A110 Taylor J. Matson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete attempted-child-enticement circuit-split evidentiary-standards expert-testimony jury-trial law-enforcement-agents Question not identified.
23-5280 Robert A. Griffin v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60-motion 1) WHETHER MR. GRIFFIN IS ENTITLED TO A COA BECAUSE JURISTS OF REASON WOULD FIND THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ON MR. GRIFFIN'S FEDERAL RULE 60(b)(6) MO…
23-5285 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Gigi Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals docket-entry ninth-circuit procedural-history retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-fact 1. Did The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Err In Failing To Grant A Certificate Of Appealability When It Denied Petitioner 's Motion For Certificate…
23-111 United States, ex rel. Howard Beck v. St. Joseph Health System, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions rule-59 timely-appeal Whether a court-created exception barring successive post-judgment motions can deprive a court of appeals of jurisdiction over an appeal that is timel…
23-108 James E. Snyder v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9) 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any…
23-109 Janis Wolf v. Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, LLP Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies credit-transaction debt-collection deferred-payment fair-credit-reporting-act homeowners-association This case asks whether a typical HOA assessment qualifies as an FCRA "credit transaction" that authorizes an HOA to obtain a homeowner's credit report…
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?
23-5266 Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to…
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment 1) Should the 7Th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appe&libility to petitioner Nikolas Gacho where his ineffective assistance of …
23-5250 Jaleel Bertrand Franklin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-statements due-process jurist-standard legal-deference logical-fallacy presumption-of-correctness racial-composition racial-makeup-of-venire state-created-barrier venire-panel 1 (a) Whether counsel's statements are entitled to "double deference" or a presumption of correctness when such are premised entirely upon a logical…
23-88 Jerry L. Brown v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
23-5236 Marvas Aurelien v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses I. Whether the "controlled substance" definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at…
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…
23-80 Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to the…
23-5188 Mark Anthony Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s…
23-67 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement 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…
23-68 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…
23A71 Direct Energy, LP v. Matthew Dickson Sixth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury-in-fact ringless-voicemail telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-communications 1. This case presents an important question of Article III standing—namely, whether a plaintiff can establish a concrete injury in fact by identifying…
23-63 San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union Ninth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied 15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law Question 1: In trademark disputes, the alleged infringing party often seeks declarations that the mark of the opposing party (i) is not infringed and …
23-5168 Isaac Silversmith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime 1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that Second-degree Murder,…
23-5172 Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t…
23-5174 Dionte Houff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul…
23A57 Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
23A59 Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-21 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion successive-habeas-petition Question not identified.
23-50 Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 To make out a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must show that legal process was instituted without pro…
23-51 Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2023-07-20 Judgment Issued Amici (14) circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a com…
23-5148 Bernard Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND RESOLVE A SPLIT BETWEEN THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURTS AND APPLY RETROACTIVELY…
23-5149 Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief …
23-5130 Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should …
23-5139 Jacinto Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another?
23-5114 Leroy C. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul…
23-5105 Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t…
23-5109 Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility I. Carl Lindsey was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death based on the critical testimony of Kathy Kerr, the lone witness to testify t…
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats…
23-5099 Dustin Jolly v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. …
23A29 Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice Question not identified.
23A24 Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-conviction Question not identified.
23-5072 Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
23-30 Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison Tenth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel…
23-5076 David Linehan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f…
23-27 Michael Harper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th…
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…
23-5 Breon Powell v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability court-closure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus 1. Did Circuit Court of Appeals err and thereby abuse its discretion and commit error in denying due process to Appellant Powell when it denied a Cert…
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…
23-5020 Christopher Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is "inextricab…
23-5008 Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne…
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 A. Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete "as to all causes of action," as required by Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. …
22-7890 Christopher Ochoa v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th …
22-7894 Frankie Shearry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc…
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…
22-1249 Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law Under 15 U.S.C. § 1065, certain trademarks are incontestable. All Circuits considering the issue, except the Eleventh, do not presume that an incontes…
22-1240 Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts 42 U.S.C. § 1981 guarantees that "[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to…
22-7872 Carmelita Barela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony The circuit courts have held unanimously that Hobbs Act robbery qualifies categorically as a "violent felony" and "crime of violence." Therefore, all …
22-7862 Lazaro Veliz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-1231 Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. First Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly or if the First Circuit should apply a different legal standard as co…
22-7827 Scott Anderson v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-innocence reasonable-jurist sufficiency-of-evidence Is a defendant legally and factually innocent, if the State fails to prove each and every element of the crime {facts}, and the facts do not establish…
22-7839 Christian Ruben Tirado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question gang-paraphernalia supervised-release vagueness-doctrine Is a special condition of supervised release that prohibits a supervisee from possessing any of a laundry list of items "known to represent associatio…
22-7818 Marshall M. Cohen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be found by examining the context in which the image was produced or the creator's intent, …
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…
22-7806 Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains…
22-1216 Dwayne Ferguson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a…
22-1218 Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe…
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…
22-7799 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…
22-7783 Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at…
22-1210 Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory This Court has repeatedly held that when an ERISA plan expressly confers upon the plan administrator discretion to interpret its terms, that interpret…
22-1192 Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment To foster economic competition among airlines, Congress in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits States from enacting or enforcing any law re…
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…
22-7755 Jerome Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st…
22-7756 Andre Zeno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor…
22-7744 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion, violationg Bartunek's due process rights, by failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability for consti…
22-7747 Samuel Wilson, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or …
22-1190 Lavelle Hatley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony Under the mandated categorical approach, a prior conviction falls within the Armed Career Criminal Act's ("ACCA") definition of "violent felony" only …
22-7729 William J. Sears v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 Did the Court of Appeals err when it denied my Motion for Certificate of Appealability? Did the District Court err when it denied my § 2255 petition …
22-7716 Minnela Moore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that …
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…
22-1178 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre Ninth Circuit 2023-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (10) administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing Individuals are sometimes removed from the No Fly List during ongoing litigation about their placement on that list. The Fourth and Sixth Circuits hav…
22-7709 Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Did Reprise His Grounds from His Motion…
22-7682 Tyrin Gayle v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief? II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal…
22-7690 Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder…
22-7692 Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five Justices of this Court agreed that offenses with a reckless mens rea do not qualify as a "vio…
22-1165 Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, et al. v. Moab Partners, L.P., et al. Second Circuit 2023-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Response Waived circuit-split item-303 item-303-disclosure material-fact private-right-of-action sec-regulation-s-k sec-rule-10b-5 section-10b securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding —in conflict with the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits—that a failure to make a disclosure required und…
22-7650 Nolan Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d …
22-7635 Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach?
22-7646 Derek Pelker v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers Mr. Pelker alleged the Federal Governments impermissible collusion within the prosecution of the Commonwealth.of Pennsylvania for the same misconduct …
22-7627 Denis Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause Whether the "reason to believe" standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the …
22-7628 Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is "c…
22-7629 Jose Luis Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. Whether police may enter and perform a "protective sweep" of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sug…
22-7589 Troy G. Saxton v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brown-v-ohio certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy drug-possession habeas habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists spatial-units Whether a habeas petitioner satisfies his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) for the issuance of a certificate of appealability when he demonstrates t…
22-7584 Kahliq Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl…
22-1111 Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Third Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Relisted (3) agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable, and if so, whether it requires that the Defendant(s)…
22-7528 Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution sixth-amendment sovereign-delay speedy-trial state-prosecution After indicting Mr. Garcia on federal charges, the government delayed bringing him into federal custody for 23 months as it waited for the completion …
22-7505 Charles Alfred Armajo, Jr. v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review I. Did the panel of the Tenth Circuit err by improperly deciding the merit of an appeal before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of app…
22-7517 Phillip Daniel Love v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review When a district court rejects a party's nonfrivolous sentencing argument, the court is required to explain why. Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 3…
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?
22-1085 GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund, et al. v. MNG Enterprises, Inc., dba Digital First Media Ninth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response Waived asset-sale circuit-split civil-procedure contribution-history employee-retirement-fund pension-fund successor-liability withdrawal-liability Whether a predecessor's contribution history is properly included in the withdrawal liability assessments of its successor.
22-7471 Renzo Alegre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) — which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter…
22-7458 Roger Wayne Battle v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it…
22-7464 Montez Hall v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it…
22-1068 Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) when it concluded that he had not made…
22-7439 Julio Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals important question of …
22-7436 Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. …
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and …
22-7433 Carlos Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granting a CoA on the basis that the Petitioner was not able to argue his case without appointed counsel.
22-7435 Alex Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require a trial court to instruct, or refuse to instruct, the Jury on the fundamental meaning of "B…
22-1055 Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com…
22-1043 Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether the Sixth Circuit split with the Second, and erroneously departed from this Court's jurisprudence, when it refused to honor the spirit of the …
22-7371 Ryan William Buchheim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop In the context of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and a subsequent Application for Certificate of Appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 Petitione…
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction The miscarriage-of-justice gateway excuses a habeas petitioner from complying with certain procedural hurdles like AEDPA's statute of limitations if, …
22-7381 Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process selective-prosecution standing Whether Petitioner was a victim of Selective Prosecution. Whether Petitioner was erroneously denied a Certificate of Appealability.
22-7361 Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice.
22-7354 Rafael L. Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,…
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing 1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened. 2.…
22-1015 Leon A. Brown, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-courts burns-v-wilson circuit-split exculpatory-evidence military-habeas-corpus military-justice-act military-justice-act-of-1983 uniform-code-of-military-justice L. Whether the Court should overrule Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953), where its validity has been undermined by a circuit split in its applicatio…
22-1016 Cardone Capital, LLC, et al. v. Luis Pino Ninth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bespeaks-caution-doctrine circuit-split forward-looking-statements risk-disclosures securities-act seller-liability It is a bedrock principle of the Securities Act that investors are responsible for bearing the risks of investments about which they are adequately wa…
22-7318 Shannon Miles Lancaster v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidence-suppression fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance involuntary-plea plea-involuntariness south-carolina-homeland-security-act strickland strickland-standard suppression-motion Whether the District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to grant Petitioner a certificate of appealability, where the St…
22-7322 Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by denying a certificate of appealability?
22-7308 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…
22-1006 Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright Seventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as "transportation of property … between a place in a State and … a…
22-1008 Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Judgment Issued Amici (15) administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations Petitioner Corner Post, Inc. is a convenience store and truck stop in North Dakota that first opened for business in 2018. In 2021, Corner Post sued t…
22-1010 Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo 1. Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory an…
22-1011 Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause, which presumes that information from a purported victim is inherently reliable, violate…
22-1000 William Casiano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability contemporaneous-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining strickland-prejudice 1. Does the rule in Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958, 1967 (2017), that directs courts to credit contemporaneous evidence, and not "post hoc asse…
22-7283 Ronald O. LaTray v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-courts stone-v-powell What constitutes a full and fair opportunity to litigate a United States Constitutional Fourth Amendment violation complaint invoking the exclusionary…
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 …
22-7300 James D. Sullivan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-abandonment counsel-misconduct federal-bench habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice plea-withdrawal pro-se pro-se-representation standing 1. Will this Court remand with a certificate of appealability in a case where a district court perverted the habeas corpus process by ignoring specifi…
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…
22-7263 Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list…
22-7252 Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it denied the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing despite the petitioner's showing that his…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues I. Whether Mr. Wahl Was Denied His Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Violation Of The Guarantees Of The Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments? II. …
22-7244 Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard When a State court's summary denial assumed the truth of the facts plead in a State habeas writ application and a Federal habeas court, pursuant to 28…
22-7237 Eric Grzywinski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen…
22-7241 Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah Utah 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi…
22-7234 Gerald Wayne LeBeau v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus procedural-ruling standing QUESTION ONE: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN DENYING LEBEAU'S EQUITABLE TOLLING? QUESTION TWO: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN D…
22-7194 Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor I. Is the reasoning of Taylor irrelevant to deciding whether an overbroad state crime qualifies as an ACCA predicate, as the Sixth Circuit held below?…
22-7210 David McCall, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason sentence-reduction sentencing-law Whether a district court may consider the disparity in a sentence when the applicable sentencing law has changed, when the disparity is of a degree wh…
22-7169 Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi…
22-7158 Reginald Langston Luster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-testify stand-your-ground trial-counsel I. Whether Petitioner Luster Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether the State Court Erred in Denying Luster's Claim Tha…
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure I. The Court of Appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is Contrary to a decision of this court because it sidestepped the COA Proces…
22-946 Martin Jay Manley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for purposes of applying the categorical approach t…
22-935 Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement, as the S…
22-7092 Lorenzo Hardwick v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel third-circuit DID THE APPEALS COURT FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERROR BY DENYING PETITIONERS CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE APPELLATE COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASS…
22-7095 Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied IFP 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende…
22-7069 Sandy Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conditions-of-release due-process federal-supervised-release liberty-deprivation sex-offenders In the context of federal supervised release, whether an absolute lifetime ban on communication with minors, with no exception for supervised contact …
22-926 U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Amici (1) article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to …
22-7061 Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t…
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…
22-7052 Colby Todd Dubose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability generic-burglary non-permanent-structures oregon-first-degree-burglary overnight-accommodation reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation stitt-decision stitt-v-united-states Could reasonable jurists debate whether, after Stitt, Oregon first-degree burglary remains categorically broader than generic burglary because the sta…
22-7053 Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is …
22-7054 Jamar L. Travillion v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-review forfeiture habeas-corpus procedural-standard right-to-counsel waiver I. Could reasonable jurists disagree with the District Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim that the State Courts' determination that he forfeited…
22-7059 Aaron M. Haynes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow …
22-912 James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-…
22-914 Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court may assume "hypothetical" subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging…
22-7032 Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Should a certificate of appealability have been issued by the court of appeals for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 which presen…
22-7033 DeAndre Forrest v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceeded his guilt during trial? 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Er…
22-7036 Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make …
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…
22-7031 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzales-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar procedural-rulings rule-60 statute-of-limitations Point 1 Should a Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) and 60(d)(3) mixed motion initially be reviewed de novo, without requiring a certificate of Appealability Point 2…
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…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-886 Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial activity within the meaning …
22-7008 Heath R. Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-sexual-abuse forensic-interview forensic-interviews habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on his claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Ame…
22-6990 Scott Ray Bishop v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-against-waiver right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver In Von Moltke v. Gillies, this Court laid out a series of advisements that a defendant must understand before a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to…
22-866 John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22-875 Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When faced with a Sixth Amendment claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, a court must determine whether counsel's performance "fell below an obj…
22-6982 Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT…
22-860 Chene Devonne Manley v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability chiari-malformation due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing-determination Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle an applicant to a certificate of appealability regarding a state prison…
22-6955 Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal…
22-6959 Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment anders-brief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations summary-judgment 1). In an appeal of a 2254, at the "C.O.A." stage, When the U.S. District Court: accepts the affirmative defense of ' Statute of Limitation violat ion…
22-6936 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts…
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…
22-6912 Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitution…
22-834 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability cultural-bias cultural-predisposition habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus trial-counsel In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), this Court again condemned the use of racial animus in the sexual assault trial of a Mexican man, …
22-828 Roger E. Pace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a…
22-817 Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below, and in other Tenth Circuit cases, conflicts with this Court's deci…
22-809 Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) causation circuit-split first-amendment government-act injury mens-rea self-censorship standing 1. To have standing to challenge an unlawful government act, must a plaintiff show that the act is the sole cause of its injury, as the Fifth Circuit …
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
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?
22-6847 Philip M. Close v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), …
22-6834 Michael Laury v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 21 U.S.C. § 856 (A)(2) makes it unlawful to manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employ…
22-6836 Robert Speed v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court…
22-793 Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1…
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation 1. Whether , in this denial of benefits case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. , the cour…
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity When, if ever, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires vacatur of a criminal conviction based on the government's refusal to seek immun…
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression 1. Whether, to establish "suppression" under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the parallel "cause" to excuse procedural default of a Brad…
22-6784 Jerry Don South v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation 1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? …
22-6792 Gary D. Swierski v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order-to-show-cause reasonably-debatable second-amendment standing (1) When the Northern District Court issued an "ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE" in this Petitioner's (S.A.P.') Second Amendment Petition, is that indicative that…
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement To search a target's phone, does probable cause and good faith require a nexus between the target's phone and the crime demonstrated by case-specific …
22-6752 Enrique Nunes Lopez v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability home-defense justifiable-homicide self-defense I. Given the Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense, and where the evidence tended to favor a verdic…
22-6738 Melvin G. Simms v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-report magistrate-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court Judge Violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution By Granting the Respondent'…
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal – whic…
22-747 Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-09 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within?
22-751 Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds 1. Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never p…
22-744 Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris…
22-738 Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2) 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and Whether the…
22-6717 Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States Third Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle…
22-6719 Michael Anthony Conage v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-6690 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.…
22-6673 Lenwood Mason v. Laurel Harry, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability counsel-replacement court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AFTER THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO MAKE AN INQUIRY INTO A TITLE 18 U…
22-6680 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment No: 1 )Was the Court of Appeals wrong for failing to dismiss the defective indictment that created a split in circuits where the the Fifth and Ninth…
22-6683 Terrell Javon Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch…
22-6684 In Re Fox Joseph Salerno 2023-02-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief standing Question not identified.
22-714 Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943) and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the case to the agency after determining that…
22-716 Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use…
22-720 Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (4) administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation What is the proper test for determining whether the "diligent prosecution bar" under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde…
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less sea…
22-713 Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response Waived bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis 1) Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?: In the decision below, the Eleventh Circuit appears …
22-6667 Robert Henry Steele v. Dan Redington Eighth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
22-6668 Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely…
22-6656 Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw After learning of the objective evidence (body camera video footage) documenting an unlawful warrantless search and seizure, the defendant moved to wi…
22-707 Barry J. Cadden v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement 1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse…
22-6646 Omar Shaheer Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest 1) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that His Warrantless Arrest was…
22-6653 Jayson Montgomery v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful…
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?
22-6634 Rafael Espino v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl…
22-6640 Eugene Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-26 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules …
22-693 Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju…
22-6621 Jason Sewell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure denial-of-petition due-process habeas-corpus non-frivolous-claims petition-denial texas-law 1) Was Petitioner entitled to a certificate of appealability on four claims following the denial of his petition, where each issue presented non-frivo…
22-6591 Alecia Trapps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under § 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines conflict with a rule that at lea…
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. …
22-6593 Steven C. Heiser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability certiorari-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus limitations-defense party-presentation statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Mr. Heiser humbly asks this Honorable Court to invoke its judicial discretion and consider the following questions: 1. THIS COURT SHOULD EXERCISE ITS…
22-6596 Laverne C. Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit violated Henderson's rights when it ignored this Courts precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, B…
22-6600 Eric Banks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute…
22-6587 Vernon White v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t…
22-6581 John Krasley v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts The Third Circuit, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the scope of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), and its prohibition against propensity evi…
22-6564 Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines Does the aggravating role enhancement for "leader[s]" or "organizer[s]" of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten…
22-658 Victor Gates v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion and commit an error of law in not issuing a Certificate of Appeal…
22-653 Melvin Ray v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response Waived abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states Under § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G "), a four- level increase applies to a defendant 's offense level, " if a…
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-652 Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted. Whether untaint…
22-6531 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the ruling in GARZA V, IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiffs Constitutional guarantee? A. Pending judgement (Writ of Cert.) in S…
22-6536 Antoine D. Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation (1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive …
22-6540 Brandon Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied IFP actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al…
22-6542 Warren Douglas Vann v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-claim procedural-deadline statute-of-limitations Whether, for purposes of a certificate of appealability, it is debatable that reasonable jurists would find that equitable tolling applies to the Peti…
22-643 Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four…
22-644 Anthony Lomax v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explaining…
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas 2023-01-11 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination In considering whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege agai…
22-6520 Tiffany Franklin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller This is a case of first impression of whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault te…
22-6521 William Randall Brannan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue.
22-6501 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial QUESTION ONE The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it did not issue a Certificate of Appealability as the Petitioner met the requirement und…
22-631 Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the …
22-6466 Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con…
22-615 Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony A police shooting case where the defendant officer has killed the only other witness to the incident presents difficult questions. The circuits are di…
22-6463 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction brady-violation certificate-of-appealability district-court-jurisdiction due-process eighth-circuit-court exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel title-28-usc-2253 title-28-usc-2255 Did the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to deny or address the claims raised on Johnson's Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253 in his request for a…
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation In the context of electronic communications, a series of statutes give companies permission to access their users' private correspondence, remove impe…
22-6446 James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred #1. Whether Hardin v. Straub , 490 U.S. 536, 109 S.Ct. (1998), 104 L.Ed 2d 582, 57 USLW 4554 is relevant pursuant to United States Supreme Court, Jus…
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 -fU«- Uwvr^ed S+a-Ve-S Cour'V erf Appeals c t rcuv-V <a.biAsed A JsereViow u)Uew\j4'<ie.v\Wcl ~V*14-(owAe-V'k re«jues4" 'for' 1?5UAnce <sp *v ce-v-V…
22-6432 Edward Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 …
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe…
22-6406 William James Truesdale v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied IFP appellate-filing-fee certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit filing-fee habeas-corpus pro-se-petition standing Whether petitioner Truesdale owes the District Court Clerk the docketing and filing fee in order to obtain a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") from…
22-589 Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Cla…
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's…
22-6379 Leetavious Gaines v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d…
22-573 BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con…
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Do the requirements of Ohio App.R.26(B) comport with due process where it advises an applicant to include "One of more assignments of error or argumen…
22-6370 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…
22-564 Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force After initially fleeing from police who suspected him of speeding, petitioner encountered a roadblock, pulled his car over, exited, and lay face down …
22-568 Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response Waived artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa 1. Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action "alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact" when the complaint contains no such alleg…
22-556 N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e…
22-559 Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI…
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid…
22-6318 Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a…
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing This case involves an important issue in which there is a split of authority in the lower courts regarding whether there is a reasonable expectation o…
22-6306 Marion Joseph Hare v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? (2…
22-542 Tavaris Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
22-6281 Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of th…
22-6264 Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1998), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now Auer deference, applies to interpretive or explanat…
22-6268 David Miller, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mental-illness statute-of-limitations 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and deny Miller his due process rights under the Fifth a…
22-6277 Paul E. Pavulak v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition 1. When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a …
22-531 Alan Wofsy, et al. v. Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement creativity fair-use first-fair-use-factor originality-standard reproduction-rights scholarly-work third-fair-use-factor Petitioner Alan Wofsy reproduced documentary photographs of Pablo Picasso's artwork for inclusion in a comprehensive, annotated series of reference bo…
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence I. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Co…
22-6219 Bruce Wood v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability coa conflict-with-court-precedent due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60 rule-60-motion 1. When Petitioner's exculpatory evidence infers an innocent man is imprisoned, did the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court endorse a Fundamental…
22-512 Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p…
22-502 Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust May a debtor in bankruptcy discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust?
22-507 Tyson Martin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonabl-jurists-debate reasonable-jurists Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claim (i.…
22-509 J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for…
22-6177 Sanders McDaniel Carter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-vs-maryland certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus rule-60 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard tha…
22-6153 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review 1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant to Miller …
22-6130 Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal …
22-6117 Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are …
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum 1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b…
22-480 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a…
22-471 Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws "relating to" the "subject matters" expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state…
22-6106 David Shane Paquette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit.
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as…
22-6109 Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit…
22-6059 Maurice Oparaji v. Municipal Credit Union Second Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process electronic-fund-transfer-act rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-judgment supplemental-jurisdiction 1. Whether the district court erred in dismissing Oparaji's complaint under Fed. R. Civil P. 12(b) (6), alleging that .Oparaj i sets no factual allega…
22-6089 Heeralall Puran v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus math-mistake time-limitation untimely-petition Whether Petitioner Puran Is Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the Question Whether Equitable Tolling Should Apply to Permit an Untimely Ha…
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment More than four decades ago, this Court held that it is crucial that the jury be allowed to hear evidence of a defendant's positive adjustment to priso…
22-6062 Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of "organize" within the context of …
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court …
22-6076 Joseph Rauber v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation The federal sentencing statute contains a "safety valve" that protects defendants from mandatory minimum sentences if they meet certain criteria. 18 U…
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…
22-435 Renetrice R. Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied Amici (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split emotional-distress fair-debt-collection-practices-act intangible-injuries intangible-injury psychological-harm statutory-right Whether a plaintiff who suffers emotional or psychological distress and confusion from a debt collector's unlawful attempt to collect a debt has Artic…
22-6017 Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing (1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A C…
22-6001 Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Whether, after enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3) as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a State can forfeit the affir…
22-419 Cedric Chanu v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev…
22-5978 Richard R. Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention-versus-arrest due-process evidentiary-hearing sworn-testimony WHETHER A DETERMINATION BY THE LOWER COURTS THAT THE OFFICERS ONLY DETAINED THE PETITIONER, AND NOT ARRESTED HIM, WHICH FINDING WAS IN DIRECT CONFLICT…
22-399 Adam Dean Brown v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied accident-reconstruction burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct traffic-accident Did Petitioner satisfy the burden for the issuance of a certificate of appealability on his ineffective assistance of counsel claims where his trial a…
22-402 James Vorley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5942 David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi…
22-5930 Davon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni…
22-5911 Clark Wesley Betts, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review merits merits-review procedural-order statutory-interpretation Is a certificate of appealability needed to appeal an order unrelated to the merits of a habeas proceeding if that order is part of an order on the me…
22-392 Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response Waived abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins by denying Bel Air's motion to defer its ruli…
22-5902 Monica Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est…
22-5904 Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD CLARIFY AND RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE STANDARDS TO BE UTILIZED WHEN DECIDING THE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO…
22-5895 Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra…
22-5897 Unises Chapotin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness 1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnso…
22-383 CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a "domestic" injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t…
22-374 Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 GVR Relisted (5) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f…
22-5873 Nicholas Levi Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-materials one-year-time-limit prison-lockdown Did the district error in holding that defendant violated AEDPA's one-year time limit for filing §2255 motion, even though prison was locked-down with…
22-5877 Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-5878 William D. King v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation When, whether deciding if a defendant has presented an "extraordinary and compelling" reason for a sentence modification under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(…
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…
22-5870 Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double je…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to…
22-5850 Justin Michael Fenney v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied IFP 2253-statute 28-usc-2253 appellate-relief certificate-of-appealability conviction factual-support federal-court-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § about the denial of relief where there remains no factual support for…
22-5859 Marcal Fraction v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and…
22-5864 David Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceeding certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)?
22-354 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing The first question presented, on which the circuits are now divided, is whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement fro…
22-346 Robert Anderson, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Infinity Business Group, Inc. v. Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 11-usc-544 bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee circuit-split creditor-recovery creditors in-pari-delicto section-544a state-law state-law-preemption trustee Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking recovery on behalf of creditors under 11 U.S.C. 544(a) is subject to the debtor's knowledge.
22-340 Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-12 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow …
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5788 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…
22-331 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero Ninth Circuit 2022-10-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101…
22-324 Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (3) blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a…
22-317 Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law? 2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi…
22-5750 Salvador Diaz v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review Where the COA determination under § 2253(c) requires an overview of the claims in the habeas petition and a general assessment of their merits, did th…
22-5734 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from …
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-309 City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship Ninth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance The "equal terms" provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) states that "[n]o government shall impose or …
22-5725 Marty Joe Banghart v. Dan Sullivan, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
22-5727 Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING GARRETT A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON HIS 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2254 HABEAS CLAIM OF IN…
22-5712 Ramona I. Morgan v. Gloria Geither Tenth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-review statutory-interpretation 1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appeal to the Petitioner [Edmond Morgan]? 2. Should …
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-293 Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der…
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
22-5703 Charles Michael Ledford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pro-se statute-of-limitations summary-dismissal Whether it is inconsistent with this Court's Slack v. McDaniel 824 U.S. 473 (2008) standard for a court of appeals to decline to issue a certificate o…
22-285 B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine…
22-5677 Michael Louis McCarron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen…
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5647 Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. §2253 by requiring Petitioner to be granted a Certificate of Appea…
22-5637 Dwayne Stone v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation Whether crimes of physical inaction have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of …
22-268 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance Seventh Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab…
22-5625 Orville Tucker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation 1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary …
22-252 Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), federal courts sitting in diversity should apply federal or state law to determine t…
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 …
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge? …
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…
22-5565 Fedner Pierre-Louis v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability debatable-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE RULING OF THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IS CONTRARY TO CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW WHERE THE COURT FAILED TO GRANT A…
22-5557 David Laurence Hodges v. William Bolin, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
22-5569 Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
22-227 Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin First Circuit 2022-09-12 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes.
22-5522 Fernando Cazares v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the …
22-5542 Johnny A. Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP capital-cases certificate-of-appealability cumulative-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington wiggins-claim Wiggins-v-Smith 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained summary denials of certificates of appealability in capital cases conflicts with 28 U.…
22-5549 Emmanuel Maxime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica…
22-5555 Denni Valdez v. Eckert Stewart, Warden Second Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process en-banc-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure rehearing-en-banc 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate Appellant's Constitutional right to Due Process by not issuing a Certificate of Appealability or granting a hearin…
22-220 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Amici (2) antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives The Railway Labor Act ("RLA") prohibits carriers from interfering with their employees' "choice of representatives." 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third. Union Paci…
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 1. Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitione…
22-209 Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase "an event or occurrence" in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—"a single happening"—as the Ninth Circuit holds,…
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.
22-5532 Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition?
22-5535 Eric Kamahele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" …
22-5538 Kepa Maumau v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" …
22-205 Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a federal court, assessing the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case based wholly on circumstantial evidence, must apply the "rule of…
22-5515 Jose Agapito Salas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation At The Federal Level After The District Court Receives An Ordered Response From The Government To A Federal Prisoner's Petition For Habeas Corpus Reli…
22-5519 Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial conviction and habeas corpus proceedings raises Kareem Stansbury's pressing issues of national importance; Whether, and to what extent the criminal ju…
22-5455 Tyrone Woolaston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense that a defendant is entitled to present to a jury when it is undisputed that the Government tra…
22-5499 Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERROR IN DENYING THE COA AND NOT TAKING INTO THE COUNT THE COMPLEXITY AND SEVERITY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATION?…
22-195 Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli Seventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri…
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Question 1 Whether it is acceptable for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit to depart from its accepted and usual course of judici…
22-193 Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-31 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer …
22-5477 Tracey L. Brown v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this …
22-185 Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2022-08-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award 1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro…
22-186 Troy Mansfield v. Williamson County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Amici (6) brady-violation brady-vs-maryland circuit-split criminal-justice due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the due process right recognized in Brady requires the disclosure of exculpatory evidence (or at the very least, evidence of factual innocence…
22-187 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims Under controlling Supreme Court authority, must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on "loss of life" damages in survival claims pursued via…
22-178 Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives First Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act What is the scope of the "extraordinary character" exception to legislative immunity? Does legislative immunity insulate state legislatures and/or le…
22-5453 Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t…
22-5460 Bradley Lane Croft v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 GVR Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau…
22-5461 James Keith Russey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h…
22-175 Steven M. Recht, et al. v. Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of West Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split commercial-speech disclaimer-requirements due-process first-amendment legal-advertising misleading-advertising professional-regulation speech-restrictions Applying a version of commercial-speech doctrine that heavily deferred to legislative choices, which ignoring other requirements in this Court's decis…
22-5429 Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether …
22-5437 Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati…
22-5440 Joseph Griego v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem…
22-5442 Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington I. Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
22-167 Daniel J. Van Linn v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-08-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split evidence-admissibility exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source objective-inquiry reasonable-officer subjective-inquiry Whether a court seeking to determine if a source of evidence is "genuinely independent" for purposes of the "independent source" exception to the excl…
22-5426 Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied IFP autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. …
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
22-5415 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lost-evidence mandamus mandamus-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b speedy-trial Did the Tenth Circuit err in not granting a COA and refusing to remand back to the district court or to properly consider Medina's Rule 60(b) motion? …
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-5399 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to: reimburse …
22-5403 Paul Frederick Stover v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision Ninth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense second-degree-assault sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Could reasonable jurists debate whether trial counsel's failure to request a lesser-included offense instruction as an alternative to second degree as…
22-5404 Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied IFP abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A)
22-5368 Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED AN IMPROPER HEIGHTENED STANDARD UNDER SLACK V. MCDANIAL, 120 S.Ct 1595 at 1604 (2000) AND BUCK V…
22-135 Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu…
22-5346 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 GVR IFP 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness 1. Whether the District Court erred by instructing the deliberate-indifference instruction based upon the facts in this case when it denied defendant'…
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Abraham Fisch's case raises a pressing issue for this court's consideration: Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far depar…
22-121 ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use…
22-123 University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix Can schools be held liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified that it happened?
22-124 Brett C. Kimberlin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-disability civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review standing writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a "civil disability"—that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, is s…
22-5303 George Daniel McGavitt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A).
22-5286 Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media 1. WHAT IS THE PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST SOMEONE FOR ALLEGEDLY SENDING TWO ANONYMOUS MESSAGES FROM TWO DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS WHICH WAS NEIT…
22-111 United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2022-08-05 Judgment Issued Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno…
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Petitioner Phillip A. Brown II respectfully petitions this Court for a Writ of Certiorari to review the judgement of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal…
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin…
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…
22-5270 Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause?
22-5278 Jordan Jenkins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat…
22-105 Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski Ninth Circuit 2022-08-03 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap…
22-103 Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment This petition presents one or more questions of exceptional importance. In particular, the Tenth Circuit conflicts with authoritative decisions of the…
22-5251 Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN…
22-5253 Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3…
22-99 Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings …
22-93 Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal…
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b 1) Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability ("COA") to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds? 2)…
22-96 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. First Circuit 2022-08-01 Judgment Issued Amici (11) abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea…
22-5226 Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted …
22-5217 Ramell Markus v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective Like other Sentencing Guidelines provisions involving violence, the Guidelines for kidnapping offenses (USSG §2A4.1) enhance a defendant's sentence wh…
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard QUESTION ONE: IN FILING FOR A COA, CAN A SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE RECORD BY AN INDIGENT BE CONSIDERED A SUBSTANTIVE PART OF DEMONSTRATING "A SUBSTA…
22-5201 Jurel Dion Roberson v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest ninth-circuit state-courts state-created-liberty-interest When the State Courts denied Petitioner Wis state created becky interest, LAS i¢ error to deny the Cerhficate of Appealability im the Ninth Circult?
22-5210 Travis Louis Shaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial reasonable-doubt strickland-v-washington us-constitution L Whether Petitioner should be granted a Certificate of Appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2253 on the issue of whether (A) Petitioner was denied hi…
22-78 Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law…
22-80 Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application 1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a …
22-69 Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass, LLC, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split compliance-threshold energy-facility environmental-compliance federal-law placed-in-service renewable-energy tax-benefits tax-incentives Whether an energy facility is "placed in service" within the meaning of federal law whenever it can produce and sell some electricity without regard f…
22-76 Keith L. Carnes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Amici (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual…
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…
22-5189 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion (1) Whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied Abdulrazzak's motion to reopen (alter or amend) final judgment under Fed. R. Civ. …
22-5191 Anis Blemur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability controlling-precedent district-court eleventh-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion remand Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in hold…
22-5173 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brecht certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-determination rule-60(b) state-court-prejudice This petition presents two important issues concerning a state court's prejudice determination on direct review, 28 U.S.C. §2254(d); and the appropria…
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 …
22-5147 Ortavious Devon Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the trial court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l…
22-5150 Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal The Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits require that before the government may introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence to rebut a c…
22-56 101 Houseco, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-forfeiture due-process parklane-hosiery property-rights standing third-party-claimant This Court has declared that "[i]t is a violation of due process for a judgment to be binding on a litigant who was not a party or a privy and therefo…
22-49 Efrain Lora v. United States Second Circuit 2022-07-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth…
22-5138 Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als…
22-5109 Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied IFP attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it found that Petitioner's "organic" brain dysfunction was not enough of a red flag to trigger a duty for trial coun…
22-5111 Robert Doyle Harper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice?
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…
22-5107 Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines SHOULD STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREE…
22-5090 Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
22-36 Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages 1) The Ninth Circuit is in disagreement with the Second and Eight Circuits: Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitut…
22-5066 John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment (1) Does a certificate of appealability ("COA") debatability review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) mean that the COA panel may deny debatability of…
22-5050 Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell Seventh Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence The Seventh Circuit's Opinion has stretched The United States Supreme Court's Opinion in Brady v. Maryland beyond.its logical bounds when compared wit…
22-18 Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule…
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari 1. Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance? 2. Are juries entitled to factual answers once aski…
22-5045 Shaheed Scott, Sr., aka Rodney L. Scott v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights confinement-challenge due-process early-release habeas-corpus parole parole-hearing procedural-defect Did the Ninth Circuit Court properly deny habeas petition where petitioner made substantial showing requirement at -least- described a burden that the…
22-5024 Jerod Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell mistrial postconviction-relief prejudice-prong reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. Whether the prejudice prong set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is established if a petitioner/defendant can demonstrate th…
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…
22-10 David Fox Dubin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-05 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (4) circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]…
22-5010 Tedroy Davis v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights doyle-error doyle-v-ohio due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit post-miranda-silence Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability (COA) articulated by this Court in cases such as Buck v…
21-1606 Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the "state-created danger" theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate…
21-1608 McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix Second Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c…
21-8259 In Re Johnny Brett Gregory 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-tort-claims-act habeas-corpus mandamus ninth-circuit standing united-states-court-of-appeals writ-of-certiorari on 2^ 2o2.\ , o-F * / fl/ot/ ct 0-£ h'lt*y ,o4 7'or-i cUt/rts- flc-t [FT cA) rel"tvu /o OhArtat 7Ay /A 1 n (rr*-yry V, Ur\AA /cr$ub/r\ J$6/o^\ . -f…
21-8260 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…
21-8268 Roger Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni…
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?
21-8247 Johnathan Carter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims…
21-8252 Isaac Jude Rodriguez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect jurisdiction jurisdictional-time-limit legal-filing procedural-rules state-court writ-of-certiorari VJHer-rPCfc T've /I'P'P cals pjjp I i ^w^/^-pro t//at/p£^riTitfw€Z 'S /ionot-l fofc CerT?T/HCA t£ PP /dpPcALA'S/C/r'f U/^5 P/(/<£]> utJ-ri/WcLH ofc A…
21-8253 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…
21-8255 Christopher Alexander Reilly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress notice-of-appeal section-2255 WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, TO ALLOW DEFENDANT REILLY TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT C…
21-1598 City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death Under Robertson v. Wegmann, 436 U.S. 584 (1978) must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on hedonic damages to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival c…
21-8236 Edward Toliver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application…
21-8229 Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou…
21-1589 Henry McInnis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims first-amendment fraud hospice-fraud medical-certification regulatory-liability social-security-act Did the lower court err in finding pervasive fraud as to "false" hospice certifications —following the Third Circuit as opposed to the Eleventh Circui…
21-8223 Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado Tenth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction I. Should a 28 USC 224 1 HC (not a 28 USC 2254 HC) be filed in State in which incarcerated or State in which conviction occurred, for a State prisone…
21-8224 Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of …
21-8191 Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten…
21-1576 Timothy J. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Ci…
21-8175 Adrian Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals due-process government-objection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-jurisdiction sua-sponte sua-sponte-review Where the Court of Appeals itself grants a Certificate of Appealability and specifies the issue to be decided, the parties fully brief the merits, and…
21-8182 Reuben Conway v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan…
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti…
21-8147 John P. Tomkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion 1. Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.…
21-8127 Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem…
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…
21-8137 David Lee Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strategic-decision undercover-operation 1. 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 ineffe…
21-1558 John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability when it…
21-1552 Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops Whether, before proceeding to the qualified immunity analysis, courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his aut…
21-8118 Myron Dejuan Orr v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) 18-U.S.C.-3582(c) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c abuse-of-discretion circuit-split extraordinary-and-or-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-disparity 1. Whether the lower courts rulings amount to an An abuse of discretion when failing to consider That a disparity in sentencing amounts to an abuse …
21-8099 Darnell McConnell, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-8103 Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm." Does the word "for" …
21-8082 Arthur Houze v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and…
21-8055 In Re Shane Jeansonne 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing pul -f-U nrCO(sh SfalcQi of H,V CH&S /* f%VA*Sh M \t> P^{*- H-€ O <\ pztP^<il S-j-PPZ 0/? q^yq/'i^G Unfif °l i $ fOM>\d '\-0 , T^i(\ n\(AcU [v^y-lirp^…
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…
21-1521 New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response Waived arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability "Congress enacted the [Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980] MPPAA to protect the financial solvency of multiemployer pension plans." Bay…
21-8020 Ronald Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-abuse drug-distribution heroin-possession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel serious-bodily-injury 1. Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because she failed to consult or hire an expert witness in drug abuse (rather than toxicology) to in…
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…
21-8034 Robert Lawrence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United…
21-8022 William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte 1. Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until def…
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing [QUESTION ONE] Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Ce…
21-8001 Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied IFP architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection The most important questions for any form of intellectual property are what gets protection, i.e., the subject matter, and the scope of that protectio…
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…
21-7994 Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t…
21-7956 Timothy McClendon v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-technique miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona missouri-v-seibert sixth-amendment WHETHER JURISTS OF REASON COULD DEBATE THE DISTRICT COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE DETECTIVES ACTIONS WERE NOT A CORRDINATED TWO-STEP INTERROGATION TECHN…
21-7973 In Re Roberto Villarreal 2022-05-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization 1. Whether applicant/petitioner, denied certificate of appealabihty for habeas relief from the District Court, has no other court to go to but here. …
21-7962 Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a certificate of appealability is not warranted is in irreconcilable conflict with this Court's decis…
21-7938 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…
21-7942 P'erre Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De…
21-7928 Timothy Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion As required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Lindsey secured prefiling authorization from the Fifth Circuit before filing a successive motion to vacate …
21-7925 Robert Wallace Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing 1) Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability. …
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…
21-7861 Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome of Suprem…
21-7871 Clifton D. Harvin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-case law-of-the-case Did the the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit impose an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of A Appealability standard that…
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to the following issue: Whether Miss.…
21-1436 Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Judgment Issued Amici (3) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited. …
21-1431 Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-11 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding …
21-7837 Cedric D. Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of …
21-7841 Danny Jewell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine …
21-7828 Kimberly Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines 1. Who bears the burden of proving or disproving "personal use" quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guid…
21-7812 Delton Eugene Warren v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-signature original-public-meaning search-warrant starr-v-united-states warrant-clause Whether search warrants must be signed by the issuing judicial officer, or whether the First, Fourth, and Tenth Circuits' literalist interpretation of…
21-1428 Donald L. Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Amici (1) brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he could not have obtained the suppressed, excu…
21-1405 Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Amici (8) accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa In Knight v. Thompson , the Eleventh Circuit concluded —on remand following Holt v. Hobbs , 574 U.S. 352 (2015) —that the Religious Land Use and Insti…
21-1426 Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-06 Dismissed ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals …
21-7783 Reynaldo Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge 1. Whether, given that there is a split in the circuits on the question, reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent preclud…
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…
21-1397 In Re Grand Jury Ninth Circuit 2022-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege where obtaining or providing legal advice …
21-7748 Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant…
21-7753 Levi Miller v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant Under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 171-72 (1978), when the police deliberately mislead by omitting material information from an application for a…
21-7746 David Piper, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were…
21-7692 Manuel Geraldo v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review petitioner-rights procedural-fairness Whether a Court of Appeals Paying Lipservice in denying a COA violates the princples of Due Process in effecting petitioner's opportunity toibe heard.
21-7697 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…
21-7708 Amit Patel v. Mark Rockwood Second Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus in-custody When the District Court sua sponte "closed the Courthouse doors" upon "Garden-Variety" reasons, dismissing writ of Habeas corpus for 1) statute of lim…
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 …
21-7690 Anthony J. Springer v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure entrapment-by-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-supreme-court pre-trial-defense reasonable-jurist TRAIL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL PROVIDED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESENT THE PRE-TRIAL DEFENSE OF ENTRAPMENT BY ESTOPPEL. A…
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness How does the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit justify affirming the decision of the District Court in denying petitioner's petition for COA,…
21-7673 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed? 21 U.S.C. § 853(p) authorizes f…
21-1366 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements, if applicable, to be listed in the show cause order to satisfy proper notice re…
21-7652 Damian Scott Olvera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C…
21-7657 Kirk L. Floyd v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony The Georgia burglary statute disjunctively lists locations that may be burgled. The text makes plain that the list is not exclusive, Georgia's case la…
21-7624 Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any person can be charged …
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…
21-7611 John Charles Eichinger v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied IFP capital-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining remorse remorse-mitigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment In upholding counsel's overall remorse-based strategy as reasonable, did the Third Circuit violate the rule of Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52 (1985), a…
21-7604 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus procedural-access standing WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPROACH AND PRACTICE WHEN THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL AND ITS DOCKET CONTENT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY OUT OF STE…
21-1342 Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Dismissed administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation Does the ODA unambiguously foreclose FDA's decades-long, consistent interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's appro…
21-7582 Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 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…
21-7546 Ronald Scott Eddington v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-decoster wilson-v-sellers 1. Should the Ninth Circuit or the Federal District Court of Idaho have issued a COA on Petitioner's claims based on the evidence that Idaho courts co…
21-7552 Kalvin Bishop v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-grounds appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals debatable-issue due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-error third-circuit 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred when the Court dismissed Petitioner's application for certificate of appealability when other juri…
21-7530 Paul M. Weadick v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent[s] the communication by any person to a [Fe…
21-7524 Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHT WAS FORECLOSED ON WHEN ON APPEAL FROM THE LOWER COURTS DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO …
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…
21-7509 Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau…
21-7482 Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi…
21-7493 Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York Second Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Question not identified.
21-7494 David Samuels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals crime-of-violence district-court due-process fraud habeas-corpus legal-claims standing Did Petitioner make a Substantial Shawing of a derial of a Constitutional right. As required by 28usc 2253@)I Did the Caurt of Apeals err in denying …
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…
21-1297 Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs Petitioners, Catholic anti-nuclear activists, engaged in "symbolic disarmament" by damaging and spray painting facilities on a nuclear submarine base,…
21-1291 Rodney Muschette v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment I. Was Mr. Muschette Denied his 5th Amendment Right to Due Process when Admission of 404(b) evidence in violation of the test set forth in this Court'…
21-7458 Derek Williamson v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process jury-trial-rights lenient-standard self-defense summary-remand I. Does the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradict, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardin…
21-7420 Isiah Pierce v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003) that ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be litigated in collateral …
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…
21-7428 Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.…
21-7434 Darryl Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in …
21-1270 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed "integral" to a sale order, such …
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the "appreciable number of consumers" standard to the "l…
21-1266 Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th…
21-7413 Brian Folks v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence issue-preservation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether this Court should grant certiorari to recognize error and provide clarity about the prejudice that stems from a prosecutor's repeated requests…
21-7415 Matthew Rausenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-analysis custody-determination due-process habeas-corpus interrogation-circumstances miranda-warnings police-interrogation Whether reasonable jurists could debate the issue of custody for Miranda purposes, as various state and federal courts have, when an individual has be…
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 …
21-7383 Francis B. Armah v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied IFP abrogation access-to-courts appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rendered an unreasonable application of Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010) witho…
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest ha…
21-7391 Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede…
21-1251 Eric Ibarguen v. New York New York 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search Whether, or under what circumstances, social guests are entitled to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches of the home that t…
21-1255 Acres Bonusing, Inc., et al. v. Lester John Marston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied absolute-immunity administrative-conduct circuit-split conspiratorial-conduct court-employees functional-approach judicial-immunity ministerial-conduct In Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219, 227 (1988) this Court explained an absolute immunity is "justified and defined by the functions it protects and s…
21-1258 Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, in His Official Capacity v. Texas Entertainment Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split jurisdictional-statute public-revenue regulatory-fee revenue-measure sovereign-prerogative sovereign-prerogatives tax-injunction-act uniform-application The question presented is whether, under the TIA, a state revenue measure is a tax if it raises public revenue, notwithstanding a regulatory purpose, …
21-1241 Michael L. Binday v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-15 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on one's e…
21-7358 Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation 1. Whether, in accordance with Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), Petitioner made a showing that reasonable jurists would debate whether…
21-7363 Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason sixth-circuit united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-district-court Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY HUESTION THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COA WHEN TIMELINESS WAS THE RESULT OF FACTS BEYOND HIS …
21-7345 David Wayne Aring v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release QUESTION ONE Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic…
21-7331 Darregus T. Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION? 5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS! CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE…
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…
21-7334 Gregory Todd Numann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability of the denial of his 28 USC 2…
21-7326 Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability to a prisoner whose 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion is summarily denied even though the rec…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants and alleged probation violators about their constitutional right …
21-1218 Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction On remand from an appeal successfully challenging a proposed nationwide settlement, class counsel and his clients stopped representing the class membe…
21-7294 Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court should grant certiorari so that it can address and resolve a circuit split between the Ninth and the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circ…
21-7297 Jaime B. Garcia v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jury-instructions legal-theory prosecutorial-concession reasonable-jurists standard-of-review Because the appellate court must issue a certificate of appealability ("COA") when the issue is debatable among jurists of reason, should the Ninth Ci…
21-7270 Karo Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-7276 Julio Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness 1. Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary. 2. Whether a general verdict that was …
21-1208 Eric Andrews v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-1211 Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Amici (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal…
21-7262 Bartholomew Antonio Guzman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas-proceeding federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-60(b) Davis / 1: Whether this Court's decision in Buck v. QUESTION No. 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) foreclosed the Petitioner's argument that a COA is not required…
21-7268 Ross Anthony Farca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d…
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT TH…
21-7259 Keith Prescott Gace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation As a matter of statutory interpretation, should a jury or court consider the so-called Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a m…
21-1196 Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. v. Peermusic Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement extrinsic-intrinsic-test musical-works ordinary-observer-test substantial-similarity in a copyright infringement case, when deciding whether two musical works are substantially similar, should the courts apply the ordinary observer tes…
21-1192 Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Amici (1) bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts …
21-7233 William Sardinas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court…
21-7236 Joseph Crocco v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti…
21-1185 Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second …
21-1178 Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver I. This Court has clarified that waiver is the intentional relinquishment/abandonment of a known right. No federal rule specifies deadlines to object …
21-1169 Alain Kaloyeros v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-24 GVR Relisted (3) circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, "property" under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S…
21-1170 Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-24 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'…
21-1164 Larry Steven Wilkins, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing-rule easement-dispute federal-land jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations Whether the Quiet Title Act's Statute of Limitations is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule?
21-7186 Jon Hall v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-duty brady-material brady-v-maryland circuit-split constitutional-obligation evidence-disclosure governmental-entity prosecutorial-duty In circumstances where the favorable evidence lies in the hands of a governmental entity other than law enforcement or the prosecution, what is the pr…
21-7164 Charles Pyne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination 1. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue where there is a conflict in the Circuits concerning the ability to employ Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) b…
21-7157 Richard Lucas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation 1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of "cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta…
21-7158 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of…
21-7163 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? II. When def…
21-1149 Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing This Court has held that federal courts (1) may adjudicate jurisdictional issues in any sequence they choose and (2) may, under appropriate circumstan…
21-1145 Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose Seventh Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance This petition presents the same question as Johnson v. Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, No. 21-462, and United States ex rel. Owsley v. Fazzi As…
21-7151 Quentin Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond…
21-7134 Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors…
21-7135 Daniel Joseph Dawson v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel eighth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari (1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional …
21-7136 Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d…
21-1131 Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony The question before this Court is whether, in a civil case involving the killing of a young Black man, whose lawful gun was found twenty feet from his…
21-1132 Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Dismissed arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the…
21-1141 Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Whether this Court's qualified immunity doctrine demands a nearly identical fact pattern before a case can clearly establish the law—as the Eleventh a…
21-7131 Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW ERRED IN DENYING JONES A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO REVIEW THE COURTS ERRONEOUS AND CONTRARY APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S…
21-7109 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice Whether, given that the district court's agreement that Mr. Mills was denied the opportunity to confront the forensic analyst in this case, did Mr. Mi…
21-7112 Sophana Sovann v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus notice-of-judgment pro-se right-to-appeal Was a pro se state prisoner denied his right to appeal the District Court's order denying his habeas corpus petition where state prisoner never receiv…
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment QUESTION #1). Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealibility where the record holds a clear showing…
21-7097 Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), this Court held that appellate courts must review the substantive reasonableness of all sentences und…
21-7078 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states Can the government obtain a conviction under RICO without proving that the targeted enterprise's activities actually affected interstate commerce, so …
21-7079 Reginald Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el…
21-7070 Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states 1. Should courts defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying text? 2. Has the Commission impermissibly exp…
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
21-1099 Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment? 2. Whether the search of Mr. Steres' cell ph…
21-7061 John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for …
21-7053 Iramm Wright v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be …
21-7044 Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations This case is of great National and public importance as the holding of the Court of Appeals that the state family court is shiel ded from any claims b…
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…
21-7035 Seville Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-7039 Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application 1. Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S…
21-1066 Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the…
21-6978 In Re Isaiah Harris 2022-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-chambers certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandamus sixth-circuit ultra-vires Harris' case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Because of the willful disobedience or adop…
21-6962 Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
21-6972 Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti…
21-6952 Sunrise Lee v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pr…
21-6956 Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com…
21-6946 Gregory Lozado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a …
21-6933 Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length 1. Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy trial claim. 2. Whether the…
21-6934 Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied IFP child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether an instruction on the Dost factors authorizes a conviction for production of child pornography on broader grounds th…
21-6945 Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit Johnnie Byrd's case raises an issue of national importance in the wake of our Criminal Justice Systems efforts to regain the publics confidence in it…
21-6929 Rozelle Summerise v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) …
21-1025 Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach, such as re…
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…
21-1019 The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to …
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St…
21-6898 Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore Ninth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i…
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud…
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…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour…
21-6817 Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition 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 r…
21-6825 Diana Bustamante v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender …
21-6826 Todd Stands Alone v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)?
21-6831 Albert L. Richardson, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability drug-effects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment taped-interrogation Question not identified.
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6812 Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence Did the Fifth Circuit court of appeals err when it refused to grant a certificate of appealability, when the record clearly showed that Velasquez had …
21-6785 Jarvis Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr…
21-6786 Semaji Warren v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6787 Rondale Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but…
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 …
21-979 Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'…
21-970 Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot Tenth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations In 1988, an Oklahoma jury convicted Karl Fontenot in the abduction and killing of Denice Haraway. The chief evidence against Fontenot was his own conf…
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr…
21-6757 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review judicial-reviewability perjury sixth-amendment Question 1: Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material…
21-6758 Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court…
21-6750 Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two…
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias 1. In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) ("Batson Claim") and ignoring Ramey's argument that 28 U.S.C. § …
21-941 Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent Whether a search is "consensual" under the Fourth Amendment when a police officer directly orders an individual he is detaining to submit to the searc…
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability…
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment 1) Does a United States.Court of Appeals have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the Di…
21-924 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain…
21-908 Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley Ninth Circuit 2021-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")…
21-6676 Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner when the District Cour…
21-6692 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
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…
21-6681 Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: does the Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington…
21-905 Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-898 Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv…
21-6658 Donald Ray Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary?
21-6639 Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility Sixth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation? Does the differ…
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…
21-6619 Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition Should a Certificate of Appedability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition if there Las a dispute in the l.s. District Cou…
21-6625 Derrick Harrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem…
21-885 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-15 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
21-877 Ross Thacker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-6600 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
21-6605 Jermaine Jackson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a).
21-6578 Gregory Leri v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum On December 21, 2018, Congress enacted the First Step Act of 2018 (P.L. 115 391). In Section 402 of the First Step Act, Congress amended subsection (f…
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…
21-6585 Freddy Crespo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic…
21-6588 Amy Bishop Anderson v. Deidra Wright, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion cumulative-error effective-assistance-of-counsel exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-determination voluntariness-of-plea voluntary-plea Charged and convicted of capital murder, sentenced to Life Without Parole Question 1: Whether the 11th Circuit Court used a merits determination to d…
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…
21-6575 Nathaniel Fields v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-10 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court …
21-861 First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation Ninth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity fr…
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction 1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus…
21-843 Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii (1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua…
21-6555 Malik Saunders v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp…
21-6539 In Re Kenny Blanc 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 …
21-6540 Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a …
21-832 Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove The question presented is: 1. Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with this Court's decision in Shady Grove? In pa…
21-820 Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander Louisiana 2021-12-02 Denied circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda?
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…
21-6466 Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen…
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MISAPPLIED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION OF SANDIN V. CONNER, 515 U.S. 472 (…
21-6461 Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo…
21-6407 Roy Thomas Phillips v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constructive-denial-of-counsel due-process ineffective-counsel liberal-reading merits plea-proceedings plea-stage pro-se pro-se-petitioners 1. The factual determination for denying the certificate of appealability was wrong and reversal is warranted. 2. Pro-se petitioners are to be given …
21-6418 Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o…
21-6427 Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the…
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather…
21-6376 Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c…
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…
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
21-6397 Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), district courts have the authority to reduce a sentence based on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In the F…
21-767 Clinton Williams v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-761 OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters Fourth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) bars a plan fiduciary from causing the plan to engage in certain transactions with a "party in int…
21-6375 Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment Thomas Dudney's conviction when actually innocent highlights a national issue: the unacceptably high rate of such convictions, reflected in numerous e…
21-754 Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2021-11-22 Denied Response Waived appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo…
21-6310 Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), the United States Supreme Court held that when extraneous information enters into a jury's deliberati…
21-6329 Steven Blakeney v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's denial of a COA where the underlying issues were clearly debatable by jurists of reas…
21-6332 Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony A SPLIT EXISTS IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS REGARDING THE GRANTING BUYER-SELLER INSTRUCTION IN THE TRIAL OF FEDERAL CONSPIRACY AND DISTRIBUTION CASES. PE…
21-6276 Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on "Certificate of Appealability" Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason, When …
21-6291 Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia…
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…
21-6300 Ricky Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report?
21-725 PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut…
21-728 Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7…
21-6282 Tannous Fazah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement I. In August 2013, petitioner was indicted in federal court, in part, on charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Petitioner was all…
21-6283 Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force 1. Federal assault with a dangerous weapon does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. Rather…
21-6249 Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center First Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl…
21-6259 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity In this case, juror misconduct was proven by the lower court after a juror researched an element of the crime on the internet (Wikipedia) during delib…
21-700 Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-11-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition 1. Does a claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for wrongful pre-trial detention caused by the fabrication of evidence accrue upon the …
21-701 Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not …
21-6225 Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding 1. Whether the First Circuit misapplied this Court's rulings on RICO Conspiracy by approving an instruction allowing a jury to convict if it determine…
21-6244 Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-conviction state-court-proceedings IS A STATE FEDERAL HABEAS PETITIONER PURSUANT TO A PROCEEDING UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C SECTION 2241 REQUIRED TO OBTAIN A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A…
21-6227 Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Which divided Courts of Appeals are correct: the Eleventh, Fifth and Second Circuits holding that a due process violation occurs when the governme…
21-682 Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl…
21-683 John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation Under the Class Action Fairness Act's "local controversy" exception, a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action in which, …
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act creates a private right of action for any "consumer who is damaged by the failure of a supplier, warrantor, or service …
21-6178 Henry Baird v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE…
21-6212 Anthony De La Torriente v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied IFP circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i…
21-6187 James E. Lyons v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment WHETHER THE 11TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HEAR AND RULE UPON PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY THAT WAS DENIED AND ALLEGED THAT TRIAL C…
21-6197 Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
21-6203 Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel As a result of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in denying Petitioner's Motion for Relief pursuant to Rule 60(…
21-6191 Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop The Eleventh Circuit has held that identity-related evidence is not suppressible in a criminal prosecution. However, this precedent relies heavily on—…
21-6166 Ángel De la Cruz v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme…
21-6171 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be …
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. DOES A TEXAS PRISONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO APPOINTMENT OF EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS WHICH PROVIDE THE ONL…
21-6136 Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute, as three …
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decisio…
21-649 Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. Illinois 2021-11-02 Denied access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing 1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe…
21-6123 Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
21-6111 Jonas Ross, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S CONCLUSION THAT MR. ROSS DISTRIBUTED THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF K.P. IS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS…
21-626 Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center The questions presented for review are: A. WHETHER the en banc Court of Appeals and the panel erred in affirming the District Court's decisions dismi…
21-627 Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation The Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA") expressly preempts any state law "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(…
21-6118 Kevin Folse v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod…
21-6120 Javier Perez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants 1. Whether an undocumented immigran t like Javier Perez, who came to the United States over 15 years ago and de veloped substantial ties to this count…
21-6080 Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition If a petitioner litigated a pre-AEDPA federal habeas petition, do AEDPA's new restrictions on second or successive petitions apply retroactively to th…
21-6096 In Re Byron T. McCollum 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge mandate-recall pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process void-judgment 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals can refuse to consider and rule upon a duly filed Motion to Recall Mandate, the basis of said motion …
21-6099 Sandchase Cody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2…
21-6106 Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh …
21-617 Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status, as the Second, Third, and Sixth Circuits have held (subject to legitimate penol…
21-605 David Lynn Roberson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the government must prove…
21-6071 Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3).
21-6077 Torri McCray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct 1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for …
21-594 Alphabet Inc., et al. v. Rhode Island, Office of the Rhode Island Treasurer on Behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island Ninth Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) annual-filing circuit-split disclosure-requirements forward-looking past-information quarterly-report risk-factors sec-regulations securities-disclosure securities-regulation Securities and Exchange Commission regulations require companies to disclose in their annual and quarterly filings "risk factors" that may affect thei…
21-6053 Jimmie Barge v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne apprendi apprendi-violation certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment Is the Florida State trial court erring when sentencing Petitioner to minimum mandatory term of life in prison because the Prison Releasee Reoffender …
21-6054 Benjamin Koziol v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi…
21-6062 Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED…
21-6036 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus Where the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't properly grant a Certificate of Appealability to an improperly dismissed §2255 Motion/Case asserting Actual Inn…
21-6010 Robert D. Sutton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres…
21-6020 Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.…
21-6034 Clifton James Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the …
21-567 Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings 1. To obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic—and to satisfy the exception to mootness for a controversy "capable of rep…
21-569 Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 Respondents are police officers who tackled, punched, and kicked Petitioner Gregory Tucker after they pulled him over for non-functioning brake and li…
21-5998 In Re Anthony Terry 2021-10-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re…
21-5999 Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness 1. This Court in Holguin-Hernandez recently held that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review to …
21-6004 Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety In determining the propriety of Joinder of offenses and/or defendants under Rule 8 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, there is a profound circuit sp…
21-6009 Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-19 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to "impose a reduced sent…
21-6015 Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law Equitable tolling is available to excuse an untimely claim for habeas relief if a petitioner shows extraordinary circumstances and reasonable diligenc…
21-5989 Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States Third Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review Based on this Court's harmless error jurisprudence and that of seven other circuits, the government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an e…
21-559 Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law This case presents two questions: 1. Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertenc…
21-5978 Derek Levert Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver The federal courts of appeals are about evenly split over whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequi…
21-5984 Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t…
21-552 Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Amici (1) chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with other Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's "in co…
21-551 John J. Watford v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown …
21-5964 Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand to the Court of Appeals for issuance of a certificate of appealability when …
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim I. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course where reasonable jurists — here, the district court and the magistrate ju…
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant The Fairfax County Police seized trash from in front of Jude Lovchik's home. The items seized were then submitted to the Virginia Department of Forens…
21-5943 Brandon Ward v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability character-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel use-of-force witness-testimony 1. 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 trial …
21-527 Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),…
21-5925 Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether, as a threshold matter, Petitioner has shown that his federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process was violated by the pros…
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…
21-511 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III Sixth Circuit 2021-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation 1. 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) allows federal courts to issue a writ of habeas corpus ordering the transportation of a state prisoner only when necessary to br…
21-5906 Michael Jerome Pettway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal rule-11 section-924(c) sixth-amendment QUESTION NUMBER ONE: Whether Petitioner Pettway's ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to.Rule 11 (b) …
21-5859 Shikeb Saddozai v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute brady-material certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-case statute-of-limitations 1. Whether Petitioner seeking a COA demonstrated a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right and that jurist of reason would find i…
21-5873 Justin Douglas Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence federal-prisoner hobbs-act ninth-circuit physical-force sentencing-enhancement Should the Ninth Circuit have issued a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether conviction for Hobbs Act robbery qualified as a "crime of …
21-5883 Davon Nelson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment The record below raises serious questions about whether Petitioner —an individual whose exposure to lead paint poisoning as a child has had a signific…
21-471 John Doe 1, et al. v. Express Scripts, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) benefit-pricing circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duties pegram-v-herdrich plan-management price-control pricing third-party-administrator 1. Does an administrator hired by an ERISA plan act as a fiduciary when it controls prices paid by the plan or its participants (as the Fourth, Fifth,…
21-5843 Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation 1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a…
21-5852 Jay Warren Arnold v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights de-novo-review due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas pro-se-litigation procedural-inquiry state-collateral-review The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a COA in this Cause by applying Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) in a vague and conclusory ma…
21-5805 Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction 1. The United States Sentencing Guidelines permit a two-point increase in offense level if the defendant obstructed or impeded the administration of j…
21-5809 In Re Dwayne Stoutamire 2021-09-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing Does the constitution recognize free-standing claims of Actual inNoceNcy? the facts presented meet the standard Articulated in Schlop v.Dlo, 513 U.5.…
21-5818 Cynthia Lozano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits that changes to the legal rights and obligat…
21-5822 Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3).
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…
21-5804 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201…
21-5806 Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram nobis relief should remain unresolved. 2. Whether the test used by the 1st circui…
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…
21-462 Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal…
21-5795 Ethan Guillen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o…
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as…
21-5788 Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit This case before the Honorable Court through its Materiality of (5) years of impermissible Inordinate Delays presents important issues in the interest…
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…
21-5731 Sheridan Sisk v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied IFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled …
21-5748 Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video 1. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits are split on whether, during a plea colloquy in a child pornography case, the district judge must explain to the defen…
21-5741 Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel 1. WHETHER AN APPLICANT HAS TO DEMONSTRATE BOTH THE DEBATABILITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM(S) AND THE DEBATABILITY OF PROCEDURAL RULING(S), BEFORE ISSUA…
21-428 Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-21 GVR Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine 1. Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized, is inconsistent with …
21-434 Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56, where the panel's failure t…
21-422 Steven Hatton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance o…
21-5702 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…
21-417 Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham…
21-414 First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa…
21-402 Akari Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment general-search-warrant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress Failing to file a suppression motion is not per se ineffective assistance of counsel. Kimmelman v. Morrison, 477 U.S. 365, 106 S.Ct. 2574, 91 L.Ed.2d …
21-5670 Elijah Vines v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent WHETHER A THIRD PARTY POSSESSES AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE SEIZURE OF ANOTHER'S CELL PHONE WHEN THAT PHONE IS PASSWORD PROTECTED, THE OWNER OF THAT P…
21-5647 Adolphus Symonette v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin…
21-5633 Roland J. McLain v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are …
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ…
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, …
21-388 John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., et al. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split equal-access first-amendment forum-analysis government-exclusion press-access press-clause public-forum speech-clause viewpoint-neutrality Whether the government's selective exclusion of members of the press implicates the equal treatment guarantee of the First Amendment's Press Clause, a…
21-391 Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent 1. Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, i…
21-392 Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination The dormant Commerce Clause authorizes judicial intervention to address state discrimination to and undue burdens upon interstate commerce. The "marke…
21-386 Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-09 GVR Relisted (2) 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem…
21-5631 Elton Vallare v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Dismissed IFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)?
21-5604 Daniel Chase Harris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation 1) Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military install…
21-5608 David Angel Sifuentes v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure standing Rule 6oc6) motion untimely 7o a of tardy when a litigunt opeto to their (uoe under Rule 6ocb)C8) reaper an interveriny change of habeno vo law within …
21-5613 Byron McCollum v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability, stating only that the Petitioner "has failed to make a substantial showing of…
21-5618 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-judicial-system certificate-of-appealability coa-issuance federal-claims human-rights inter-american-commission judicial-system state-court-review state-courts 1. When State courts were deprived of their primary responsibility to decide on Petitioner's federal claims, was it error for the court not to to issu…
21-5620 Raymond L. Crum v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319, 321 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 "precludes federal courts from imposing or…
21-5584 Guerly Alexis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess…
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne…
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review There is a split between the United States Circuit Courts regarding whether the "inextricably intertwined " standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Ev…
21-349 Kent Eric LeBere v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction 1. Whether the lower courts should fully decide whether the state knew or should have known that the testimony about Mr. LeBere's "confession" was fal…
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right and, in the context of contracts, occurs when one party to a contract either explicitly repu…
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Federal Circuit and eight United States circuit courts, the Supreme Court must revisit and settle the law and iterate the factors to be considered to …
21-307 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review 1. Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that po…
21-309 Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are …
21-316 Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict. Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant …
21-5500 John Richard Smith v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal errored in denying petitioner's request for a (C.O.A.) claiming Petitioner failed to state a Constitutional vi…
21-5511 Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied IFP alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type…
21-5533 Marsha A. Springer v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit IS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONTRARY TO THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT? WHERE ONE JUDGE OF THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT DISSEN…
21-5501 Michael David McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
21-273 Buck Gene Brune v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach: a. when the district court accepts the d…
21-5480 Charles Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man…
21-264 San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a…
21-5453 Charles J. Senke v. United States Third Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a n acknowledged and entrenched circuit split, ruled that the district court's failure to inquire into Sen…
21-5460 Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi…
21-5434 Demontrae Wilson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission…
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…
21-242 Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provides "an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action . . . for which any two or…
21-5413 Antoine L. Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict…
21-224 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to decide an appeal from a final judgment that asks the court to reconsider its pr…
21-211 Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel…
21-212 Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement Trademark infringement claims are intended to ensure consumers are not confused as to the source of goods; indeed, the consumers' best interests lie a…
21-5352 Vernon D. Nelson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied IFP border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion …
21-5332 Efrain Hidalgo v. United States Second Circuit 2021-08-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitute…
21-5345 Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation Petitioner Leonard Thurman filed suit against Respondent Medical Transportation Management, Inc. for failure to provide transportation, which is guara…
21-184 Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy Under either step of the Abbasi test, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment?
21-187 Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker Eighth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth…
21-5339 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant-evidence slack-v-mcdaniel As a matter of first impression in this court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(C). does an attorney 's failure to advise his client of the adverse r…
21-5319 John Louis Devencenzi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa…
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…
21-171 Joel Zupnik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag…
21-5305 Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion Anyone can go to prison, but not everyone can pay a fine. The district court here imposed a $4,000 fine against Mr. Rosales-Gonzalez, an indigent, non…
21-5307 Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Can a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law render a federal defendant a "career o…
21-160 Justin M. Corliss v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability ex-post-facto false-testimony habeas jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct state-court time-barred-charges Whether the applications for certificates of appealability were improperly denied when the issues presented plainly meet the standards articulated by …
21-143 Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi…
21-5272 Gary Todd Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity 1. When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme…
21-133 Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit, in a sharply divided en banc decision, erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that "intra-agency memorandum…
21-5243 Charles Givens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review unelaborated-opinion 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN ISSUING AN UNELABORATED OPINION DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AFTER DENIAL OF A COA…
21-5256 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Mr. Harris' habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that have sharply divided the courts below. Eight out of twelve United States of Appeal…
21-5230 Maurice Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states Recently the Court recognized that the elements of the offense of possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), includes that the defendant …
21-5239 Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition…
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…
21-5214 Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 86, which allows …
21-5216 Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
21-104 Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection…
21-5173 Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit Split and decide if a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U. S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper ex…
21-5186 Mihran Melkonyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1.) Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a…
21-5145 Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION …
21-5153 Brian K. Rogers v. United States First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release Are admissions made during a polygraph examination required by sex offender treatment compelled for purposes of the Fifth Amendment when failing the e…
21-5154 Dakota Stewart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided …
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…
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided Petitioner's Motion for a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of his § 2255 petition rather than e…
21-84 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. First Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2), an entity that seeks to intervene as of right must establish that none of the existing parties "adequa…
21-5139 In Re Donald M. Boswell 2021-07-20 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-petitions Was the denial of Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealibility (COA) to file a second or successive feredal habeas corpus for new claims fo…
21-5144 Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015…
21-5146 Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's us…
21-73 Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding.
21-5115 In Re Lisa A. Biron 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process gatekeeping-mechanism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-duty notice-of-appeal standing threshold-function I. Whether, after the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") in 1996, promulgated law and court rules require a § 22…
21-5128 Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the…
21-5097 Johann Brito v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe…
21-5112 David Starks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe…
21-5124 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-fabrication government-misconduct habeas-corpus miller-el-standard standing Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability had not "made a substantial showing of the denial of a const…
21-58 Sassine Razzouk v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA?
21-5091 Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with decisions of another United States court of Appeals on the same i…
21-51 Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual …
21-5074 Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit err as to forfeiture of the claim r…
21-5057 Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or …
21-5060 Kevin Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr…
21-5070 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability district-court-error eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate prima-facie prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion in denying…
21-18 Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli…
21-5044 Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 Under Section 2B3.1 (b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG"), courts apply a four-level increase to the offense level for Robbery…
21-5048 Wesley Lynn Ruiz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct Under the Due Process clause, and the Eighth Amendment, should the prosecution be held responsible for the presentation of false expert testimony on a…
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 …
21-5031 Luis Pitt v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated when the Court of Appeals failed to remedy the District Court's improper acceptance of Petitione…
21-10 Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability 1. Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, or i…
21-5015 Reginald Franklin v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurists trial-counsel Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Franklin's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it deba…
20-8465 Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not…
20-8476 Scott Charles Bauer v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review de-novo-review district-court habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure klamath-siskiyou-wildlands-center-v-bureau-of-land miller-el-v-cockrell report-and-recommendations Whether a state of appellants' responsibility should issue where the district court failed to adequately review of the portions of the Report and Reco…
20-8448 Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, …
20-1817 Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-29 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (3) alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma…
20-1808 Adam E. Billings v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St…
20-8442 Luckner Pierre v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process language-assistance language-barrier mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-due-process standing waiver-of-rights Whether the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit denied the Petitioner his Procedural Due Process Right and access to Court when it declined to g…
20-8420 Jimmie O'Neal v. Jay Christensen Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay district-court-merits due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness standing A/. IN THIS CASE OF PETITIONERS PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI, PETITIONER REQUEST REVIEW OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION THAT DENIED …
20-8414 Cynthia Stiger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perce…
20-8401 Tyler Landon Thornton v. Florida Florida 2021-06-23 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession non-state-actor plea-bargaining plea-involuntariness I. THIS CASE PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESOLVE A CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER COERCION FROM A NON-STATE ACTOR CAN RENDER A PLEA I…
20-8404 Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, when they were not parties to the conve…
20-8408 Scott R. Deichsel v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability denial-of-constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy state-law 1. This Court should grant review to determine whether and in what circumstances such a Certificate of Appealabilty issued can be vacated. 2. This Co…
20-1783 Jacob Christine v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied and an ex-post-facto violation jury instruction errors ada-pleading-5th bagley-exception brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process jury-instruction pcra-hearing pinholster self-defense unavailable-declarant Certiorari is sought re the erroneous denial of a C.O.A. or Reergument in the 3rd Cir. Ct. of Appeals, perhaps most notable among the questions presen…
20-1765 Donald S. Harden v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli…
20-1771 Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement The Third Circuit held that probabl e cause can be based solely on the statements of a victim and an alleged 1 ½ hour investigation that failed to inc…
20-8376 Jay Earl Haynes v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit standard-of-review tennessee-corrections warden WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRERED IN DENYING THE CRETIFICATE OF APPEALIBILITY?
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie…
20-8372 Martez Howard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe…
20-8332 Damen Rabb v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-claim standards-for-coa-determinations successive-petition 1. After a court of appeals finds that a petitioner has met the prima facie threshold to proceed in a successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244…
20-8342 John Willie Johnson, aka Dewayne Henderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review post-borden post-conviction-relief post-johnson resentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony The overall issue is whether the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Johnson a Certificate of Appealability. The underlying issue is whether Mr. Johnso…
20-1754 Lawrence Joey Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-argument prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt 1. Is it objectionable for a prosecutor to argue to the jury that a lack of evidence does not give rise to a reasonable doubt? 2. Is the Eleventh Cir…
20-1732 Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def…
20-8306 Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent.
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…
20-8310 Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties 1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific …
20-8314 Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-psychology constitutional-rights evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-8322 Fabian Perpall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind By pleading not guilty, can a defendant make his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show "state of mind"?
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED CRUTCHFIELD v. WAINWRIGHT, 803 F.3d 1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
20-8290 Anthony Leon Waits v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice…
20-8275 Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai…
20-8246 Tony Ray King v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability defaulted-claim ground-for-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-exception procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a petitioner need to meet the Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) standard when presenting a defaulted claim under the Martinez-Trevino…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment 1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment 2)Does being deprived of conflict-free …
20-1699 E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether a "bright line" rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures, as the FIFTH Circuit holds, or whether the r…
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…
20-8201 Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation Does a "found in" violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, as the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have held, …
20-8213 James Atwood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law Does the undefined term "controlled substance" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines mean substances controlled by federal law, the federal Controlled …
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…
20-8197 Samuel Earl Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines The Fifth Circuit's holding in finding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit spli…
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…
20-1673 Ashley Nettles v. Midland Funding LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act procedural-rights separation-of-powers spokeo-v-robins 1. Whether, under Spokeo, it is sufficient for standing simply to allege a violation of the procedural rights created by the Fair Debt Collection Prac…
20-8173 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling government-misconduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity standing Question I Whether the Government sought to diminish the likelihood of Petitioner's finding of a Brady violation, by interjected a manufactured decl…
20-8162 Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied IFP admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge WHAT IS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE WITH EVIL INTENT DF CEOEL AND PONISH MENT AS TO DELIbELATE INDI FFERENCE? ALSO WHAT IS IMMINENT DANGER?
20-1653 Lazelle Maxwell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
20-1648 James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s the integrity of copyright management information ("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section…
20-1650 Carlos Concepcion v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-26 Judgment Issued Amici (10) circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n…
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…
20-8143 Merwin Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c…
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…
20-8116 Carlos Bayon v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity…
20-8120 Gary Lee Willingham v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm…
20-8123 Verlan Perez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal precedential-ruling CAN AN APPEALS COURT DENY A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO A PETITIONER WHO HAS SHOWN THAT THE DISTRICT COURT IGNORED PRECI DENTIAL RULINGS FROM THIS…
20-8127 Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence Once a Fourth Amendment violation is established, does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the "but for" cause of the subsequent …
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel I. As a matter of first impression in this court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(C), does an attorney 's failure to advise his client of the adver…
20-8131 Brent Lang v. Erica Huss, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements Question not identified.
20-8136 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…
20-1639 George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights concealed-carry due-process home-defense right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the holdings of the First, Seventh and D.C. Circuits, that the Second Amendment…
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T…
20-8082 Eric Deshan Adams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)?
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to apply the Law Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. Ther…
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit 1. Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure …
20-8071 Delson Marc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov…
20-8077 Kavoris Clayton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na…
20-1607 Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen Michigan 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop Respondent was stopped for speeding in a residential street within the village, on a road with a 25 MPH sign going the other way, where almost all the…
20-1611 Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act The Tax Injunction Act (TIA) forbids federal courts from enjoining "the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law" when state-court re…
20-1614 John D. Leontaritis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the…
20-1616 ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect (1) Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that …
20-1620 Joy McShan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe…
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.
20-1592 Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing 1. Whether a plaintiff satisfies the "clearly established law" prong of qualified immunity by identifying prior authority that articulates general leg…
20-1596 Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (1) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning When the Government is aware of a citizen's confidential communication with legal counsel or the motive for seeking advice, but is unaware of the citi…
20-8020 Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) I Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)? II Whe…
20-8021 Jason Scott Pedro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence?
20-8024 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process When there is ho requirement to file a notice of appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability ("cot") from the circuitcourt and no process …
20-7972 Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in…
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…
20-7982 Eugene Jacobs, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-grounds slack-standard statute-of-limitations 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in its reading of Slack, in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability, …
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire The trial judge relied on a discussion with the jury, during voir dire as satisfaction to a constitutional guilty plea that he informed Petitioner of …
20-7984 Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony 1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual …
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, AND/OR SANCTIONED A DEPART…
20-1562 Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Amici (5) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must …
20-1566 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive…
20-7968 Charles Ahumada v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions 1. It is settled that criminal defendants have the constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal as of right, up to the point at which an appellate…
20-7952 Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Bastidas's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7957 Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Petitioners who seek to have AEDPA's statute of limitations equitably tolled must show (1) they were diligent in preparing their federal habeas petiti…
20-1552 Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. Federal Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing 1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel petitioner's trademark registration even …
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 …
20-7944 Peter Bobal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment internet-access sex-offender supervised-release Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) ─ which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter…
20-1515 Jason Assad v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process prejudice-presumption sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic It is undisputed that the appel late brief filed by Mr. Assad's attor ney on direct appeal was so procedur ally deficit as to preclude consideration o…
20-7859 Denver Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights This Court has made clear that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of a person accused of a crime to due process and to a trial by an impartial jury …
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington VOVve.VW-r T\\& Ur^cA CVcAeS SeX>e*\^V\ (XifcoiV Coor^V D^r ■ Appe^S Brr<sd 1 U^Vie-n I dr Oejo\.ec& PeA\Vv,one-r vS AppUccA*or\ For A Op (CO A} ^ U.…
20-7879 Vincent Gino Chavez v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case capital-cases circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses noncapital-cases In Beck v. Alabama, 477 U.S. 625, 638 (1980), this Court held that a criminal defendant is entitled to jury instructions on lesser included offenses i…
20-1488 Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge, on de novo review of objections to a magistrate's report, to refuse to consider a motion to cert…
20-1474 Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking 1. Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentia…
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an 1. intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Dist…
20-7788 Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler Is The Fifth Circuit effectivly overturning The Supreme Court, and it's own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability to conside…
20-7778 Gerald Scott v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against…
20-7782 Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference I. HAS A PETITIONER SUBSTANTIALLY SHOWN THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT WARRANTING ISSUANCE OF A COA WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT AFFORDS DEFERENCE …
20-1439 Phillip Dwayne Loyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus I. The district court denied Petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing because Petitioner's factual allegati…
20-7737 Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t…
20-7766 Lyndon Davis v. Dennis Reagle, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-analysis civil-rights constitutional-law due-process exhaustion-requirement federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process standing state-court-proceedings A) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit exceed its Scope of the COA (Certificate of Appealability) analysis When the Court d…
20-7731 Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery 1. In Texas, a defendant commits simple robbery if, during the course of a theft, he recklessly causes someone else to suffer bodily injury or knowing…
20-1429 Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S…
20-1430 AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat Ninth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort Whether a foreign defendant, whose largest business market originates from the United States through website visitors with geotargeted advertising, wh…
20-7701 Samuel Alex Gann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the …
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 …
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? D…
20-7694 Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri…
20-1414 Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit This Court has long held that whether a worker is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") turns on the "economic reality" of…
20-7666 Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel 1. 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 counse…
20-7655 Lisa Bershan v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t…
20-1391 Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods 1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark? 2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma…
20-1392 Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s…
20-7633 Sam Sterling Alford v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability consolidation consolidation-risks counsel-performance criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent right-to-counsel 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 re…
20-7636 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default Mr. Barnes case raises a pressing issue of national importance: Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony on th…
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may …
20-1373 Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education Fourth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl…
20-1368 Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. §2675(a), is the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative cl…
20-7610 Jose Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-30 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because…
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 ao\ <x v/\oWo on S»)^VvI.tOWAbec cr dLrnortV c\^aV \o Cocuis^A c^s Acf » ^>y fW^SkAn £>CCceA u^W ia AW SWc tfsdc We,Amen ^U^sVYvwet'TV /'havwc Ac i ct…
20-7544 Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous where reasonable jurists could disagree as to whether D…
20-7553 Len Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review evidentiary-hearing federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus supervisory-authority threshold-inquiry 1. Whether this Court should grant certiorari and exercise its supervisory authority to bring uniformity to the circuit courts' COA practice so as to …
20-7563 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution QUESTION ONE: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AN ORDER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND/OR STAY OF EXECUTION OF THE REMAINING UNLAWFUL SEN…
20-1349 Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h Whether, and to what degree, a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding "reasonable attorney's fees" under Rule 23(h).
20-1321 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability since he has made a substantial showing that he was denied Due Process under the Due …
20-7541 Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC Second Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order All Circuit Courts have various Local Rules or Internal Operating Procedures (IOPs) that use Summary Orders to reduce judicial workload. The Second C…
20-7491 Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence I. Whether pattern jury instructions approved by the circuit courts carry any independent legal force? II. Whether federal criminal defendants may re…
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 …
20-7494 Kirk A. Simmons v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-issue fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-innocence rule-60 rule-60-motion standing 1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's Rule 60 motion, which asserted evidence falsification and Fraud on the …
20-7497 Kevin Reid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage 1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at…
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing I. WHETHER THE COURT PROPERLY DENIED COA? THE TRIAL COURT AND THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAVE DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW RE…
20-1296 Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent Does precedent in the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which allows defendants to raise affirmative defenses in a motion for summar…
20-1283 Margaret Temponeras v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term "legitimate medical purpose" does not provide fair notic…
20-7471 Christian Joseph Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review standing statutory-interpretation -Can the Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's application for Certificate of Appedlability ("coA") withoct any analysis of whether the District Courts d…
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to consider Mr. Milner's R…
20-7474 Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the…
20-7469 Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find …
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…
20-7437 Frederico Ramsey v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment amendment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review due-process federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent mayle-v-felix I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE TENTH CIRCUIT DECISIONS DIRECTLY CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION IN MAYLE V. FELIX, 545 U.S. 644,664, 125 S.Ct. 2562,…
20-7444 Toddrey Bruce v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop In Navarette v. California, the Court held that the "absence of additional suspicious conduct"—five minutes of normal driving—did not dispel reasonabl…
20-7446 Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi…
20-1267 Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court When the Supreme Court of the United States denies a taxpayer a certiorari writ in a case begun in the United States Tax Court, 26 U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)…
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…
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or her self pro se, should no issues conce…
20-7378 Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law…
20-7388 Alejandro De La Torre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D…
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD OF REVIEW TO PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ("COA") ON PETITIONE…
20-7394 Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho…
20-7395 Antonio E. Wills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den…
20-7359 Karen Gagarin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo…
20-7365 Ronald Brount, aka Ronald Brunt v. Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction Did The United States Court Of Appeals For The FouRth Ciecuit ERR In Denying The PetitioneR A Certificate Of Appealability?
20-7326 Tyrone Valentine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 18-usc 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-statute criminal-statutes drunk-driving extreme-indifference physical-force violent-felony Whether reasonable jurists could disagree on whether criminal statutes that encompass drunk driving "manifesting extreme indifference to the value of …
20-7333 Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),…
20-7348 Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony New Mexico courts have held the state's aggravated assault statute does not have a mens rea element with respect to the victim. Does a criminal offens…
20-7306 Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-7310 Derrick Arnold Johnson v. Raybon C. Johnson, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's trial counsel was not ineffective under Strickland v. Washington for failing to investiga…
20-7295 Isidro Sauceda v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence factual-innocence ineffective-counsel lesser-included-offense ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists willits-instruction I. Whether Review Is Warranted Because The Ninth Circuit Utilized An Unduly Burdensome Certificate Of Appealability Standard That Contravenes This Cou…
20-1207 Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a "second or successive" petition under the Antite…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing 1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who: • inc…
20-1205 Gazelle Craig v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin…
20-7280 Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-01 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony 1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C…
20-7259 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of th…
20-7269 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion standing Question not identified.
20-7275 Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment 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 r…
20-7231 Troy Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe…
20-7235 Michael Alvarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p…
20-7236 Vincent E. Boyd v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability court-procedure due-process legal-representation pro-se-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right standby-counsel Should courts have to clearly define, on the record, the proper role of standby counsel in the proceedings? In other words, should courts engage in a …
20-7239 Hung Linh Hoang v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit reasonable-probability standard-of-review Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Hoang's ineffective assistance of counsel claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-7213 Nathan Ray Dent v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924…
20-7215 Sunni Askari Newell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF FIREARMS …
20-7217 Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act…
20-7208 Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District court's denial of a mot…
20-1141 Doe Company v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure 1. Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appella…
20-1143 Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba…
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f…
20-1149 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention Whether, under Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs, 571 U.S. 69 (2013), a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying …
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. …
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, the law speaks of two options. One is for the agency to act anew. …
20-7176 Jeffrey S. Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court habeas-petition judicial-review legal-error procedural-default I. Did the Court of Appeals error by not addressing the Certified questions from the district Courts Certificate of Appeal of Inquiry (COD) as granted…
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…
20-1128 Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec…
20-7136 James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default 1. IN REQUESTING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, DOES THE REQUISITE "SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING" REQUIRE PRO SE LITIGANTS TO RE-SUBMIT SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS T…
20-7142 Lewis R. Fox v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process felonious-assault habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence merits-review sixth-circuit Lewis Fox's federal habeas corpus petition case (Insufficient Evidence Claim) raises a pressing issue of national importance: Did the United States Co…
20-7146 Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits.
20-1118 Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio RESOLVE CIRCUIT SPLITS WITH RESPECT TO "ROOKER-FELDMAN" FRAUD EXCEPTION Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception …
20-1092 Brandon Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 514(a) prohibits the use of "any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item appearing, representing, purporting, or contrivin…
20-1093 Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (1) christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption Whether, as the Second Circuit held, Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt "outside salesmen" under the FLSA or, as the Sixth Circuit held, …
20-1104 Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have…
20-1106 Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment 1. Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact. 2. W…
20-1107 Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment In evaluating motions for summary judgment under employment discrimination laws, such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, must a court examin…
20-7115 Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and…
20-7126 Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a …
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and several State court…
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…
20-7102 Toheed Ahmed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence seized during and derived from an August 26, 2015 tra…
20-7073 Donovan Muskett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application In the absence of a circuit split, can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resi…
20-7071 Pete Russell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability future-dangerousness habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review strickland Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealabilty, through a merits review, of Russell's claim that he recei ved ineffect ive assi…
20-1076 SE Property Holdings, LLC, as Successor by Merger to Vision Bank v. Jerry D. Gaddy Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) 11-usc-523-a-2-a actual-fraud asset-transfer bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law circuit-split creditor-rights debtor-protection fraudulent-transfers husky-international-electronics-inc-v-ritz 1. Does a creditor sufficiently state a claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) to except from discharge a debt "for money, property, services, or an ext…
20-1077 Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka First Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli…
20-1083 Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings 1. Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving, on the one hand, Doe v. Purdue , 928 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J.), Doe v. Univers…
20-1066 Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (8) case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity 1. Whether qualified immunity shields public university officials from liability when the reasoning—but not the holding—of a binding decision gave the…
20-7024 Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent force. Hobs Act robbery's p…
20-7036 Emmanuel Ravell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a…
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…
20-1061 Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action Is the causal connection required for standing satisfied when it is substantially likely that a third party in the chain of causation will respond to …
20-1017 Lawrence Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe…
20-1028 Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non…
20-1032 Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce…
20-6957 Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order?
20-6963 F. Allan Midyett v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-criminal federal-employment indian-employment statutory-compliance veterans-affairs The question in this case is whether the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs can refuse to comply with provisions of 25 U.S.C. Ch. 36 to t…
20-6971 Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness? II. Did the district court impose a plainly …
20-6972 Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given …
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae At Wilson's jury trial the district court allowed testimony that Wilson sold drugs the day before the charged offenses as background evidence that was…
20-6983 Demarcus Cole v. Kevin Myers, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone-evidence certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress trial-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability on trial counsel was ineffective, when counsel failed to file a pre-trial Motio…
20-6931 Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re…
20-6943 Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support…
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…
20-6953 Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
20-1002 Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson Tenth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety…
20-996 Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search In Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1 (1990), this Court held that a warrantless search of a closed container found in an impounded vehicle is permissible u…
20-985 Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act I. Where a federal employee's administrative complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act identifies the Agency's adverse actions and seeks relief…
20-975 Freddie Owens v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default The Court of Appeals granted a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on Freddie Owens's constitutional claim that he was denied the effective assistance …
20-978 Poppi Metaxas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining reasonable-probability trial 1. Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel with respect to the plea process by counsel's failure to discuss with and inform …
20-6899 Cynthia Hudson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bench-warrant certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court 1. Is a state habeas corpus petitioner who pleads ineffective assistance of counsel claims denied federal constitutional due process when the state ha…
20-6911 Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar [1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di…
20-6875 Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in filing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition …
20-6885 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment 1. Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appeal…
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…
20-6861 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…
20-6863 Tommy Findley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause 1. Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable…
20-6841 Steven Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied IFP apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E…
20-6816 Edward G. Rodriguez v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit notice-of-appeal procedural-error right-to-appeal Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Rodriguez's request for a certificate of appealability on an ineffective assistance of counsel clai…
20-6817 Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome I. THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S MISAPPLICATION OF THE PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE TO BAR REVIEW OF QUINN'S CLAIM THAT THE P…
20-6792 Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit The Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive conspiracy prosecutions when the conspiracy underpinning a subsequent prosecution is part of the same …
20-6813 Manuel Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba…
20-913 Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During opening statements at Petitioner's murder trial, his counsel promised the jury that it would hear from the only eyewitness. Counsel later reneg…
20-896 Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-07 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement 1. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKING" EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S WARRANT REQUIREMENT EXTENDS TO THE HOME? 2. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKI…
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…
20-902 Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (4) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca…
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity When governmental regulations upon commercial speech are based upon either the identity of the speaker or the content of the message, does the "height…
20-6773 Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio…
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…
20-6783 Jaelon David Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement I. Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes…
20-6753 Andre Martel Winn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery exception—without requiring any factual basis to support it—is contrary to this…
20-880 Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment 1. Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to th…
20-886 Thelma G. McCoy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Amici (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship The Bankruptcy Code permits courts to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy if a debtor can show that repaying it would cause her "undue hardship.…
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 …
20-6739 Larun E. Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness Question not identified.
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6745 Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuit s and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, which purp…
20-861 Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor I. In Burrage U. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), this Court explained that a "but-for" cause is merely one cause, perhaps among several, which is …
20-865 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-12-30 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i…
20-868 Foxfield Villa Associates, LLC, et al. v. Paul Robben, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split general-partnership howey-test investment-contract investment-contracts limited-liability-company limited-partnership promoter-control securities-law Paul Robben fraudulently induced Rich Bartlett and his wife Dena along with Ernie Straub ("Straub") to invest in Robben's real estate venture called F…
20-869 David E. Henry v. Castle Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foman-standard foman-v-davis judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-amendment rules-59-and-60 standards-for-amendment In spite of this Court's long-standing precedent that a post-judgment motion to amend the complaint must be decided under the same standards as a simi…
20-857 Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review 1. Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action, brought under diversity jurisdiction, must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand lett…
20-6713 Danielle Devona Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation IS THERE AN ACKNOWLEDGED CONFLICT AMONG THE SISTER CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER SECTION 924(c) CRIMINALIZES TWO SEPARATE OFFENSES (1) "CARRY OR USE" A FIREA…
20-6688 Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr…
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable a…
20-829 WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab…
20-6668 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied IFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove…
20-6671 Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d…
20-6660 Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui…
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…
20-6644 David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing 1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a…
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Wktikar or got e latk) o courts *UM 17¢ 5ftvid ;101WA -crow iikip5114 avvi pro-i-gtkivi 4'1Q unctibiitu hand i wtpositiovi aid. ethei aloso (de. staii…
20-807 Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Seventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation Two questions are presented: 1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train …
20-794 Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-12-11 Granted Amici (13)Relisted (2) circuit-split district-court-discretion evidence-gathering foreign-tribunal international-arbitration international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation tribunal-definition Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in "a foreign or internatio…
20-6605 Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal court reviewing a habeas petition incorrectly applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when it rel…
20-6594 Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E…
20-6599 Randy Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP appeal circuit-split criminal-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis retained-counsel If a criminal defendant was represented by retained counsel in the district court, must he show that his appeal is taken in good faith to proceed in f…
20-6581 Kimberly Hanzlik v. Joseph Joseph, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard reasonable-jurists second-circuit unreasonable-application-of-law Was the Second Circuit's denial of Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability unreasonable based on the standards for certificate of …
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington 1. What do Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), and Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), require of a defendant to demonstrate prejudice resulting…
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…
20-6586 Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i…
20-6588 Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment Should a certificate of appealability issue because reasonabl e jurists would debate whether a criminal defendant was deprived of the effective assist…
20-786 United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 It is, or at least, was well established that in order to withstand a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a…
20-781 United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2) benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages 1) Should this Court resolve a circuit split concerning the question as to whether Courts should allow gross trebling damages or net trebling damages …
20-6552 Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-6541 Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
20-6517 Elvis Basic v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review 1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity?
20-6539 Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-04 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con…
20-6529 Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met…
20-6498 Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in, inter alia, Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), when it denied Petit…
20-6508 Jesse Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine…
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing t…
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr…
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co…
20-743 DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-30 Dismissed circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6466 Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied IFP 924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing [1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES …
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…
20-6442 Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack…
20-6448 Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden Third Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq…
20-722 Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment The right to counsel in this case was violated by the prosecution surreptitiously recording Petitioner after indictment and before arrest and arraignm…
20-724 Donovan Middleton, et al. v. Complete Nutrition Franchising, LLC, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-motion rule-12b6 rule-59e standard-of-review The Eighth Circuit affirmed the District Court's judgment granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and, thereafter, denied Petitioners' Motion to Alter …
20-733 Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the "individualized suspicion" required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots?
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-…
20-6414 Daniel Ray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene…
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
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…
20-6407 Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct I. Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use o…
20-699 Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal Whether, as the Ninth Circuit has held, a plaintiff has an "absolute right" to voluntary dismissal under FRCP, Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), if no answer or mo…
20-706 Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl…
20-6370 David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction 1. Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability by sanctioning…
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…
20-6390 Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony 1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's failure to challenge the …
20-690 Michael Sang Han v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-18 Denied circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern…
20-680 Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non…
20-6362 Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict…
20-670 Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson, 562 U.S. 134 (2011), diverged from its previous hold…
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 …
20-6313 Kevin Merritt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura…
20-6316 Mickey Pubien v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl…
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 …
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry I. Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to …
20-661 Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's application of the limitations period in 17 U.S.C. §507 (b) to dismiss plaintiff Christian Charles's …
20-6287 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default WHETHER: FROM REACHING THE SHOWIING NECESSARY TO OBTAIN THE REGULAR APPEAL PROCESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE: (A). Where a Habeas Petitioners predicates, merits…
20-652 George Georgiou v. United States Third Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect t…
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not…
20-6272 Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert…
20-636 Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest 1. Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle h…
20-644 Terrence Pendergrass v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate second-circuit summary-dismissal I. Contrary to the holding in Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), did the Second Circuit err in denying Petitioner's motion for a certificate of app…
20-6247 Jermont Cox v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability default-rule exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan rule-60(b)(6) Rule 60(b)(6) authorizes a district court to grant relief from judgment for "any . . . reason that justifies relief " on a showing of "extraordinary c…
20-602 Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove In Shady Grove Ortho pedic Assocs., P.A. v. Allstate Ins. Co., 559 U.S. 393 (2010), this Court held that a valid Federal Rule of Civil Proce dure gove…
20-6212 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon…
20-6221 Miguel Nunez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely…
20-6225 Michael David Lister v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act…
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 …
20-588 Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton Sixth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings 1. Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state-postconviction proceedings? 2. If errors in state-postconviction proceedings somet…
20-6184 I. Dean Fulton v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence third-circuit I. WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATED BUCK V. DAVIS, 580 U.S.__, 137 S.CT. 759, 197 L.ED.2D 1 (2017) WHEN IT DENIED A CERTIFICATE OF …
20-6186 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions 1. Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential: 28 U.S.C. s 2253 (c) (1)? 2. Whether Court of Appeals was correct in its procedural ruling t…
20-6199 Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure Before trial began, the trial court issued a concededly unjustified gag order that prohibited defense counsel from discussing with the defendant or an…
20-6201 Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law 1. Should a certificate of appealability have issued where the District Court incorrectly opined that claims raised by Mr. Thomas were matters of st…
20-564 Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend…
20-575 Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
20-559 Jane Doe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation 1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? 2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem…
20-6165 James Edward Sandford, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies …
20-551 Jack Witt Voris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ…
20-6145 Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation In the extrcordinary ircunstances of this case, lenited states Lourt of Appeals Daniet, 529 4.s, 473, 48y (2000); B4ck 05 Davi5, - 4.5.m,137 80k 759,7…
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…
20-555 Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w…
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…
20-547 Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states 1. In refusing to issue a COA, did the First Circuit apply a novel, harsher standard requiring Petitioner to prove actual intent by conflicted counsel…
20-549 John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Is a detainee's first appearance in court a "critical stage" of the proceedings, when bail is set and statutory liberty interests are adjudicated, as …
20-6135 Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING BARBER'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A MOTION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY FINDING T…
20-544 Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-10-26 Judgment Issued Amici (3) agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition Whether ANCs are "Indian tribes" under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act.
20-6121 Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court summarily denied Mr. Lizarraga's motion to vacate, base…
20-6122 Jerome Capelton v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint …
20-535 Drew Samuel Bates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current…
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…
20-519 State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea…
20-6067 Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to …
20-6082 Douglas D. Yokois v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Petitioner's Motion for Issuance of Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "C…
20-6087 Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review 1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object …
20-6048 David J. Godine, III v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification ninth-circuit pro-se-petition strickland-claim Petitioner David Godine sought leave in district court to amend his untimely pro se federal habeas petition with new claims. To excuse the untimelines…
20-6053 Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha…
20-499 Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell First Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec…
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations A state prisoner has one year from the time that "the judgment" becomes final to file a habeas petition. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). Applying this stat…
20-495 Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response Waived cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship 1. Whether, and under what circumstances, claims arising under federal statute are subject to the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement. 2. Whether…
20-6022 Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement This case presents a clear circuit split over whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when, after an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) pr…
20-478 CBX Resources, L.L.C. v. ACE American Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice finality finality-trap judgment-finality Whether the Supreme Court should abolish the Fifth Circuit's judicially created "finality trap" and resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals r…
20-471 Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal 1. Whether the mere using of the word "dismissed" is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291, where the without prejudice d…
20-5973 Efrain Santos v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit sixth-amendment 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Co…
20-5975 Nathaniel Ruth v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA? 2. When defining an operative, bu…
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…
20-5953 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP andrus-v-texas certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance discovery due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was trial counsel ineffective in his directive to advise McCoy to plead guilty by failing to review the government's discovery in violation of this…
20-5959 Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split commerce-clause 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…
20-5964 Marlow Shelton McDonald v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
20-457 MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Amici (1) bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano…
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…
20-5927 Gene Michael Diulio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to…
20-5928 Rick Lee Archer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges …
20-5904 Tarahrick Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Judgment Issued Amici (9)IFP 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act.
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…
20-5888 Burton Lee Smith v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP 404(b)-jury-instructions bruton-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mug-shot-identification severance-of-defendants sleeping-juror trial-procedure 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that was not Denied His State…
20-5889 In Re Jesus Anaya 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review WHETHER TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL(S)' S INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION OF JESUS ANAYA CONSTITUTED, AT BEST, CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL, WHERE TRIAL C…
20-5897 Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T…
20-5864 Peter George Noe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing Did the panel abuse its discretion by denying certificate of appealability when there is a conflict in the District courts on the issue and Jurists of…
20-418 Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA"), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394, prohibits use of an "automatic telephone dialing system" …
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 …
20-5832 Damon Graham v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expectation-of-privacy habeas-corpus k-9-search sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review warrantless-search 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit abused it's discretion by improperly denying Petitioner a certificate of appeal…
20-5841 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-400 James Avery, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance…
20-409 Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation.
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha…
20-402 Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period The question presented is: What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys' fees actions under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(8)(B)(…
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 …
20-5800 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)(…
20-5818 Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL ("COA") BASED UPON A FAILURE TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF, DESPITE SATISFYING THE REQUIR…
20-396 Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction Involuntary bankruptcies are rare - as they should be. They are a last resort after all state remedies have been exhausted, and are not a tool to be u…
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that "two other courts" upheld the administrator's int…
20-5772 Michael Portanova v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a …
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…
20-5785 Michael Hunter Cook v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration.
20-5790 Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica…
20-5761 In Re Antonio M. Bogan 2020-09-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collusion constructive-possession due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness retaliation Whether habeas corpus relief is being denied where (a) the State of Illinois failed to prove the substantive demerits of constructive possession — Mr.…
20-371 Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be "false" under the False Claims Act based solely on a reas…
20-5733 Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied IFP almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony (1) Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is categorica…
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT err in denying my motion (Staples) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5739 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from…
20-358 Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation When a government employee speaks on a matter of public concern, may the government punish that employee (1) if the employee's interest in freedom of…
20-360 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily pr…
20-362 Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the "book of wisdom" set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co., 289 U.S. 689 (…
20-363 Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co…
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…
20-5715 Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the…
20-5719 Efrain Camarill Cruz v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy federal-jurisdiction guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness plea-bargaining Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his federal habeas claims th…
20-343 Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller, 538 U.S. 329 (2003) to determine whether the Califo…
20-347 Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can …
20-348 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes …
20-334 City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review Whether, as the Fifth Circuit alone has held, district courts "lack[] discretion to deny or reduce" appellate costs deemed "taxable" in district court…
20-5660 Percy St. George v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard petition-review reasonable-jurist standard-of-review standing WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT'S PETITION DOES NOT…
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio…
20-5670 Henry Horace Givins v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance …
20-5640 Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul…
20-5647 Robert William Moynihan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-injustice constitutional-manifest-injustice exceptional-circumstances federal-courts judicial-power legal-remedy procedural-default standing Whether or not, as a matter of law, wove fe po. Se litigank, whe has presented clear and convincing evidence. demonsbroting a. ae constitutional im na…
20-5648 Damien Guidry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed …
20-5652 Daniel L. Lopez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8…
20-315 Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-10 Judgment Issued Amici (12) 8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain lawful-permanent-resident statu…
20-319 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko (1) whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid b…
20-320 Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review 1) Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test? 2) What are the elements and facto…
20-5624 Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions WHETHER JURISTS OF REASON COULD DEBATE THAT THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY NOT GRANTING A COA WHERE THE UNDERLYING CLAIM OF THE…
20-5625 Ricky Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus standard-of-review Petitioner was not entitled to issuance of a certificate of appealability?
20-5639 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 …
20-5601 Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the conflict of the particularity required in computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights?
20-5606 Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence During a hearingr.ori: a Motion to Suppress Evidence, when the State fails to carry it's burden of proof, is the remedy suppression of the evidence?…
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence …
20-286 United States, ex rel. Stacey L. Janssen, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Megen Corin Duffy v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-claims-act materiality medicare medicare-reimbursement patient-arrival-times quality-reporting reimbursement statutory statutory-quality-reporting Whether a Medicare provider's knowing falsifications of hospital patient arrival times, known by the hospital to be material to statutory quality repo…
20-291 Jamell Birt v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena…
20-281 Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement I. Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement. II. If so, whether a court con…
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…
20-5588 Joshua Wallace v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec…
20-5563 Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied IFP aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas 1. Is it at least debatable whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he …
20-5576 Sarina Ann Williams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), carries a base offens…
20-5554 Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter ju…
20-255 Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy Third Circuit 2020-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (36) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), which holds that public school officials may regulate speech …
20-256 Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm…
20-5462 Smith Ellison, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preclusion motion-for-reconsideration remorse self-defense standing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal a denial of the Motion for Reconsideration.
20-5509 Christopher L. Pugh v. Linton Deloach, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question court-of-appeals due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review non-published-order unpublished-order Whether Court of Appeals erred.) ujk.em it disposed. of -ike. Constitutional question presented, by habeas petitioner bydevxyinc) his application Von…
20-5513 Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe…
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…
20-5527 Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus 1). When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, is this Honorable Court intent to apply Hollando to "Capital cases onl…
20-224 Marion E. Pitch, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony S. Pitch, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-records exceptional-circumstances federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-6 grand-jury-materials grand-jury-proceedings historical-significance inherent-judicial-authority rule-6e-exceptions 1. Whether the Federal District Court has the authority under case law precedent or the inherent Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act to rele…
20-227 Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment In PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, this Court carefully examined the important question of when, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an otherwi…
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure 1) Would reasonable jurors find the district court's assessment of this petitioner's constitutional claims to be debatable or wrong, or whether his ha…
20-5483 Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability where the State courtS/U.S. District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals d…
20-220 VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application 1. Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate "actual injury" to state a claim under the Lanham Act. 2. Whether the Ninth Circu…
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…
20-5466 John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied IFP appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel When a petitioner supplements his Constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence that was not raised in his habeas petit…
20-209 Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Relisted (2) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act The question presented is whether this definition encompasses only systems that autodial telephone numbers generated using a random or sequential numb…
20-5448 Antonio Williams v. William J. Pollard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standards antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence 1. Whether federal courts should or must consider the restrictive standards for granting habaes relief under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death P…
20-5433 Gregory Wind v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind?
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…
20-5402 Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Where Petitioner has never been allowed to develop the factual record which supports his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, should thi…
20-5417 Rasheed Lamar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-habeas-corpus felony-convictions national-importance retroactive-sentencing Whether Petitioner's enhanced sentence based on a retroactively erased felony violates Due Process of Law, and the denial of a Certificate of Appealab…
20-5385 Judy Harmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of …
20-5391 Inez Lambert v. Rob Paersson Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-petition 1. Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have been granted to review petitioner's equitable tolling defense where a reasonable jurist could ha…
20-5378 James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition Whether the Arizona Supreme Court, during reweighing on collateral review to correct its error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), is requ…
20-163 Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal "money or property" fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by…
20-5348 Chazdin Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines?
20-5354 Johnnie Lee Jordan, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-petition brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process giglio-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence pro-se-litigant standing Whether pro se litigants can be sentenced to a natural life sentence because of Giglio and Brady violations, and insufficient evidence plain on the fa…
20-5355 Eddie David Cox v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served?
20-5360 Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Given the extreme facts of this case, should this Court finally turn to footnote 10 and Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster…
20-145 Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative I. Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition as "sp…
20-5334 Dennis K. Kieren, Jr. v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rule due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit should have granted a Certificate of Appealability on the district court's denial of Kieren's motion to amend his petition w…
20-5337 David Enrique Meza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice 1. In Marinello v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1101, 1109-10 (2018), the Court held that, to prove obstruction, the government must show that the defend…
20-143 Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F…
20-5316 Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing 1. Abbednee toe Slate Covort decrvgor Patt "here v3 NO Beguiremeut Hye Court ufoven Hae ly <feadanit of tHe Elemieats of @ach Chinogs" Coatrory to Sup…
20-5319 Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT APPLIED THE CORRECT LEGAL STANDARD WHEN DENIED AVILA'S COA IN THE CLAIM THAT HE RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL B…
20-132 The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law 1. Originality is the "touchstone," the "sine qua non," and the "premise" of copyright law. An artist may obtain a valid copyright if she meets this "…
20-136 Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo…
20-128 Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L…
20-5267 Kolongi Richardson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le…
20-5293 Stanley P. Bates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When reviewing the interpretation of the "position of trust" enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st…
20-5271 Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit 1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
20-5274 James S. Harris v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court equitable-tolling habeas-corpus limitations-period reasonable-jurists Did Mr. Harris present reasons for why the one-year limitations period should be equitably tolled in his case to which reasonable jurists could differ…
20-5276 Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law…
20-5247 Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN…
20-5218 Daniel Page v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-condition ninth-circuit plea-bargaining pre-sentence-motion trial-counsel 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether the trial court should have granted Mr. Page's…
20-5224 Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual …
20-5202 Jerome Collins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether the New York offense of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a crime of violence, and whether varying conclusions from different circuits…
20-89 Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me…
20-90 Eugene Slone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard subject-matter-jurisdiction Did Slone sufficiently meet his burden under Strickland such that the District and Circuit courts should have granted his petition for a Certificate o…
20-5201 Travaris Crawford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability cross-appeal district-court eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jennings-v-stephens judicial-procedure Whether Jennings v. Stephens allows an appellee to expand the certificate of appealability and urge affirmance of a district court denial of a habeas …
20-5160 Keith Henderson v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
20-5157 Denard Stokeling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th…
20-71 Stephen P. Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab…
20-5154 Jorge Armando Herrera Salguero v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument credibility due-process habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial misconduct claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-5146 Douglas Harry Warenback v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment access-to-courts case-law certificate-of-appealability court-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review Has the Circuit Court violated my first Amendment right to access the courts by failing to provide any evidence that my request for certificate of app…
20-5150 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…
20-5110 Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict collateral-appeal-waiver district-court due-process plea-agreement section-2255 standing sua-sponte CIRCUIT CONFLICT(split)rWHETHER a district court in a Section 2255 proceeding has the authority to raise a collateral-appeal waiver defense sua sponte…
20-5120 Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains…
20-5129 David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE SIXTH CIRCUITS DECISION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALA…
20-27 Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii Assuming the other elements of a Title VII claim are present, is sexual harassment (1) unlawful if a reasonable person would conclude, in light of all…
20-36 Michael J. McGowan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness pro-se Whether Petitioner, a mentally ill prisone r serving a 110-year prison sentence, whose appellate counse l led him to believe that no further legal cha…
20-5098 Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 Seventh Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the Courts of Appeals are split (including the United States Court of Appeals for…
20-28 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of …
20-31 Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Respondent is a prison guard who attacked an asthmatic prisoner in the face with a can of mace "for no reason at all." The Fifth Circuit held that Res…
20-5094 Anita Laux v. Mentor Worldwide, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cgmps circuit-split current-good-manufacturing-practices federal-requirements food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device medical-device-preemption parallel-claims preemption state-law-claims twombly-iqbal (1) Whether state-law claims against a medical device manufacturer, based on duties that parallel federal requirements, preempted by the Medical Devic…
20-5075 Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States First Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea — as opposed to willfully or intentionally — can qualify as a "violent …
20-5082 Robert Deane Schwartz v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied IFP affirmative-defense certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the Ninth Circuit err for failing to grant a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) on petitioner's claim that the state …
20-19 Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy District of Columbia 2020-07-14 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military?
20-5060 Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation 1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act…
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…
20-10 Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix Whether, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p…
20-4 Rosanne L. Woodroof v. Joseph F. Cunningham, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-09 Denied arbitration-contract arbitrator-replacement arbitrator-resignation circuit-split contract-rewrite evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act section-5 Question 1: Is it a violation of the Federal Arbitration Act for a state court to dismiss an arbitration due to the res ignation of an arbitrator so …
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…
19-8926 Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in holding that the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S. …
19-8850 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition 1. Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal h…
19-1467 Robert S. Ortloff, aka Robert Stanley Ortloff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability docket-management due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-petition 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it contravened long-established decisional law to deny a pro se habeas petitioner a certificate of appealab…
19-8900 Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied IFP appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute?
19-8893 Darryl Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
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…
19-1442 Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Tenth Circuit 2020-07-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law …
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments 1. Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States, cites…
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731…
19-8823 Alex Joseph Pedrin, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct stash-house-sting Was Mr. Pedrin prejudiced by both the individual and cumulative impact of 1.) multiple deficiencies or errors by counsel during the pretrial, plea, tr…
19-8799 James Johnman, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses…
19-8816 Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error This Court has long held that, for a guilty plea to satisfy constitutional due process requirements, the defendant must have been informed of all elem…
19-1420 Jared D. Herrmann v. Ryan McCarthy, Secretary of the Army Ninth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability collateral-consequences constitutional-challenge custody custody-interpretation federal-appeal federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus military-tribunals subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court misinterpreted its subject matter jurisdiction when dismissing without adjudication petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2241 Federal h…
19-1409 Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California California 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f…
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat…
19-8787 Wayne A. G. James v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver If an attorney mistakenly remains silent and fails to object to inadmissible evidence, a later challenge is forfeited and subject to review only for p…
19-1401 April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative…
19-8770 Carl St. Preux v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations As such, the question presented here is whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e), which clearly applies at and during federal sentencing proceedings, usurps and sup…
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?
19-8754 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…
19-1390 Martin Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness.
19-8726 Terrance D. Goodman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-standards civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process eleventh-circuit holmes-v-united-states judicial-discretion standing 1 Did the Eleventh Circuit violate the precedent of Holmes v. United States, 876 F.2d 1545 (11th Cir. 1989) by issuing an order that conflicts with th…
19-8727 Felton Ladell Humphries, Jr. v. S. Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction self-defense voluntary-manslaughter DOES HUMPHRIES HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO A PROPERLY INSTRUCTED JURY DETERMINING THAT ALL E…
19-8735 Michael A. Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version …
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…
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-8698 Neal Scott Stone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit 1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and pr…
19-8710 William Frazier v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C…
19-1365 Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within …
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, …
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands "that a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictmen…
19-8669 William M. Tyson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (…
19-8680 Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation To avoid "unwarranted sentence disparities," does 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) require federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of …
19-8656 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 1. Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated from the 10th Circuit's application of the actual innocence & miscarriage of justice st…
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion The first question deals with circumstances under which an evidentiary hearing may be warranted, including the level of burden a petitioner must meet …
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…
19-1344 Lahkwinder Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the prop…
19-1333 Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing Ninth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review 1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality" under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S…
19-1334 Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this …
19-8583 Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18…
19-8586 Roy Ramirez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa…
19-8587 Reginald Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment In adjudicating a medical negligence claim brought in federal court that is governed by state substantive law, must a district court apply a state law…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8564 David Ojeda v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokelin~ v. United States, U.S. 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019), in holding that a…
19-8565 Christopher S. Andersen v. Jeri Taylor Ninth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the test for granting a Certificate of Appealability in a habeas action on an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim must incorporate t…
19-8555 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine…
19-8548 Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la…
19-8523 Christian James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of just…
19-8528 Melvin Russell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied IFP circuit-split complainant complainant-testimony criminal-defendant evidence-proffering federal-rule-of-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence rape-shield-rule sexual-behavior substantive-evidence Whether a criminal defendant proffering evidence of a complainant's other sexual behavior under one of the three exceptions to the federal rape-shield…
19-1312 Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware Third Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test…
19-1306 United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation 1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses…
19-8483 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo Does new evidence of actual innocence, discussed in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), require that it was not available at trial, as interpret…
19-8454 Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress 1. Whether the circuit court erred by denying a certificate of appealabilit y for an ineffective assistance claim because the omitted evidence was ina…
19-8456 Thomas Hopes v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that…
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…
19-1291 Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Amici (7) affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte "Since qualified immunity is a defense, the burden of pleading it rests with the defendant." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980). Nonetheless, t…
19-1280 Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo Ninth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2) advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when…
19-8449 Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that…
19-8396 Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the Conflict of Interest…
19-8399 Reshon Tolliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956?
19-1267 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. v. George Bell, et al. California 2020-05-05 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure control judicial-interpretation legal-standing litigation-control non-party preclusion preclusion-doctrine rigid-test rigid-two-part-test totality-of-circumstances Federal law permits someone to be subject to preclusion when they have exercised "control" over a lawsuit, even if they were not formally a party to i…
19-1264 Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree…
19-1260 Andrew Demma v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness (1) Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the chil…
19-1261 Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-30 GVR Amici (2)Relisted (4) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from…
19-8380 Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib…
19-8366 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. The Eleventh Circuit holds that a notice of appeal is a per se divestiture of a district court's jurisdiction over a motion for return of property …
19-1245 Samuel Kwushue v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti…
19-8343 Kenan Allen v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-notification statutory-limitation Whether a "Certificate of Appealability" should have been issued regarding the matter of conduct during Mr. Allen's filing of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 pet…
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Question One A review of an order denying a Rule 60(b) motion does not involve the validity of the underlying judgment. Yet, the Eleventh Circuit, lik…
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8325 Qais Hussein v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin…
19-8327 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP case-processing certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-power due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) when the United States Court of Appeals, in a decision dated Septembe…
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review 1. Whether, in this case, under the authorities of Martinez, Trevino and Ayestas, Petitioner is entitled to Rule 60 (b) (6) relief due to the alleged …
19-8301 Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain Question #1: In Hohn v. United States , 524 U.S. 236, 253 (1998), this Court held that it has authority and jurisdiction to review denials of applicat…
19-8291 Willis J. Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the court of appeals disregarded this Court's decision in Buck v. Davis to a pro-se litigant about the COA procedure by deciding the merits of…
19-8292 Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction WHEATHER THE NEW JERSEY CIVIL COMMITMENT OF MR. TINSLEY WAS A VIOLATION OF THE FAUNTLEROY DOCTRINE; AND/OR JURISDICTION OF THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT C…
19-8279 Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi…
19-1221 Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception To conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border, do government agents need reasonable suspicion that the device contains di…
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…
19-8263 Larry Wesley Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic…
19-1211 James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response Waived aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put…
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8216 Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard This is the case for the Court to critically re-examine lost evidence and "bad faith" under Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988) because in appli…
19-8221 Feuu Fagatele v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence?
19-8187 Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen…
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue…
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit errror by not granting Mr. 1. Cerritos a COA under 28 tKS.C... §2253 (c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 mot…
19-1184 Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law Petitioners are sidewalk counselors who engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations with women visiting an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
19-1186 Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (6) 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha…
19-1176 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys…
19-8112 Mustafa Ali v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession coerced-statement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction-challenge pretextual-arrest right-to-counsel unwanted-counsel 1. Whether the Court of Appeals denying Application for Certificate of Appealability and Petition for Rehearing/Rehearing en Banc is contrary to this …
19-8104 Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment 1. Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify…
19-8107 Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app…
19-8109 Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry Whether a certificate of appealability (coa) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims land issues in the request) and a general assesmen…
19-8089 Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.…
19-1165 Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review In Ragab v. Howard, 841 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir. 2016), the Tenth Circuit determined that two parties did not have a meeting of the minds with respect to …
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-8072 Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard 1. Whether it was at least debatable among jurists of reasons that petitioner established actual innocence, or at least warranted an evidentiary heari…
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…
19-8076 Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat…
19-8040 Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility 1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros…
19-1146 Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach In Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (2004), this Court mandated that a conceptual approach –not a spatial approach –be utilized to d…
19-1138 DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a claim for violation of a prisonerpatient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and …
19-1141 Atlantic Trading USA, LLC, et al. v. BP P.L.C., et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split commodity-exchange-act domestic-transaction extraterritorial-jurisdiction location-of-exchange morrison-test morrison-v-national-australia-bank securities-exchange-act stoyas-v-toshiba-corp territorial-application In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247, 259-60 (2010), this Court severely criticized the Second Circuit's so-called "conduct-and-…
19-8038 Jermaine James v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa…
19-7985 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Must a defendant who has been granted a Certificate of Appealability by the Court of Appeals continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling by the d…
19-8004 Lamarcus Harvey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation I. Bank Robbery, (the basis for attempted bank robbery) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim, or by presenting to the telle…
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,…
19-7908 Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN APPLYING THE TWO PRONG SLACK V. MCDANIEL, TEST (PROCEDURE AND MERITS) IN DETE…
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis In this case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that an essentiak part of the MDOC's Grievance Process will only benefit a very few litigants …
19-7896 Nicholas Hughes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing The question presented, then, is whether the lower courts err in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason co…
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f…
19-7865 Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct, as the Eighth Cir…
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test (1) If Petitioner provided sufficient newly presented evidence for all reasonable jurors to conclude that he was "not guilty by reason of insanity"—wo…
19-1081 Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent Under the dormant Commerce Clause framework set forth by this Court, a state law is subject to heightened scrutiny if it either "discriminates against…
19-1084 Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on…
19-7856 Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p…
19-7845 Omar Weise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing Question not identified.
19-1075 Bryan Adrian Copeland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miller-el-v-cockrell strickland-v-washington 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the District Court and denying Copeland a Certificate of Appealability for § 2255 habeas review whe…
19-1071 Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers 1. Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions holding that a finding of substantial or undue delay is …
19-7818 Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington I. WHETHER UNDER §2254(e)(l) DISTRICT COURT REQUIRED TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO STATE APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING OF HISTORICAL FACTS AND UPON FINDING THAT P…
19-7820 Marcus Derby v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are …
19-7800 Donald Sheman Bush v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides that "evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to sh…
19-7772 John Lee Barron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review life-sentence Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied due process where a single judge of the Court of Appea…
19-7761 Jose Osvaldo Arteaga v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misidentification sixth-amendment This non-capital habeas case arises from petitioner-appellant Jose Osvaldo Arteaga's 2003 California state conviction fo r an attempted murder that to…
19-7748 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…
19-7729 Aaron New v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied IFP circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar 1. Did the Ninth Circuit 's opinion contradict this Court 's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 19…
19-7713 Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United …
19-7723 James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari HI. DOES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, INCLUDE APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL FOR PROSECUTION OF MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL? 112. IS A MOTION FOR A NEW…
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).
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case…
19-7711 John Patrick Vescuso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict…
19-1037 Sok Bun v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure detainers due-process interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers legal-interpretation motion motions standing trial trial-court trial-motion Whether a defendant is "unable to stand trial" within the meaning of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, 18 U.S.C. App. 2, § 2, art. VI(a), when he…
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Requested actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel If a petitioner defaults an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with "some merit," does Martinez v. Ryan allow a federal court to excuse the…
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…
19-7670 Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden California 2020-02-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid?
19-7639 Gregory Franklin Harris v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus prison-law-library unpublished-opinions certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus michigan-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court-review unpublished-cases unpublished-opinion writ-of-certiorari WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE OBTAINED FROM HARRIS'S HOTEL ROOM? WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR …
19-1007 Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan Second Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response Waived accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations Under ERISA, the National Basketball Association's retirement plan has a statutory obligation to continuously recalculate retirement benefits during a…
19-7631 Regina Wolgamott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi…
19-7636 Gerald W. Eiland v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment auto-shop-business certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance-counsel expert-testimony franks-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant pen-register section-2255 sixth-amendment wiretap-challenge wiretaps 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Eiland's motion Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255 without a hearing? 2. Was Eiland denied eff…
19-7637 Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or …
19-7638 Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant who accepts responsibility for an offense receives a two-point reduction on the offense level. U.S.S…
19-7589 Michael M. Monzel v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation 1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of…
19-7590 David K. Howell v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intoxication methamphetamine methamphetamine-intoxication sixth-amendment This Court has repeatedly held that to receive a certificate of appealability ("COA"), a habeas petitioner need only show that "'jurists of reason cou…
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…
19-990 Southern Illinois Storm Shelters v. 4SEMO.COM, Incorporated Seventh Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied business-impact circuit-conflict circuit-split common-law-trademark equitable-multi-factor-test equitable-test prior-precedent senior-user-rights trademark-ownership trademark-territory In this case, the Seventh Circuit panel refused to apply the equitable six-factor test adopted by the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits to determine c…
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach…
19-972 Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-02-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., requires administrative exhaustion when a plaintiff brings a…
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…
19-7520 Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-7505 Lamar James Crump v. Tracy Beltz, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
19-953 Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes…
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…
19-7485 Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE PROSECUTION'S GANG EXPERT IS AND WAS AT ALL TIMES A POLICE OFFICER ENGAGED IN INVESTIGATING CRIMES WHEN INTERVIEWING ALL…
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness 1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori…
19-7458 Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation (1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth…
19-939 Stephen Gustus v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense.
19-934 In Re Todd Britton-Harr 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i…
19-936 Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no "certificate of appeal…
19-7440 Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-7388 Aaron Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif I. Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an ac…
19-927 Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington Fifth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") to provide a remedy to students attending publicly funded educational instit…
19-920 Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response Waived appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour…
19-7386 Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light …
19-7360 Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Ground I. Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability by statin…
19-7361 Edward Shevtsov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material…
19-7368 Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if…
19-7375 Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether, Despite Strickland's Contemporary Assessment Rule, Strickland's Test For Determining Whether A Criminal Defendant's Counsel Was Ineffectiv…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v…
19-898 Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations Some five years ago, in Chen v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, Md., 135 S. Ct. 475 (2014) (mem.), this Court recognized at least a 7-1 circuit spl…
19-894 Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. Second Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi…
19-7320 Jurden Rogers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not…
19-7327 Antonio Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-by-claim claim-determination constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists Does a federal habeas court have to determine the need for an evidentiary hearing on a claim by claim basis? When one court grants a certificate of a…
19-7304 Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond The Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in light of Unit…
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment I. Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective at the guilt-innocence stage, in violation of the Sixth Amendment, in failing to request jury in…
19-883 Jason Isaiah Robinson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived aedpa-limitations anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity retroactive-application substantive-rules suspension-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit failed to conduct the requisite threshold inquiry and impose d an unduly burdensome s…
19-877 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN FAILING TO GRANT A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON ANY OF THE FOUR ISSUES PRESENTED REGARDING FUNDAMENTA…
19-878 Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission Third Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to "obey the law" injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. …
19-7277 Dora Moreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment 1-) IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENT OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND THE COMPULSORY PROCESS PROTECTION OF THE SIX AMENDMENT, 'DID THE UNITED…
19-7283 Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion Fairly Earls case raises a pressing issue of National Importance: Whether and to what extent did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Ci…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien…
19-870 Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank Seventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s…
19-867 Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett Third Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal If a prisoner fails to exhaust administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit, does Section 1997e(a) mandate dismissal of the unexhausted claims, or …
19-7243 Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe…
19-7247 Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation A federal prisoner who seeks to challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence usually must do so in a motion under 28 U.S.C. §2255. Under the s…
19-7253 Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS …
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…
19-860 Nikolai Bosyk v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search…
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…
19-855 Lenin Lugo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in opinion fo…
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…
19-7204 Eric Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal strickland SHOULD PETITIONERS NOTICE OF APPEAL HAVE BEEN CONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON GROUNDS 1-12 AND 14-15, AND WAS FAILURE TO …
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), this Court held that Fed. R. Evid. 702 superseded the common law rule governing the ad…
19-7165 Omar Macias-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con…
19-839 Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. Oregon 2020-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).…
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation I. This Court should grant review to determine whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth A…
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response 1. A court of appeals lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to decide a § 2255 the district court's procedural error-that the movant defaulted an ineffect…
19-7126 Ronald Damon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of …
19-7127 Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Granted Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity Phillip Tomlin's sentence of life imprisonment without parole reflects a breakdown of the Certificate of Appealability ("COA") review process and rais…
19-7131 Eric Hanna v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe…
19-825 Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-31 Granted Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (5) circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds.
19-7076 Cedrick Ponder v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde…
19-7092 Laforest Carmichael, aka LaForrest Carmichael v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split mandatory-revocation sentencing-factors statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Should this Court resolve the current circuit split over whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when impo…
19-805 Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response Waived circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh…
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?
19-800 Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger 1. Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's…
19-7034 Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim Section 3A1.1(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines provides for a two-level increase where, "the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the o…
19-794 Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby A magistrate judge granted Riverside police officers qualified immunity on a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim, finding there was probable cause for the ar…
19-7016 Matthew Terrell v. C. Armant, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment assault certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process jackson-v-virginia oral-copulation substantial-evidence Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process…
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th…
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default (1) WHETHER TO MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT A HABEAS APPLICANT FOR A C.O.A. NEED NOT SHOW THAT HE WILL PREVAIL O…
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1 -) Does Martinez v. Ryan / 566 U.S. 1 (2012) excuse a procedural default in a Federal Habeas Corpus proceeding where Post Conviction relief Counsel…
19-6987 Darrell Wayne Bell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-conflict habeas habeas-corpus judicial-precedent merits-analysis newly-discovered-evidence shulp-v-delo QUESTION ONE: Did the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals exceed the limited scope of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard using a merits analysis…
19-6994 Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was The Presiding Magistrate's Analysis So Flawed As To Warrent This Court To Reverse And Remand So That A Correct Legal Standard May Be Applied ? pg7…
19-783 Nathan Van Buren v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (22)Relisted (2) circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus…
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction? Are Rule 38 Sanctions for "frivolous appeal" warranted when the appeal earn…
19-6967 Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation 1. There is an important issue of law as to the scope of the remedies available for violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act ["PURPA"]…
19-763 Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC Third Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ACCEPT AND DECIDE THIS CASE THAT AFFECTS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS, VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO APPLIES FOR C…
19-767 National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or …
19-770 Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler This Court's decisions in Martinez v. Ryan , 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler , 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013) held that state prisoners whose states …
19-6923 Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review I. Where the evidence tended to favor a verdict of justifiable homicide or a lesser verdict of manslaughter, has Petitioner presented a "debatable " i…
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) moti…
19-6940 Kevin James Petroske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con…
19-6942 Savon Germain Carter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mi…
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel 1. The state habeas testimony of Michael Nance's trial counsel established that they inexplicably omitted highly mitigating evidence from Mr. Nance's …
19-6908 Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-6875 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas Texas 2019-12-06 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED TO RECOGNIZE (AS HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY TWO CIRCUITS) THAT IT IS A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION WHEN THE PROSECUTION USE…
19-6878 Robert L. Bolden Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-intent elements-clause inchoate-offense mens-rea substantial-step 1. Whether an inchoate offense, whose non-inchoate form would constitute a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A), aut…
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach…
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Petitioner was sentenced to death at a trial at which he did not cooperate with counsel in preparing his defense, repeatedly disrupted proceedings, to…
19-6824 Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue 1. Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SOR…
19-6840 Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ…
19-706 Facebook, Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification concrete-injury concrete-interest future-risk personal-information predominance real-world-injury risk-of-harm standing-article-iii statutory-violation 1. Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a statute protects a concrete interest, without determining that the …
19-709 Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error 1. When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a…
19-6799 Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent 1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)…
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst…
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA…
19-6817 Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38 (2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de…
19-6819 Frankie Ovies v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the…
19-6827 Wesley Dorcelus v. Chris Brannon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability certiorari-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-denial standing WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DENIED DORCELUS' MOTION FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
19-6828 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…
19-691 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts WERE PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA'S OVERLY BROAD APPLICATION OF THE "INTRINSIC EVIDENCE" RULE TO PETITIONE…
19-6774 Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His…
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…
19-683 Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule Federal prisoners generally may challenge their convictions and sentences only by filing a direct appeal and, if unsuccessful there, one petition for …
19-667 Michael Baker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 …
19-6755 Frederick Garcia-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6759 James A. Lackey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the …
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review 1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m…
19-6769 Steven Hicks v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure debatable-among-jurists-of-reason johnson-v-united-states jurists-of-reason mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a)(2) vagueness void-for-vagueness Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability. Whether the residu…
19-678 United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-26 Denied administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q…
19-682 Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan…
19-6718 James Douglas Pridgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery carjacking certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit section-924(c) section-924c unanimous-jury 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit wrongly denied the request for a certificate of appealability where the Section 924(c) conviction was charged as to two d…
19-654 Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo Second Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing A claimant may assert a claim for monetary damages under the Rehabilitation Act if there was intentional discrimination. Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 18…
19-656 William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger The Fourteenth Amendment provides that the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny t…
19-658 J. G., By and Through His Parents, Howard Greenberg, et ux. v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response Waived administrative-proceedings burden-of-proof circuit-split florence-county-school-district-four-v-carter individuals-with-disabilities-education-act placement-change private-school-placement public-placement schaffer-v-weast special-education 1. Whether the burden of proof shifts when the public agency seeks to change the educational placement of a child with a disability.
19-6712 Adam Scott Caward v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline…
19-651 John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 by informal communications, the rule applied by Seventh Circuit, o…
19-6675 Michael Ray Bishop v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines?
19-6685 Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review A disturbing trend is developing in capital cases in federal courts in Missouri regarding the pro forma denial of certificates of appealability ("COA"…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
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…
19-6677 Justin Scott Vasey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6678 Joseph Van Sach v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)?
19-6652 Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United…
19-616 W.A., Individually and on Behalf of W.E., et al. v. Hendrick Hudson Central School District Second Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied circuit-split deference-to-administrative-decisions due-process free-appropriate-public-education idea-fape-private-school-deference-administrative- individuals-with-disabilities-education-act private-placement school-district-obligations special-education-law standard-of-review 1. When a school district defaults on its obligations to provide a student with a disability a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as guaranteed …
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…
19-6633 Adrian Ausberry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony Before this Court decided Voisine v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016), all circuits agreed that an offense that can be committed with a mens rea …
19-6641 Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect…
19-612 Hassan Abpikar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment 1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, …
19-6599 Walter D. Fairley v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-and-finality due-process finality fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus incarceration standing statute-of-limitations time-barred 1.) Whether the Magistrate for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when they issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
19-6601 Kevin Battle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua…
19-6604 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence In this capital case, Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death as the man who shot a store clerk, Richard Slysz. …
19-6562 Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19…
19-603 Mark Silguero, et al. v. CSL Plasma, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination place-of-public-accommodation plasma-donation-center public-accommodation title-iii Is a plasma donation center a "place of public accommodation" subject to the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error QUESTION ONE: Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup? QU…
19-6527 Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines 1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING …
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists could disagree over the district court's res…
19-6482 Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP 2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.…
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6429 William Jovian Davis v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (7)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review pro-se strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Ninth Circuit's unreasoned denial so clearly misapply Buck's modest standard as to call for summary reversal?
19-570 Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response Waived circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process 1. Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process under § 1965(d), consistent with the Clayton A…
19-560 Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation Whether the scènes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the…
19-6410 Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied IFP administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling Incarcerated inmate Donald W. Rager (Rager) was physically assaulted by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Lt. Keith Buford on July 13, 2010. Rager filed…
19-6418 Wayne Neville Morris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment 1. Whether, a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory, interpretation or a mistake about the law, can continue to be sustained, once the petitio…
19-6430 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standing Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that…
19-6433 Edward Anthony Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question in light of conflicting Ninth Circuit law that results in a fe…
19-6419 Scott Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING WILSON'S HABEAS CLAIM(S) ALLEGING COUNSEL'S UNREASONABLE FAILU…
19-6399 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis jones-v-bock jurisdictional-grounds procedural-grounds WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT RENDERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCED IN COPPEDGE -V-…
19-6370 Troy Bennett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84…
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. …
19-6385 Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre…
19-6387 Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure default default-judgment pleading procedural-rules summary-judgment supervisory-power waiver-of-rights writ writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition 1. Rule 15(a)(3) provide the time a party must respond. Rule 55(a) authorizes the clerk to enter a default " when a party against whom a judgment for …
19-6352 James Byron Coon v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability exhaustion expert-opinion expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-postconviction vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-6354 Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9…
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, …
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors 1. Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis which was an error, albeit Petitioner met the requirement showing of denia…
19-6315 John David Stahlman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) 1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T…
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE LOWER COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING SHELTON'S HABEAS CLAIM ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS…
19-6334 Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres…
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.
19-6318 Damon Tracy Locke v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni…
19-508 AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (6) administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th…
19-511 Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Judgment Issued Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel…
19-498 Raymond L. Rogers v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether or not the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals [erred], when denying (1). your Petitioner, a certificate of appealability (COA) pursuant to 28 U.S.…
19-505 William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response Waived antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing (1) Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP 12(b)(6) motions (prior to discovery or an evidentiary hearing), to rule upon a disputed issue of f…
19-507 Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 GVR Relisted (7) circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1) Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles; and 2) Whether a…
19-6306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied IFP circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951…
19-6307 Andrew Oreckinto v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec…
19-6278 Kenneth Lyle Spangle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 arbitrary-and-capricious bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence due-process federal-bank-robbery fifth-amendment meaningful-review Whether the Circuit's decision to deny a certificate of appealability without any analysis or explanation for its decision at all was so arbitrary and…
19-6279 Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force.
19-6280 Jose Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal…
19-6295 Antonio Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure Does a broad appeal waiver included in a plea agreement between a defendant and the United States preclude appellate review of the district court's fi…
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers, this Court instructed that a federal court should train its attention on the particular legal and factual reasons of the state-c…
19-6231 William Dean Chapman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling…
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…
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750…
19-6236 Christina Marie Eichler v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction 1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users a…
19-6249 Michael Terrill Faircloth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g1 affirmative-defense circuit-split criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession innocent-possession safe-streets-act transitory-possession Whether a felon may assert an affirmative defense of innocent, transitory possession when charged as a felon-in-possession of a firearm under § 922(g)…
19-6221 George E. Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-requirements standing WHEN A DEFENDANT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) IS HE THEN ENTITLED TO CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? ISS…
19-6232 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…
19-466 Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force 1. Whether in Scott U. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) this Court announced an "exception" to the summary judgment standard in cases commenced under 42 U.…
19-457 Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing 1. Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud…
19-462 A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated Seventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress This is a trade dress case. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court that Plaintiff-Appellee Bodum USA, Inc. owned a trade dres…
19-6208 Darrell Alan Lussier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court due-process established-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-appeal judicial-precedent precedent right-to-appeal section-2255 1.) When a District Court's denial of a §2255 motion is contrary to established precedent is the Court of Appeals required to grant a certificate of…
19-6209 John Hudson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica…
19-6210 Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SIXTH, FIFTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS ON WHAT IS THE APPRO…
19-6186 Latroy Leon Burris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation (1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-6132 Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision in a plea…
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…
19-6152 Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure 1. Did the Court of Appeals err below in denying Ms. Owens a COA as to whether Ms. Owens received effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge…
19-6124 Jerry Scott Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act assault breaking-and-entering certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals johnson-v-united-states north-carolina-assault supreme-court violent-felony I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT NORTH CAROLINA ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL INFLICTING SERIOU…
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights (1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the…
19-6138 William A. White v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-development evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief section-2255 supervisory-power 1) May a District Court, in a 28 USC §2255 proceeding, strike all of the evidence presented in support of the motion from the record, refuse to allow …
19-429 Charles R. Hunter v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2410a asset-depletion circuit-split federal-statute federal-tax-lien governmental-abuse quiet-title sovereign-immunity tax-lien taxpayer-interest third-party-agreement 1. Whether a quiet title action brought against the government pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2410(a) requires the taxpayer to retain a legal interest in the…
19-435 SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation The Third Circuit, in conf lict with the D.C., Ninth, and Federal Circuits, deferred to an IRS regulation under step two of Chevron even though the ag…
19-438 Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5) ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether …
19-440 Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary…
19-428 Ryan Courtade v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied 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…
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies…
19-6114 Antwoyn Anderson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony I. Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C.…
19-423 Brian Kirk Malpasso, et al. v. William M. Pallozzi, in His Official Capacity as Maryland Secretary of State Police Fourth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit typical, law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self defense …
19-413 Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an "advertisement" as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the…
19-415 Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status Whether a grant of TPS to an alien by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") constitutes a lawful admission into the United States fo…
19-417 EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Amici (3) abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law The Kentucky Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (House Bill 2) requires a physician, while performing a pre-abortion ultrasound, to (i) describe the ultr…
19-6087 Atif Babar Malik v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE?
19-6078 Terreall McDaniel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela…
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival 1. Whether § 1988 requires the survival of § 1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause…
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…
19-6055 Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts …
19-6025 Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)…
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings 1) Whether Petitioner was denied "Fundamental Fairness " in the State Court Proceedings? 2) Whether State and District Court erred in denying Petitio…
19-373 James Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-19 Granted Amici (7)Relisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act…
19-351 Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-18 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings 1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3), which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w…
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…
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing 1. Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appeal Is Jeffrey Harris entitled to a Pinholster Hearing to Drov „^ rhls ^ial Counsel, Robert S.…
19-5929 Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or …
19-5944 Jerry D. Scott v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES v. SWOPES , 892 F.…
19-5930 Harold Blake v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason legal-standard standing 1. Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or t…
19-5908 Howard Leon Combs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 GVR Relisted (4)IFP acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime 1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt…
19-5918 Brandon Kyle Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal idaho-v-garza ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-rule prejudice-standard presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington After trial and again after sentencing, Brandon Thomas requested that his attorney appeal the criminal judgment. Counsel's advice consisted of "if you…
19-5884 Kevin Carson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h…
19-5891 Donte Island v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m…
19-320 Harold Wade, et ux. v. Kreisler Law, P.C. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure functional-equivalence jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules mandatory-claim-processing-rules notice-of-appeal petition-for-appeal petition-for-permission-to-appeal The "functional equivalence" doctrine of Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178 (1962), Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312 (1988), and Smith v. Barry…
19-323 Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with r…
19-5872 Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error 1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg…
19-5858 Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator Did The United States Court Of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit fail to address an issue of first impression involving an ex post facto violation of Th…
19-310 Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement (i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of …
19-312 Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction Whether Section 4072's provision of "exclusive" federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers.
19-5820 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) permits a court of appeals, when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based …
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…
19-287 Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia 2019-09-04 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in…
19-292 Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as the Eighth, Ninth, …
19-293 TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I…
19-5795 Jacob D. Lickers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER THE GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE APPLIES WHEN AN AFFIDAVIT SUPPORTING A SEARCH WARRANT HAD BEEN TAINTED BY EVIDENCE OBTAINED …
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a…
19-5763 Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
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…
19-5722 Moses Shepard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment Whether (as the Eleventh Circuit holds), under § 3161(d)(1), a "subsequent replacement indictment " "restarts the clock regardless of how the prior in…
19-5729 Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel Flowers was convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary based on an incident where two men robbed a massage parlor that had a history of prostitutio…
19-5711 Charles Fritsche v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings Whether this Court Should Grant this Petition, Vacate the Ninth Circuit's Certificate of Appealability Denial, and Remand the Matter for Further Recon…
19-248 Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee…
19-255 Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2019-08-26 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny 1. Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights. 2. Wheth…
19-242 Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job du…
19-233 Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii The two questions presented are: 1. Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of…
19-5675 Stephen Jason Whitaker v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-counsel procedural-default sentencing-guidelines state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-5678 John T. Beyers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-review sentencing-procedure standing supervised-release John Beyers was sentenced in part, under a statute held unconstitution, 18 USC § 3583(k). Rather than wait until this court's ruling in Haymond, as th…
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-5652 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-21 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines?
19-5659 Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden Third Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution A federally funded, multi-jurisdictional Mortgage Fraud Task Force (Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant # 2009-SC-B9-0080) prosecuted 1,000 citizens, i…
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; WH…
19-229 C. D., By and Through Her Parents, M. D. and P. D., et al. v. Natick Public School District, et al. First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act least-restrictive-environment mainstreaming mainstreaming-mandate regular-classes special-education supplementary-aids-and-services supplementary-aids-services When does a school district's decision to educate a child with disabilities outside the regular classroom violate the IDEA's mainstreaming mandate?
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent 1. Was DAVIS improperly included? (5th.Cir.) 2. Was PAXTON improperly dismissed? (W.D.Tex.) 3. Did PITMAN abuse discretion in disallowing Perkins's …
19-232 New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f…
19-5648 Desmond Justin Murray v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-5650 James Michael Williams v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violations certificate-of-appealability due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct second-jury-trial 1.) Whether the Minth Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals erred in denying Certificate of Appealability to Petitioner, on the Ground Of Error concerning t…
19-214 Michael R. Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process financial-privacy internal-revenue-code notice-requirements preemption right-to-financial-privacy standing summons-enforcement tax tax-investigation third-party-summons Whether, by holding that the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act was fully preempted by the Internal Revenue Code despite the Tenth Circuit's decis…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review 1. Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction where the District Cou…
19-200 Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response Waived 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged tra…
19-5608 Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that judges have, in fact, disagreed about the legal issues governing his postconviction claim, is he entitled t…
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…
19-5595 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process false-evidence government-misconduct government-misrepresentations habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct second-circuit 1- Did The Denial of COA Violate of Appeals Denied Effective When A Clear Claim ofDue Process Where The Second Circuit And Meaningful Review As ACourt…
19-5603 Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig…
19-5570 Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review Question One As to the violation of Mr. Barton's right to be free from double jeopardy whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed upon Mr. Barton an impr…
19-5553 Angela Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards Whether the widely criticized "inextricably intertwined" or "intrinsic evidence" family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf…
19-5554 Andres Soto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment In determining whether an accused person is in custody for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 486 (1966), must courts give significant weight to…
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…
19-5568 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard 1. Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and chil…
19-5574 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or …
19-5579 Sebastian Eccleston v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos…
19-5582 Tuan Duc Lam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search Once a police officer makes a formal custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to that arrest. See, e.g., Riley v. …
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error 1. Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias durin…
19-5560 Cecil McDonald Davis v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens bivens-action bivens-claim certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-claim 1.) Whether the District Court in denying the Petitioner medical claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. …
19-5543 Arnold Maurice Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether trial counsel was ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment by failing to investigate and litigate a warrantless search of petitioner's …
19-5547 Ronny Lee Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP abandonment-of-claim abandonment-of-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-statement-of-guilt counsel-statements criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel right-to-autonomy right-to-counsel Whether COA should have been granted based on petitioner's right tocautonomy uhen his cousel abandoned petitioner's claim of hot guilty uhen cousel …
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review 1. Whether The District Court And The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability ("COA") Wher…
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not Was petitioner's initial demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? Was it legal for the…
19-176 R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response Waived aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and …
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness 1. Whether The District Court And Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability Where. The Pet…
19-5451 Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U…
19-5472 Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release 1. Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection, …
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on the basis that the Petitione…
19-5478 Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of…
19-5447 Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit-which refused to unequivocally recognize the constitutional right to …
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners.
19-157 Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC Fifth Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied Response Waived age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is …
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…
19-5430 Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith Where the district court wrote that Petitioner "raises issues worthy of judicial review," has the Fifth Circuit again applied an overly restrictive st…
19-147 Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay I. Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a "reasonable probabilit…
19-153 Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. Wisconsin 2019-08-01 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of…
19-146 Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac…
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…
19-5415 Darryl Dewayne Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Whether Applicant is entitled to a certificate of appealability or review by the Supreme Court when the Court of Appeals departed from the accepted…
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Fairly W. Earls completed satisfaction of his criminal judgment case raises a pressing issuance of National Importance: Whether and to what extent the…
19-5384 David Rothenberg v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP causal-process child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution disaggregation paroline-v-united-states victim-losses When calculating restitution for a mere possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial abuse be disaggregated from the…
19-5397 Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied IFP audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic…
19-5401 Thomas Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §…
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 …
19-140 Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2019-07-30 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en…
19-137 Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe…
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules I. WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING THAT THE PRO SE LITIGANT HAS ABANDONED ANY CLAIM(S) NOT RAISED IN AN APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL…
19-5388 Marquis Travell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure discovery due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct tactical-advantage Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability (COA) because reasonable jurists would disagree whether …
19-5348 Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel A federal habeas petitioner challenging a state conviction cannot obtain appellate review unless and until a certificate of appealability ("COA") issu…
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Third Circuit) err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificat…
19-128 Charles Daniel Maye v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation Whether "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act ("CFAA") is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and no…
19-109 Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof District courts exercise broad discretion at sentencing. They may take into consideration various factors relating to both the offense and the offende…
19-117 Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds 1. Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under t…
19-123 Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-25 Judgment Issued Amici (87)Relisted (7) circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions The City of Philadelphia chose to exclude a religious agency from the City's foster care system unless the agency agreed to act and speak in a manner …
19-5325 Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men…
19-5331 Michael Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" – effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t…
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard 1. Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doublydeferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis? 2. May a …
19-5321 John R. Collins v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-innocence mcquiggin-exception mcquiggin-v-perkins miller-el-v-cockrell no-trial-no-guilty-plea presumption-of-innocence procedural-rules Does the "actual innocence" exception/gateway in McQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383 (2013) require new evidence of innocence when there has never been…
19-5282 James Odell Baxter, II v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th…
19-5287 Robert Daley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli…
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…
19-104 Flavio Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights 1. The courts of appeals are divided over whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of his right to appeal or bring a collateral attack can knowin…
19-105 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…
19-100 Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties who perform collection, a…
19-5206 Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist …
19-5246 Jason Rosado v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation 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 …
19-5261 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under …
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment This Court has repeatedly instructed that the use of collateral estoppel is limited to situations where "the issues in the two cases are … identical,"…
19-5205 Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment I SHOULD A PRO SE PRISONER BE PERMITTED TO ADMIT MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM A REPUTABLE WEBSITE AS "VERIFYING MEDICAL EVIDENCE" TO OVERCOME A MOTION FOR…
19-5241 Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me…
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5219 Bobby G. Pullen v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric…
19-5171 Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Amici (3)IFP biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine At M r. Sal daño's first death penalty trial, in 1996, a n expert for th e State of Texas testified that Mr. Sa ldaño wa s more likely to present a fu…
19-5181 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 GVR IFP arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search 1. In Rawlings v. Kentucky, 448 U.S. 98 (1980), the Court upheld, under the search-incident-to-arrest exception, a warrantless search that preceded th…
19-5202 Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when…
19-77 Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims The familiar express preemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") outlaws any state laws that "relate to" an …
19-73 Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (1) attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C…
19-5183 Miguel Grado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
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…
19-5186 Mauricio Warner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-court appellate-procedure application certificate-of-appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-ruling procedural-error standing (1) Did the Appeal Court err in making a merits ruling on Warner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability and for failure to even consider the…
19-5154 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…
19-5161 Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property Question 1: The 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (henceforth CoA9) has a long settled screenwriting case law regarding Desny claims o…
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?
19-65 Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California Ninth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing 1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8…
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPOALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR ON AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION BY-ENTERING ITS DECISION/JUDGMENT, WHICH IS IN CONF…
19-5144 David R. Uribe v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia underlying-charges Should a certificate of appealability be granted to review whether there was a violation of Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317 and the Due Process…
19-5128 Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is…
19-5141 William Wade v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court 1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim…
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5105 Rudy Espudo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u…
19-5115 Cordero Robert Seals v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT…
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…
19-49 Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response Waived circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity 1. Whether, in an FMLA wrongful discharge retaliation claim, the McDonnell Douglas three-prong analysis is appropriate, where the Circuit Courts have …
19-5098 Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen…
19-52 Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron…
19-5067 Jimmie Darnell Dixon v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-insanity-defense-due-process-si due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense insufficient-evidence QUESTION 1. Whether The Lower Court Erred Denying COA on The Claim Of Insufficient Evidence Where Petitioner Sufficiently Proved By A Preponderance Of…
19-5078 Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which …
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline –a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiri…
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law 1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci…
19-41 Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from …
19-30 Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f…
19-33 Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation The anti-retaliation provision of the Sarb­anes-Oxley Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1514A(a), forbids retaliation against an employee because he or she disclosed t…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du…
19-5074 Forge Dennis Mileham v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell state-court-proceedings vasquez-v-hillery Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (198…
19-5050 John Asmodeo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity Circuit Split Despite virtually identical circumstances between this Second Circuit case and that of Cordero-Rosario , a First Circuit case, the resu…
19-20 William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den…
19-16 Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5) 18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or…
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt 1. DOES THE WILLFUL AND SERIAL DENIAL OF ATTEMPIS TO DEMONSTRATE ACTVAL INNOCENCE, BY BOTH COURIS AND COUNSEL, PRESENT AT A MINIHUM, THE DEBATABLE QUA…
19-5003 Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release 1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum. 2. Whe…
18-9804 Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"?
18-9812 Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts …
18-1593 Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response Waived aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an…
18-9805 Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability 1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u…
18-9808 Manuel Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness 1. 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. …
18-9781 Adam J. Winarske v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to …
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9795 Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO DENY A COA CONCLUDING THAT PETITIONER SUFFICEINCY OF EVIDENCE CLAIM WAS PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED BASED ON STA…
18-9796 Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) …
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9764 Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel 1. Should a petition for writ of certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict between the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal on whether a def…
18-1567 Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169…
18-1554 Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor.
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…
18-9724 Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF…
18-9730 Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence PURSUANT TO FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS JURISDICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. 2254 (A) FOR STATE PRISONER'S: 1. DOES A SUSPENDED SENTENCE COUPLED WITH AN ACTIVE DOM…
18A1336 Robert Rang v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
18A1326 Lisa Montgomery v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Presumed Complete capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 Question not identified.
18-9657 Joseph Howard Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no…
18-9695 Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with the "debatable" standard from Miller-El u. Cockrell, 537 U.S.…
18-9672 Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights The right to appeal a criminal sentence is a statutory entitlement under 18 U.S.C. § 3742. But in many federal jurisdictions—including the Eastern Dis…
18-9673 George Djura Jakubec v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-9676 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona In light of these decisions, the Fifth Circuit's denial of Randy Halprin's motion for a COA gives rise to the following questions: 1. Has the Fifth C…
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims QUESTION 1 an extraordinary This Court holds that factual innocence equates to circumstance that overrides a statute of limitation. McQuiggin v. Perk…
18-9653 Todd Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18A1302 Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud Question not identified.
18A1309 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure legal-resources prisoner-rights pro-se section-2255 Question not identified.
18A1310 Marcel Malachowski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied certificate-of-appealability federal-civil-procedure pro-se section-2255 supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18-1539 Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Amici (5) accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil…
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.…
18-9634 Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied IFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th…
18-9639 Dustin E. Ash v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-12 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2.
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…
18A1289 Walter Barton v. Cynthia Griffith, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
18A1294 Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus legal-access pro-se supreme-court-rule time-extension Question not identified.
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.
18-9597 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…
18A1276 Karen Khan v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Ig…
18A1277 Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-06 Presumed Complete circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when…
18A1270 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete aggravated-robbery certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Question not identified.
18-9536 Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel resentencing second-amendment sentencing-guidelines upward-variance witness-tampering Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously denied Certificate of Appealability in Mr. Gieswein's case. Was Mr. Gies…
18A1262 Alexander Christian Miles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete aedpa circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus plea-agreement writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
18A1263 Keith D. Nelson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance 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…
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel …
18-9472 Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions A UNITEA STATES COURT oF APPeaLS has dECided an imPOrtant question of Federal Law that hasnot beent,but should be setled hy this CouRT, And has decide…
18-9493 Jose Santillan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United …
18-9494 Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing 1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce…
18-9503 Donald M. Boswell v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-created-impediments statute-of-limitations Boswell contends that, due to several errors by the state court officials in processing his post-conviction filings, his §2254 petition hsould be cons…
18-1498 UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review This Court held in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101 (1989), that a highly deferential standard of judicial review applies to interpr…
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation In Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488 (2009), this Court held that a "vague desire to return . . . without any description of concrete pl…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual innocence claim establish cause to exc…
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations I. The Sixth Circuit conmitted plain error, contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) and Miller-E1 v. v Cockre11, 537 U.S. 322 (2003). because …
18-9462 Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender 1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was…
18-9438 Nathaniel Woods v. Cynthia Stewart, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,ma ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining plea-negotiations trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Could reasonable jurists disagree with the district court's rejection of Mr. Woods' claim that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Tha…
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 …
18-1468 United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity 1. Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigan…
18-9393 Tarell McIlwain v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search When a police officer makes a lawful custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of the arrestee's person to protect officer s…
18-9398 Ali Cisse v. New York New York 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent Does knowledge of wiretapping establish "consent" to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)?
18-9415 Michael Don Neely v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled …
18-9417 Wade Lay v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP available-state-corrective-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus standing state-court-determination wainwright-v-sykes PETITIONER, WUUO REPRESEUTEO HIANSELF AT TRIAL AND FILED A PO-SE APPEAL TO THE OISLAHOMNA COORT OF CRIONUINAL APPEALS ON DIRTCT APPEAL, SEEKS TO FILE …
18A1217 Jorge Baez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus johnson-precedent section-924c vagueness-doctrine Question not identified.
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning Before this Honorable Court is the question of when it is appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, in light…
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer…
18-9360 Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.…
18-9362 Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus as only a reque…
18-9343 Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio…
18-9319 Robert Gray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied IFP appeal 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?
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred, when it failed to issue a Certificate of Appealibility under title 28 U.S…
18-9329 Sean M. Barnhill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis when it re-adjudicated the merits of pro se petitioner's § 2255, and then denied …
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco…
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 …
18-9315 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 In Petitioner's jury trial on federal drug offenses, the district court allowed a prosecution witness to testify under Fed. R. Evid. 801(d)(2)(E) to o…
18-9256 Zeeshan Khalid Syed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-affidavit court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se reasonableness-of-counsel standing waiver waiver-doctrine writ-of-certiorari Q1. When a pro-se files for a COA and discuss his claim extensively in his argument, can the Court construe the issue as being waived? Q2. When the C…
18-9294 Andre Derrell Lee v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel standing 1. Did +he Circuit Court err in Aot granting a C.o.A? 2. Did the District Court err in dismissing +he petition for failure to exhaust without having …
18-1424 Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held, in an acknowledged conflict with the Third Circuit, that a district court may deny a request for the issua…
18-9264 Robert Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-precedent buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisprudence DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT WRONGLY APPLY THIS COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE IN BUCK BY FAILING TO GRANT A COA IN THIS MATTER.
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 1. Does a district court's denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitute a defect in the integrity of the p…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has again violated the standard for determining whether a Certificate of Appealabi…
18-9275 James Troiano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-residual-clause advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states townsend-misinformation townsend-v-burke vagueness void-for-vagueness Should a COA issue because reasonable jurists could conclude that Johnson's interpretation of the ACCA's residual clause triggers a Townsend claim aga…
18-9277 Melvin Scott Morman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition…
18-9215 Dale Giles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-circuit fair-notice in-forma-pauperis judicial-process opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness supreme-court-precedent DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO FAIR NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD BY THE COURT'S PROCESS O…
18-1413 Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment A prosecutor had Petitioner's jail telephone calls recorded, listened to them, made notes from them and had at least one witness listen to them. This …
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver 1. Whether a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") that expressly states "[t]he arbitrator shall not have jurisdiction or authority to add to, detra…
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts I. Does a Pro-Se Petitioner forfeit his right to the protection of the Constitution when he is granted a C.0O.A. on the merits of his case, then not g…
18-9211 Leon Escourse-Westbrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence residual-clause retroactivity vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. In Sessions v. Dimaya, 1388 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), this Court held the "crime of violence" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 16(b) void for vagueness for the …
18-9155 Robert Strecker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process habeas-corpus standing Where a district Court denies a dass petition and denies a cerificatle of appealability Ccon) to the petitioner, the petitioner may seck a CoA from th…
18-1401 David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-07 Granted CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le…
18-9150 Peter Victor Ayika v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial [1]Whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal where petitioner's rights to Sixth Amendmen…
18-9069 Hector Rengifo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split civil-procedure controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-winstead Whether two United States Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with relevant decision of this Court. Whether Pennsylvania's statute fo…
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?
18-1374 Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl…
18-1381 Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act Did the Ninth Circuit err by following FCC commentary to hold that an "'incidental [fax] advertisement' 'does not convert the entire communication int…
18-1382 American Eagle Express, Inc., dba AEX Group v. Ever Bedoya, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split employment-classification federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act preemption presumption-against-preemption state-regulation transportation-of-property (1) Whether the Third Circuit erred by holding that New Jersey's statutory test for determining employment classification is not preempted under the F…
18-9046 Richard Shusterman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deny- ing issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a 28 U.S.C.§ 2255 ruling when the District…
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power I. Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit Violated The Procedure Prescribed By 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) And Imposed An Imprope…
18-9063 Tyrone Leonard James v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3584 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentences,federal-sentencing,state-sent Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiora federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-consideration sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors state-sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit unrelated-crimes vagueness Whether a district court's finding that a state crime and federal crime were unrelated is sufficient, in itself, to satisfy its obligation under 18 U.…
18-9064 Adonijah Lindsay v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit…
18-9044 Troy Latrial Ramsey v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell per-se-rule reasonable-jurist sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's ruling in Miller-El v. Cochrell, 537 U.S. 322, 3…
18-9019 Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied IFP aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi…
18-9027 Marc Nielsen v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. S 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-1358 Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w…
18-1346 Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, as this Court held when interpreti…
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction should the United states Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 11-2511, where no reasonable jurist…
18-9014 Jamaal A. McNeil v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-clerk-failure-to-forward-record district-court-judgment-dismissal-stay due-process ecclesiastical-court ecclesiastical-court-letter-of-rogatory-registered exhaustion expand-record habeas-corpus standing writ-of-certiorari Can the Ecclêisastical Court, Letter of Rogatory, Registered Deed Poll be admissible and appied in this herein Writ of Certiorari; The Certificate of…
18-9015 Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel, when the State Court failed to …
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 …
18-8993 Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li…
18-1344 LaMarcus Thomas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, as the Ninth Circuit, Colo…
18-8935 Scott B. Miserendino, Sr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bribery-conviction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act question-not-identified section-2255-petition standing takings Does the Fourth Circuit's Local Rule 34(b) and Preliminary Briefing Order, which require COA applicants to file a brief that will become the merits-br…
18-8946 Willie Peterson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process duncan-v-louisiana illinois-v-allen lewis-v-united-states right-to-be-present third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U…
18-8949 Hakim Muhammad v. Cedric Taylor, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights COA-standard color-of-authority constitutional-review counsel-performance due-process federal-appellate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-court supervisory-power Did the eleventh circuit court of appeals enter a decision in conflict with decisions of other court of appeals (U.S.C.A.) on the same important matte…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the admission of the oth…
18-8965 Olusola Olla v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa…
18-8968 Emmanuel Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as…
18-8929 In Re Lavont Flanders, Jr. 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus indictment-amendment mailbox-rule postal-service-error pro-se-filing pro-se-prisoner procedural-due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals have considered Petitioner's timely filed Amended Certificate of Appealability and Motion to Expand the A…
18-8931 Tajie Coleman v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an…
18-8933 Zaamar Bersan Stevenson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied IFP appeal appeal-process certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehabilitation-process right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether Mr. Stevenson was entitled to relief, or in the alternative an evidentiary hearing, on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, wher…
18-8937 Michael P. Johnson v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights federal-court-rulings habeas-corpus similar-facts sixth-circuit state-court-proceeding Whether a state habeas petitioner may satisfy his burden under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) of making a substantial showing of a denial of a federal constit…
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b 1. Does this Court's decision in Gonzalez v. Crosby completely foreclose a habeas petitioner from obtaining Rule 60(b) relief arising from a demonstra…
18-8917 Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation (1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran…
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-1328 Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation 1. Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the oblig…
18-8882 Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Did the Clerk of the U.S. …
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Crider Filed Under § 2255 fostering several issues warranting a certificate of appealability. To Crider's dismay the Sixth Circuit denied all of issue…
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…
18-8852 Xavier Huron Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review motion-for-review standard-of-review Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability?
18-8881 Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ANY FINDINGS OF FACT SPECIALLY AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AS IS REQUIRED BY…
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-1302 Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin Tenth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 …
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 …
18-8826 Omar Christopher Miller v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - …
18-8829 Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement?
18-8816 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness Where an appellate court, in connection with an application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA"), decides that circuit precedent precludes the u…
18-1294 Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power This case presents clear conflict on a pure question of law, regarding the Federal Rules of Evidence. According to the Eleventh Circuit, the hearsay s…
18-1291 Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-courts judicial-review jurisdiction municipal-court private-probation probation-order rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment void-ab-initio Whether Rooker–Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio.
18-8796 Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion This Court holds that when a habeas petitioner alleges facts that are outside the courtroom, and if proven, those facts entitle a petitioner to relief…
18-8798 Brent Lynch v. Eddie Miles, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
18-8752 Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment (1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver…
18-8775 Samuel William Maines v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration? Can an implied waiver o…
18-8737 Mario Bachiller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 GVR IFP categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a conviction and sentence im…
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth…
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…
18-8717 Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel DOES THE BLANKET DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN SLACK V. MCDANIEL? DOES 28 U.S.C. § 224…
18-8718 Anthony C. Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex…
18-8727 Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ERRED IN REFUSING TO GRANT…
18-1279 K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia 2019-04-08 Denied 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches…
18-1272 Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. First Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects "the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of co…
18-8687 Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard (Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), does not require absolute cer…
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?
18-8708 Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta…
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction WHETHER THE DECISION OF MCOUIGGIN V. PERKINS, 133 S.Ct. 1924 (2013) APPLIES RETROACTIVELY BECAUSE IT CHANGED DECISIONAL LAW AND WHETHER THE DECISION I…
18-8685 Ervin Thomas v. Cathy A. Jess, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-district-court habeas-corpus pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing time-bar Whether a federal district court should deny petitioners petitions for a of writ of habeas corpus as untimely and failed to issue a certificate of app…
18-8695 Deontray Vershon Tate v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis…
18-1269 Simon E. Rodriguez, as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of United Western Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for United Western Bank Tenth Circuit 2019-04-03 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) affiliated-group affiliated-groups bob-richards-rule circuit-split corporate-taxation federal-common-law state-law tax-refund Whether courts should determine ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group based on the federal common law "Bob Richards rule," as three Ci…
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure 1. Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals properly co…
18-1271 Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal In pleading a breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA, is it sufficient for a plaintiff to allege a deficient decision-making process indirectly through …
18-1262 Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence.
18-1265 September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations?
18-8677 Patrick Lloyd v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez Whether Dominguez BenItez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court…
18-8642 DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of…
18-8600 Tony McLeod v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the…
18-8601 Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge This Court should grant certiorari because there is a split in the circuits as to the proper application of a 7 level guideline enhancement for the di…
18-1260 Jessica Cooke v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a).
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 …
18-8607 Johnnie Sterling v. Chuck Dwyer Eighth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance manifest-injustice mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact procedural-due-process Should the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2642, where no reasonable Jurist would deny th…
18A988 Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law post-verdict-motion rule-50-motion Question not identified.
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth…
18-8567 Rohan McDermott v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-exclusion felony-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief post-trial-confession standard-of-review Under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2), a state habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability ("COA") when he raises a "debatable" issue. Buck…
18-1248 Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity This Court has applied the U.S. v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) good faith exception in a variety of cases to include a knock and announce violation (Hud…
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc…
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 …
18-8534 Gino Carlucci v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-procedure-retroactivity fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-communications-privilege mccoy-v-louisiana ninth-circuit retroactive-application retroactivity Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to issue a C.O.A. to determine if McCoy v. Louisiana applies retroactively to cases on collatera…
18-1233 Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-03-22 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a …
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
18-1218 Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Dismissed bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes.
18-1222 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition After the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resolved Petitioner's motion under § 2255 seeking habeas relief from his death sentence…
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…
18-8445 Tommy McAdoo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,…
18-8464 Oscar Lamar Mims v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability commerce-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel speedy-trial strategic-decision strickland-standard suspension-of-writ writ-of-review Does the Certificate of Appealability process weaken the efficacy of the Writ, either to the point of working a Suspension of the Writ or of making §2…
18-8465 Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor Are Bankruptcy Judges in the Southern District dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause? This is of importance to the public because co…
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 …
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHEN THE CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY APPLIED AN "OVERLY RIGID PER SE APPROACH" IN DENYING COA ON PETITIONER'S MOTION…
18-8447 Javis Wilson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen…
18-8395 Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states The Sentencing Reform Act requires courts to "recogniz[e] that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation." 1…
18-8410 Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) motion premised, in part, on Ma…
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields a prosecutor's unconstitutional handling of post-conviction DNA testing under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976…
18-8413 Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by" [N]oti±ring the creditor" in writin…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging…
18-8417 Robert Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of…
18-8421 Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel DID THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DENIED (COA) STATUS ON THE POINT RAISED THAT THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION BY NOT ALLOWI…
18-8389 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 brain-damage capital-case capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. The Eleventh Circuit did not focus on the state habeas court's actual reasons for rejecting Petitioner's claim that trial counsel's inadequate inve…
18-8391 Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-8394 Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-1180 New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims 1. Whether a circuit split exists between the Fifth and Sixth Circuits regarding whether federalcourts have jurisdiction to issue mandamus relief toen…
18-1173 I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Amici (7) child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither …
18-1165 Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation Whether Fifth Third's "more harm than good" pleading standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of…
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
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 …
18-8358 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits?…
18-8321 Noah Richard Lovell, III v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process free-standing-innocence-claim habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review signing-statement standing supreme-court teague-v-lane L SHOULD THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A FREE STANDING CLAIM OF INNOCENCE IS A CONSTITUTION…
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d…
18-8336 London Ettione Dunbar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S REFUSAL TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IS AT CONFLICT WITH THIS …
18-1162 P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez Ninth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ…
18-1154 Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition The last time this case was here, the Court unanimously held that time spent by employees in post-shift security screenings is not compensable worktim…
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…
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Circuit Court" or "Eleventh Circuit") apply an incorrect standard for obtain…
18-1159 The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such …
18-8276 Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U…
18-8296 Keith Alexander v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence pro-se-petition reasonable-doubt standing third-circuit-review Whether the Third Circuit was in error in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability on the merits of Pro Se petitioner's arguments. Specifically, whe…
18-8233 Calvin J. Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT O…
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.
18-8281 Michael Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit…
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…
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver What is the correct standard of review for a Speedy Trial Act violation where a motion to dismiss under the Act was filed, but the particular time per…
18-1145 Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Amici (3) burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process 1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "…
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler 1. Must a court categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez ? 2. If the Court declines to…
18-8238 Rafael Gomez Uranga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-delay government-negligence governmental-negligence gross-negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial united-states-v-doggett The question presented here is whether a speedy trial delay caused exclusively by the gross negligence of the Government weighs heavily against the Go…
18-8251 Zachariah Joel Peterson v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner a COA on his claim on insufficient evidence. Whether the Eigh…
18-8259 Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Gty Was Initially represented by counsel when he filed his § 2255, and application for a certificate of appealability The Court below along with the t…
18-8261 Cordell Berry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a …
18-8265 Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti…
18-8220 In Re Damon Graham 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals discretionary-powers due-process exceptional-circumstances (1) Whether this Court should compel the First Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on Mr. Graham's long-pending fourteen months certificate of appealabil…
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.
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Under this Court's Fourth Amendment decisions, an officer is prohibited from prolonging a traffic stop beyond its original purpose without "reasonable…
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when t…
18-1128 Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force 1. Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly …
18-1129 Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution 1. Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78p(b), must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction o…
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-8160 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum This case presents an issue on which the Ninth Circuit's has both (1) entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of two other United States Cou…
18-8162 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis 1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho…
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?
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-1103 Paul Ross Evans v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing 1. Ina proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to repr…
18-1104 Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing There is generally agreement among the courts of appeal that under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act that a non-di…
18-8076 Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits? …
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition After being dismissed four times on incorrect procedural basis, without allowing for briefing or a chance to be heard, Morris sought review of his 60(…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-8104 Robert William Frazier v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-screening due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-analysis procedural-standard standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Under 28 U.S.C. §2253 (c)(2), a habeas petitioner can request a circuit justice or judge to grant him or her a certificate of appealability ("COA"), b…
18-8110 In Re LaShawn Anderson 2019-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic…
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…
18-8115 Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurate calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel, as provided under the Si…
18-8040 Quinton Bannister v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence dimaya-standard due-process elements-clause johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states ovalles-v-united-states section-924c sessions-v-dimaya This case presents important issues concerning the proper application of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which prohibits the use or carrying of a firearm during a…
18-8042 Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate that sought to chall…
18-8051 Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there …
18-8055 Kevin Ventura v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec…
18-8056 Ronald Glick v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief professional-conduct remand sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether petitioner's request for equitable tolling of the statute of limitations period set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d) based on evidence of his post-c…
18-8064 Fernando Luviano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove …
18-8068 Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate…
18-1086 Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated…
18-1087 Javier Chavez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied access-to-courts attorney-abandonment attorney-death certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-access due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline legal-malpractice pro-se 1. Should the Fifth Circuit have granted a Certificate of Appealability on equitable tolling when Petitioner's retained lawyer died and no one could f…
18-1094 Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading The Carmack Amendment ("Carmack") provides the exclusive remedy for shippers to hold rail carriers liable for damage to cargo. Under the federally req…
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-8036 Edmund Boyle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review perjury prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER A COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD REMAND A HABEAS ACTION WHERE THE LOWER COURT FAILS TO FULLY ADJUDICATE THE UNDERLYING HABEAS CLAIMS ON THE MERITS AN…
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review In cases where a federal district court dismisses a habeas petition based on procedural grounds and is determining whether to issue a certificate of a…
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit misapply this Court's authority and create a conflict among Circuits by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Four…
18-1069 Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver 1. Whether the Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to consider and determine a liability for an incorrect taxable year when it does not have jurisdiction ove…
18-7989 Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron…
18-7996 Emory Watkins v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness (1) Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 ( c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness, a question that divides seven Court of Appeals? 2. Whether the…
18-7958 John Lohmeier v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was Petitioner's plea of guilty knowingly and voluntarily entered where counsel's failure to inform petitioner that all offenses charged in the indict…
18-7975 William Krisstofer Wolf v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury perjury-subornation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision now conflicts with this courts long standing rulings on the known and willing. use of PERJURY of material fact, t…
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release I. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), this Court found unconstitutional a criminal statute prohibiting sex offenders from access…
18-7943 Robert David Watson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane Whether Luis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review? Whether under Slack v. McDaniel, 529…
18-7952 Stanley D. Partman, aka Goat v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements standard-of-review unconstitutionally-vague Is the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's Standard of Determination for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability in Essence Decides an Appeal Without …
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co…
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by derming a Certificate of Appealab…
18-1054 Jason Allen Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution.
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…
18-1048 GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra…
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur…
18-1044 PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a relator's admission that he, in fact, derived his complaint from public disclosures triggers the Bar, requiring an analysis of whether su…
18-7857 Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release Title 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) lists the factors district courts should consider when responding to a defendant's violation of the conditions of supervised…
18-7872 Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY …
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Question not identified.
18-7833 Jerome Hayes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe…
18-7840 Tommie H. Telfair v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal-without-merits due-process miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent wiggins-v-smith certificate-of-appealability due-process fundamental-rights judicial-discretion merits-review miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence wiggins-v-smith WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) WHERE JURIST OF REASON COULD DISAGREE WITH …
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…
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability, where petitioner presented clear factual evidence, supported b…
18-7810 James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether The Sixth Circuit s Inquiry In Denying Petitioner's Motion For Certificate Of Appealability Was Coextensive With A Merits Analysis, When Concl…
18-7814 William E. Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings I. (i) WHETHER COUNSEL. RENDERED INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE DRUG QUANTITY CALCULATION IN THE PSR, USED THREATS TO CORCE PETITIONER T…
18-1036 Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment 1. If a client is blameless, is a lawyer's gross neglect of the client's case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 …
18-7779 Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. …
18-7800 Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen…
18-7801 Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo…
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…
18-1013 Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson Seventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck…
18-1010 Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law The U.S. Courts of Appeals are currently split on whether the federal securities laws impose a duty on corporate issuers to update a statement that wa…
18-7733 Tyrone Justin Cowan v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights ninth-circuit right-to-counsel Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appeal- ability and in evaluating petitioner's claims: 1) that his rights under Miranda v. Ar…
18-7735 Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question One: WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? …
18-7740 Esequiel Joel Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility certificate-of-appealability due-process government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Whether It Was Error to deny Rcdriguez A Certificate of Appealability, to Pursue His Sixth Amendment Claim on Appeal, Where He Demonstrated Ineffec…
18-7741 Robert Sills v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion merits-adjudication merits-review 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability ("COA") wasimproper where it sidestepped the CO…
18-7747 Jae Yung Kim v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit substantial-showing Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability ("COA") articulated by this Court in such cases as Buck…
18-7748 James Freeman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione…
18-7712 Andre Mims v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138…
18-7720 Howard Webber v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'…
18-7722 Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuit…
18-7723 Randy Dempsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th…
18-7680 Hector Cirino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C…
18-7688 Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether a R. 60 (b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pr…
18-7656 Armando Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b I. Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process when the Court: Overlooks and fails to add…
18-7661 Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely This case presents two questions pertaining to the "proper filing" requirement that were left open by Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408 (2005) and tha…
18-7676 Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am…
18-7681 In Re Erasmo Aguinaga 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court…
18-991 Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute 1. Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692e(8), 1692g(a)(3), is a debt collector required to treat a consumer's oral dispute w…
18-994 Dirk Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel physical-helplessness physically-helpless toxicologist toxicology toxicology-testimony 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 r…
18-984 King Mountain Tobacco Company, Inc. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied circuit-split fair-and-equitable-tobacco-reform-act federal-tax federal-tax-exemption federal-tobacco-excise-tax indian-treaty indian-treaty-construction tax-exemption travel-rights yakama-treaty Although exemptions to tax laws should be express, that tax canon is not dispositive if the words of an Indian treaty or statute "are susceptible of a…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler 1. Mr. Haley, acting prose, filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, therefore, appealing the order United States …
18-7639 Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim…
18-7642 Kirk Lassend v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F…
18-7597 Carlos E. Ponce v. D. Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie-showing sixth-amendment THE NINTH CIRCUIT CCURT OF APPEALS DENIED THE 1SSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BASED UPON THEIR DECISION THAT PETITIONER DIDNT HAVE SUBSTANT…
18-7603 Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment When Petitioner's Crawford v. Washington claim was procedurally defaulted by trial counsel and initial post conviction counsel failed to raise an inef…
18-7613 David Ackell v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict The 10th Circuit's application of a reasonable Jurist Standard as a full denial of Jadby's §2255 under the Strickland standard is in conflict with the…
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 …
18-969 Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-25 Dismissed circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal 1. Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption that all class members were injured by …
18-7570 Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails…
18-7587 Biven Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability as to the denial by the district court of his motion…
18-7567 Ron Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of …
18-957 NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Amici (1) 11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee as part of a sale transaction should be reviewed by the bankruptcy court under the de…
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.
18-7506 Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to…
18-7507 In Re Dwight Carter 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)…
18-935 Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (3) child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires that any child wrongfully removed from her country of "habitual re…
18-938 Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1). In diverting from this Court's prio…
18-941 Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever …
18-944 Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim. Whether Tree of Life established a facial or as-applied equal-terms violation here.
18-918 John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. Second Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine In United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987), this Court held that to maintain a facial challenge, a plaintiff must establish that "no set of…
18-920 Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank Third Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru…
18-926 Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation A fiduciary of an ERISA plan is personally liable for "losses to the plan resulting from" a breach of fiduciary duty. 29 U.S.C. § 1109(a). Fiduciarie…
18-7421 Torrence Allen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man…
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective assistance of couns…
18-7436 Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error Petitioner's private practice defense counsel', whose practice was struggling financially, created a personal conflict of interest before the start of…
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WIT…
18-7379 Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Johnson), this Court declared unconstitutional the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal A…
18-904 King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction In light of the Steel Co. rule that jurisdiction must be determined as "an antecedent" matter, what is the proper procedure for handling situations in…
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Err by denying a Certificate of Appealbility (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of th…
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U…
18-890 David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation 1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har…
18-7331 Ishmael Douglas v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-09 GVR Relisted (2)IFP categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague.
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…
18-7296 Demetrio Cisneros v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute knowledge of the specific contraband being imported?
18-7310 Kadeem Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-ruling alleyne-v-united-states appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability direct-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-standard retroactivity I. Should The District Court Judge Issue Or Deny A Certificate Of Appealability When It Enters An Final Order Adverse To The Applicant. II. Could Rea…
18-7311 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing Does The Reasoning of This Court Asserted in Buck v Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct.759 also apply to Civil Appeals? (i.e. when all is before the Court is wheth…
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…
18-862 Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense?
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…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INTRODUCED AND ATTACKED A STRAWMAN ARGUMENT[ARGUMENT NOT RAISED BY APPELLANT] IN IT'S ORDER/OPINION AS A BA…
18-7222 Winifred Jiau v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus insider-trading jury-instruction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation The Second Circuit held, contrary to the holdings of Supreme Court considering the question, a prisoner seeking a Certificate of Appealability (COA) m…
18-7233 Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di…
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment 1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected, without a hearing, Petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to w…
18-830 Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. Third Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (4) circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association In Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 (1983), this Court set out a two-step framework for addressing First Amendment retaliation claims by public employee…
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims fo…
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…
18-7212 Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. DISTRICT AND APPELLATE COURTS VIOLATED CASTRO V. UNITED STATES, 124 S.CT., BY REFUSING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY…
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.
18-824 Thomas Rogers, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split constitutional-carry firearm-rights heller-v-dc intermediate-scrutiny licensing second-amendment self-defense 1. Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense. 2. Whether the government may deny categoric…
18-7176 Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense that can be committed by causing fear of har…
18-7187 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-27 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
18-7149 Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of …
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent The only question in deciding whether to grant a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") is whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district c…
18-7139 James Castleman Gipson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United …
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St…
18-7132 James R. Bright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression (1) Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later …
18-7159 Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member Tenth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson I. WHETVER REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND TME DISTRICT COURT'S RESOLUTION OF PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CHAIN DEBATABLE OR WRONG WITH RESPECT TO EXTENDIN…
18-782 William C. Bond v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether when denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must provide a reason for that denial (as held by the Third, Sev…
18-795 William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must…
18-7096 Reinaldo Santos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony 1. Is the "touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013) and Mathis v.…
18-7105 Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense…
18-7129 Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States (138 S.Ct. 2206, 2217, 2220 (2018)) regarding cel…
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage? Whether Lott was denied a constitutional right…
18-778 St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act Following this Court's decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), three circuit courts of appeals have held that a failure to disclos…
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…
18-7081 Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment 1. Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a prisoner to challenge a di…
18-7087 Daniel Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement. The Te…
18-7048 Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY FAILING TO ASSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES PRESEN…
18-7059 John H. Rosky v. Quentin Byrne, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing Question not identified.
18-7036 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's…
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition This petition concerns the proper standard for evaluating whether a Rule 60(b) motion "alleges" a proper claim for relief from a habeas judgment, and …
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether, to remove a juror for alleged misconduct during deliberations, a district court must determine that there is no possibility that the allegati…
18-7022 Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder?
18-7000 Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum senten…
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr…
18-6972 Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate…
18-6983 Sholam Weiss v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP and a Certificate of Appealability should have is where the government had committed itself to pros adversary-system adverse-positions certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury prosecutorial-commitment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel This Court implicitly held in Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682 (1972), that the right to counsel can attach before formal charges are made, or before a…
18-6985 Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-11 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals.
18-6992 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Amici (1)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its reading of Gonzalez , given that five other Circuits read Gonzalez to allow Rule 60(b) motions to remedy a wide r…
18-6996 Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS, DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F…
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab…
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Where there exists intra and inter-circuit splits among the federal courts of appeals on a question of exceptional importance concerning "structural e…
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
18-728 Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui…
18-729 Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer.
18-6913 Lamar Sowell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for …
18-6919 Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat…
18-6926 James Valentine v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,…
18-721 Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a …
18-6898 Joseph C. Garcia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP 18-u.s.c.-§-3599 18-usc-3599 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
18-716 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction Respondents invested in a Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in another Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in a Brazilian corporation, whi…
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.
18-710 Caner Demirayak v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-03 Granted Response RequestedResponse Waived accessibility alternate-accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii circuit-split due-process effective-accommodations fact-finding meaningful-access preliminary-injunction public-entity rule-52(a) supervisory-power tennessee-v-lane title-ii This case presents a split between the circuits and conflict with this Court's decision in Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004), as to the fundament…
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence 1. Post-AEDPA, can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct, where the Commonwealth suppressed arguabl…
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
18-6861 John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct Where John Wilborn made an actual innocence claim, did the Commonwealth violate John Wilborn's rights by withholding the probable cause transcript fro…
18-6870 James Frederick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole…
18-699 Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather Sixth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea…
18-696 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have reversed itself and exacerbated an unsettled and widening split among the First, Fifth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits by f…
18-6807 Larry M. Slusser v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th…
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity 1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")…
18-682 Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A.
18-6830 Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif…
18-6831 David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD PROCEED TO ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT AS TO THE CORRECT CALCULATION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN A HABEAS CORPUS ACTION UNDER…
18-684 Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui…
18-6792 Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment The District Court affirmed, and the Seventh Circuit agreed, that both Respondent ('Indiana Bell") and Petitioner ("Fillmore") submitted "sparse" — or…
18-6778 DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation In cases such as Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), and Wiggins v. Smith, 539 U.S. 510 (2003), this Court found deficient performance where trial…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th…
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…
18-6761 Tellis T. Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing-guidelines beckles-v-united-states career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit vagueness-challenge 1. When a Petitioner seeks a Certificate Of Appealability(COA)i based on whether this Court's decision in Beckles v. United States, 137 S 'Ct. 886, af…
18-6763 Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL…
18-6765 Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to resolve the differences in treatment among the various circuits and to clearly establish when a judgment …
18-643 Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure This Court has deliberately left open whether a U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"…
18-645 Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed Response Waived 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) req…
18-6715 Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Whether a drug-detection dog's sniff of the doorway of an apartment constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment when the apartment is located in…
18-6733 Laura Shauger v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit This case raises a pressing issue of national importance: In applying for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal from the denial of a motion u…
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is…
18-6719 Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice (1) Did the Third Circuit err i rendering petitioners's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and "THE END OF THE MATTER," without, the Pennsyl…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appeal ability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and …
18-626 Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability This is a case of first impression and national importance affecting the entire United States housing industry. It concerns who can be held liable und…
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…
18-615 Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)?
18-6662 Eddie Lee Shular v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina…
18-6675 In Re Ryan Lee Zater 2018-11-13 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth…
18-6677 Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme …
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Oid the united states court of Appeals forthe Sixth circuit evaluate petitioner's certificate of Appealabityunder the Law? Did the petitioner Show a …
18-610 TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment For a consignee to be liable for demurrage it must agree to be a consignee for the goods being shipped as the liability for such charges is based in c…
18-6618 Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case…
18-6622 Keeland Duralle Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review Whether a court of appeals is required to grant a habeas petitioner a COA when the question presented clearly is debatable by jurist of reason as demo…
18-6631 David Hollenback, Jr. v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice state-conviction state-court-jurisdiction Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals commit error by denying the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability, regarding the United States Middle Distr…
18-6637 Harold E. Grist, Jr. v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause credibility due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel juror-misconduct jury-trial self-incrimination truthfulness Whether the Petitioner had a constitutional right to confront his accusers at trial and impeach them before a jury to challenge their credibility and …
18-601 John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Amici (3) agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand 1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.…
18-6599 Horace Vonche Jordan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine In Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) , this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause unconstitutionally v…
18-6600 Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-6607 Scott Peters v. John Baldwin Seventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs 1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA…
18-6608 William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco…
18-6573 Malik Farrad v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media Question I - The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication by third parties for social media postings being what they are claim…
18-6588 Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe…
18-6591 Leslie Chin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i…
18-6569 Mark Lee Murray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether ge…
18-6557 Casey O'Dell v. United States Third Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez 1. WHETHER: THE FED.R.CRIM.P. 11(b)(1)(N) RULE WAS VIOLATED BY THE INADEQUACY OF THE CHANGE OF PLEA COLLOQUY? 2. WHETHER THE DECISION THE THIRD CRICU…
18-6547 Christopher Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which …
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings 1. Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver? 2. Shoul…
18-563 Darren Commander v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th…
18-565 CITGO Asphalt Refining Company, et al. v. Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd., et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-31 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) circuit-split due-diligence guarantee guarantee-of-safety maritime-law safe-berth safe-berth-clause ship-safety voyage-charter Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship's safety, as the Third Circuit below and …
18-6519 Mariano Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (cOA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? …
18-6520 Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner was obviously and falsely convicted of possessing forged bills, and then g…
18-6495 Richard Anthony Trent v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is "suggestive" and …
18-6511 In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy (1)WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXPAND THE FRAME-WORK DECIDED IN "UNITED STATES V. HAHN",IN THE TENTH CIRCUITS DETERMINATION OF A KNOWING AND VOLUNTARILY…
18-560 Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien Petitioner owns bonds issued by Respondent, the Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority ("HTA"). The bonds are secured by a lien on toll revenu…
18-6467 Tyrone Pulley v. California California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does the rule established in Martinez V. Ryan, 132 S.CT. 1309 (2012) and Trevino V. Thaler 133 S. CT 1911, 1921 (2013) that ineffective state appellat…
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP? IS THE DUE P…
18-6492 Pascual Rentas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-law due-process eleventh-circuit giglio giglio-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard supreme-court-law supreme-court-precedent I SHOULD THE DENIAL OF MR. RENTAS' COA BE REVERSED AND RECONSIDERED DUE TO THE RECENT RULING BY THIS COURT IN MARION WILSON V. ERIC SELLERS, WARDEN 58…
18-6454 Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler TEENAGER CHARLES NASH WAS SUBJECT TO TALK FIRST INTERROGATION TACTICS YET DEFENSE COUNSEL SOUGHT SUPPRESSION OF HIS SIATEMENT ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS HAVI…
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…
18-6461 Gerren K. Love v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio…
18-6465 Jose Ricardo Yanez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP aedpa-statute-of-limitations antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review ongoing-investigations pro-se pro-se-petition statute-of-limitations WHETHER AN ALTERNATE TRIGGERING DATE OF THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996'S 1-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS, AND EQUITABLE TOLLI…
18-6415 Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory…
18-6428 Roberto Gonzalez Delacruz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process due-process,habeas,materiality,scientific-evidence fifth-amendment fifth-circuit-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review materiality materiality-of-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent At Petitioner's murder trial, the State's only fact witness testified the victim was shot once at one location and his body moved and dumped at anothe…
18-6435 John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of "ineffective assistance o…
18-6436 Jorge Cintron v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence standing trial-procedure ISSUE 1: Did the Court of Appeals Erred in denying a Certificate of Appeahility and in evaluating the claims under Brady violation ISSUE 2: Should th…
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…
18-6427 Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied IFP administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts. Valle, a pro se litigant and prisoner in …
18-540 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Eighth Circuit 2018-10-24 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (2) circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s…
18-533 Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the "higher management" standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley…
18-535 Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings 1. Whether, and to what extent, on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint, viewing the government's…
18-6398 Deon Pittman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen…
18-6399 Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy 1. IN THIS CASE, THE OFFICER CONDUCTED INVENTORY SEARCH OF A CLOSED CONTAINER WITHOUT A WRITTEN POLICY GOVERNING THE SEARCH OF SUCH CONTAINERS. WHETHE…
18-6400 Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN OVERLOOKING THE RELEVANT STATE LAW PROCEDURAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL …
18-6393 Omar Qazi v. Janice Killian, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2243 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure petition-dismissal standing (1) Does 28 U.S.C. § 2243, authorize the District Court to dismiss a 2241 Petition for "failure to state a claim for which relief may be granted."?; (…
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 …
18-525 Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis Fifth Circuit 2018-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit, as three Circuits have held, or a waivable claimpr…
18-6381 William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry 1. Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability, while citing the relevant statute but not …
18-6350 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…
18-6356 Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus Second Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir WHETHER IT WAS PLAIN ERROR FOR A COURT OF APPEALS TO DENY IN FORMA PAUPERIS RELIEF TO AN INDIGENT APPELLANT WHO LIKE THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE-WAS I…
18-6363 Calvin Bernhardt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering 1. A person can be guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) if he "corruptly persuades" someone else to withhold testimony or an object from an official proce…
18-6366 John A. Barbosa v. United States First Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense The Court's decision in United States v. Rodriquez, which it clarified in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, instructs lower courts to look to the record of…
18-6369 Lashon Browning v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-17 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
18-486 Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247 (2010), this Court held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not apply ex…
18-491 Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-17 Denied appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu…
18-482 Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC Eighth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi…
18-6328 Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,…
18-6332 Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default 1. Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding?
18-6346 Mark A. Dubarry v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta…
18-6292 Anthony Robinson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for …
18-6319 William Shane Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) whe…
18-6320 Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact (1) Defense attorneys must conduct reasonable investigations . Out of twenty one potential witnesses, trial counsel only interviewed McGhee and his fr…
18-6325 Adrian Contreras-Rebollar v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability co-counsel criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-right-to-counsel- criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-self-defense-inef defense-of-another due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instruction right-to-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment where petitioner's defense in the trial court was based on Self-Defense, petitioner did not fully trust his Dept. of Assigned counsel lawyer, and thus…
18-481 Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader Eighth Circuit 2018-10-15 Judgment Issued Amici (20) circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation 1.Does the statutory term "confidential" in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, thus requiring the Government to withhold all "commercial or f…
18-6291 Steven H. Cook v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights collateral-review deprivation-of-liberty due-process federal-law federal-mail-box-rule habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-deprivation mail-box-rule mailbox-rule standing timeliness -Is the issue 'j accordingly of great import to potentially thousand's of prisoners similarly situated and does if have significant impact on the publ…
18-6303 Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine?
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Fletcher v. Honeywell International Inc. , 892 F.3d 217 (6th Cir. 2018) holds that a "CBA's general durational clause applies to [retiree] healthcareb…
18-459 Emulex Corporation, et al. v. Gary Varjabedian, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Judgment Issued Amici (11) circuit-split misstatement-omission negligent-misstatement ninth-circuit private-right-of-action section-14(e) securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law tender-offer Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held, in express disagreement with five other courts of appeals, that Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act…
18-6275 Ricardo Lupian-Barajas v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard I. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS WHEN IT FAILED…
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…
18-6267 Denise Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo 1. Whether, when the defendant and government disagree as to whether a specifically identified document constitutes a "statement" under the Jencks Act…
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…
18-6281 Terry E. Callins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which …
18-6232 Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? In light of Johnso…
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…
18-6249 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl…
18-6255 Christopher Earl Oden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review In Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S. Ct. 1595 (2000), this Court held that a petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability by showing tha…
18-6235 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El. v. GockreU. 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), it is sufficient for purp…
18-436 Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, dba Liberty International Underwriters, et al. v. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Amici (2) admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split contract-services doiron-factors kirby-test maritime-commerce maritime-contract navigable-waters offshore-oil-and-gas offshore-oil-gas vessel-involvement The federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1333(1) over a contract dispute if the contract at issue is "maritime." In Norfolk So…
18-6218 Desrel Ray Linden v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-question habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure supervisory-power 1- DID THE US. FIFTH CIRCUIT CV. OF APPEALS ENTER A DICISION DEPARTING FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF SUDICIAL PROCEEDING BY INVERTING JHE STAT…
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
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…
18-417 W. Scott Harkonen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the …
18-423 Christopher Barrella v. Village of Freeport, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure golden-rule-argument jury-instructions liability liability-determination new-trial standing May a lawyer tell the jury to render the verdict they would want if they were in the shoes of a party or another person with an interest in the case? …
18-429 Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act Under Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (also known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")), is there a …
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
18-6177 Tony Lipscomb v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-02 GVR Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? 2. The S…
18-6184 Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se…
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Should certiorari be granted to decide how much detail the order denying a COA should contain in order to ensure that the Circuit Court has complied w…
18-6146 Charles Neuman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, …
18-6112 Opherro G. Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability…
18-6133 Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power Question not identified.
18-6138 Lance Fox v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability…
18-6119 Gary Long, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? Whether the ci…
18-6120 Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe…
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Rowan Brooks was 65 years old on th e night in 2004 when his 68-year-old wife of eighteen years passed away. Neit her the police officer on the scene …
18-6117 Josette Buendia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t…
18-389 Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (2) choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui…
18-6097 Leonard G. Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C…
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…
18-377 Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees 1. Whether states are barred by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from imposing PAC-status, with its resulting entity-based burdens, on gro…
18-373 Floyd Rose v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with…
18-374 Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim…
18-6067 Edward Lee Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release 1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc…
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 tI(4Tk QQUtT CUT ci APpju 4u rr grc .X1' YJC TN(~'9 APPLIc,Tzc RQ rrFICAYB
18-6069 Joel Cadena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United …
18-6051 John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability ("COA") law outside Constitutional bounds, with no clear …
18-370 Marlon Haight v. United States District of Columbia 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for …
18-6012 Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability ("COA") on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional because the prosecut…
18-6024 Eric Sijohn Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis section-2255 standard-of-review third-circuit (1) Does the Third Circuit Court Of Appeals decision contrevene Buck. v. Davis,85 U. S.L.WI 4037,2017 BL :54115 (U.s.2/22/17) because the 3rd Circuit …
18-6005 Trayon L. Williams v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles I. When the government agrees that a claim was properly preserved below, can a court of appeals sua sponte hold the claim forfeited, then dismiss the …
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep [the COA] process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application by first deciding the merits of an ap…
18-349 Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e…
18-5987 Ajohntae Hammond v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search When deciding whether a police officer's fear for his safety justified a warrantless search of a person not suspected of any crime, may courts limit t…
18-5990 Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton Q1. Does petitioner Brockman properly asserts that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrant him certiorari relief because the sixth circuit court of appeals resoluti…
18-5995 Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged…
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.…
18-5959 John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether Ing…
18-5964 Nicholas Hacheney v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-reasoning state-court-review wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers , __ U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 1188, 1192 (2018), this Court held that when a state court issues a reasoned decision " a federal habeas…
18-5967 Matthew Wade Howard v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te…
18-328 Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, …
18-329 Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's opinion in this case causes a circuit split to whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dis…
18-319 E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin California 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration.
18-320 CEH Energy, LLC, et al. v. Kean Miller, LLP, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appeal appeals appellate-deadline circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure motion-to-alter new-grounds rule-59(e) rule-59e successive-motions tolling tolling-provision Rule 59(e) establishes a party's right to file a motion to alter or amend a judgment. Other circuits have held, where a Rule 59(e) motion is filed to …
18-323 Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,…
18-5945 David Chiddo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts 1. Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea? 2. Where a plea agreement provides that stipulated facts present an adequ…
18-5953 Antowan Thorne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-error due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial new-trial search-suppression sixth-amendment witness-testimony SHOULD WRIT OD CERTIORARI BE GRANTED TO REVIEW IF THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING THE MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL OR EVIDENTIARY HEARING WHEN COUNSEL FAI…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Peti -tioner has shown clear and convincin evidence of a credible actual inno cence claim - from his State conviction? Whether the withheld …
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-292 Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (5) 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron…
18-289 Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not…
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…
18-5909 Barry Soldridge v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief waiver Whether the district court erred in failing to find that the state court entered a decision that was unreasonable in light of the full record, and whe…
18-5884 Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor 1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment…
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…
18-5899 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination 1. Should certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict amongs t the Circuits on whether a probation er can be ordered to truthfully answer questions po…
18-5871 Samuel Posa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process eleventh-circuit self-representation tharpe-v-sellers 1.) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability relying on incorrect facts offered by the…
18-5876 Steven Sanford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an…
18-272 Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (6) circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential 1. The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority …
18-5747 Javier Amador-Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on "s…
18-5840 George Stoney v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime 1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S…
18-5845 David L. Pierce v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing 1.) Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their "ORDER," (Appendix A) that sta…
18-5838 Hosea Swopes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (4)IFP categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony 1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th…
18-5847 Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8…
18-5814 Bobby Cruz v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix section-2255 DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING BOBBY CURZ A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENYING CRUZ'S AMEND…
18-5771 Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a conflict among the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and find that the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming Petitioner…
18-5786 Donell A. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object …
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability because Petition…
18-5796 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence 1. Where multiple judges of a court of appeals consider an application for a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action, must the court gr…
18-5797 Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th…
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States err in Certificate of Appeal timely as untimely despite petitioner showing that extraor…
18-5773 Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which…
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic…
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed sentencing rec…
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…
18-5781 Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (5)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER A FEDERAL PRISONER CAN RAISE A SENTENCING ISSUE UNDER 28 U.S.…
18-5782 Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations Under U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14: 1. Does the "Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Which Review Is Sought Conflict with a decision of the …
18-244 Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and…
18-5716 Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP 5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law Ray had a claim that was "reasonably debatable" by "jurists of reason Sineee a reasonable legal argument could have been made. The district court and …
18-5725 Alfred Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen…
18-5727 Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it alters thi…
18-5692 Melvin Jordan, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony (1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA. (2…
18-5709 Paul Allen Anderson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-proceeding appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 title-28-usc-2255 WHETHER AN APPEAL WAIVER CAN BE ENFORCED IN A TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 2255 PROCEEDING WHEN PETITIONER HAS BASED HIS CLAIMS ON INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUN…
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-229 Ralph Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes…
18-232 W. A. Griffin v. Teamcare, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied assignment assignment-of-rights benefit-assignment circuit-split erisa medical-provider medical-providers participant-rights statutory-penalties welfare-benefit-plan welfare-benefits written-assignment-of-benefits 1. Whether or not ERISA authorizes a participant or member of a welfare benefit plan to assign his or her rights to statutory penalties to a medical p…
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE…
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t…
18-5655 Cory D. Foster v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a …
18-5666 Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO STATE PRISONER ARTHUR DENNISON TO CHALLENGE THE DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Question No. 1: Dud the fifth Circuit Court of appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealibility ? Question No.…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration, that the State Courts' decision was dependent on their failure to apply the holding in Murphy v. Florida by accept…
18-5635 Charles Alfred Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice judicial-review procedural-due-process state-court-proceedings strickland-standard [1] DID THE DISTRICT COURT SIDE STEP THE COA DETERMINATION UNDER §2253(c) WHEN IT DENIED JACKSONS APPEAL AND HIS COA AND JUSTIFIED IT'S DENIAL OF HIS …
18-5636 Edgar Searcy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c…
18-5612 Detrick C. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability elements-clause firearm-possession florida-felony-battery florida-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied Mr. Smith a certificate of appeal abilit…
18-5622 Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C. 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253?…
18-5594 Cory Devon Washington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh…
18-5606 Hagop Demirjian v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288…
18-5562 Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation Whether petitioner, who maintains his innocence, was denied due process and a fundamentally fair trial base on victim's false testimony and post-trial…
18-5552 Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio…
18-5569 Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar 1) Does the Classification made by this Court in Coley d. Sattald Jan 8.64. 3134 constitute the Circuit Court as being contrary to Clearly established…
18-5572 John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment QUESTION 1: Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability where the Petitioner's claims exceed …
18-5500 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-framework statute-of-limitations Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) should have been granted to consider whether a federal prisoner's failure to file a timely amended 2255 m…
18-5539 Derek W. Pelto v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof change-of-law insanity-defense right-to-testify burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance insanity-defense right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment 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 r…
18-5549 Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser…
18-185 Connecticut v. Michael Skakel Connecticut 2018-08-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Under the first prong of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must a court evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a s…
18-188 Ivy T. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma…
18-178 SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity 1. Should the Court resolve the split of authority among the Circuits about whether and when the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporat…
18-5515 Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mr. Salemi a certificate of appealability with a summary order using boiler plate language. Did the Eleve…
18-5504 William Lem Posey, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g…
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-5483 Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all …
18-5487 Angel Soto v. Unknown Sweetman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP accrual-of-claims administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights claim-accrual judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations Where a federal statute —such as 42 U.S.C . § 1997e(a) —mandates that a plaintiff exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit , does the plai…
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the sixth circuit had warrant to assume jurisdiction and consider petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction, where…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. …
18-168 Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re…
18-169 Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald Whether this Court's decision in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S. 385 (1977), which allowed unnamed putative class members to intervene for…
18-5460 David Hill v. Brent Reinke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP administrative-control-of-facilities baxstrom-v-herold circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process inmate-transfer mental-health mental-health-facility mental-health-facility-transfers prison prison-administration temporary temporary-transfers transfer vitek-v-jones Can a prison or jail, when transferring an inmate to a mental health facility, avoid the due process protections recognized by this Court in Vitek v. …
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO PERMIT…
18-5426 Gabriel Rivero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with …
18-5410 Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons 1/ Whether the Ninth Circuit - acting in contravention of Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; and splitting with holdings of multiple courts of appe…
18-5422 Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied IFP career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon…
18-5424 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur…
18-147 Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-01 Denied ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing 1) Did the court of appeals decide that a severe physical condition, one that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is not a disability under …
18-132 Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ…
18-138 Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security District of Columbia 2018-07-31 Denied administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio…
18-5391 Daniel Sexton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what…
18-5393 Shane McMahan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-…
18-122 Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing County Commissioner Michael Sinegal terminated Dawn Polk for being a bad employee. The terminationoccurred after she had unsuccessfully run for office…
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's…
18-5314 Shannon Dale Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o…
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Shawn Johnson was arrested inmg, in self-defense for shoot in grz jjYj a, k4 wccu#'$ He has credible evidence that he is actually innocent of this cri…
18-5338 DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t…
18-5351 Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Under the modest standard for a certificate of appealability, is it at least debatable that the state court unreasonably ignored both Borhan's jus…
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater…
18-5313 Joseph Steele v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ…
18-106 John R. Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches when the prosecutor conducts plea negotiations before the filing of a formal charge. II. Whe…
18-107 R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Judgment Issued Amici (33)Relisted (13) circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender 1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and in…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability when Evidence Exsists Clearly Ineffective For Failure To Exculpatory Evidence and /oDisclose Appellant Evid…
18-5321 Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr…
18-5286 Odere Suleitopa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon…
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?
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON …
18-5263 Bobby Ree McGee, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability elements-clause johnson-claim residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 statutory-maximum violent-felony Mr. McGee was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 180 months' impriso…
18-5270 Steven Lynn Deem v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits-hearing procedural-standard self-representation Did the Fifth Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion for a certificate of appealability (COA) because Deem fail…
18-5269 Michael St. Hubert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138…
18-89 AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation 1. Whether a state anti-SLAPP provision requiring an award of attorneys' fees and costs to a prevailing defendant applies in federal court—as the Firs…
18-83 Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice 1. Whether, in the context of a facial challenge to a federal-officer removal, a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, as …
18-5232 Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony Is a state robbery offense categorically a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) (an offense that "has as …
18-5251 Sarjo Dambelly v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c…
18-5226 Richard Lugo v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether Appellate Counsel's ineffectiveness deprived petitioner of his right to his direct appeal.
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…
18-72 DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response Waived 17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing 1. Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to su…
18-5202 Samuel Knowles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process international-treaty jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect Is the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in error for ignoring this Courts mandates in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), where this Court has deter…
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Question not identified.
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied …
18-5190 Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the …
18-5191 Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(D) can consider the current understanding of the nat…
18-5157 In Re Jose Luis Arevalo 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED IN THE CASE OF AREVALO, BECAUSE HIS PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE…
18-5158 Mario Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability descamps-v-united-states evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment florida-robbery-statute sixth-amendment stokeling-v-united-states Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit Erred denying petitioner .a Certificate Of Appealability (COA) request? Whether p…
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…
18-5169 Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Sixth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ("The Court") ERR WHEN IT TOTALLY REFUSED TO ADDRESS SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT FOUND IN UNITED STATES V. MITCHELL, 463 U.S. 206…
18-5067 Clark L. Stuhr v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights documentary-evidence due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus prison-discipline prisoner-rights right-to-evidence Is a Criminal Defendant Entitled to a Certificate of Appealability When it is Demonstrated that a Substantial Showing of the Denial of Constitutional …
18-5149 Francisco Cubero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc…
18-5164 George Adrien Brooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this…
18-40 Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici…
18-33 Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine.
18-5134 Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M…
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED? DID THE FIF…
18-5098 Thaddeus Williams v. Cindi S. Curtin, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability district-court-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-tolling WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WAS. UNTIMELY; WHETHER THE BLANKET DENIAL OF. HIS MOTION FOR …
18-20 Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.…
18-5044 Laurenano Angulo Riascos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred when it denied Petitioner's petition for issuance of a certificate of appealability to …
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default THIS COURT HAS LONG RECOGNIZED THAT IN A NARROW CLASS OF CASES IMPLICATING A FUNDAMENTAL MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE," (SCHLUP V. DELO, 513 U.S. 298, 314-1…
18-5036 Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i…
18-5057 James T. Bagby v. William Hyatte, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-circuit-court 7th-circuit-court-of-appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness Did the United States 7th Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability without specifically addressing any of Bagbys' claims…
18-5059 David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when determining whether Certificate of Appealability should have been issued regarding th…
18-5061 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu…
18-5003 Rolando Mulet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination Whether or under what circumstances the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's refusal to answer law enforcement questioni…
18-5008 Autrey Canadate v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-robbery certificate-of-appealability curtis-johnson-v-united-states due-process elements-clause florida-criminal-law use-of-force violent-felony violent-force Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the Florida offense of attempted armed robbery, Fla. Stat. § 812.13, categorically requires the use of…
18-5014 Marcus Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go…
23A1158 Rickey Lynch v. United States Second Circuit Denied canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.