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25-6786 Cornell Clisby v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court extraordinary-reasons federal-sentencing rehabilitation-factors sentence-reduction Whether the Sixth Circuit and the district court abused its discretion by failing to hold that extraordinary and compelling reasons existed to qualify…
25-940 Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. Third Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage Question 1 Whether the circuit court improperly determined that a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is the operative bar date …
25-6680 Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending IFP appellate-review brief-filing circuit-court due-process judicial-procedure procedural-validity Is a judgment issued by a Federal Appellate Circuit valid when the Appellant was never given the opportunity to file the Brief of Appeal?
25-877 Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction.
25-6639 In Re Deon D. Colvin 2026-01-21 Pending IFP appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus 1. Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter? 2. Did the Special Panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have the …
25-6551 Esteban Burgos v. Florida Florida 2026-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-procedure district-court judicial-administration speedy-trial-rule supreme-court-order 1. MAY A DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS, AND CIRCUIT COURT DISREGARD MANDATORY RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SUPREME COURT ORDER? 2…
25-793 Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord…
25-768 Charity Mainville v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending circuit-court extraordinary-writ judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus procedural-standard 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit may impose "undue delay" as a standalone prerequisite to mandamus relief when this Court's three-part test includes no s…
25-6405 Jerel D. Kent v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c) by finding the district court rea…
25-657 Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner 's appeal, constituted such a substantial departure fro…
25A619 Jose M. Gonzalez v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-25 Application circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court en-banc-review judicial-conflict petition-for-certiorari Question not identified.
25A533 James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-07 Application capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-public-defender habeas-corpus post-conviction Question not identified.
25A513 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Application appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights judicial-system legal-standing petition-review Question not identified.
25-528 David Paitsel v. United States District of Columbia 2025-10-31 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bribery circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent official-act prosecutorial-standards In McDonnell v. United States, 579 U.S. 550 (2016), this Court set very clear prosecutorial and judicial standards in criminal proceedings involving b…
25-5934 David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review bankruptcy-law circuit-court de-novo-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fails to distinguish between issues raised in the trial court and arguments there made, as this…
25A428 Aaron Even v. Robert Dean Hebel Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Application certiorari circuit-court extension-of-time judicial-review petition writ Question not identified.
25-5767 Robert Draft v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas-corpus legal-merit procedural-error 1) Did the United States District Court error in ruling that Mr. Draft 's petition for writ of Habeas Corpus was untimely? 2) Did the United States …
25A308 Ynddy Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial Question not identified.
25-5652 Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court…
25A279 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-10 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
25-5294 Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error 1. Whether petitioner was afforded due process in the decisions rendered by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, since that "if the underlying judg…
25-69 Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim that a litigant has forfeited her appellate rights and its refusal to conduct the required de novo review on a…
25A22 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension Question not identified.
25-5007 Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-01 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah…
24-7523 Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Peitioner direct review where the district court erred when it instrcuted the jury o…
24-7494 Jesse Lavadis Crawford v. Michigan Michigan 2025-06-25 Denied IFP asset-seizure circuit-court drug-transaction due-process post-deprivation-hearing proportionality 1. Whether there was a "Palpable-Error" by which, the court and the parties have been misled, and a different disposition will result by a correction …
24-1193 In Re Sean Murphy, et al. 2025-05-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights judicial-recusal judicial-review procedural-due-process 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit clerks had the authority to render judgment on dispositive motions without judicial review or proper delegation? 2. Whet…
24-999 Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-03-20 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law In Lehman Brothers v. Schein, 416 U.S. 386 (1974), this Court encouraged federal courts to certify uncertain questions of state law to state high cour…
24-894 Michelle Avery Bey v. David Harper, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-20 Denied Response Waived 18-USC-1961 circuit-court district-court federal-jurisdiction racketeering statute-of-limitations 1. Did the United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit err in declaring that the federal questions concerning 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 and 1962 shoul…
24-850 Andrew Kamal v. Femtosense, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation transfer-requirements Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the Clark v. Busey transfer requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1631. Whether the denial of transfer…
24-6498 In Re Thomas Sawyer 2025-02-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules Question not identified.
24-6448 Dennis Sheldon Brewer v. John Ratcliffe, Director, Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court due-process judicial-precedent mandamus standing statutory-interpretation 1. Shall this Court permit the courts of the fifth circuit to openly defy both this Court's mandates and statutes to establish their own circuit speci…
24-6341 Zonta Tavaras Ellison aka Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP alford-plea career-offender circuit-court en-banc sixth-amendment trial-by-jury 1. The Circuit Courts Three Judge panel created a conflict of grave importance warranting this court's discretionary judicial power when it denied pet…
24-751 Giorgi Rtskhiladze v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court damages-claim footnote-defamation forfeiture privacy-act After deciding that the salacious Footnote 112 in the Mueller Report defamed Petitioner and remanding his equitable claim, the circuit court held that…
24-708 Zafar Iqbal v. BPOA Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal circuit-court jurisdictional-statute medicaid preclusion supreme-court 1.Can the 34 Circuit Court and DCWPA overrule, Jurisdictional statute of limitations set by US Supreme Court as 10/18/2022 in case no.22-624? 2. Did …
24A659 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-01-02 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension Question not identified.
24-6180 Carl Hubbard v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-court gateway-claim habeas-corpus judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. DID THE MAJORITY BELOW ERROR IN NOT APPLYING THIS COURT'S DECISION IN SCHULP V. DELO, TO HOLD THAT PETITIONER COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE, THAT PRESENT…
24-658 In Re Securus Technologies, et al. 2024-12-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court federal-communications-commission forum-shopping statutory-interpretation venue-transfer Whether the First Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2112(a) by refusing to transfer to the Fifth Circuit consolidated challenges to a Federal Communication…
24-6162 Gregory A. Tolliver v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)?
24-6051 Ralph Berry v. United States Second Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP cannabis-regulation circuit-court controlled-substances cross-border-transactions federal-law interstate-commerce Question not identified.
24A488 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 Question not identified.
24-514 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-11-06 Denied Response Waived circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-review mandamus-relief military-detention whistleblower-protection Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) acted appropriately in bifurcating the petitioner's tim…
24-479 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-31 Denied Response Waived case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue 1. Whether the Circuit Judges of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit namely Judge Katsas, Judge Rao and Judge Childs erred when …
24-415 Cicel (Beijing) Science & Technology Co., Ltd. v. Misonix, Inc. Second Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-court email-interpretation evidence-standard judicial-review non-movant-rights summary-judgment 1. Whether the Court should summarily reverse the Second Circuit decision affirming summary judgment against Petitioner. 2. Whether the Second Circui…
24-406 Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Response Waived circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision that relied on the district court's use of a reasonable jury standard in a case arising from a law enforcement…
24-5609 In Re Babubhai Patel 2024-09-23 Denied IFP 2255-motion circuit-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by holding that Mr. Patel's properly filed 2255 Motion to Vacate in Light of Newly Discovered Evidence…
24-288 Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et ux. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-court judicial-interpretation legal-causation proximate-cause rico-statute statutory-construction Whether the Second Circuit's interpretation of "proximate cause" is unreasonable because it fails to honor the breadth of the RICO statute and ignores…
24-188 Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. Second Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment 1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a summary judgment decision by the district court that failed to provide a reason fo…
24-5212 Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law Did the Circuit Court reach its holding, after applying incorrect harmless-error standard and disregarding the compelling record evidence of prejudi…
23A1165 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete circuit-court death-sentence federal-review first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Has the Lower Federal Trial Court known as U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit Court i…
23-7700 Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-safety circuit-court civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process innocence-claim physical-abuse sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse Did the Eighth Circuit Decision improperly deny defendant's Career offender Challenge by failing to consider he no longer qualifies for the enhancemen…
23A1053 Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete circuit-court federal-courts habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-conviction writ-petition Question not identified.
23-7447 Azaniah Blankumsee v. Maryland Maryland 2024-05-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing writ-of-error Did the lower Court abuse its discretion by denying Petitioner's Petition for writ of actual innocence without looking back at the trial, or assessing…
23-1187 Food and Drug Administration, et al. v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (9) administrative-law circuit-court civil-procedure fda fda-authorization federal-courts judicial-review product-distribution standing statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation Whether a manufacturer may file a petition for review in a circuit (other than the D.C. Circuit) where it neither resides nor has its principal place …
23-7238 Richard Lee Devito v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court duty-to-investigate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el miller-el-standard panel-rehearing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-law strickland strickland-ineffective-assistance Did the Circuit Court, initially composed of one judge, err by exceeding the "threshold inquiry" as prescribed by this Court in Miller-El? Did the Ci…
23A914 William Ted Holliday v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied circuit-court federal-appellate habeas-corpus mandate-recall post-conviction prisoner-rights Question not identified.
23-7159 Thomas Joseph Buck v. Janice J. Compton Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied IFP circuit-court circuit-court-rulings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements judicial-review legal-remedy standing 1). What does the Supreme Court of the United States do when it is presented with a case in which a Circuit Court of Appeals introduces false statemen…
23-7130 In Re William Graven 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appeals-court appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal judicial-error judicial-oversight judicial-review mandamus motion-to-dismiss orders panel TAKING THE HIGH ROAD : My Appeals Panel of 3 Circuit Judges accidentally missed that the District Court Judge had issued 2 Orders, each on different l…
23-7095 Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio…
23-7046 Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's…
23-991 City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny Second Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents, none of which it cited or discussed, when it concluded that two police officers r…
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine? Did the Panel of the Ninth Circuit abuse its discretion by finding amendment to the complaint w…
23A813 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington First Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default Question not identified.
23-896 Sean Garnand, et al. v. Greg Moore, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation legal-question qualified-immunity Can a Circuit Court of Appeals simply elect not to decide purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdic…
23-6774 Tremayne Silas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl…
23-6491 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt Sixth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint …
23-6453 James David Welton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max…
23-6311 David Clum, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process judicial-review manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice supervisory-powers writ-of-certiorari SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE IT IS SHOWN FROM THE RECORD THAT THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AN…
23-6292 Ray O. Crowell, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law counsel-claim due-process federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction standard-of-review strickland strickland-standard Whether the State court's resolution of Crowell's ineffective assistance of counsel claim for bail at a capital offense preliminary hearing under 42 U…
23A548 Mary M. Mooney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete circuit-court clerk-error federal-rules motion-for-reconsideration pro-se timely-filing The decision of the Fourth Circuit presents an important question that warrants this Court's review. In this case, the record establishes the pro se l…
23-6117 Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)?
23A459 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete circuit-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-removal mandamus procedural-fairness This petition does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The document contains an "APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME IN WHICH TO …
23-6052 Larry Bailey v. West Laurel Water Association, et al. Kentucky 2023-11-17 Denied IFP appeal circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status notice-of-appeal standing 1). Whether the Franklin Circuit Court violated my constitutional rights to due process by denying my motion to proceed in forma pauperis IFP on notic…
23A432 Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion Question not identified.
23-5975 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent 1. Are inferior courts, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in particular, allowed unrestricted and unrestrained freedom to interpret the clear and une…
23-5800 Malcolm Muhammad v. William E. Jackson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights federal-law free-speech judicial-interpretation land-use property-rights religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a standing statutory-construction summary-judgment AppelWi-V aliened "tW-p deknciarvW 3ocVisor\3bft€S and. Tu.rf\ff dea^ed hirv^ op-Ids ti c^VvVs ar»<Ur -VU AtvervArKfv^ o/d fteldyoa-^ La^-d vise ar>d…
23-5709 Guy L. Coulston v. Raúl Labrador, Attorney General of Idaho Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction sovereign-individual standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment Did the District court through the 9th circuit court of appeals and Prosecution, and My Trial counsel err in discretion to a Void Judgment that lead i…
23-5586 Nestor Leon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-violation circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure document-submission due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-dismissal petition-process standing subpoena-duces-tecum DiDTHE EIEV cnSTH CiP-OJTT C\ER\< Erf itJ DiSM'.SbiMa H\S(CoA) AFTcf THE pETiTiOk-r provided All DocoMtfjrs ReQuiinad 7 D'° E'EVeijrrH circuiT cIer…
23-5550 Joseph Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was…
23-5491 Saundra S. Brooke v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bankruptcy bankruptcy-law circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure due-process evidence evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether the lower abused her discretion when she withheld evidence in the record from the fourth circuit and disregarded a discharged bankruptcy in th…
23-5376 Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION VIOLATES PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS BY HAVING GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE BASED UPON A PRO SE PLEADING …
23-5162 DeMario B. Griffin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction mandate-recall right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first direct appeal under the Fifth Amendment? 2. Does Griffin have a right to counsel on his first di…
23-54 Robert Mark Scott v. Forcht Bank, N.A. Kentucky 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court civil-procedure detrimental-reliance false-testimony loan-officer material-facts material-issues-of-fact promissory-estoppel reliance summary-judgment 1. Whether Summary Judgment is proper where material issues of fact exist? 2. Whether Scott detrimentally relied on any promise made by and through F…
23-5128 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion? 2. Did the United…
23-5008 Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne…
22-7832 David Troy, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding?
22-1188 Douglas K. Smith v. Eric Terry Fifth Circuit 2023-06-08 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellant-brief appellate-procedure bankruptcy circuit-court civil-procedure dismissal-of-appeal extension-of-time judicial-discretion procedural-dismissal Whether the Circuit Court's March 8, 2023 denial of a second motion for thirty-day extension of time to file appellant brief, and resultant dismissal …
22-1182 Robert Walker, et al. v. U.S. Bank N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied administrative-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-rules statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-1183 Robert Walker, et al. v. K. Drake Ozment, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion judicial-overreach local-court-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Mandate infringe on the Fourteenth Amendment and imposes restrictions as to U.S. Code: Title 11, SUBCHAPTER …
22-7637 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights district-court due-process forced-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment vagueness this case presents an important issue concerning what constitutes "the right to have the assistance of counsel" under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. …
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element based on what it believ…
22-7454 In Re Reginald Swinton 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-law circuit-court discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Is the Circuit Court's order in deciding sua sponte to issue its Mandate denying relief without first having afforded petitioner prior notification an…
22-7416 In Re Ronald Pack 2023-05-01 Denied IFP 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa-tolling article-i-section-9 circuit-court great-writ habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-limitations statutory-tolling writ-of-certiorari 1) Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the great writ…
22-7384 In Re Reidie James Jackson 2023-04-26 Denied IFP abstention circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Can Pre Uwited Stes Court of Appeals. Fer We Bh Cir eu refuse Yo address We is9n2 of abstention . Presented Yny The VS. distvick court's Merch 352022…
22-7289 Terrick Bishoff v. United States First Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone …
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic…
22-829 Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board Virginia 2023-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia 1. Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wa…
22-6679 Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings Ay€. c^ncf ard CTlrcuii" decisions \v\ron-Pl \ el~ -Yhe. wVcYv dismissed7"Ct~ oiec\S\oov'f prev se - K\ ■Tlicr 6v/ifk •f <4e.c\Sior^ (ajKicU dIHeJ lau…
22-6687 Robert Dee Carter v. Deon Clayton, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review brady brady-materiality charges-convicted circuit-court due-process materiality pro-se-status rule-59 rule-60b 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit depart Brady by artificially heightening the threshold for materiality based on Petiti…
22-6557 Diana Louise Houck v. Lifestore Bank, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure cumulative-finality dismissal finality interlocutory-appeal right-to-appeal rule-58 vacatur 1. Cumulative Finality: When a Plaintiff has not requested cumulative finality for an interlocutory appeal, the Circuit Court of Appeals did not deter…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. IS THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING ITS PROCEDURAL BAR RULES IN MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT…
22-6363 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company Tenth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review 1. Whether or not the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth (10th) Circuit far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings (S.Ct…
22-6263 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings Question not identified.
22-6257 Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment health-conditions judicial-misconduct procedural-error standing I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE THE LOWER COURT ERRED IN VIOLATION OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT IN DENYING COMPASSIONATE RELEASE WHEN THE LOWER…
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence I. Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Co…
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority 1. Whether ornot the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh (11th) Circuit Court of Appeals, departed far from the accepted and usual course of judici…
22-5864 David Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceeding certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-review motion-denial standing Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)?
22-5782 Matthew Tassin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may …
22-5739 LaTausha Simmons v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-03 Denied IFP acquittal appeal circuit-court constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy insufficient-evidence jurisdiction michigan-supreme-court reconsideration I. WHETHER THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT THE PROHIBITION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY (see US Const, Am V and Const 1963, art 18 15…
22-5728 Glenn Spradley v. Pat Frank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-action circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-precedent due-process municipal-liability precedent standing venue-selection 1. Whether a complaint's conclusory allegations of municipal liability state a cause of action, according to this Court's prior precedent. 2. Whether…
22-5702 Henry Clay Smith, III v. Alabama Alabama 2022-09-28 Denied IFP alabama-court-of-criminal-appeals circuit-court civil-rights criminal-appeals due-process executive-order judicial-review mandates standing 1) WHETHER THE RECORD SHOWS, THEE CIRCUIT COURT CASES HAS BEEN PNUALIOATED? 2) WHETHER THE RECORD SHOWS, CICLUIT LOURT THE JUDGE GEANTED DISPOSITION …
22-5700 Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections X IktHd cffafe? toujjr&f debuaL optetjfkc C^u^fHidioml fyklHt df[e apt tffipcal? ik dittzd 7 viol&hok, krd'-Hte /7/rd/ hiM^udupertkofi diet C^iptdHttd…
22-5668 Thomas Guerriero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule, which bars consideration of arguments not raised or decided previously, should be overturned.
22-5618 Ronald J. Brooking v. Prince George's County, Maryland Maryland 2022-09-20 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-court civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-review legal-error maryland-law maryland-rules motion-to-dismiss relief-denial standing supreme-court 1 - Did I'll £ G rcuuL CouLrt err when Orci-er De-dcudV? Did Dk«_ C\retted Court err o-kcI not CLp^t-y W^ lUary(aid ?i uDi o f Q w i l^r^ C-ec/ id. …
22-5609 Herve Wilmore v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue Whether the Exception to the Law of the Case Doctrine Permits a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of App…
22-5587 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ninth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-judge federal-appellate-procedure FRAP-22(b)(1) habeas habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus retroactive-effect writ-of-mandamus Does a habeas petitioner have a right under FRAP 22(b)(1) to request a certificate of appealability ("COA") from a specifically chosen circuit judge? …
22-162 Tariq B. Alabbassi v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army Fifth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-time-limit burden-of-proof circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeo-complaint employment-discrimination federal-regulations statute-of-limitations A- 29 C.F.R. § 1614.105(a)(1), when does the 45-day time limit start? Is it when the plaintiff became aware of the discriminatory actions or at the ti…
21-8270 Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC Fourth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing 1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner 's Petiti…
21-8249 Sammy L. Page v. Audrey King, Acting Executive Director, California Department of Mental Health Ninth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus party-presentation pretrial-detention statutory-interpretation I. Does a circuit court abuse its discretion and violate the principle of party presentation by adjudicating a habeas corpus petition under § 28 U.S.C…
21-1575 Geoffrey M. Young v. Jeremy Mattox, Judge, Circuit Court of Kentucky, 14th Judicial Circuit Kentucky 2022-06-21 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure clerk court-clerk judicial-discretion judicial-ethics mandamus ministerial-duties prohibition 1. Does any circuit court judge have the authority or discretion to prevent the clerk of the circuit court from properly performing her ministerial du…
21-8048 Michael Ray Kapp v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion? II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman…
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied IFP administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361.
21-1468 Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by sua s…
21-7895 Antoine Mayes v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA…
21-7845 Jennifer C. Rundle v. Windsor Manor, Inc. Virginia 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP amended-petition circuit-court civil-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest motion-to-compel precedent property property-rights state-action A. Should the Norfolk Circuit Court have GRANTED the petitioner's Motion to Compel Discovery and Continue the Trial , to ensure access to Due Process …
21-1403 Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French First Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement 1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f…
21-7652 Damian Scott Olvera v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C…
21-1311 Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC Second Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent In the year 2000, Judge Richard S. Arnold in the Eighth Circuit noticed something was not quite right in the United States federal appellate courts. A…
21-1242 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent (1) This Court and several Circuit Courts of Appeals have held that federal courts should not reach the merits of a case, including issues such as sov…
21-7240 Robert Carr, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-standard standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent (1) Did the lower courts erroneously employed the wrong legal standard (2) Was the Court Of Appeal decision in conflict with controlling opinion of t…
21-1103 Raul A. Pelaez, as Limited Guardian of the Person and Property of John Poul Pelaez, Ward v. Government Employees Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied appeal circuit-court civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and more particularly, Circuit Judge Edward Carnes, who prepared the opinion f…
21-6859 Jaquirro T. Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review plea-bargaining procedural-standard standing I. Whether acceptance of a guilty plea without establishing a crime against the United States constitutes a structural error that voids the subsequent…
21-6676 Mario Murillo-Mora v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review precedent-interpretation roe-v-flores-ortega Whether Circuit Courts of Appeals can Properly Summarily Deny Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability to a Habeas Petitioner when the District Cour…
21-6645 Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-833 David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. Second Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus. Whether the Second Circuit Court erred in denying to …
21-6507 Lyle Quinton Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-12-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-decision jurisdiction native-american official-authority precedent retroactivity statutory-interpretation 1. Whether or not Matloff v. Wallace, 2021 OK CR 21 no retroactivity decision conflicts with the holding in Sharp v. Murphy, U.S. 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020…
21-6327 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure 1. Should this matter been allowed to progress to a civil commitment trial since the Respondent incarcerated the Petitioner for exercising his Constit…
21-6334 Christopher Jason Henry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker I. In the opinion below, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory, ev…
21-624 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response Waived 11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income 1. May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income? 2. Does the decision of The Eleventh Circuit…
21-538 Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic…
21-5869 In Re Abdul Mohammed 2021-10-04 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure executive-committee judicial-transfer nunc-pro-tunc standing transfer venue void-ab-initio 1) whether the 7th Circuit shall transfer pending Appeal # 20-2419 and Appeal # 21-1591 to a different circuit; 2) whether the Orders of the Executiv…
21-458 L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing Question not identified.
21-5778 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as…
21-448 France.com, Inc. v. The French Republic, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied appellate-interpretation circuit-court claim-analysis commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception distinct-claims foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen legal-misapplication lower-federal-courts obb-personenverkeher-v-sachs Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and other lower federal courts have misapplied this Court's decision in OBB Personen…
21-5771 Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions 1. Whether officers had the right to be at Appellant house do to the fact the search warrant for his house was in his Alleged Codefendant's name Dougl…
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules with their decision to render unappeal…
21-5580 Marion Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-question judicial-proceedings judicial-review standing supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether Site United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decision…
21-5570 Richard Boyle v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court due-process evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions stare-decisis undue-prejudice witness-testimony Whether the federal courts are free to withdraw the protection from undue prejudice which emanates from the required four-step process as set forth in…
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment The questions presented show conflict with Precedent of this Court and all Circuit Courts. The significant practical consequence is promotion of discr…
21-238 Keith Foster v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct 1. How can panels of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirm decisions as matters of law, that are in direct conflict with previously established bindin…
21-5027 Shane LaGrange v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY CONCLUDED THAT THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PERMITS THE COURT TO FIND THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION FOR A TRAFFIC STOP EXIST…
20-8299 In Re Michael Skillern 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent mandamus scotus writ-of-certiorari writ-of-mandamus DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S RULE ENUNCIATED CRUTCHFIELD v. WAINWRIGHT, 803 F.3d 1103 (11th Cir. 1986) ABROGATE OR MODIFY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION AS…
20-8200 Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-8165 Mitchell N. Nicholas v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule federal-investigation fourth-amendment grand-jury miscarriage-of-justice standing unreasonable-searches Question not identified.
20-1642 Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation 1. Where, in this case, it is undisputed that the injured worker spent 90% of his working time on vessels in navigation, operating cranes and excavato…
20-7835 Steven Cooper v. Florida Florida 2021-04-22 Denied IFP adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass 1. Whether it is appropriate for a capias to be issued after a defendant makes the required written waiver of presence as allowed for by the Florida …
20-7686 Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record 1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a…
20-7602 Bienvenido Rodriguez, Jr. v. Ulli Klemm, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ineffective-representation judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-dismiss procedural-due-process settlement-agreement standing 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT OF APPEALS ABUSE ITS DISCRETION SUSTAINING/AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER BECAUSE NO SUBSTANTIAL QUESTION WAS PRESENTED…
20-7511 Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition 1. May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district c…
20-7491 Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence I. Whether pattern jury instructions approved by the circuit courts carry any independent legal force? II. Whether federal criminal defendants may re…
20-7414 James Innocent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied IFP circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plan-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters …
20-7351 Sheena Shaw v. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-court civil-rights federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations tolling-rules May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignore the goals of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when interpreting and applying state statute s of limitations and the coor…
20-7367 Sherwood Laran Bostic v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel state-court-proceedings state-proceeding DID THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ERR WHEN IT DENIED (COA) S B B P B B B Y PS WHEN IT SUSTAINED THAT PETITIONER HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUN…
20-1209 In Re Raymond L. Rogers 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. …
20-7072 Jean Denis Paul v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record Question One: This Court held in Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) , that in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g), 924(a)(2), the go…
20-7045 In Re Cyrus Linton Brooks 2021-02-04 Denied IFP appearance-of-justice appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-review procedural-fairness Did The Review Treatment Accorded The Request For The Issuance Of A Certificate Of Appealability By A Circuit Judge, Fail To Satisfy The Appearance Of…
20-7012 Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of…
20-6831 David Garcia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal duty-to-adjudicate existing-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits sixth-amendment Whether a circuit court of appeals has a duty to adjudicate the merits of a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim raised by a defend…
20-695 Derek Piersing v. Domino’s Pizza Franchising LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1) aaa-rules arbitrability circuit-court delegation-doctrine employment-agreement first-options procedural-rules state-court There must be "clear and unmistakable evidence" of parties' intent to have arbitrability decided by an arbitrator for a court to find that they agreed…
20-6319 Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing Question not identified.
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5837 In Re Edward Donald Oberwise 2020-09-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standards circuit-court habeas-corpus state-court successive-petition teague teague-claim Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a non-capital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a co…
20-5675 Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court Did the 144 Circuit err in accepting "facts" by the accepted usual course of judicial procedure? Did the 144 Circuit exercise of the Supreme Court's p…
20-5641 Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied the law regarding allegations of Counsel being ineffective regarding Plea Negotiations …
20-5594 William N. Lucy v. Estate of Annie D. Fox Alabama 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights discretion due-process estate-administration judicial-review probate procedural-requirements standing Question not identified.
20-5516 Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim reasoning that I am procedurally barred when a debate e…
20-5523 Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure 1) Would reasonable jurors find the district court's assessment of this petitioner's constitutional claims to be debatable or wrong, or whether his ha…
20-5238 Wilbert Hayes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif Whether, on a post-Rehaif claim, the Circuit Court of Appeals should not consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Ol…
20-5228 United States, ex rel. Friedrich Lu v. Ramandeep Samra, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-representation circuit-court civil-procedure false-claims-act jurisdiction legal-representation pro-se qui-tam standing Under False Claims Act, may a relator proceed pro se, or must he hire an attorney?
19-8918 Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure executive-branch judicial-branch judicial-interpretation property-return rule-41g standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) provides for the return of person's property once it no longera serves a government purpose in the prosecu…
19-1426 Paul Pecina v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Third Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-proceeding judicial-review standard-of-review supervisory-powers third-circuit third-circuit-court-of-appeals united-states-v-sierra-pacific-industries 1. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the lower Western District Court of Pennsylvania depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial p…
19-8830 Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra…
19-8704 Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts IS THE DECISION OF THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS BASED ON AN UNREASONABLE DETERMINATION OF THE FACTS INASMUCH AS IT IS BASED ON AN INCOMPLETE REC…
19-8664 Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing THE NINTH CIRCUIT ARBITRARINY ERRONEDUS/Y DENIED APPEllanT CERtiFiCAtE oF APpEAlAbilitY StatinG,"PEtitiOn fail to state any federal Constitutional Cla…
19-8436 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-05-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-recusal legal-standing right-to-appeal standing I. Whether indigent petitioner's "GATEWAY" FACTUAL INNOCENCE" Showing while being Constructively "DENIED appointment of Counsel on" FIRST and "ALL" ot…
19-8412 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights QUESTION I Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline…
19-8377 Bobby Ray Knight v. Monterey County, California Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiterrorism-act circuit-court civil-procedure due-process extensions federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus health-issues incarceration statutory-interpretation time-limitations ARE THE FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (FRAP) TOO RESTRICTIVE OR INFLEXIBLE IN RESOLVING IMPEDIMENTS TO TIMELY LITIGANTS HAMPERED BY THE CONJUNCTIVE…
19-8293 Timothy Walker v. United States Third Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access due-process mandate mandate-recall third-circuit Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals error when it failed to compel its Circuit Clerk to accept, file, and submit Appellant's recall the mandate mot…
19-8161 In Re Curtis Smith 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation I. Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation gatekeeper standard? Does the gatekeeper visited?" by this Supreme Court, because different …
19-8048 Collyer Goodman v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United …
19-1120 Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment I. Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur …
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review 1. Did the First Circuit Judge erred and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary …
19-7860 Robert Rowles v. GEO Group, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP 8th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights cost-cutting deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate inmate-rights judicial-discretion medical-treatment prison standing DID THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING RELIEF ON THE LACK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT IS FAILING TO TREAT A …
19-997 Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W…
19-7578 Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? Did T…
19-7582 Raul Arellano v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mailbox-rule ninth-circuit petition-reconsideration prisoner-rights standing My question Des roof of) Prison mail Log (2) Prisone declaration oficer who receives DosumentFrom Prisoner for mailing, acknowledementof receivin docu…
19-7546 Juan Jorge v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights coa constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus precedent standing supreme-court WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHERE: (1) THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S HABEAS CORPUS, AS CONSTITUTI…
19-7440 Alan Strattan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2253 28-usc-2253 basis-for-denying-relief certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court habeas habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason merits-of-claims standard-of-review Whether a petitioner seeking the issuance of a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 is required to demonstrate that jurists of reason w…
19-7400 Christopher R. Glenn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings pro-se-petition standing supervisory-power Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso…
19-7411 In Re Lionel McCray 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appeals circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-mandamus contempt contempt-proceeding due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus second-circuit sequestration writ-of-sequestration (1) Whether Mandamus should issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit compelling the Chief Clerk of that Court to issue a Wri…
19-7380 Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v…
19-915 Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court The Petitioners have been denied their right to a jury trial in federal court. I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit mi…
19-6820 Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or…
19-6758 Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness Whether the Eighth Circuit's substantive reasonableness review satisfies the standards set forth in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), Gall…
19-6704 JB Foster McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-rejection civil-procedure-mail-box-rule due-process federal-rules-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus houston-v-lack mail-box-rule obstruction-of-justice prison-mail prisoner-appeals prisoner-petition sentencing-guidelines timeliness timely-filing Whether a prisoner's petition for rehearing of his appeal decision that is due in 14 days, is considered timely filed under the "mail box rule" and Ho…
19-634 Republic of Sudan, et al. v. James Owens, et al. District of Columbia 2019-11-18 Denied chevron-oil circuit-court due-process foreign-sovereigns foreign-sovereigns-immunity,terrorism-exception,su landgraf retroactive-application sovereign-immunity substantive-liability terrorism-exception Whether the D.C. Circuit applied an unconstitutional rule of substantive liability created by the D.C. Court of Appeals — the highest local court of t…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had; (1) violated federal law; and (2) in doing so, violated petitioner Br…
19-6447 Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky WhEther The power appiled in this case to assert Judiciol authority wos Contrary to this and other circutr in light of thcwhole record. WhEther the I…
19-6177 Valerie Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a…
19-427 Durant Brockett, et al. v. Matthew E. Orso, as Receiver for REX Venture Group, LLC, dba ZeekRewards.com Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived absent-defendants adequate-representation circuit-court civil-procedure class-action defendant-class due-process error-correction fifth-amendment hansberry-v-lee Is the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment violated by the entry of a final judgment against a class of absent defendants, if the absent defenda…
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger Abstention conflicts with the Supreme Court 's decision i…
19-5962 David Tjader v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a…
19-5924 James Hennessee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su…
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
19-5765 Barbara E. Brown v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct legal-proceeding recusal redress standing I. Whether the u.S. court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit erred When they agreed with District court jude Cormac Carney's decision to Not disqualify …
19-5612 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance …
19-5381 Charles Quatrine, Jr. v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rules circuit-court circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-law federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-mandate final-opinion judicial-impediments mandate mandate-review procedural-due-process rule-60(b) rule-60b I Did the Circuit Court issue a final mandate that was a conflict of law, established by its own court? II Did the Circuit Court err when declined to…
19-5285 Daniel Luke Meier v. Amanda M. Berger, et al. Michigan 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 5th-amendment circuit-court civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights default-judgment due-process property property-rights state-law Did the Circuit Court err in failing to complete the default process against Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company under color of state law…
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit 1. RESULTED IN A MANIFEST INJUSTICE? 2. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO EXPAND COA ISSUES TO INCLUDE A CLAIM THE DISTRICT…
19-5195 Cleo Hines v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeal civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-case-law legal-uniformity The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the law to treat identically situated persons in the same…
19-5082 Julisa Tolentino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth…
19-5071 Erwin Burley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos…
19-5026 Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers 1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana…
18-9407 Humberto Verduzco-Magana v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP appeal appellate-waiver circuit-court conformity judgment-correction oral-pronouncement sentence-modification sentencing written-judgment Whether a written appellate waiver giving up the right to appeal any portion of the sentence waive the right to ask the Circuit to conform the written…
18-9408 Freddie J. Hennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments.
18-1364 Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test Whether (1) the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the "primary purpose" test rather than the "surrounding circumstances" test …
18-8976 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-code legal-review standing writ-of-certiorari (is) Whether this Court has the power to issue a Writ of Certiorari to review the action of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in declining to allow a…
18-8805 In Re Andre Rene Scott 2019-04-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus mandamus-petition procedural-rules standing void-judgment IN MARBURY VERSES MADISON, THIS COURT HELD, "IT IS EMPHATICALLY. THE PROVINCE AND DUTY OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IS," DOES THIS R…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REVIEW AND REVERSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S OPINION HOLDING AN APPELLANT IS WITHOU…
18-8790 In Re Steven Michael Backstrom 2019-04-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure circuit-court clerk clerk-discretion court-access judicial-power mandamus mandate recall-mandate Is mandamus the appropriate remedy into a circuit court to compel its clerk to accept, file, and submit a motion to recall that court's prior mandate?…
18-8647 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error.
18-8503 In Re Leroy Lamont Wells 2019-03-21 Denied IFP case-documentation circuit-court conviction correctional-institution criminal-conviction criminal-convictions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lane-county-circuit-court legal-status leroy-lamont-wells oregon-correctional-institution prison-records procedural-inquiry standing state-court Does Petitioner have three convictions in Lane County Circuit Court Case No.20 1404943, State of Oregon v. Leroy Lamont Wells, as of 12/12/2018, as pu…
18-8463 Douglas A. Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC, 1…
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHEN THE CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY APPLIED AN "OVERLY RIGID PER SE APPROACH" IN DENYING COA ON PETITIONER'S MOTION…
18-8363 Joshua G. Stegemann v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal dismissal federal-rules greenlaw-v-united-states gvr in-forma-pauperis neitzke-v-williams party-presentation-rule sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal May the Second Circuit dismiss a criminal appeal sua sponte under Neitzke v. Williams and 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) without briefing by any party and witho…
18-1154 Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition The last time this case was here, the Court unanimously held that time spent by employees in post-shift security screenings is not compensable worktim…
18-8209 Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation 507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th…
18-1082 Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation This case involves the Petitioner's disclosure of corruption within the Defendant City of Romulus' Mayor's office and her unlawful termination shortly…
18-8019 Bryan Austin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by derming a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7774 Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington I WHETHER PETITIONER BOYETT WAS DENIED EFFECTINEASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL UNDER THE SIXTA AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE CNRLUIT OPINION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY EST…
18-7675 Eric Hayes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states Whether the Third Circuit's denial/rejection that reasonable jurists would not debate the District Court's determination that Mr. Hayes convictions we…
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
18-7596 In Re Robert F. Russo 2019-01-29 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for "leave" to commence a succ…
18-7360 Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw? Did th…
18-7316 Alice Annette Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure in-forma-pauperis leave-to-proceed motions pending-motions Where circuit court stated, "[w]e grant Appellants leave to proceed in forma pauperis and deny their other pending motions[,]" Petition Appendix (Pet.…
18-7247 In Re Dennis Roger Bolze 2019-01-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining Question not identified.
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'…
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction The District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide whether Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state Court act…
18-6895 Michael Clark v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i…
18-6792 Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment The District Court affirmed, and the Seventh Circuit agreed, that both Respondent ('Indiana Bell") and Petitioner ("Fillmore") submitted "sparse" — or…
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is…
18-6716 Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Given that Petitioner Moreno Ramos requested the circuit court recall its mandate solely to address a defect in the integrity of his habeas proceeding…
18-6589 Liddon Young v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation 1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t…
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Did the circuit court erroneously violate petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evidence? …
18-6487 Alice Howell v. NuCar Connection, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis motions standing Where the circuit court stated, "[w]e grant Appellants leave to proceed in forma pauperis and deny their other pending motions[,]" Petition Appendix (…
18-6022 Theophilus K. Udeigwe v. Texas Tech University, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-rights continuing-violation continuing-violation-doctrine due-process employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment legal-interpretation racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii unlawful-retaliation workplace-harassment Whether the Fifth Circuit erroneously interpreted and applied the law governing the timeliness of Title VII claims (racial discrimination and unlawful…
18-5694 Taumu James v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-court clearly-established-federal-law due-process fair-application federal-law habeas-corpus identification-evidence state-suggestion 1. In Perry v. New Hampshire , 565 U.S. 228 (2012), this Court held that the right to due process is generally not denied by identification evidence u…
18-5590 Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-act judicial-immunity ministerial-duty spousal-support spousal-support-judgment Is judicial immunity an affirmative defense that must be pleaded and proved by a judge when Plaintiff files a clearly stated, sufficiently documented …
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Did the Eleventh circuit's panels conclusion that the District court did not err in allowing the flight instructions be brought to the jury as it was …
24A255 Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump District of Columbia Denied circuit-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus petition-routing procedural-irregularity state-court Question not identified.