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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-945 | Rod Warren, et al. v. Nucor Corporation | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | circuit-precedent mcdonnell-douglas procedural-impasse race-discrimination stare-decisis summary-judgment | 1. Whether the District Court's and the Eighth Circuit's focus on the isolated components of the McDonnell Douglas framework eviscerated the required … | |
| 25-6759 | Carlos Granda v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review | Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), a claim foreclosed by binding circuit precedent may nonetheless be "debatable among jurists of reason" w… |
| 25-6527 | Brian William Schumaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent jurisdictional-challenge motion-denial plenary-review record-expansion section-2255 | I. WHETHER the lower courts erred in denying petitioner's motions to expanding the record in the district court and supplementing the record in the co… |
| 25-6134 | Rodrick Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Pending | IFP | 18-usc-3553 circuit-precedent fugitive-tolling sentencing-variance supervised-release supreme-court-rule-10 | (1) Should this Court summarily vacate Petitioner's judgment in light of Esteras v. United States, 666 U.S. 185 (2025), because the district court bas… |
| 25-6089 | Curtis Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-precedent due-process panel-rule stare-decisis statutory-right | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's recent iteration of its "prior panel precedent rule"—which requires rigid adherence to prior circuit precedent, even if… |
| 25-343 | CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Pending | circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver | This Court has held that equitable restitution can be awarded without a jury but is capped at "a defendant's net profits," Liu v. SEC, 591 U.S. 71, 87… | |
| 25-5480 | Sean L. Hagins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-precedent compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances legal-error manifest-injustice sentence-classification | 1) Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address the misapplication of binding circuit precedents in Sean L. Hagins* Motion for com… |
| 25-5006 | Fredrick Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment | When a criminal defendant in the middle of a direct appeal seeks relief that first becomes available as a result of an intervening decision from this … |
| 24-7473 | Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment circuit-precedent external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberations religious-text | 1. When a jury foreman in a capital murder trial brings a religious text to the jury room during punishment phase deliberations and reads passages con… |
| 24-7130 | Ken Smith v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-05-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-precedent constitutional-standing judicial-review pre-challenge ripeness statutory-challenge | 1: Whether the Second Circuit's decisions conflict with every other decision the Second Circuit has previously addressed concerning the ripeness to a… |
| 24-6896 | In Re Nicholas Lee Blair | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b | 1. What is the proper statutory definition of the terms "lascivious exhibition", "engaging in", and "sexually explicit", as written in 18 U.S.C. § 22… | |
| 24-686 | Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee… |
| 24-501 | V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited v. Meenakashi Overseas, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | appellate-damages circuit-precedent due-process federal-statute frivolous-appeal sanctions | 1.) May an appellate court award damages for an appeal they find frivolous when a test is espoused that is neither supported by the case precedence of… | |
| 23-7649 | Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-1169 | Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review | Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… | |
| 23A767 | Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure circuit-precedent criminal-sentencing en-banc-review procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review | In sentencing a defendant for a non-violent gun-possession offense, what role, if any, should a district court's stereotyped views about firearms in g… | |
| 23-6619 | Edward Lee Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule | I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u… |
| 23-5913 | Julio Rolon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 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? |
| 22-6568 | Duraid Hussein v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | 1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan… |
| 22-512 | Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation | Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p… |
| 22-6105 | Eric Malmstrom v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-precedent en-banc federal-courts judicial-review stare-decisis | Must a federal court of appeals adhere to the principle of stare decisis and abide by prior circuit precedent absent an intervening decision from this… |
| 22-6022 | Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 21-1587 | Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (6) | aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling | 1. AEDPA generally prohibits courts from awarding habeas relief to state prisoners. It lifts that prohibition with respect to prisoners in custody bec… |
| 21-8133 | Gary L. Boyle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent course-of-conduct criminal-acts criminal-sentencing discretionary-sentencing federal-guidelines guidelines judicial-interpretation same-course-of-conduct sentencing-discretion separate-course-of-conduct united-states-v-booker | This Court's decisions (as best Boyle can research) have not defined or applied in the discretionary sentencing context, and apart from any Guidelines… |
| 21-7640 | Ramel General v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent procedural-challenge standard-of-review united-states-v-gomez-perez waiver waiver-enforcement | Whether the Petitioner demonstrated that the waiver of his appellate rights is unenforceable under United States v. Gomez-Perez, 215 F.3d 315, 319 (2d… |
| 21-7276 | Julio Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary. 2. Whether a general verdict that was … |
| 21-1189 | Arthur Dale Lothringer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alter-ego circuit-precedent civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-law due-process legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation texas-law | Whether Texas statutory law supersedes Fifth Circuit precedent regarding alter-ego determinations. |
| 21-6625 | Derrick Harrell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-857 | Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at… |
| 21-763 | John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing | Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin… |
| 21-6254 | Deante Blackman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder | 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim or … |
| 21-6139 | Yency Nuñez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-courts circuit-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-facts maritime-drug-law precedent statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Yency Nuñez and the government agree that, although the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act makes proof of jurisdictional facts indispensable… |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | |
| 21-5714 | Jayren Jakar Wynn v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-precedent controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses kisor-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines | Whether a circuit court may properly rely on circuit precedent predating Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), to hold, contrary to Kisor, that the… |
| 21-347 | Michael Jackson v. Donald Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Dismissed | circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum saving-clause section-2255 statutory-maximum | Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to bring a habeas claim under the saving clause of Section 2255(e) to challenge the unlawful application of a m… | |
| 20-1522 | United States v. Malik Nasir | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-1295 | United States v. Timothy Zachary Green | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | GVR | Relisted (2) | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-1233 | Johnny Gatewood v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim. 2… |
| 20-911 | Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 | Whether Section 2255 is "inadequate or ineffective" when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote… |
| 20-6284 | D'Angelo Domingo Davis, aka D'Angelo Dominico Davis, aka Deangelo Domingo Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-intent federal-bank-robbery force-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Is federal bank robbery a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of this Court's holding in Carter v. United Stat… |
| 19-1005 | Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. v. Environmental Research Center, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure article-iii-standing circuit-precedent en-banc-review federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure intra-circuit-splits jurisdictional-dismissal local-appellate-rules local-rules motions-panel subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Ninth Circuit's local rules for en banc review violate FED. R. APP. P. 47(a)(1) by allowing a three-judge motions panel to deny en banc re… |
| 19-7345 | Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review | DID THE FIFTH CIRUIT*S OPINION CONFLICT WITH IT'S OWN PRECEDENT IN ROJAS V. RICHARDSON REGARDING THE PREJUDICICAL NATURE OF A PARTY'S IMMIGRATION STAT… |
| 19-7131 | Eric Hanna v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe… |
| 19-6120 | Raul Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-5572 | Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to… |
| 19-76 | Martin Marquardt, Deputy Sheriff v. William Fletcher | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | circuit-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force ninth-circuit pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit correctly held that Petitioner does not have qualified immunity on the ground that "[t]he l… | |
| 19-5154 | James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arugments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-52 | Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-9808 | Manuel Reyes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness | 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 18-9403 | In Re Christopher Johnson | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 922g-offense binding-precedent circuit-precedent commerce-clause criminal-procedure erroneous-precedent federal-prisoner foreclosed-arguments habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a federal prisoner may file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding… | |
| 18-1458 | Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos | New Mexico | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer… |
| 18-8816 | Charles Ray Hooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus merits-adjudication miller-el voluntariness | Where an appellate court, in connection with an application for a Certificate of Appealability ("COA"), decides that circuit precedent precludes the u… |
| 18-8675 | Joshua Sedillo v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance | Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8277 | Trevor Ransfer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition | Should a three—judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit's Order Denying A Second Or Successive habeas petition for re… |
| 18-7989 | Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-7712 | Andre Mims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-7581 | Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 | Question 1 The majority of the federal appeallate circuits conclude that § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to adjudicte a claim of actual innocence… |
| 18-914 | Gerald E. Bove v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees circuit-precedent due-process frivolous frivolous-prosecution hyde-amendment labor-law labor-laws legal-theory standing | 1. For the purposes of denying an a claim for attorney's fees from the federal government under the "Hyde Amendment," may a government theory of prose… |
| 18-7239 | Daniel P. Cannon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit | 1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-6974 | Dannye T. McIntosh v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing post-booker sentencing | 1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-6255 | Christopher Earl Oden v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists standard-of-review | In Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S. Ct. 1595 (2000), this Court held that a petitioner may obtain a certificate of appealability by showing tha… |
| 18-420 | United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum | The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui… |
| 18-292 | Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Relisted (5) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-5754 | Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari | WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… |