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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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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 Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—u… |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… |