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25-971 Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)?
25-6797 Eshawn Jessica Scipio v. Finklea, Hendrick & Blake, LLC, et al. Fourth Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP circuit-conflict federal-questions fraud-upon-court judicial-records state-actors Question not identified.
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—u…
25A465 Christopher Wuchter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-23 Presumed Complete circuit-conflict constitutional-question controlled-substances criminal-justice firearms-possession second-amendment Question not identified.
25-419 Shelby County, Iowa, et al. v. William Couser, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Amici (4) circuit-conflict federal-preemption interstate-pipeline pipeline-safety-act safety-standard state-local-regulation Whether a state or local law regulating the location or routing of an interstate pipeline is a preempted "safety standard" under the Pipeline Safety A…
25A383 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete categorical-approach circuit-conflict crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instruction section-924(c) Question not identified.
25-5570 David Curran v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below …
25-210 James Synnott v. Paul Burgermeister, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied children-rights circuit-conflict due-process family-integrity pro-se-representation pseudonym-privacy Whether using pseudonyms for parents and children —in cases involving children, especially with sensitive information —is appropriate and outweighs th…
25-44 Fiyyaz Pirani v. Slack Technologies, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response Waived burden-shifting circuit-conflict direct-listing prospectus-liability registration-requirement securities-act 1. Whether Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 requires plaintiffs to plead and prove that they bought shares registered in the offering fo…
24-1161 RunItOneTime LLC, fka Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Amici (1) administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict federal-agency-action judicial-review rule-19 sovereign-immunity Whether Rule 19 requires dismissal of APA suits challenging federal agency action whenever a nonparty who benefited from that action asserts sovereign…
24-995 MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response Waived asset-sale bankruptcy-code circuit-conflict lease-assignment section-365 stipulation-waiver Whether parties must invoke a particular phrase and explicitly acknowledge all possible consequences for a stipulation to constitute waiver; and Whet…
24-986 Mendocino Railway, a California Corporation v. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention-doctrine circuit-conflict federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion preemption-claims state-court-action 1. Whether the Court should abrogate Colorado River's abstention doctrine. 2. Whether the Court alternatively should revisit Colorado River to cabin …
24-957 William Stenger v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Amici (1) article-three circuit-conflict coram-nobis jurisdictional-inquiry restitution-order statutory-jurisdiction Article III requires federal courts to confirm their jurisdiction over a case before adjudicating its merits, whether that jurisdiction is "constituti…
24-6645 Joseph DeLarosa v. Village of Romeoville, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-conflict court-procedure federal-question judicial-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant dec…
24-855 Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied circuit-conflict federal-bribery gift-exchange legal-precedent official-action public-official Does providing a gift to a public official in the hope or expectation that he will be receptive to a later request for official action constitute fede…
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…
24-6243 A. K. Anderson v. Miguel A. Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure-act circuit-conflict civil-rights driver's-license due-process Did the Ninth Circuit conflict with a ruling from the Eighth Circuit as to whether his Appeal with the Department of Education should have proceeded, …
24-6052 Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha…
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…
24-464 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. Quintin Scott Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Amici (1) article-iii-standing circuit-conflict class-action incentive-award judicial-standing redressability Does a putative class representative have Article III standing solely to seek an "incentive award" nowhere authorized by statute, rule, or historic pr…
24-5622 Elaine Mickman v. Superior Court of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict constitutional-rights district-court fundamental-rights injunctive-relief judicial-overreach 1. Whether the U.S. District Court erred in denying injunctive relief seeking restoration of usurped constitutional rights, despite clear evidence of …
24-326 Ricardo Devengoechea v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied circuit-conflict commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver judgment-execution property-seizure Title 28 U.S.C. § 1610(a)(1) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides that a foreign country which suffers a judgment against it may waive its…
24-5545 Humberto Falcon San-Martin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict constitutional-theory criminal-procedure government-agents judicial-doctrine sentencing-entrapment Whether the conduct of government agents or officials can constitute sentencing entrapment, as that constitutional theory is recognized outside of sen…
24A149 The Estate of Isabella "Bella" Herndon, et al. v. Netflix, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete article-iii cafa circuit-conflict diversity-jurisdiction jurisdiction minimal-diversity Question not identified.
24-117 Todd Berman v. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, dba Fedloan Servicing Fourth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense circuit-conflict federal-contractor federal-contractor-liability government-instructions merits-trial qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity Whether derivative sovereign immunity is an affirmative defense to be proven on the merits at trial. Whether the court of appeals erred in holding th…
24A19 Maxsony Coissy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-law sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
23-1282 John C. Baer v. Larry Trent Roberts, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) buckley-v-fitzsimmons circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process evidence-marshaling prosecutorial-immunity qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Whether prosecutors are always absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for (1) post-charge acts (2) taken to marshal evidence to present …
23-7301 Reginald Burrell v. Sharon Langham, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraudulent-judgments habeas-corpus judicial-discretion supervisory-power Whether thi U.S.Cou.rT of appeals for thi Eleventh Circuit Entered. a decision, or proposed to inter a decision in Conflict coith other U.S. Courts of…
23-7287 Khan Mohammed v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict clear-and-convincing-evidence law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case-doctrine preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts 1. Whether the Government may be required to prove the factual basis for a sentencing enhancement by clear and convincing evidence, rather than a prep…
23-1136 P. Koichi Yagi, aka Peter Yagi v. Estate of Robert C. Cannon Washington 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process federal-question judicial-precedent legal-authority standing stare-decisis venue venue-selection 1. Whether the lower court erred by ignoring Petitioner's right under Court precedent to original venue. 2. Whether the Court erred by refusing to re…
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.
23-1094 AT&T Services, Inc., et al. v. Robert J. Bugielski, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) arm's-length-agreement circuit-conflict employee-benefit-plan employee-benefits erisa fiduciary-duty precedent prohibited-transaction Whether a fiduciary to an employee benefit plan causes the plan to engage in a prohibited transaction under Section 406(a)(1)(C) of the Employee Retir…
23-900 Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. Fourth Circuit 2024-02-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law Whether an award of the "defendant's profits" under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin…
23-6500 Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation 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…
23-764 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?
23-6384 Monterial Wesley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca…
23-401 Michael Carey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act.
23-249 Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit, and if so when and in what way, claims under anti-discrimination statutes, such as Ti…
23-199 George Anibowei v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-client-privilege border-search cellphone-privacy cellphone-search circuit-conflict fourth-amendment preliminary-injunction warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures entitles petitioner to a preliminary injunction against additiona…
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…
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…
22-7682 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…
22-1154 Winglet Technology, LLC, et al. v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict defamation discovery-standard government-certification government-liability limited-discovery personal-spite scope-of-employment westfall-act 1. Where the FAA disowned as verifiably false its employee's defamatory statements about petitioners and questioned his decision to publish them in th…
22-7204 Eriston Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charges evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent intent-standard not-guilty rule-404(b) rule-404b Each Court of Appeals has instituted its own multi-pronged test for determining the admissibility of extrinsic evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b), cr…
22-7182 Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing 1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an…
22-6480 Anthony Rohlf v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights claim-definition due-process federal-habeas judicial-review misconduct pro-se-petitioner successive-writ writ-of-certiorari 1. ) Does the definition of the term "Claim", given by this court in Gonzales V. Crosby, p 545 U.S. 524, 530-32(2005) , still stand as the law of the …
22-523 Sunoco LP, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-06 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) circuit-conflict climate-change climate-change-litigation federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal federal-preemption greenhouse-gas-emissions jurisdictional-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation transboundary-pollution 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442 precludes removal by federal officers and persons acting under them unless the …
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…
22-5838 Yasser Ashburn v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-enterprise firearm-possession gang-related-purpose jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-act 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address a Circuit conflict on the interpretation of requisite proof to establish a legal element nece…
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 …
22-328 Scott Allinson v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans, 504 U.S. 255 (1992) modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. …
22-181 Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation 1. Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness a government must satisfy the "absolutely clear" standard and, if not, to what extent s…
22-5449 Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s…
22-5204 Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2…
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…
21-8218 Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a dicision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup…
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…
21-7332 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…
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
21-7236 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…
21-1131 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…
21-936 United States, et al., ex rel. Cathy Owsley v. Fazzi Associates, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-conflict civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraudulent-scheme pleading pleading-particularity rule-9(b) rule-9b standing Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also pl…
21-6554 Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review 1. A Federal Court may only entertain a federal prisoner's habeas corpus petition when a "remedy by motion [to vacate] is inadequate or ineffective to…
21-6265 Jonathan Barrett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give …
21-652 Lynette Duncan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Duncan, Deceased v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-conflict injury-in-fact insurance-coverage medical-reimbursement medicare-secondary-payer-act private-cause-of-action Does a person suffer Article III injury-in-fact when an insurer breaches its contractual obligation to pay for the person's medical care?
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…
21-316 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 …
21-5489 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion 1. Whether, in direct conflict with decisions of other circuits, the Eighth Circuit correctly held that under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(c), a defendant who …
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…
21-172 Melvin G. Perry v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.L.C., dba North Central Baptist Hospital Fifth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied circuit-conflict civil-rights contract-enforcement contract-rights contractual-relationships racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation third-party-interference Does section 1981 prohibit a third party from interfering, on the basis of race, with the right of an individual to make or enforce a contract?
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…
20-8173 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…
20-7477 Hakimah Jabbar v. James L. Graham, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy-law circuit-conflict conflict-of-laws due-process fiduciary-duty forfeited-property property-law statutory-interpretation trust-beneficiary trust-law 1) The U.S Court of Appeals 6th Cir. Affirming of District Court decision directly conflicts with the Appeals Court 's opinion, In re Adams, 302 B.R.…
20-7421 Jefferson Levine v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion 1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib…
20-7381 Larry Wilkerson v. United States District of Columbia 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict evidence-based-concerns juror-discharge legal-disagreement rule-23(b)(3) sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-court-discretion voir-dire I. WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CONFLI CT I N THE CI RCUI TS REGARDI NG THE STANDARD APPLI CABLE TO DETERMI NING W HEN THE SI XTH AMENDMENT PR…
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.
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit…
20-6882 Bo Zou v. Linde Engineering North America, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-courts injunctive-relief jurisdictional-challenge legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation 1. How did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit make its decision on injunctive reliefs in conflict with not only the U.S. Supreme…
20-939 Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati…
20-6662 Ian D. Goolsby v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove not o…
20-6424 Deloyd Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an "enterprise" under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared…
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 …
20-512 National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-19 Judgment Issued Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law board-of-regents circuit-conflict compensation federal-antitrust ncaa ncaa-rules ninth-circuit rule-of-reason student-athlete-compensation student-athletes Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with decisions of other circuits and general antitrust principles, that the National Collegiat…
20-6003 Alvin Celius Andre v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure entrapment government-intervention jacobson-v-united-states jury-instruction predisposition ready-willingness I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's Entrapment Jury Instruction is in Conflict With Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992) and the Majority of t…
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…
20-405 City of Miami Gardens, Florida v. Wells Fargo & Co., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Amici (2) alabama-legislative-black-caucus article-three circuit-conflict civil-rights discovery due-process standing sua-sponte summary-judgment Whether, by raising standing sua sponte at oral argument in an appeal concerning a partial summary judgment decision focused solely on the statute of …
20-381 Hamilton County Job and Family Services, et al. v. Joseph Siefert, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 child-services circuit-conflict civil-rights due-process medical-care qualified-immunity state-action state-actor A. Did the Sixth Circuit err when it failed to conduct an individualized analysis of Petitioners' actions before blanketly rejecting their asserted de…
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…
20-199 George Charles Clark v. Inco Champion National Security, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied ada-disability-discrimination ada-discrimination causation circuit-conflict direct-evidence disability-accommodation employment-termination reasonable-accommodation retaliation summary-judgment 1. What is the standard under the ADA applicable to firing an employee for conduct caused by a disability? 2. Is it a reasonable accommodation to mod…
20-155 New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund v. Sun Capital Partners III, LP, et al First Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-conflict civil-rights culbertson-precedent due-process erisa mppaa partnership partnership-in-fact private-equity private-equity-funds 1. Whether the First Circuit's holding that the Sun Funds did not form a partnership-in-fact is inconsistent with this Court's precedent in Culbertson…
20-5291 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar Tenth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality 1. TENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO SATISFY ITSELF OF DISTRICT COURT'S JURISDICTION RESULTED IN IT EXCEEDING ITS DISCRETION AND JURISDICTION 2. What Tenth …
20-96 United States v. Kane County, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Relisted (5) circuit-conflict civil-procedure environmental-advocacy environmental-concerns federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intervention intervention-of-right quiet-title quiet-title-action standing Whether an advocacy organization's environmental concerns qualify as an "interest" required by Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure f…
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…
20-5055 Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con…
19-1402 Antonio Jubis Zacarias, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction article-iii-standing bar-orders circuit-conflict civil-procedure investor-claims receivership receivership-estate standing standing-doctrine Whether a district court in a receivership action has Article III jurisdiction to bar investor claims for individual injuries when the receiver lacks …
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…
19-1271 Toni Sharretts Collins v. William Zolnier Texas 2020-05-07 Denied Response Waived absolute-privilege circuit-conflict civil-procedure communication-privilege defamation defamation-privilege first-amendment free-speech judicial-privilege legal-immunity procedural-exception tort tort-law Whether a party has absolute judicial privilege when a defamatory communication is made that has no logical relation to the proceeding.
19-1116 LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-12 GVR Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer "bots" to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp…
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 …
19-990 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…
19-7378 Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense Petitioner 's case was wrongly affirmed by the California Court of Appeal for reasons of "probable cause ", despite the fact that Manuel v. City of J…
19-815 Lisa M. Phoenix v. Regions Bank Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied applicant-definition circuit-conflict consumer-financial-protection-bureau credit-discrimination discrimination equal-credit-opportunity-act federal-reserve-board federal-reserve-system guarantors regulatory-interpretation Whether the regulations issued by the Board and the CFPB permissibly construe the "applicants" protected from discrimination by ECOA to encompass guar…
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-545 Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-procedure conflicting-decisions domicile due-process judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-error standing third-circuit venue Has the Third Circuit improperly determined that domicile of Plaintiff can be based exclusively on the determination of domicile in a subsequently fil…
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, …
19-6286 Vara Birapaka v. United States Army Research Laboratory, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process fraud impartiality judicial-review plausibility prima-facie procedural-fairness professional-conduct rights rule-60-motion standing 1) Whether a federal court adjudicating a motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60 may simply write off Petitioner's motion without any analysi…
19-6207 Kevin Henderson v. Don Bottom, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-courts judicial-precedent legal-interpretation merits precedent standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Did the Sixth Circuit err when reaching conclusions arguably in conflict and inconsistent with this Supreme Courts decisions?
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…
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.…
19-6067 Francisco Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. SMITH, AND CONFLICTS WITH THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT IN UNITED STATES V. DARDEN? II. WHE…
19-5888 David Tkhilaishvili v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extortion hobbs-act interstate-commerce legal-nexus property-rights property-transfer third-party 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously held, in conflict with multiple decisions of this Court, that the government may sustain a Hobbs Act extorti…
19-257 California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even …
19-5515 Lester Leon Sanders v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive c…
18-9687 Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied IFP attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense?
18-1541 Yassine Baouch, et al. v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., dba Werner Trucking, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied circuit-conflict employee-reimbursement employment-law fair-labor-standards-act internal-revenue-code minimum-wage per-diem per-diem-payments reimbursement wage-classification wages Under what circumstances do per diem payments to an employee constitute wages, rather than reimbursement, under section 207(e)(2) of the FLSA?
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…
18-9051 Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FIFTH CIRCUIT HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION THAT CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT IN BRADY V. MARYLAND…
18-8865 Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue…
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit …
18-1104 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…
18-1019 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2019-02-04 GVR Amici (9)Relisted (7) abortion-regulation abortion-rights circuit-conflict due-process fetal-life fourteenth-amendment informed-consent maternal-health pre-enforcement-challenge ultrasound ultrasound-requirement May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment, require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least eighteen hours before an abortion?
18-995 Crunch San Diego, LLC v. Jordan Marks Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Dismissed automatic-telephone-dialing-system capacity-to-dial circuit-conflict civil-procedure due-process random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation tcpa telemarketing-practices telephone-consumer-protection-act Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in expanding the TCPA's definition of "automatic telephone dialing system"—in acknowledged conflict with the Third Cir…
18-7493 Hayward Jackson v. Equifax Workforce Solutions, dba Labor Ready Southwest, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-sufficiency conley-v-gibson due-process federal-causes-of-action judicial-review leatherman-v-tarrant pleading pleading-standards second-amended-complaint supreme-court-precedent Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with this Court's Decisions in Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U. S. …
18-942 Ashidda Forgus v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense Fourth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Relisted (5) adverse-action circuit-conflict civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination lateral-position lateral-transfer materially-adverse-action retaliation title-vii transfer Whether it is a "materially adverse action" under Title VII for an employer to deny, on account of discrimination and/or retaliation, an employee's re…
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…
18-7113 Dewey Hylor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-offense circuit-conflict criminal-conviction elements-clause florida-robbery mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony Whether petitioner's prior conviction for Florida robbery in violation of Fla. Stat. § 812.13, is not a "violent felony" under the elements clause Arm…
18-6904 Oree Roberson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea…
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…
18-6804 Shane Roach v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou…
18-541 Lakhdeep Deol v. Gary W. Depreta, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-conflict civil-litigation civil-procedure discovery discovery-law faulkner-v-adt federal-civil-litigation-system judicial-precedent pleading-law pleading-standards sufficiency-in-legal-proceedings third-party-intervention twombly-iqbal The questions presented are ripe for the Court's guidance on at least four unresolved or underdeveloped aspects of civil litigation, namely conflict i…
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.
18-5838 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…
18-5774 Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland Second Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT'S MAY 259 2017, SUMMARY ORDER IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH A DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES SUPR…
18-147 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 …
18-138 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…