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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-964 | TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce | Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the … | |
| 25-6785 | Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard | Generally, relevant evidence is admissible at trial. Evidence is relevant —in civil and criminal cases alike —if "it has any tendency to make a fact m… |
| 25-959 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response Waived | advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act | Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that… |
| 25-6789 | Richard Brundige v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment, either on its face or as applied. |
| 25-925 | Peter Malkin, et al. v. Virginia Shasha, et al. | New York | 2026-02-06 | Pending | arbitration-award circuit-split email-service federal-arbitration-act manifest-disregard service-of-process | 1. The first question presented involves the proper scope of review of an arbitration award under the Federal Arbitration Act. The Courts of Appeals … | |
| 25-6747 | Brad McLennan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25-932 | Dorothy Bivens v. ZEP, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | circuit-split customer-harassment employment-discrimination negligence-standard title-vii workplace-harassment | This case concerns the liability standard under Title VII when an employee experiences workplace sexual harassment at the hands of a customer. The Fir… | |
| 25-936 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-challenge unconditional-plea | Whether, by entering a guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal his conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted does not constitute t… | |
| 25-923 | Mike Yoder, et al. v. Scott Bowen, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | circuit-split drone-usage first-amendment information-gathering non-political-speech speech-creation | Whether the First Amendment protects the means of acquiring or creating speech when the speech is non-political. | |
| 25-6718 | Otto Melvin Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split deportable-alien individualized-finding sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-6701 | Eskender Getachew v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty | Both the Constitution (through the Fifth and Sixth Amendments) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 43) provide that a defendant "must be… |
| 25A866 | Biotronik, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Sam Jones Company, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Application | circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. The document provided is an "Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari," not a petition … | |
| 25-895 | Lee Michael Pederson v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | Response Waived | administrative-review circuit-split due-process judicial-review sec-regulations standard-of-review | 1. Whether a legal argument concerning the standard of review may be deemed waived, notwithstanding that other courts of appeals—including the Sixth a… |
| 25-6674 | Justin K. Eaton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split commission-authority congressional-review due-process sentencing-guidelines | I. Can U.S.S.G. §1B1.13(b)(6) be held to be an "excess of authority" by the Commission when Congress has reviewed and ratified that guideline pursuant… |
| 25-6669 | Ezequiel Rivera v. Nestle USA, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split eeoc-charge hostile-environment pro-se-pleading retaliation-claim summary-judgment | Whether federal courts violate Haines v. Kerner and create a de facto circuit split by narrowly construing pro se EEOC charges to include only checked… |
| 25-6655 | Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana | Indiana | 2026-01-23 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard | 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d… |
| 25-876 | Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response Waived | circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal | 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud … |
| 25-865 | Perles Law Firm, P.C. v. Qatar National Bank, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response Waived | circuit-split discovery-application foreign-tribunal forum-shopping protective-order section-1782 | The question presented is whether a district court may grant an application under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 when it would amount to a modification of a binding… |
| 25-6641 | Ervin Thornton, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split drug-offense first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Section 404 of the First Step Act opened a pathway to sentencing relief for people convicted of crack cocaine offenses prior to August 3, 2010. The ac… |
| 25A825 | Mark Zavislak v. Netflix, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | administrative-services-agreement circuit-split disclosure-requirement erisa plan-fiduciary third-party-administrator | Question not identified. | |
| 25A824 | Fred Davis Clark, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Application | circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus noncustodial-punishment restitution-order section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-863 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response Waived | assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in… |
| 25-851 | Ashley Grayson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | circuit-split clean-hands-doctrine exclusionary-rule statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-law | Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) prohibits intentionally intercepting wire or oral communications or di… | |
| 25A801 | Nicholas Sellman v. Aviation Training Consulting, LLC | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Application | cat's-paw circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination retaliation summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-821 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim… | |
| 25-820 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver | Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel… |
| 25-818 | Terrell Anthony Hargrove v. Ian Healy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Amici (2) | circuit-split first-step-act incarceration-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release time-credits | Whether "[t]ime credits" under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(C) may be applied to reduce an individual's term of supervised release. |
| 25A799 | Eva Migliore, By Her Next Friend Joseph Migliore v. Sunlight Financial LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Application | circuit-split consumer-authorization credit-report fair-credit-reporting-act fraud privacy-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 25-809 | Perfection Bakeries, Inc. v. Retail Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Pension Fund | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Amici (1) | allocable-amount circuit-split multiemployer-plan pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability | The first question presented is whether 29 U.S.C. § 1386(b)(1)'s instruction to "reduce[]" any "withdrawal liability" of an employer in a subsequent p… |
| 25-808 | James E. McNair v. K. Johnson | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bad-faith circuit-split federal-courts inherent-authority judicial-sanctions legal-procedure | Whether federal courts have the power to issue sanctions under their inherent authority without first finding "bad faith," and, if they do, whether th… |
| 25-6499 | Nycole Amaury Rosario Sanchez v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | age-consideration circuit-split criminal-procedure juvenile-sentencing sentencing-guidelines youth-mitigating-factor | Whether youth (minor age) at the time of the commission of a criminal offense, with its intrinsic characteristics, is inherently a mitigating factor t… |
| 25-6490 | Gary Crawford v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment | I. Consistent with the Second Amendment, may Congress bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as five circuit courts have… |
| 25-770 | Alan M. Dershowitz v. Cable News Network, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | actual-malice circuit-split defamation first-amendment media-liability summary-judgment | As the District Court explained, "Of course, Dershowitz said nothing of the kind[.]" App. 71a. The court was referring to how CNN defamed Professor Al… |
| 25-759 | Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board | First Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | 12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy | In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke… |
| 25-6439 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-754 | Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright | 1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations … | |
| 25-6418 | Joshua David Havins v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split firearm-possession second-amendment section-922g supreme-court-review | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of the potential grant… |
| 25A743 | Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25A745 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6432 | Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense violent-felony | Under the ACCA's categorical approach, if a state statute expressly criminalizes conduct outside the federal definitions of "serious drug offense" or … |
| 25-736 | World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response Waived | circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement | The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s… |
| 25-6416 | Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25-728 | United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | circuit-split false-claims-act fraudulent-billing government-claims qui-tam rule-9b | Whether a qui tam complaint satisfies Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) when it alleges detailed firsthand knowledge of a fraudulent billing scheme… | |
| 25-729 | James King v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 | Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re… |
| 25A725 | PG Publishing Co., Inc. dba Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-19 | Application | circuit-split collective-bargaining consequential-damages labor-relations nlrb thryv-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 25-712 | Sandra Hernden v. Chippewa Valley School District, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | adverse-action circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment governmental-action retaliation | In light of our current toxic and vindictive politics and a circuit split, under a-person-of-ordinary-firmness test, does a referral by one government… | |
| 25-720 | Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's continued refusal to apply Kemp v. United States, 596 U.S. 528 (2022), directly conflicts with this Court's holding tha… | |
| 25-699 | Amaplat Mauritius Ltd., et al. v. Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-12-17 | Pending | Amici (1) | arbitral-award circuit-split foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver international-arbitration new-york-convention | When a foreign sovereign that is a party to the New York Convention agrees to arbitrate a dispute governed by the Convention, does it impliedly waive … |
| 25A702 | Mark Alan Deakins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25A708 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising lanham-act trademark-law willful-misrepresentation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6389 | Kingsley Ita v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing-procedure | I. Does a general appeal waiver in a plea agreement bar a criminal defendant from challenging a sentence on due process grounds when the sentencing co… |
| 25-697 | Las Vegas Sun, Inc. v. Sheldon Adelson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | antitrust-immunity attorney-general-consent circuit-split joint-operating-agreement newspaper-preservation-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, under the NPA, an amendment to a previously approved, post-NPA JOA needs another Attorney General written consent to be lawful or to be en… | |
| 25A700 | Jesse Fernando Perez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Application | circuit-split federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice legislative-fact statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6390 | Busch Sereal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non… |
| 25-6355 | Derrick Fitzgerald Dial v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-test circuit-split felony-restriction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-672 | Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Pending | Amici (4) | circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech | This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private … |
| 25-6310 | Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non… |
| 25-654 | Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-document circuit-split court-order judicial-interpretation privacy-act procedural-error | 1) Did 3rd Circuit Court err by blatantly accepting District Court 's erroneous interpretation on a County Prothonotary-signed court order, not sig… |
| 25-638 | Zhongxiao Michael Chen v. Michigan State University | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure electronic-filing in-forma-pauperis prima-facie rule-12b6 | 1. Whether a civil action is "commenced " under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 3 when a complaint is electronically delivered and date -stamped by … |
| 25A653 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not in fact commit three qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory min… | |
| 25-625 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a Japanese Corporation, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | Amici (2) | circuit-split class-certification damages representative-evidence rico rule-23 | This case involves a multibillion-dollar civil RICO class action covering tens of thousands of third-party payors that reimbursed millions of prescrip… |
| 25-6269 | Lairon Graham v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance party-presentation plea-agreement | 1. Whether the right to due process on appeal is violated where, despite a criminal defendant-appellant's repeated invocations of the party presentati… |
| 25-627 | Macy's Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | Amici (2) | administrative-law circuit-split labor-board nlra pecuniary-damages unfair-labor-practice | 1. Whether an employer's practice that has no noted effect on employees' collective-bargaining rights and is not motivated by anti-union animus is inh… |
| 25A644 | Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act | Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended. | |
| 25-613 | Marquise Miller v. Legacy Bank | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-discouragement equal-credit-opportunity-act loan-application prospective-applicants | 1. Whether the Equal Credit Opportunity Act 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq., authorizes a cause of action for individuals who are prospective applicants or i… | |
| 25-6250 | Richard Ruston v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(1), as well as the "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1), as cross-referenced in section 3583(d)(1), means "and," o… |
| 25-6239 | Elijah D. Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing | Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that … |
| 25-6212 | Nicolas Mondragon-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | causation-standard circuit-split death-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | In the case of petitioner Nicolas Mondragon Gonzalez, he received a forty year sentence under the death enhancement in USSG § 2L1.1(b)(7)(D) based sol… |
| 25-6198 | Steven Perez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights firearms-acquisition meaningful-constraint second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense… |
| 25-591 | Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claims habeas-corpus judicial-review | 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) and this Court's precedents establish that certificates of appealability ("COA") may be issued to habeas petitioners seeking ap… |
| 25-6169 | Elias Xavier Rosario Torres v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-statute mandatory-minimum mens-rea statutory-interpretation | A person who is convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, but who… |
| 25A591 | Nadarius Barnes v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Application | appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement waiver | Whether, by entering an unconditional guilty plea, a defendant waives his right to appeal the conviction on the basis that the conduct admitted in the… | |
| 25A585 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | assault-statute circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-officer intentional-contact statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111's prohibition on "resist[ing], opposing], impeding], intimidat[ing], or interfer[ing]" with federal officers while they are "e… | |
| 25A592 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Application | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors lascivious-exhibition minor-genitals statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6138 | Michael Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-sentencing life-expectancy parsimony-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Where 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) mandates that federal courts "shall impose a sentence sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with [its] purpo… |
| 25-6141 | Mark Abercrombie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6119 | Charvez Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio… |
| 25-6124 | Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | arson-federalization circuit-split federal-funding necessary-and-proper-clause property-jurisdiction spending-clause | 1. Whether Congress may federalize the arson of any property belonging to any organization that receives any amount of federal funding under the Spend… |
| 25A564 | Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation | Whether a "voluntary cessation of offensive conduct will only moot litigation if it is clear that the defendant has not changed course simply to depri… | |
| 25A565 | Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 | Whether a district court may certify a class action without resolving whether the plaintiff has introduced admissible evidence, including expert testi… | |
| 25-575 | Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct | 1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law. 2. Whether a law that imposes inciden… |
| 25-6086 | Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation | A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25A552 | Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Application | appeal-waiver career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6092 | Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor… |
| 25A541 | United States and Georgia, ex rel. Barbara Senters v. Quest Diagnostics Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Application | circuit-split false-claims-act medical-billing medicare-fraud pleading-standard rule-9b | Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s heightened pleading standard requires False Claims Act plaintiffs who plead a fraudulent billing scheme… | |
| 25-559 | Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. v. Andrew Harrington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Pending | Amici (1) | circuit-split collective-action fair-labor-standards-act joinder notice-authorization similarly-situated | Whether a district court may authorize notice inviting joinder to an FLSA collective action before a plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evid… |
| 25-6054 | Clyde Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-review firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari | Whether, because the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts are split, a writ of certiorari should be granted to settle the Constitutionality o… |
| 25A526 | Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Application | 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split federal-sentencing preservation-of-error sentencing-error | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6038 | Daniel Stewart v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Pending | IFP | administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | In Stinson v. United States , 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explainin… |
| 25A509 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Application | circuit-split co-conspirator criminal-proceeds forfeiture honeycutt-standard wire-fraud | Whether, following Honeycutt, a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely because … | |
| 25-6016 | Todd White v. ACell, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Rehearing | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion … |
| 25-524 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Pending | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… | |
| 25-5991 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… |
| 25-526 | Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii | Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous… |
| 25-5986 | Tovis Ation Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split drug-conspiracy firearm-enhancement miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | I. The Fourth Circuit and several other circuits apply the U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement if a firearm is found in any place where a defendant's c… |
| 25-519 | Efrain Lora v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing | After remand from this Court, Petitioner Efrain Lora was resentenced to thirty years in confinement because he supposedly directed a murder. But the G… |
| 25-5974 | Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing | Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d… |
| 25A484 | Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Application | circuit-split federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-515 | Michael Kail v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instructions kickback-scheme statutory-interpretation | In Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358 (2010), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1346 covered only bribery and kickback schemes, expressly excludin… |
| 25-5965 | Samson Kanla Orusa v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance-prescription health-care-fraud jury-instruction medical-purpose subjective-knowledge | I. Whether the district court's erroneous instructions regarding what constitutes criminal liability under 21 U.S.C. section 841 (illegal distribution… |
| 25A469 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Application | appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-vagueness plea-agreement section-924(c) | Question not identified. | |
| 25-504 | Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management LLC | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | arbitration-act circuit-split federal-arbitration judicial-review manifest-disregard vacatur | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act allows a court to vacate an arbitration decision on the ground that the decision was based on a manifest disregard… |
| 25-5947 | Darrell Wickware v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split elements-comparison robbery-definition sentencing-enhancement taylor-precedent | I. In Taylor v. United States , this Court announced a categorical approac h to recidivism enhancements in federal sentencing. See 495 U.S. 575, 602 (… |
| 25A466 | Vincenzo Oppedisano v. Lynda Zur | Second Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | circuit-split federal-law loss-sharing oral-partnership partnership-elements partnership-formation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-499 | Sandy Mays v. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | causation-standard circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas summary-judgment | I. To resolve the confusion among circuit courts, the Court should decide whether the McDonnell Douglas framework is inappropriate for analysis at … |
| 25A453 | Eric Arthur Walton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | certiorari circuit-split federal-law pro-se standard-of-review supervised-release | Question not identified. | |
| 25A456 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5913 | Rashun Rafael Suncar v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court-judgment circuit-split controlled-substances drug-statute federal-interpretation state-law-interpretation | 1a. Whether a court of appeals may disregard an unpublished but considered judgment of Pennsylvania's intermediate appellate court interpreting its ow… |
| 25-5908 | Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment | 1. May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant … |
| 25-464 | Philip G. Potter v. Incorporated Village of Ocean Beach, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process land-use section-1983 takings-claims | Whether the accrual rule for takings claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 applies to procedural due process claims asserted in land-use disputes. |
| 25-466 | Ongkaruck Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Granted | Amici (3) | circuit-split civil-enforcement disgorgement pecuniary-harm sec-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether the SEC may seek equitable disgorgement under 15 U.S.C. 78u(d)(5) and (d)(7) without showing investors suffered pecuniary harm. |
| 25-5902 | Ramon Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split credibility-determination evidentiary-hearing section-2255 sixth-amendment | Whether, in light of a profound and acknowledged circuit split, a district court may deny a § 2255 hearing by making a dispositive credibility determi… |
| 25-5895 | Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment | L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi… |
| 25-5899 | Michael Keith Marechale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver | "Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p… |
| 25-441 | Guardian Flight, L.L.C., et al. v. Health Care Service Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split contract-breach erisa-standing injury-in-fact no-surprises-act statutory-interpretation | The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is Congress's solution to the problem of surprise medical bills. Under the NSA, insurers must cover services provided by … |
| 25-5848 | Cedric Milburn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process government-cooperation rule-35b sentencing-reduction | There is a conflict among the United States Courts of Appeals regarding the proper interpretation of Federal Rue of Criminal Procedure 35(b). The que… |
| 25-5853 | Clarence Santiago v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 25-425 | Steven Duarte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (5) | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-ban firearms-possession non-violent-offense second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1)'s categorical ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional as applied to a defendant with non-violent … |
| 25A409 | Will McRaney v. The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-08 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split federal-courts jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 25A400 | Jerry Aldridge, et al. v. Regions Bank | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split equitable-remedy erisa fiduciary-breach section-1132 surcharge | 1. whether, when proceeding under § 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3), which allows a beneficia… | |
| 25A395 | Travis Schlotterbeck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | bruen-test circuit-split firearm-possession historical-tradition non-violent-felony second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5810 | Manisha Singh v. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment severe-or-pervasive sexual-harassment title-vii | 1. Clarification of the "Severe or Pervasive " Standard. Title VII prohibits discrimination in the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment " … |
| 25-5796 | Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex… |
| 25-400 | PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection | Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25A391 | Andis Noe Cortez-Zepeda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Presumed Complete | 8-usc-1326 aggravated-felony circuit-split deportation expedited-removal illegal-reentry | Question not identified. | |
| 25-390 | Full Play Group, S.A. v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | GVR | circuit-split commercial-bribery criminal-liability fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346, which defines "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the mail and wire statutes to include a scheme or artifice to "depriv… | |
| 25-391 | Citigroup Inc. v. Otto Candies, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-litigation pslra racketeer-influenced rico securities-fraud | In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), Congress barred plaintiffs from bringing claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or… |
| 25-5781 | Michael Cobbs v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25A376 | Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Application | child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25A379 | Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights | Whether, under plain-error review, courts properly consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that … | |
| 25-5758 | Jerry Otis Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comply with the text and historical tradition of the Second Amendment in permanently disarming all felons, regardless of of… |
| 25A368 | Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard | Question not identified. | |
| 25-366 | Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-law contracts-clause lease-licensing property-rights section-1983 | Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a cause of action for a Contracts Clause claim. |
| 25A351 | James Anthony Brian Morelock v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach certiorari-petition circuit-split founding-era-practice historical-interpretation legal-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 25-359 | Rambod Sotoodeh, et al. v. City of South El-Monte, California, a Municipal Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure local-rules merits-consideration motion-to-dismiss rule-12b6 | Whether Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and 83(a)(1) require a district court to consider the merits of an unopposed Rule 12(b)(6) motion to… | |
| 25-5731 | David Alexander Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifet… |
| 25-347 | United States and Michigan, ex rel. Erik Olsen, et al. v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | billing-records circuit-split false-claims-act qui-tam rule-9b whistleblower | The circuits are intractably divided over whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) permits False Claims Act suits by plaintiffs who possess detail… |
| 25-350 | Charles Brooks, et al. v. Jeremy James Allen | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split grievance-process inmate-lawsuit mandatory-exhaustion prison-litigation-reform-act unexhausted-claims | When a formerly incarcerated person amends a complaint filed while he was in prison and adds unexhausted claims, does the PLRA require dismissal of th… |
| 25-5707 | Reginald Robinson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-5708 | Jason Ketzner v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | bruen-test circuit-split felony-disarmament nonviolent-offenders rahimi-precedent second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Jason Ketzner, due to prior felony convictions, regardless… |
| 25-326 | Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act | Whether a business association that publishes a rule for its members can immunize the rule, and members' adherence to it, from being considered a cons… |
| 25-5680 | David Petersen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus aiding-and-abetting circuit-split constitutional-rights mens-rea specific-intent | 1. Whether the mens rea and actus reus requirements for aiding and abetting liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2 demand proof of specific intent and affirma… |
| 25-311 | Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Requested | arbitration-clause circuit-split consideration-requirement contract-law federal-arbitration-act preemption | Does the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 2, permit states to impose separate and heightened consideration requirements that apply only to … |
| 25-303 | Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-definition employer-liability employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against its employees "on the basis of disability." … |
| 25-5631 | Brian Goorahoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-appeal federal-sentencing preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing-procedure | Whether, to preserve for appeal a claim that the sentencing court committed procedural error by failing to explain its sentence adequately or relying … |
| 25-5626 | Andrew Chafin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | Petition Andrew Chafin is prohibited from possessing a firearm for the rest of his life because he shoplifted several cases of energy drinks from two … |
| 25-5607 | Dustin Dewayne Gilbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants may assert as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment. 2. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifeti… |
| 25-263 | Cheri Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split erie-doctrine federalism-interests judicial-discretion state-law-certification supplemental-jurisdiction | 1. When a federal court considers whether to certify a state law issue to a state high court, what factors, including federalism interests, bear on th… |
| 25-264 | Trevor Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection | Whether a "contributing factor" in Section 42121(b) is one that "alone or in connection with other factors, tends to affect in any way the outcome of … |
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.… |
| 25-5577 | Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" … |
| 25-259 | January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Pending | Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (5) | circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy | Whether a public school "violates parents' fundamental constitutional right " when it secretly helps "transition " their child to a new "gender " is "… |
| 25-5533 | Stanton Guillory v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony | Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) prohibits the use of a defendant's other bad acts to argue he has a propensity to commit a crime. The Government never… |
| 25-240 | Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration-act arbitration-rules circuit-split class-arbitration delegation-doctrine gateway-question | Whether the parties' generic incorporation of an arbitration association's rules in their arbitration agreement is clear and unmistakable evidence tha… |
| 25-237 | Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover… |
| 25-5490 | Travis Broeker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-review criminal-procedure drug-liability judicial-review | Broeker s case set precedent in the 8th Circuit that undermines "Burrage " presuming any drug deal that precedes a< death causes it and putting the bu… |
| 25-227 | Raymond Poore v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | administrative-law agency-deference circuit-split judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 25-228 | Detrina Solomon v. Flipps Media, Inc., dba FITE, dba FITE TV | Second Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | circuit-split personally-identifiable-information privacy-law reasonable-foreseeability statutory-interpretation video-privacy-protection-act | The Video Privacy Protection Act forbids a "video tape service provider" from disclosing without consent "personally identifiable information," which … | |
| 25-229 | Emigrant Mortgage Company, et al. v. Jean Robert Saint-Jean, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | causation-standard circuit-split discrimination-claims disparate-impact equitable-tolling fair-housing-act | In Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), this Court held that disparate impact dis… |
| 25A218 | Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc. v. Steve Ford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-provision circuit-split consideration equal-treatment federal-arbitration-act prima-paint | Question not identified. | |
| 25-209 | Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii | 1. Should sexual discrimination claims under Title VII and Title IX be analyzed under the traditional McDonnell Douglas "but-for " test as the Sixth… |
| 25-211 | Anthony Bernard Wingfield v. Unknown Garner, CO, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split deliberate-indifference discrimination federal-rights title-ii | Whether plaintiffs seeking damages under Title II of the ADA must demonstrate something more than the defendant's deliberate indifference to the plain… |
| 25-5409 | Stanislav Arbit v. Schneider Electric SE | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split digital-age jurisdictional-standard personal-jurisdiction procedural-hearing website-targeting | 1. The Court should grant review to resolve a circuit split on a vital jurisdictional question for the digital age: Does an entity that purposefully a… |
| 25-5410 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi… |
| 25-193 | Gravity Funding, LLC and Gravity Capital, LLC v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split forfeiture-proceedings pleading-amendment property-interest statutory-interpretation technical-defect | Under 21 U.S.C. § 853(n), third-party petitioners asserting an interest in property that has been forfeited to the federal government must file a veri… |
| 25-184 | Deamonte Law v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-review firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment | This Court's decisions in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), require our di… | |
| 25-187 | Serafim Georgios Katergaris v. City of New York, New York | Second Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split evidentiary-presumption federal-rule-of-evidence mailbox-rule state-law-preemption | In 2021, Petitioner discovered that New York City had issued him a notice of violation in 2015. When he filed this lawsuit to challenge the constituti… |
| 25-188 | JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection | The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) creates a cause of action against a person who in bad faith "registers, traffics in, or uses" an… |
| 25-5374 | Artez Hammonds v. Alabama | Alabama | 2025-08-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment | 1. Given an expanding circuit, and now state court, split regarding whether, under Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965) and Carter v. Kentucky,… |
| 25-5358 | Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of … |
| 25-5334 | Billy Joe Russell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25-167 | Alvin Mansour, et al. v. Nevada Department of Business and Industry, Real Estate Division | Nevada | 2025-08-12 | Denied | article-iii-standing circuit-split commercial-real-estate facial-unconstitutionality licensing-restriction occupational-regulation | Whether Article III standing to challenge a licensing restriction as facially unconstitutional requires that the challenger first submit to the challe… | |
| 25-159 | Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Pending | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split fifth-amendment just-compensation land-condemnation natural-gas-act state-law | The Natural Gas Act authorizes private companies to condemn land in order to build certain natural gas infrastructure, but it says nothing about how t… |
| 25-162 | Tennessee v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Granted | Relisted (3) | administrative-procedure-act circuit-split funding-decision medina-remand munsingwear-vacatur spending-clause | 1. Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the a… |
| 25-153 | Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al. v. Washington | Washington | 2025-08-08 | Pending | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | ammunition-feeding-devices arms circuit-split constitutional-protection precedent second-amendment | Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are "Arms" presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under… |
| 25A172 | Jonathan Seay v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Presumed Complete | amendment-timing circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limits section-2255 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-151 | Kim H. Peterson, Individually & as Trustee of the Peterson Family Trusts, et al. v. Krista Freitag, Receiver for ANI Development, LLC, American National Investments, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split equitable-receivership federal-court-authority non-consensual-release sec-enforcement third-party-claims | As discussed in a nearly-identical, unopposed petition (24-1192), the extent to which federal courts can exert power over third-party claims and claim… |
| 25A168 | Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Presumed Complete | choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden | Which party bears the burden of proving proper venue? | |
| 25-143 | Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice | This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr… | |
| 25-5258 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic… |
| 25-5259 | Antonio Marshall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impris… |
| 25-106 | Ronald DeWitt Vines v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | attempted-crime bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) and the first paragraph of § 2113(a) involves the "use, attempted use, or threatened us… | |
| 25-108 | Donald Wayne Bush, et ux. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split judicial-authority non-dischargeable-debt statutory-interpretation tax-liabilities | 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §505(a)(1) confers jurisdiction on the bankruptcy court to adjudicate the amount and legality of a debtor's tax liabilities. 2. … |
| 25-5207 | Jessica Salazar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct religious-freedom | In the criminal trial of Jessica Salazar, the prosecutor placed repeated emphasis on Ms. Salazar's request for a prayer. It was the first line of the … |
| 25A116 | Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-speech information-access public-library | Whether a public library's decision to remove certain books because they supposedly espouse "inappropriate" views is subject to judicial scrutiny unde… | |
| 25-85 | Alireza Bakhtiari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process habeas-waiver | 1) This Court holds a defendant's right to plead guilty knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently in highest regard and comes back to it once every dec… |
| 25-86 | Ashok Arora v. Midland Credit Management, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | business-records circuit-split declarant-testimony federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception summary-judgment | Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion when, at summary judgment, it accepted declarations asserting hearsay facts —supposedly deri… |
| 25-78 | Patrick D. Lands v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | circuit-split excusable-neglect fmla-leave good-cause notice-of-appeal pioneer-factors | Whether the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Courts of Appeal have misinterpreted this Court's opinion in Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick… | |
| 25-79 | Ton Ton Aquino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Pending | appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing | Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor… | |
| 25-81 | Lois Jochinto Orta v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Pending | circuit-split district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, as four circuits permit but six others prohibit, a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act's prospective change… | |
| 25A88 | Cook County, Illinois, et al. v. John Nawara | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Presumed Complete | ada-section-12112 americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination medical-inquiry | Question not identified. | |
| 25-61 | Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5144 | Gregory Michael Hawes v. Seth Norris, Warden | Wyoming | 2025-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum | Whether this Court should resolve a 9'8 split amongst State Courts of Last Resort, when rulings, influenced by this Courts decisions, unconstitutional… |
| 25-56 | Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements | 1. Federal Rule of Evidence (F.R.E.) 408, regarding compromise offers and negotiations, aims to encourage settlements by making evidence of settlement… |
| 25-5095 | Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements | Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant… |
| 25-5087 | Tashawn Burns v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Is Hobbs Act robbery a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after United States v. Taylor, 596 … |
| 25-22 | Ricky Koel v. Citizens Medical Center, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split emergency-treatment emtala hospital-liability medical-malpractice patient-rights | 1. Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception just as the EMTALA emergency imperative displaced a … |
| 25-5054 | Eural Black v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Pending | IFP | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warran… |
| 25A25 | Jim Kennedy v. PEI-Genesis | Third Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split employment-discrimination judicial-scrutiny religious-belief summary-judgment title-vii | 1) the definition and scope of religious belief under Title VI when religious belief and secular beliefs are intertwined and 2) the role of the judici… | |
| 25A31 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25-18 | Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement | Whether, as this Court held in Dairy Queen, the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in trademark-infringement actions seeking monetary relief i… |
| 25-19 | Laura Loomer, Individually and as a Candidate for United States Congress, et al. v. Mark Zuckerberg, Individually and as CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split ninth-circuit post-judgment-facts res-judicata rico-claims social-media-censorship | 1. Does the Ninth Circuit's application of res judicata, barring claims based on new material facts arising after prior judgments, conflict with this … |
| 25-12 | Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. | Kansas | 2025-07-03 | Denied | airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation | 1. Have various State and Federal Courts, when asked to apply The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, inconsistently legislated from the benc… | |
| 25-5010 | Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search | Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth C… |
| 25A5 | Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split employment-law implied-right-of-action sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation title-ix | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1329 | Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Pending | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment | The federal government and 32 states establish 21 as the minimum age for certain gun rights. Since United States v. Rahimi, five courts of appeals hav… |
| 24A1294 | Jose Antonio Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession fundamental-right second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7520 | Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error | At a change of plea hearing, Mr. Romero's testimony established every element of his offense. Although Mr. Romero further testified that his motivatio… |
| 24-1311 | Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis | Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent … |
| 24-1309 | East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor | Third Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether time spent on "integral and indispensable" activities is measured based on reasonable duration (as three circuits have held), or actual dur… |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive … |
| 24A1266 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1293 | Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform | Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t… |
| 24-7460 | Alvin Porterie, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure overbreadth-doctrine state-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act must produce actual state court decisions showing non-gen… |
| 24-1289 | Nissan North America, Inc. v. Sherida Johnson, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action federal-court injury-in-fact rule-23 | 1. Whether a federal court may certify a Rule 23(b)(3) class when almost no one in the class has suffered—or will suffer—an Article III injury. 2. Wh… |
| 24-7429 | Randy Torres v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's final instruction to the jury for the indictment's Special Sentencing F… |
| 24-7425 | Joshua Sutherland v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-statute second-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment? Does 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) comport with the Sixth Amendment? |
| 24-1266 | Jump Trading, LLC v. Nick Patterson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Amici (2) | arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act gateway-arbitrability nonsignatory | Where an arbitration agreement contains a provision delegating to the arbitrator gateway questions of arbitrability, must a court leave for the arbitr… |
| 24-7396 | Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the mandate rule precludes a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on convictions … |
| 24-7403 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | blockburger-test circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process statutory-interpretation | Did the Court of Appeals create a split in Circuits by affirming Movant's convictions and sentences for crimes that were committed simultanously under… |
| 24-1253 | Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations | Whether this Court should consider whether the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") Rule, namely, 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n), is constitutional … |
| 24-7363 | Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman | 1. Circuit Split: Should Rooker-Feldman bar federal review of void ab initio judgments due to jurisdictional fraud, or do Moreno/Nugent compel examina… |
| 24-7355 | Curtis Dewayne Miller v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bashara-factors circuit-split counsel-pressure guilty-plea judicial-discretion pre-sentencing-motion | Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made after an initial trial that ended with a hung ju… |
| 24-7349 | Reymundo Arredondo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure essential-elements indictment statutory-interpretation | When a criminal offense can be committed in a variety of ways, does a prosecutor constructively amend an indictment by altering the essential elements… |
| 24-7335 | Curtis Harris v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-conviction | Defendants who have two prior felony convictions for "controlled substance offense[s]" qualify as career offenders under the federal Sentencing Guidel… |
| 24-1207 | Angela Schuncey Richardson v. Krystle Reed Duncan, Corporal | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split coercion eighth-amendment prison-official-liability prisoner-rights sexual-misconduct | Whether a prisoner challenging a prison official's sexual misconduct must plead that the prisoner's participation was coerced in order to state a clai… |
| 24-1192 | Ovation Fund Management II, LLC v. Nossaman LLP, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | bar-order circuit-split claim-extinguishment equity-receivership federal-court-power third-party-claims | Whether a federal court overseeing an equity receivership has the power to enjoin and extinguish claims that belong to non-receivership entities again… |
| 24-7262 | Richard Roland Laird v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | IFP | aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-decision strickland-claim | When the last state court to review a petitioner's claim issues a reasoned merits decision—but only on a single component of a multiple-component clai… |
| 24-1183 | Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law | Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the … |
| 24-7239 | Ian R. Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split first-amendment obstruction-offense stalking-statute statutory-construction true-threats | 1. Whether an intent to "harass" or "intimidate" under the federal stalking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, has an "ordinary" broad meaning or instead is … |
| 24-1173 | Evans Hotels, LLC, et al. v. Unite Here! Local 30, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split first-amendment labor-law noerr-pennington section-8b4 sham-petitioning | Section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4), prohibits unions from targeting neutral parties, often referred to as seco… |
| 24-1164 | Jacqueline R. Everson v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split disability-rights due-process equitable-tolling erisa-plan statutory-violation | 1. Whether the courts are precluded from violating statutory laws affecting the rights of the ERISA plan participants nationwide. 2. Whether the cour… |
| 24-7200 | Theresa Batson v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation nunc-pro-tunc statute-of-limitations | Whether a state court's entry of an amended judgment nunc pro tunc prevents that judgment from restarting the federal statute of limitations period fo… |
| 24-1158 | Carol A. Lewis, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services | District of Columbia | 2025-05-13 | Denied | appellate-procedure article-iii circuit-split class-action mootness standing | circuit courts, but contrary to the D.C. Circuit below, this Court's decision in U.S. Parole Commission v. Geraghty, 445 U.S. 388 (1980), remains good… | |
| 24-7189 | Hannah Hekel v. Hunter Warfield, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-iii-standing circuit-split common-law-harm emotional-injury fdcpa-claims injury-in-fact | This case presents three questions: (1) Spokeo v. Robins, 578 U.S. 330 (2016) and TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021) that an injury-in-fa… |
| 24-1155 | Melynda Vincent v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Pending | Amici (2)Relisted (7) | circuit-split constitutional-challenge firearm-disarmament historical-analysis nonviolent-felony second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment allows the federal government to permanently disarm Petitioner Melynda Vincent, who has one seventeen-year-old nonviolent… |
| 24-7181 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the standard in Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), which requires only a showing that a conflict of interest adversely affected counsel's p… |
| 24-7167 | Derek Rogers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a conviction under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-18-406(2)(b)(I), (D(C) can serve as a predicate "controlled substance offense" for career offender… |
| 24-7161 | Todd Sheffler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation | First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel… |
| 24-1143 | Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement | Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are "for," as Brulotte and Kimble require. |
| 24-7149 | Samuel James Weaver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? |
| 24-1131 | Fei Fei Fan v. Yan Yao Jiang, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-05 | Denied | circuit-split equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment trafficking-victims visa-dependency | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) forecloses equitable tolling and continuing violation principles for trafficking … | |
| 24-7114 | Daniel Flint v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy | 1. Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is "in custody," even though no other statutory remedy is available … |
| 24-1122 | Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent | Under Missouri v. Seibert, 542 US 600 (2004), a mid-stream Miranda warning may not be effective. This was a plurality opinion and the Circuits are spl… |
| 24-7093 | Alfred Velazquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review presentence-report sentencing-error structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 24-7075 | Christopher E. Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment | 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-7072 | Du Truong Nguyen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation | What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-7054 | Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER ADMISSION OF UNCORROBORATED HEARSAY UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 801(D)(2)(E), WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PROOF OF A CONSPIRACY OR EXTRINSIC COR… |
| 24-7020 | Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test | Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes. |
| 24-7021 | Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-04-17 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion | May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a… |
| 24-1078 | Kari Beck, Personal Representative of the Estate of Cameron Gayle Beck, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service negligence-claims servicemember-rights | 1. Whether the Feres doctrine's bar against a servicemember's ability to bring tort claims "incident to service" is only triggered when the injury was… |
| 24-6994 | Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 24A973 | Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split copyright-infringement striking-similarity substantial-similarity summary-judgment total-concept-and-feel | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1066 | Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation | In Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on this question: "Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 ap… | |
| 24-1063 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Granted | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-challenge ineffective-assistance sentencing-rights | 1. Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds… |
| 24-6934 | Frederick Pina v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | California | 2025-04-07 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights contract-clause default-judgment due-process judicial-fraud | 1. Whether the California Supreme Court's failure to enforce a fully executed contract—formed through mutual assent and valid consideration—violates t… |
| 24-1046 | Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Granted | Amici (35) | bruen-test circuit-split concealed-carry private-property second-amendment text-history-tradition | New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 33 (2022), holds that "the Second Amendment guarantees a general right to public… |
| 24A941 | Kansas City Life Insurance Company v. Christopher Y. Meek, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing breach-of-contract circuit-split class-certification concrete-harm injury-in-fact | Whether a class may be certified where some members suffered only legal injury from a pure breach of contract with no monetary harm. | |
| 24-1035 | Omni Healthcare, Inc. v. U.S. Oncology, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-claims-act original-source public-disclosure qui-tam relator | 1. Is a qui tam relator barred by the "public disclosure" of its own prior complaint? No other circuit court has so held. 2. Does the public-disclosu… |
| 24-1034 | Ulysses Charles Sneed v. Terry Raybon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review sixth-amendment | Did the court of appeals err in denying petitioner's application for a COA as to his constitutional habeas claims where (i) a circuit judge found that… | |
| 24-1020 | Uber Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Amie Drammeh, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split erie-doctrine federal-courts judicial-prediction procedural-law state-law | Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), a federal court must apply existing state law, as the D.C., First, Fourth, and Fifth… |
| 24-1025 | Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. State Bar of Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Amici (6) | circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-association legal-profession mandatory-bar | In Keller v. State Bar of California , 496 U.S. 1, 13-14 (1990), this Court held that it is constitutional for states to require attorneys to join and… |
| 24-1026 | Oregon v. Committee to Recall Dan Holladay, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | ballot-access circuit-split direct-democracy first-amendment procedural-requirement voter-rights | When a neutral, procedural requirement burdens voters' advancement of direct-democracy measures to the ballot, does that requirement affect any intere… |
| 24-1016 | RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Pending | CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law | Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. |
| 24-6836 | Christian Genao v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release | Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule … |
| 24-1011 | Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law | Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act. Whether c… | |
| 24-6814 | Jason Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing-law | While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet had occasion… |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-996 | Tammy M. Harvey, et al. v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split employment-discrimination federal-rules-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss religious-accommodation title-vii | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits an employer from discharging an individual "because of such individual's . . . religion.… |
| 24-994 | National Basketball Association v. Michael Salazar | Second Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | article-iii-standing circuit-split consumer-rights personal-information third-party-disclosure video-privacy-protection-act | Whether a consumer claiming that he was harmed by disclosure of his personal information must plead that his information was revealed to the public to… |
| 24A892 | Edward Thomas James v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus stay-of-execution successive-petition | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6761 | Eric Vaughn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release | If a criminal defendant receives a term of supervised release, the district court will specify the conditions that the defendant must follow. See 18 U… |
| 24-975 | Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation | Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits public entities, including local law-enforcement agencies, from discriminating… |
| 24-6740 | Royel Page v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703… |
| 24-965 | Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, California Secretary of State | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split election-law first-amendment free-speech misinformation retaliation | Did the Ninth Circuit undermine free speech protections when it found that a retaliatory action is independent from an action that could chill a perso… |
| 24-953 | Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits … | |
| 24-6690 | Arjune Ahmed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault | Petitioner Arjune Ahmed was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The district court declined to give him separate trials on the two kidnapping alleg… |
| 24-6692 | Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access | Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24-948 | Patricia Guerrero, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. v. Stephen Moreland Redd | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-procedure circuit-split judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine vacatur | Whether, under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), a court of appeals' decision should be vacated because the appeal became moot b… |
| 24-940 | Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity | Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with … |
| 24-6679 | Chance Blackman v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-principles circuit-split equitable-tolling habeas-corpus legal-assistance mental-disability | Under agency principles, petitioners are held responsible for the mistakes of their lawyers, including the late filing of a federal petition. How do t… |
| 24A837 | Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 | Third Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split ejectment-judgment fraud-exception property-rights rooker-feldman supreme-court-rules | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6666 | Marcus Jerell Anderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g )(1), which permanently prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by impr… |
| 24-6634 | Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay | When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans… |
| 24-6635 | Jory Leedy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause | 1) Does the Sixth Circuit's holding in Ramos v. Rogers, 170 F.3d 560 (6th Cir.1999) making a plea unasailable "so long as the judge follows the proper… |
| 24-905 | Martha G. Bronitsky, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Jorden Marie Saldana | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-code chapter-13 circuit-split debtor-contributions retirement-accounts unsecured-creditors | Whether, under the Bankruptcy Code, debtors can voluntarily contribute to their own retirement accounts rather than pay back unsecured creditors—and i… |
| 24-892 | Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct | Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries? |
| 24-6584 | Colton Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-law first-degree-murder force-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether first-degree murder, under 18 U.S.C. § 1, qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 24-879 | James Timothy Norman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony | 1. Given that the Eighth Circuit is the lone holdout in an 11-1 circuit split on the meaning of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3), should the Eighth Cir… |
| 24-880 | NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., fka Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., et al. v. Highland Capital Management, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split credibility-determination material-fact non-moving-party self-serving-testimony summary-judgment | Whether, contrary to the decisions of multiple other circuits that properly preserve the province of the jury to decide genuinely disputed issues of m… |
| 24-883 | Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Amici (3) | adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure evidence-destruction spoliation summary-judgment | When a party destroys evidence "with the intent to deprive another party of the information's use in the litigation," Federal Rule of Civil Procedure … |
| 24-6562 | Derek Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines | 1. What are the admissive effects of a defendant's guilty plea? Specifically, does an unconditional guilty plea admit facts alleged in an indictment o… |
| 24-6545 | Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order | In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts… |
| 24A773 | Munson P. Hunter, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-rights | (1) whether a defendant who agreed to waive his right to appeal may nonetheless challenge his sentence on constitutional grounds other than ineffectiv… | |
| 24-6512 | In Re John David Stahlman | 2025-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, WHEN ISSUING ITS OPINION IN UNITED STATES v. HITE, 769 F.3d 1154 (D.C. C . Cir. 2014) C… | |
| 24-848 | Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with this Court's totality-of-thecircumstances standard under Monasky v. Tagli… | |
| 24-6505 | Jerome Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure plea-agreement sentencing-error statutory-right | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of his plea agreemen… |
| 24-845 | Steven Zorn, et al. v. Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split false-claims-act fraud-allegation public-disclosure-bar qui-tam statutory-interpretation | The public disclosure bar of the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., forecloses a qui tam FCA action or claim if "substantially the same… |
| 24-6495 | Billy Joe Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a defendant who is erroneously denied his Counsel of Choice in Violation of the Sixth Amendment, which is structural error, waives his right t… |
| 24-6452 | Philip Lamar Nordvold v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), prohibiting firearm possession and acquisition by those who have been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonmen… |
| 24-820 | Daniel Rutherford v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The compassionate-release statute permits courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence if the court finds that "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warr… |
| 24-823 | Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarm… |
| 24A750 | Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority v. Jeffrey Good, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Presumed Complete | arm-of-the-state circuit-split eleventh-amendment federal-courts sovereign-immunity state-instrumentality | Question not identified. | |
| 24-808 | Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment | Well-settled legal principles dictate that a judgment entered in the absence of personal jurisdiction is void. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4… |
| 24-6400 | Tac Tran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment guest-rights home-entry search-and-seizure standing | Whether a guest who has substantial connections to a home and its residents has Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a search of the home that occur… |
| 24-6409 | Eric Jamar Goodall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion medical-conditions sentencing-relief | 1. Did the lower courts err in not requiring or at minimum presuming consideration of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" prior to denying Eric Jam… |
| 24-6410 | Antoine Wiggins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 24-6395 | Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split competency-restoration criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication sell-standard | When ordering that a criminal defendant be forcibly medicated to restore competence under Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), must a district … |
| 24-6397 | Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-standard judicial-consistency procedural-fairness rule-12b6 | The standard for dismissing claims under Rule 12 (b) 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is variable across the circuit courts. It is as variabl… |
| 24-6372 | Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent | In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran… |
| 24-789 | ECB USA, Inc., a Florida Corporation, et al. v. Chubb Insurance Company of New Jersey, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contract-interpretation erie-doctrine federal-common-law judicial-precedent state-law | 1. Whether under the mandate of Erie v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), a federal court is permitted to apply federal common law rules of construction i… |
| 24-6370 | Anthony Medina v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review state-court-adjudication | 1. Is the Fifth Circuit's refusal to apply this Court's definition of an adjudication "on the merits" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) debatable am… |
| 24-784 | Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review | Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the rule from SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80, 93 (1943), which requires courts to evaluate agency action … |
| 24A717 | Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment heck-doctrine injunctive-relief section-1983 | 1. This case presents an important, recurring question that has divided circuits regarding the reach of this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512… | |
| 24-765 | Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure | Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan… | |
| 24A709 | Ghislaine Maxwell v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6326 | Mark Allen Hayden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de… |
| 24-759 | Wye Oak Technology, Inc. v. Republic of Iraq, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-01-16 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | breach-of-contract causation-principles circuit-split commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act jurisdictional-requirements | This case concerns the correct interpretation of two clauses of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) that have resulted in two circuit splits. … |
| 24-6310 | Descart Austin Begay, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split evidence-rule fabrication impeachment prior-consistent-statement witness-testimony | Subsection (i) of Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) allows for admission of a declarant's prior consistent statement only when offered "to rebut a… |
| 24A691 | Christopher E. Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals post-conviction time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6294 | Christopher Lloyd Burnell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split counsel-substitution court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights sixth-amendment | What standard governs a criminal defendant's motion to substitute retained with court-appointed counsel? |
| 24-741 | Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response Waived | accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing | I. The insured under a policy insuring against accidental death, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") an… |
| 24-734 | Strategic Technology Institute, Incorporated v. MGMTL, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split computer-program copyright-law fair-use menu-command potential-market | 1. Whether the scope of protectable matter in a computer program is a question for the Court, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Te… |
| 24-735 | Raymond Liddy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | circuit-split federal-criminal-law internet-crime interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation | This case raises a fundamental question that has split the Circuits regarding the intersection between the use of the Internet and federal criminal la… | |
| 24A680 | Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard | First, does a Circuit Court retain jurisdiction to consider the merits of an appeal from an order granting federal habeas relief if a state court vaca… | |
| 24-6286 | Frank James v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-defect jurisdictional-error | Whether a defect in an indictment -- of whatever kind -- is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct that is b… |
| 24-6288 | Jose Estrada-Aguirre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split citizenship-status double-jeopardy identity-fraud passport-application perjury | Jose Aguirre has been known by two names— Jose Lopez Aguirre and Jose Estrada-Aguirre—and has been known to have born in two places—Ojos Calientes, Ch… |
| 24-724 | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Granted | Amici (10)Relisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal | 1. Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred b… |
| 24-728 | Iowa Pork Producers Association v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause fractured-opinion interstate-commerce judicial-interpretation pike-balancing-test | 1. Whether a party alleging that Proposition 12 discriminates against interstate commerce, both directly and under Pike v. Bruce Church (among many ot… |
| 24-6233 | Dearick Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) applies to the United States Sentencing Guidelines; and 2. If so, whether a s… |
| 24A665 | Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Presumed Complete | age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial | Question not identified. | |
| 24-711 | Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness | 1. Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity? 2. Must artwork be popular, prosperous or promoted to be reasonably accessible online? | |
| 24-6218 | Anthony McCarary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules judicial-explanation preservation-of-error sentencing-reasonableness | To determine whether a sentencing issue is preserved, "The question is simply whether the claimed error was 'brought to the court's attention." Holgui… |
| 24-689 | Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split emergency-medicine emtala hospital-liability medical-standard-of-care patient-rights | Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the… |
| 24-6213 | Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation | 1. Has the United States Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of Hughes v. United States 263 F.3D 272,… |
| 24-6202 | Kayne Russell Donath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | IFP | acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline | The district court increased Mr. Donath's sentence based upon his prior state of Iowa conviction for assault causing bodily injury or mental illness. … |
| 24A622 | Navellier & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | First Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedy investor-protection sec-enforcement securities-law | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6182 | Daniel O. Conahan, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus procedural-review | 1) There is a circuit split among the courts of appeal in the procedures a court applies when reviewing applications for a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 24-672 | Erma Wilson v. Midland County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus section-1983 statutory-interpretation | 1. If a person never had access to § 2254 to impugn the constitutionality of her state criminal proceeding, is § 1983 presumptively available (as in s… |
| 24-673 | Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | arrest-basis circuit-split first-amendment interference-statute qualified-immunity speech-protection | 1. Whether the First Amendment can countenance an arrest based on a husband's advice to his wife to take a clearly non-criminal action. 2. Whether th… | |
| 24A616 | Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction | Question not identified. | |
| 24A609 | Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process fair-labor-standards-act judicial-procedure res-judicata rule-41 | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6170 | Robert E. Carter v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commercial-contract federal-statute fraud-inducement property-deprivation wire-fraud | The Federal Appeals Courts are split on whether fraudulent inducement of a commercial contract violates the federal fraud statutes and whether depriva… |
| 24A597 | Deonta Lowe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction | Question not identified. | |
| 24A582 | Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Presumed Complete | aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6128 | Jonathan High v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-643 | Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine | Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… | |
| 24-6126 | Joel S. Elliott v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split discretionary-sentence extraordinary-compelling-reasons federal-criminal-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(¢)(1)(A) ca… |
| 24-6107 | Marcus Albert Rambo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-10 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S.__, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 18… |
| 24-6112 | Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether … |
| 24-628 | BNP Paribas SA, a French Corporation, et al. v. Entesar Osman Kashef, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | circuit-split class-certification district-court interlocutory-appeal manifest-error rule-23f | Whether the courts of appeals have discretion under Rule 23(f) to grant interlocutory review solely because a district court's class-certification ord… | |
| 24-629 | Petrobras America, Incorporated v. Samsung Heavy Industries Company, Limited | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-action direct-relation injury-standard proximate-cause rico-act | 1. What is the appropriate standard for assessing a direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged under RICO? 2. Can … |
| 24-630 | Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine | Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… | |
| 24-6077 | Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24-610 | Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-04 | Denied | american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine | In American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah , 414 U.S. 538, 554 (1974), this Court held that "the commencement of a class action suspends the applicab… | |
| 24-597 | Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. Joshua H. Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | circuit-split heck-dismissal in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 three-strikes-rule | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in holding that dismissals under Heck categorically constitute strikes under the PLRA. | |
| 24-6060 | Albert Trampis Dogskin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split false-information judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-error | Whether there is an exception to an appeal waiver in a plea agreement where the district court relied on false or unreliable information in sentencing… |
| 24-590 | Brian Kelsey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard | Under this Court's precedent and that of several circuit courts, an error of criminal law is preserved for appellate review if it was "brought to the … |
| 24-585 | Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart | Third Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation | Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and s… |
| 24-6048 | Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation | Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1727 (2024), to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the int… |
| 24-6035 | Jamel Muldrew v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-rules circuit-split constitutional-amendments judicial-factfinding sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this court's holding in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), supports the court of appeals' determination that the Sentencing Guidelines a… |
| 24-6036 | Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. | California | 2024-11-26 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 | 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant immunity under section 230 of title 47 of the United States Code should remain unresolve… |
| 24-6041 | Daniel Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Second Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split claims-processing federal-rules jurisdictional-rules statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 4(a)(4)(B)(ii) is jurisdictional or claims processing? 2. Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Proce… |
| 24A518 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure electronic-data forfeiture-law property-rights | Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 2253(a), electronic data files are distinct forms of property from the physical devices or medium on which they are stored. | |
| 24-576 | Nutramax Laboratories, Inc., et al. v. Justin Lytle, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split class-certification daubert-standard expert-testimony predominance-requirement rule-23 | When a plaintiff seeking to certify a class relies on an expert to establish that classwide issues predominate, must the expert testimony satisfy the … |
| 24-6028 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-enterprise interstate-commerce rico-act vicar-act | What proof is required to satisfy RICO and VICAR's interstate-commerce elements, and, more specifically, must prosecutors prove that an enterprise's a… |
| 24A509 | Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 24A510 | Sprout Foods, Inc. v. Gillian Davidson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split fdca-preemption food-labeling nlea private-enforcement sherman-law | Whether a state law that wholesale incorporates federal food labeling regulations as its own requirements can circumvent the Food and Drug Administrat… | |
| 24-6020 | Justin Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 24-563 | Karl W. Nichols v. Lance Wiersma | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith-standard circuit-split constitutional-law due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence | The Western District of Wisconsin notes that there is both an inter-circuit and intra-circuit split in the interpretation of the cases Trombetta, Youn… |
| 24-5997 | Torrence Denard Whitaker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | GVR | IFP | as-applied-challenge bruen-methodology circuit-split rahimi-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. __, 144 U.S. 144 S.Ct. 1… |
| 24-6006 | Michael Tyrone Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled… |
| 24-5995 | Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 24-6000 | Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition minor-protection statutory-interpretation | Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. 2251(a), by … |
| 24-556 | Joe Fernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-18 | Granted | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit erred in recognizing extra-textual limitations on what information a court may consider when determining whether there exis… |
| 24-550 | Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation | Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t… | |
| 24-545 | Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation | 1. Does the two-factor equitable tolling test supplied by this Court in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631, 649 (2010) apply to all federal equitable to… |
| 24-5953 | Ellva Slaughter v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | Whether Duren's "systematic exclusion" prong can be satisfied by proof that a distinctive group has been consistently underrepresented in the jury-sel… |
| 24-5957 | Jeramy Davis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question 1: The Circuit Courts are split over whether district courts have subject matter jurisdiction to impose a criminal sentence without a showing… |
| 24-5938 | John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for the forfeiture of the contents of property, such as real property or electronic devices. 2. Whether a… |
| 24-517 | Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (6) | appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim | Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application, over dissent, to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of … |
| 24-520 | James G. Connell, III v. Central Intelligence Agency | District of Columbia | 2024-11-06 | Denied | agency-disclosure circuit-split evidence-standard foia glomar-response judicial-review | When a federal agency responds to a request for records under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, it may assert a "Glomar response," neith… | |
| 24-5893 | Mahlon Prater, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy-charges constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy | 1. Whether, when determining if two charged conspiracies violate double jeopardy, the court should assess the degree of difference between two charged… |
| 24-5905 | Huosheng Xian v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing | Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio… |
| 24-5907 | Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b | Plaintiff, was represented by an attorney, Staci Childs. Staci Childs had the responsibility according to the United States District & Bankruptcy Cour… |
| 24-494 | American Warrior, Incorporated, et al. v. Foundation Energy Fund IV-A, L.P., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay circuit-split statutory-injunction void-vs-voidable | Under the Bankruptcy Code, the commencement of a bankruptcy case triggers an "automatic stay"—a statutory injunction proscribing various acts involvin… |
| 24-5890 | Ushery Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the search of a person's residence based solely on that person's status as a known drug dealer. 2. Whether Le… |
| 24-493 | Michael Shipton v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split employer-liability employment-law fmla-interpretation good-faith-defense statutory-interpretation | Is an employer who terminates an employee because it honestly, but mistakenly, believed that the employee's leave was not protected by the FMLA still … |
| 24-495 | Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 | The Ku Klux Klan Act provides a federal cause of action against "two or more persons" who "conspire," as relevant here, to deprive "any person or clas… |
| 24-5880 | Eric Schmidt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24-5883 | Charles Victor Flint v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-offense recidivism-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether § 2252A(b)(2)'s recidivism enhancement applies to a state sexual offense that criminalizes conduct more broadly than the corresponding federal… |
| 24-476 | Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, et al. v. Pairprep, Inc., dba OpticsML | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration circuit-split federal-question jurisdiction preclusive-effect res-judicata | This case raises important federal concerns regarding policies favoring arbitration and the well-established doctrine of res judicata, where circuits … |
| 24-481 | Irma Leibas v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split employment-discrimination essential-job-functions medical-restrictions reasonable-accommodation | Whether in denying Petitioner a reasonable accommodation for, inter alia, up to three additional bathroom breaks per shift, the Seventh Circuit correc… |
| 24-482 | Holsey Ellingburg, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-restitution ex-post-facto mandatory-victim-restitution-act penal-statute | Whether criminal restitution under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA) is penal for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause. |
| 24-5869 | Shawn Eric Durrah, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon-enhancement drug-distribution firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | To resolve a circuit split, this Court should grant the Writ to determine whether, in applying the dangerous weapon enhancement U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1)… |
| 24A420 | Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | administrative-deference circuit-split emtala hospital-liability medical-treatment patient-stabilization | Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the… | |
| 24A423 | Sean J. Trahan v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Presumed Complete | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the "categorical approach," the Massachusetts child pornography statute is "overbroad" such that a prior conviction under that statute … | |
| 24-473 | Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (4) | circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant | Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-470 | Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction | Deployed in "tens of thousands of circuit and district court decisions," App.15a, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine stops lower federal courts from exercisi… |
| 24-5838 | Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy | When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine… |
| 24A410 | Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1446b circuit-split federal-question removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation timeliness | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5794 | Juan Daniel Sierra-Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | breach-of-agreement circuit-split plain-error-rule plea-agreement prejudice-prong sentencing-review | Whether a Circuit Split exists related to how lower courts examine Defendants' compliance with the third prong of the plain error rule (prejudice pron… |
| 24-440 | Harold R. Berk v. Wilson C. Choy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | affidavit-of-merit circuit-split expert-testimony federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction state-procedural-rules | Whether a state law providing that a complaint must be dismissed unless it is accompanied by an expert affidavit may be applied in federal court. |
| 24-5781 | Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment | 1. Whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in essentially holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that a violation of … |
| 24-433 | Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, Incorporated, et al., v. National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-17 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | administrative-law circuit-split facial-challenge federal-enforcement horseracing-integrity separation-of-powers | Whether the enforcement provisions of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act are facially unconstitutional under the private-nondelegation doctrine. |
| 24-5774 | Dwayne Barrett v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci… |
| 24-5776 | Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | To determine the elements of a prior state conviction for purposes of applying ACCA's categorical approach, should federal courts consult the most rec… |
| 24-426 | Plan Benefit Services, Inc., et al. v. Heriberto Chavez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing circuit-split class-action class-certification federal-civil-procedure standing-doctrine | The determination of whether a named plaintiff in a class action has Article III standing to bring claims on behalf of others has been addressed by … |
| 24A356 | Carlanda D. Meadors, et al. v. Erie County Board of Elections, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Presumed Complete | capable-of-repetition certiorari circuit-split election-law judicial-review mootness | Whether the "capable of repetition, yet evading review" standard is given a flexible interpretation in election law cases. | |
| 24-418 | Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy | A patent holder cannot "charge royalties for the use of his invention after its patent term has expired." Kimble v. Marvel Enterprise, LLC, 576 U.S. 4… |
| 24-5757 | Damian Cortez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Whether this Petition Should Be Granted to Resolve a Conflict Between the Decision Below and Decisions of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits tha… |
| 24-5758 | Eriston Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b | Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to… |
| 24-5759 | Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee | Second Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal | Whether the Court should resolve the split between the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, In re Victoria Station, Inc. and In re: A… |
| 24A353 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession | Question not identified. | |
| 24-392 | Argent Trust Company v. Ramon DeJesus Cedeno, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-10-09 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration-provision circuit-split erisa-claims federal-arbitration-act plan-participant statutory-interpretation | (1) whether a plan participant can only bring a lawsuit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), as a represen… |
| 24-397 | Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-09 | Denied | admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability | 1. Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on… | |
| 24-5719 | Guy Christopher Mannino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-discretion modified-approach statutory-interpretation | The U.S. Supreme Court's holdings in Taylor, Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis have consistently required the application of the categorical-approach, or the… |
| 24-5723 | Terrell Trammell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-standard circuit-split double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms-possession second-amendment | There is a circuit split with Question I whether § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional or not pursuant to Bruen such as to impact Trammell's conviction. As … |
| 24-384 | Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's "common course of conduct" test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences amo… |
| 24-377 | South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism v. Google LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split federalism sovereign-immunity state-agency state-law waiver-doctrine | Whether state law can limit the power of one state agency to waive the sovereign immunity of another. |
| 24-366 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, as several circuits have held, all Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors and subject to the harmless-error test from Neder… |
| 24A304 | Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-proceeds forfeiture health-care-payor honeycutt-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5650 | Roberto Yepez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether, as the Second and Seventh Circuits have indicated, the compassionate-release statute in 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1) permits reducing supervised re… |
| 24-345 | FS Credit Opportunities Corp., et al. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Granted | CVSGAmici (20)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | circuit-split contract-enforcement implied-private-right investment-company-act judicial-review statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether Section 47(b) of the ICA, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-46(b), creates an implied private right of action. |
| 24-334 | Innovative Fibers LLC, et al. v. Parker O'Neil Wideman, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Dismissed | agency-jurisdiction circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction merits-defense state-law-claim | When state law vests a state agency with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim, should a federal court decide for itself at the outset whether to dismis… | |
| 24A291 | Charles Garo Avetian v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split electronic-filing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline notice-of-appeal pro-se-litigant | Question not identified. | |
| 24-327 | Pulse8, LLC, et al. v. Family Health Physical Medicine, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split commercial-advertising fax-transmission statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement | The Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") generally prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine. An "unsolicited advertisem… |
| 24-5615 | Merl Simpson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations | Where a criminal judgment is amended to impose restitution obligations that were generically imposed but left undetermined in the original judgment, d… |
| 24-318 | BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue | "[I]t takes a cross-appeal to justify a remedy in favor of an appellee." Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 244-245 (2008). This is an "invetera… |
| 24-5583 | Carlos Sanchez v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | §2254-petition circuit-split conflict-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus speedy-trial | 1) Whether the law permits conflict counsel to file for continuance which in effect denied Petitioner his right to speedy trial 2) Whether the Eleven… |
| 24-5571 | Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation | In proving felon status, is there a conflict between appellate courts where one court holds that trial counsel is not ineffective for offering a stipu… |
| 24-5557 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24-295 | Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with other circuits and a plurality opinion of this Court, that a criminal defendant can v… |
| 24-5553 | Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p… |
| 24A263 | Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction legal-standards supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari | The first question is whether The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (The Eleventh Circuit) erred in holding in conflict with The Ninth Circuit Court o… | |
| 24-287 | Jennifer Root Bannon, as the Special Personal Representative of the Estate of Juston Root v. David Godin, Boston Police Officer, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split credibility-assessment deadly-force evidence-weighing factual-determination summary-judgment | 1. Did the appeals court improperly create new summary judgment standards under which a court may assess the summary judgment record by making fact… |
| 24-5529 | Jose Muyet v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | IFP | 28-U.S.C.-§-2255 circuit-split collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine direct-review federal-criminal-conviction | I. The judge-made "concurrent sentence doctrine" allows a federal court to decline review of a prisoner's challenge to his sentence on one count of co… |
| 24-5535 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi… |
| 24-5532 | Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion | Nearly all federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. In many of those pleas, the defendant signs an agreement promising not to file a future 28 U.S… |
| 24-279 | 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation | In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w… |
| 24-5519 | Matthew Peddicord v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b | Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning. |
| 24-267 | John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the "prevailing party" under 17 U.S.C. §§ 505 and 12… |
| 24-264 | Jay A. Liestman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split federal-law sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2252(b)(1) imposes an increased mandatory minimum and maximum sentence on a defendant who "has a prior conviction . . . under the laws of … | |
| 24-5484 | Irvin Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement state-law-interpretation | The First Circuit affirmed application of a sentencing enhancement under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), based on Petitioner Irvin Abreu's prior state-court conv… |
| 24-249 | A. J. T., By and Through Her Parents, A. T. & G. T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-rights educational-discrimination reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act | Whether the ADA and Rehabilitation Act require children with disabilities to satisfy a uniquely stringent "bad faith or gross misjudgment" standard wh… |
| 24-5446 | Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS" AS PART OF 18 U.S.C. CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE … |
| 24-5456 | Robert Paul Durrell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release | The supervised-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), lists factors from 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for a court to consider when sentencing a person for viola… |
| 24-5438 | Michael Bowe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | certiorari-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to a claim presented in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-5427 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation circuit-split constitutional-violation double-jeopardy indictment-defect sentencing-enhancement | 1) Did the district court create a split in circuits by denying relief on charges —in the indictment that violated Congressional Intent/ where the D… |
| 24-5433 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split district-court judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court's failure to follow the plain language of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an incorrect application of the Sentencing Gu… |
| 24-224 | Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Dismissed | Relisted (2) | circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law | This petition presents a question nearly identical to that already before the Court in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, No. 23-980. The circuits ha… |
| 24-5416 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 24-5409 | Maxsony Coissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the categorical approach as applied to "violent felony" enhancements under the Armed Career Criminal Act and "crime of violence" enhanc… |
| 24-5400 | Javontae Quintez White v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-law due-process judicial-review waiver | Is a Constitutional Due Process violation triggered when an appellate court holds that an issue is waived if not specifically raised in the statement … |
| 24A211 | Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver | Whether a state waives a procedural-default defense when, in its answer to a state habeas petition in district court, it raises the defense to some cl… | |
| 24A214 | Emmanuel G. Louis, Jr., et al. v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing circuit-split contract-void military-lending-act predatory-lending service-members | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5392 | Stephon James Whitney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split en-banc-review firearm-possession prohibited-person second-amendment section-922g | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment of the court of appeals, and remand for further consideration in light of Rahimi? |
| 24-181 | Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-20 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability | Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i… |
| 24-5344 | Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-19 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors | 1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider the cumulative effect of cou… |
| 24A181 | Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-08-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5324 | Marnell Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-procedure due-process joint-possession | Does the 3rd Circuit's interpretation of constructive possession doctrine, especially in joint constructive possession cases, violate the 5th Amendmen… |
| 24-5335 | Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant | A WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAROSA IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U… |
| 24-172 | Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide ide… |
| 24-170 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Do the statutory terms "visual depiction" and "lascivious exhibition" refer to the same, or different things? |
| 24-5329 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 24-5327 | Daniel Lopez, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules revocation-hearing sentencing-procedure supervised-release | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b) defines the procedure for supervised release revocation hearings. The Ninth Circuit has split from other ci… |
| 24-5322 | Richard Tipton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-14 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence mens-rea physical-force predicate-offense | Section 924(c) of Title 18 of the United States Code criminalizes carrying a firearm in furtherance of a "crime of violence." Per this Court's precede… |
| 24-5314 | Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing | 1. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence" if it "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 24A165 | Muzafar Babakr v. Jacob T. Fowles, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-procedure excusable-neglect federal-rules pioneer-factors summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5243 | Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-130 | Desiree Martinez v. Channon High | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity | Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 24-5235 | Nohmaan Malik v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity anders anders-procedure appellate-review circuit-split due-process guideline-commentary kisor kisor-standard | Whether the appellate court should not have dismissed under Anders and allowed Petitioner to challenge the Guideline commentary as violating due p… |
| 24-5237 | Warren Alexander v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release | Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required … |
| 24A135 | Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Presumed Complete | certiorari circuit-split eleventh-circuit federal-appeals legal-complexity post-conviction | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5249 | Farid Fata v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies berkovitz-gaubert-test circuit-split discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement sovereign-immunity | Q 1 - Given the Supreme Court case law Precedents since after "Arbaugh v. Y&H. Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 515-16 (2006)", and amid a Circuit Split, is exhau… |
| 24-5233 | Jose Carlos Belmont v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure habeas-corpus innocence-gateway newly-discovered-evidence standing state-vacatur successive-writ takings | Question #1; May State prisoners, burdened, with first-time innocence showings , proffer as new facts, State vacatur orders for the innocence gateway… |
| 24-5231 | Dean Terry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-conviction federal-drug-crimes federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Statutory directives to administrative agencies have one permissible interpretation: "[T]he one the court, after applying all relevant interpretive to… |
| 24A123 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense | Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this… | |
| 24A122 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-error mandate-rule | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5204 | Gavin Blake Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act | Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order … |
| 24-108 | John Paul Salvador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Amici (6) | bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge discharge-ability honest-and-reasonable-attempt income-tax-return late-filed-returns late-filing tax-debt tax-debts | The Bankruptcy Code provides that an individual debtor's unpaid tax debts are dischargeable so long as they meet certain requirements. For older tax d… |
| 24-102 | Manuel Adams, Jr. v. City of Harahan, Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | career-advancement circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment government-interference liberty-interest occupational-liberty professional-rights standard-of-review | Whether a plaintiff must plead that the government "effected [a] prohibition" of his ability to pursue his career to state a claim for a violation of … |
| 24-5166 | Nicholas Joseph v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire | 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon… |
| 24A104 | Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. v. Joann Ford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split federal-immunity healthcare-litigation medical-center public-health-service statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-88 | John Doe v. The Trustees of Indiana University, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion pseudonym retaliation standing summary-judgment title-ix | 1. Whether a district court abuses its discretion when, without a finding of risk of physical harm, improper retaliation, or minor status, it permits … |
| 24-5164 | Joel Miles v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver | Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 24-86 | Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-machine fax-machine-definition rule-23 rule-23(b)(3) telephone-consumer-protection-act | 1. Whether there is an implied "administrative fea- sibility" prerequisite for class certification, as held by the First, Third, and Fourth Circuits, … |
| 24-77 | GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine when substantial dou… |
| 24-5142 | Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions | Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24-5132 | Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard | Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear… |
| 24A85 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24-64 | Nicholas Piazza, et al. v. Gramercy Distressed Opportunity Fund II L.P., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Dismissed | Amici (1) | appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-stay circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-order motion-to-compel motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-pending-arbitration | Whether, under 9 U.S.C. § 16, a circuit court has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying a motion for a stay pending arbitration o… |
| 24-61 | Michael Cloud v. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights de-novo-review deference deferential-standard due-process erisa plan-administrator procedural-violation procedural-violations standard-of-review | In Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, the Court set forth the standard of review for denials of benefits provided by employers under the Employment… |
| 24-5109 | Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | 1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe… |
| 24-5108 | Karen E. Tucker v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence circuit-split civil-disability collateral-consequences coram-nobis standing writ-of-error | 1. Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a 'civil disability'— that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, … |
| 24-5106 | Stoney Prior v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability | 1. Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence? 2. If the district court rejects a jur… |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 24A46 | Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches, et al. v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Presumed Complete | ballot-access circuit-split federal-statute mail-ballot materiality-provision voting-rights | Whether the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10101(a)(2)(B), which protects the "the right of any individual to vote in any … | |
| 24-5088 | In Re Gavin B. Davis | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… | |
| 24A31 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearm-enhancement gang-related-crime sentencing-enhancement vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5042 | Carlos Emanuel Kinard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 assault-definition circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law mens-rea racketeering-enterprise vicar-statute | If the state or federal crime incorporated into an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(3) conviction categorially does not meet the 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) definition of a… |
| 24-9 | Michael Angelo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-claims-act government-consent government-veto post-filing-release post-filing-settlement qui-tam relator settlement-agreement | Whether a private release agreement between a relator and a qui tam defendant, executed after the filing of the qui tam action, is enforceable when th… |
| 24-5016 | Michael Medina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief resentencing retroactivity sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | The First Step Act (FSA) significantly reduced the mandatory minimum sentences for several federal drug and firearm offenses. First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 24-5014 | Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | The Sixth Circuit deliberately applied a more demanding standard for showing prejudice for ineffective assistance of counsel than the standard establi… |
| 24A1 | Jake Delahney Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | child-pornography circuit-split first-amendment lascivious-exhibition sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. This case presents an important issue concerning the interpretation of the child pornography statutes that has caused a circuit split. At issue is … | |
| 24-5008 | Glynzo Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass | I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic "burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 23-1361 | William Edward Powell v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure-act circuit-split disclosure-refusal freedom-of-information-act internal-revenue-code judicial-review tax-returns taxpayer-disclosure | Is § 6103 a specific statute displacing FOIA, so that the remedy for taxpayers to compel disclosure of their returns and return information is a suit … |
| 23-1352 | Holtec International v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-27 | GVR | Relisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action atomic-energy-act circuit-split hobbs-act nuclear-regulatory-commission nuclear-waste-policy-act standing statutory-interpretation ultra-vires | 1. Whether there is an exception to the party-aggrieved requirement of the Hobbs Act for an ultra vires challenge to an agency action. 2. Whether the… |
| 23-1345 | Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) | 28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test | Under the federal habeas statute, a prisoner "always gets one chance to bring a federal habeas challenge to his conviction," Banister v. Davis, 590 U.… |
| 23-7809 | Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)IFP | article-iii-standing circuit-split declaratory-judgment due-process federal-courts redressability reed-v-goertz state-official | In Reed v. Goertz, 598 U.S. 230, 234 (2023), this Court held that Rodney Reed has standing to pursue a declaratory judgment that Texas's post-convicti… |
| 23-7804 | Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation | 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should … |
| 23A1154 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent child-pornography circuit-split recidivist-provision sentencing-enhancement statutory-rape | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1140 | Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus state-postconviction wilson-v-sellers | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1131 | Michael Craine v. AFSCME Council 36, Local 119, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-waiver dues-deduction first-amendment janus-precedent public-sector-unions | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1327 | Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC | Third Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Denied | article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights-standing common-law-tort due-process intangible-harm judicial-interpretation standing-article-iii-harm-intangible-tort-common-l transu nion-precedent transunion-v-ramirez | 1. Whether under TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, 594 U.S. 413 (2021), a plaintiff alleging an intangible harm need only allege one that is similar in kind,… | |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 23A1122 | Anthony Pandrella v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1114 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7714 | Derek Gerrish v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure | Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos… |
| 23-7688 | Chaves Hodges v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7683 | Keon Lamont Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit | Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences? |
| 23-1293 | United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-1286 | Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Amici (2) | attorneys-fees circuit-split equal-access-to-justice-act expert-evidence federal-agency judicial-review litigation-standards substantial-justification | Whether the government's decision to take a case to trial is "substantially justified" (28 U.S.C. § 2412) when the government's case relies solely on … |
| 23-7679 | Thaddeus Rhodes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act jury-instructions property-rights realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | The circuits uniformly hold that Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a crime of violence and therefore can support a related conviction under 18 US.C. … |
| 23-7676 | Romone Raphael Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances-act drug-distribution federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether a state conviction for distributing a drug that includes substances not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act qualifies as a "… |
| 23A1094 | Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1279 | NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law circuit-split labor-law labor-relations nlra nlrb-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence taft-hartley-act | The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) and conferred power upon it to adjudicate unf… |
| 23-1283 | Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation | The Family and Medical Leave Act makes it "unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, … |
| 23-1275 | Eunice Medina, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (48)Relisted (9) | circuit-split medicaid-act o'bannon-v-town-court private-right provider-choice section-1983 statutory-interpretation unambiguous-right | More than 30 years ago, this Court first applied what would become known as the "Blessing factors," holding that a Medicaid Act provision created a pr… |
| 23-1276 | Young Israel of Tampa, Inc. v. Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Amici (5) | circuit-split first-amendment free-speech government-forum public-forum religious-speech rosenberger-precedent viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a public transit agency's ban on advertisements that "primarily promote a religious faith or religious organization" violates the First Amendm… |
| 23-1269 | Suzy Martin v. Susan Haling, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split debarment due-process government-contractor government-work liberty-interest stigma-plus-test | In Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, this Court held that the government impinges on a government employee's constitutional liberty interest… |
| 23-1261 | Gussi S.A. de C.V. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-award circuit-split federal-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure foreign-parties international-law marshal-service nonresident-service service service-of-process statutory-interpretation | 1. Have the Marshal service requirements of 9 U.S.C. § 9 on an application to confirm an arbitration award on a nonresident foreign adverse party been… |
| 23-7628 | Meng Ellen Xia v. Lina T. Ramey, and Associates, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination harassment pro-se-litigation supervisor-liability title-vii vicarious-liability workplace-harassment | In Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), this Court held that under Ti… |
| 23-1257 | Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | In Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), this Court held that unarmed, nondangerous suspects fleeing officers can't simply be shot. But the decision… |
| 23-1250 | Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits—a categorical rule requiring the admission of expe… |
| 23-1239 | Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (36)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment. |
| 23-7554 | Rawtavious Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23A1040 | Al Dorsey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause facilitation-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1232 | Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory … |
| 23-1228 | Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution | Under Nieves v. Bartlett, probable cause does not bar a retaliatory-arrest claim when the plaintiff shows "that he was arrested when otherwise similar… |
| 23A1034 | John Paul Salvador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Presumed Complete | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split late-filed-return nondischargeable-debt tax-debt | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7522 | Gonzalo Rodriguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-doctrine kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7513 | Russell Foreman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-1218 | Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-16 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard applied to preserved nonconstitutional errors—which asks whether there is a "reasonable probability" … |
| 23-7483 | Edgardo Esteras v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… |
| 23-7464 | Michael Grady v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit | Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice despite Petitioner's willingness to knowingly a… |
| 23A1008 | Darryl Watts v. New York | New York | 2024-05-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process incompetency liberty-interest registration-hearing sora | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1209 | M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund | District of Columbia | 2024-05-13 | Granted | CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) | actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability | Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability "as of the end of the plan year" requires the plan to base the computation on the… |
| 23A996 | Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7416 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review | 1) Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), w… |
| 23-7398 | Jamaal Parker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation | This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits. First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23A993 | Gavin Blake Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… | |
| 23-7388 | Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-7386 | Jose Caban v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23A982 | Career Counseling, Inc., dba Snelling Staffing Services, a South Carolina Corporation v. Amerifactors Financial Group, LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Presumed Complete | administrative-feasibility circuit-split class-certification fax-services statutory-interpretation tcpa | Whether the Fourth Circuit properly imposed an "administrative feasibility" requirement for class certification that conflicts with the approach of si… | |
| 23-7360 | Meghan Kelly v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-144-455 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal religious-exercise supreme-court-nomination | I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the Third Circuit and Fourth Circuit concerning whether a claimant may appeal an order denying recus… |
| 23-7357 | Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-1174 | Peter Kleidman v. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | circuit-split evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-704(a) federal-rules judicial-interpretation legal-duties ninth-circuit petition-for-writ-of-certiorari | Does Federal Rule of Evidence 704(a) ("Rule 704(a)") allow an expert to opine that a person's conduct complied with the person's legal duties? Does R… | |
| 23-1178 | First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion | I. Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment —other than on purely legal grounds — against a party when the court has not allowed that party to… |
| 23-7345 | James Joseph Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-30 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, for purposes of applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a prior conviction's elements can be d… |
| 23-7338 | Damon Sean Bellis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its regulation, the court mu… |
| 23A966 | Devas Multimedia Private Limited v. Antrix Corp. Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Presumed Complete | arbitral-exception circuit-split due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities-act minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction | 1. This case raises an important, circuit-splitting issue under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seg. ("FSIA"): Whether the e… | |
| 23-1164 | Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, as six circu… | |
| 23A958 | Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Presumed Complete | blank-form-rule circuit-split copyright-law copyrightability creative-works feist-standard | Question not identified. | |
| 23A952 | Paulette Barclift v. Keystone Credit Services, LLC | Third Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing circuit-split concreteness-test fair-debt-collection-practices-act statutory-harm transunion-standard | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1150 | Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23-1143 | Nelda Kellom, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Terrance Kellom, Deceased, et al. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights claims-processing due-process excessive-force federal-tort-claims-act standing statutory-interpretation waiver | 1. Given the judicial unwillingness in other circuits to permit the United States to stand on technicalities and this Court's guidance in Arbaugh v Y&… |
| 23-7268 | Pikerson Mentor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge | I. Whether Mr. Mentor established cause sufficient to overcome the procedural default of his "ordinary-case" vagueness challenge to his convictions un… |
| 23A941 | Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1131 | Marcus Traylor v. Gideon Yorka | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-fabrication fabrication-of-evidence felony fourteenth-amendment misdemeanor qualified-immunity | Respondent is a police officer who fabricated evidence used to bring misdemeanor criminal charges against Petitioner, which were subsequently dismisse… |
| 23-1127 | Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Todd Heath | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11)Relisted (2) | administrative-agency administrative-corporation circuit-conflict circuit-split e-rate-program false-claims-act government-funding telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-of-1996 | Whether reimbursement requests submitted to the E-rate program are "claims" under the False Claims Act. |
| 23-7226 | Michael Lee Villamonte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's request to recognize a miscarriage of justice exception to the appellate waiver doctrine conflict … |
| 23-7212 | Keith P. Sequeira, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law federal-question jurisdiction jurisdictional-grant remand removal subject-matter-jurisdiction | A case was filed in State Court. It stated on its face a Federal Question. Petitioners removed to District Court. Respondent moved to remand. A reman… |
| 23-7205 | Luke Joselin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-deference circuit-split fraud fraud-loss intended-loss kisor-v-wilkie loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Commentary to the Fraud Loss Table U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(b), Note 3(A) Defining Loss as Including "Intended Loss," Should Be Given Deference Aft… |
| 23-1095 | Patrick D. Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2) | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie… |
| 23-1097 | J. D. Hartman, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Sheriff of Davie County, North Carolina, et al. v. Charles Willis Short, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Christine Short | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison-officials | Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as five circuits ha… |
| 23-1099 | Innovation Ventures, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Wholesale Outlet & Distribution, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-injury circuit-split consumer-behavior price-discrimination robinson-patman-act secondary-line-discrimination volvo-standard volvo-trucks-v-reeder-simco | The Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 13, prohibits "secondary line" price discrimination, which is "price discrimination that injures competition amon… |
| 23-7163 | Kyle Melkonian v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation | The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government … |
| 23-7145 | Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release | L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal? I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-7122 | James Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-1072 | Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Amici (3) | 28-usc-455 circuit-split federal-judges federal-judiciary government-service impartiality impartiality-standard judicial-recusal legal-ethics recusal statutory-interpretation | The federal disqualification statute, 28 U.S.C. §455, compels federal judges to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which [their] impartiality mig… |
| 23-1067 | Oklahoma, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split clean-air-act d-c-circuit epa-action epa-authority federal-register judicial-review regional-circuit state-implementation-plan | Whether a final action by EPA taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the D.C… |
| 23-1061 | Hawkeye Gold, LLC v. China National Materials Industry Import and Export Corporation, dba Sinoma | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-set-aside personal-jurisdiction rule-12b waiver | Whether a party waives the defense of lack of personal jurisdiction if available but omitted from its first court filing in a motion to set aside a de… | |
| 23-7096 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m… |
| 23-1050 | Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation | When a person is convicted of a drug crime, 21 U.S.C. § 853 calls for bifurcated proceedings to ascertain what property may be forfeited as a result o… |
| 23-7035 | Anderson Garcia v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi… |
| 23-1034 | Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights due-process penological-needs prison prison-disciplinary-proceedings procedural-due-process superintendent-v-hill wolff-v-mcdonnell | Whether courts should determine the procedural due process protections that apply in prison disciplinary proceedings by balancing ordinary due process… |
| 23-1022 | Nancy Martin v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Amici (1) | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a district court to "determine that there is a factual basis" for a guilty plea before accepting … |
| 23-1024 | Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target | 1. Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a "primary defendant" under CAFA'… |
| 23-1007 | Casey Cunningham, et al. v. Cornell University, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split erisa fiduciary-duty party-in-interest pleading-requirements prohibited-transaction statutory-interpretation | Whether a plaintiff can state a claim by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or faci… |
| 23-6976 | Juan Cabrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop | Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes. |
| 23-1002 | Tony R. Hewitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6950 | Lawrence Guerain Fleming v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guideline-interpretation judicial-interpretation obstruction-of-justice pre-investigation-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. His sentence was increased pursuant to section 3C1.1 of the United States Sentenc… |
| 23A831 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether and how the inevitable-discovery doctrine applies to a defective warrant. | |
| 23-6939 | Jaime Dean Charboneau, aka Jaimi Dean Charboneau v. Tyrell Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence admissibility-of-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § (b)(2)(B)(ii)'s actual innocence standard requires the court to consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and excul… |
| 23-980 | Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Relisted (2) | circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud | This petition presents two important questions that have divided the federal courts of appeals. First, the circuits have split three ways concerning w… |
| 23-975 | Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (38)Relisted (2) | administrative-law agency-discretion circuit-split environmental-review limited-statutory-authority national-environmental-policy-act public-citizen regulatory-authority | Whether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which … |
| 23-968 | Steven Dakota Knezovich, et al. v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-split circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence sovereign-immunity tort-liability wildland-fire wildland-fire-response | In Rayonier, infra, this Court held that the Federal Tort Claim Act (FTCA) "makes the United States liable (with certain exceptions which are not rele… |
| 23-962 | Oxnard Manor, LP, dba Oxnard Manor Healthcare Center, et al. v. Anna Sigala, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights complete-preemption covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-remedies preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-6892 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split rodriguez-v-united-states sentencing-regime serious-drug-offense state-law-interpretation state-sentencing-regime statutory-maximum | Does "maximum term of imprisonment . . . prescribed by law"—as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act to define "serious drug offenses" that are predic… |
| 23-6885 | Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner | WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT OR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MADE THE CORRECT RULING REGARDING DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS AND FAIR TRIAL CONCERNING THE USE OF A POLI… |
| 23-959 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-04 | GVR | Amici (4) | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation | The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-954 | Precision Drilling Corp., et al. v. Rodney Tyger, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split detrimental-effects donning-and-doffing employment-compensation fair-labor-standards-act job-specific-hazards labor-law preliminary-or-postliminary-activities protective-clothing wage-and-hour | Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, which exempts from required compensation all activities that are "preliminary" or "postliminary" to employees' p… |
| 23-953 | Brandon Michael Council v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency | In the middle of his federal death-penalty trial, Brandon Council had a delusional breakdown, asking his attorneys to "subpoena God." The District Cou… |
| 23-6869 | Corey Jarren Forbito v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment certiorari-petition circuit-split civil-rights constitutional constitutional-challenge due-process firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? Subsidiary Question: Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending Un… |
| 23A803 | Khan Mohammed v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-02-29 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-history due-process ineffective-counsel sentencing-guidelines terrorism-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6854 | Danny Lee Hampton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23-6841 | Ronald D. Houston v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | The United States Courts of Appeal disagree as to a district court's power to preclude appellate review for significant procedural error required by G… |
| 23-6842 | Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment standing | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 23A786 | Robert Espinoza v. Union of American Physicians and Dentists, AFSCME Local 206, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-waiver first-amendment janus-precedent public-employees union-dues | This document is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari, not a Petition for Writ of Certiorari itself. The "Ques… | |
| 23A791 | Mark Habelt v. iRhythm Technologies, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | appellate-standing circuit-split lead-plaintiff non-party-appeal pslra securities-class-action | Question not identified. | |
| 23-933 | Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of the Interior | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure court-fees fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion litigation-access statutory-interpretation | Congress has determined that individuals should not be denied access to federal court based on their economic circumstances. To effectuate that impo… | |
| 23-928 | Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states | (i) Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), which prohibits the "harbor[ing]" of anyone who is in the United States illegally, … | |
| 23-925 | Michael Shane McCormick, Sr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | circuit-split consultation-duty criminal-appeal criminal-conviction defendant-consultation defense-counsel flores-ortega lower-court-confusion reasonable-effort sixth-amendment | Under the Sixth Amendment, counsel's duty to "consult" regarding a criminal appeal has two independent requirements—"advising the defendant about the … | |
| 23A777 | Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Presumed Complete | background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii | Question not identified. | |
| 23A770 | Dearnta Lavon Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence firearms-charge predicate-offense statutory-interpretation vicar-statute | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6808 | Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6809 | Warren Lee Mackey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony | Circuits are applying different tests to gauge prejudice resulting from testimony that improperly bolsters or vouches for the testimony of another wit… |
| 23-894 | Gregory O. Garmong v. Maupin, Cox & Legoy | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | 28-usc-1447c bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure martin-v-franklin-capital-corp remand-fees removal removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | The petitioner brought a breach of contract action in Nevada state court against the law firm which represented him in a bankruptcy filed by his ex-wi… | |
| 23-890 | In Re Batia Zareh | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection 23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext | Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements (52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) by authorizing coverage a… | |
| 23-6784 | Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa circuit-split constitutional-rights equitable-tolling habeas-corpus rigid-approach statute-of-limitations totality-of-circumstances | QUESTION 1: Equitable Tolling: Whether the Holland Court's direction to review with flexibility the circumstances warranting equitable tolling is cons… |
| 23-6790 | James Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-sentencing ineffective-assistance mens-rea sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Counsel ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment for failing to recognize and address the methamphetamine disparity violation committed by the … |
| 23-884 | Marco Antonio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm… |
| 23-879 | Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent | Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment. |
| 23-876 | KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-02-14 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | administrative-law chevron-deference circuit-split federal-mine-safety-and-health-act federal-regulation mine-safety mining statutory-interpretation transportation | 1. Whether a truck or a truck repair shop that is not located at nor is adjacent to an extraction or processing site or an appurtenant road is a "coal… |
| 23-872 | Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use | 1. Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? 2. S… |
| 23-6749 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu… |
| 23-6733 | Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based … |
| 23-871 | Lotus Vaping Technologies, LLC v. Food and Drug Administration | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (4) | administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems fair-warning flavored-products food-and-drug-administration marketing-applications | Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev… |
| 23-867 | Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-02-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | asset-commingling burden-of-proof circuit-split commercial-nexus expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law pleading-stage pleading-standard | (1) Whether historical commingling of assets suffices to establish that proceeds of seized property have a commercial nexus with the United States un… |
| 23-6724 | Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | In Blackledge v. Perry, 417 U.S. 21 (1974), and Menna v. New York, 423 U.S. 61 (1975), this Court held that a defendant who pleads guilty can still ra… |
| 23-859 | Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step | Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6702 | Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses | 1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of specific stat… |
| 23-846 | City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that the community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage, contrary to its own p… |
| 23-840 | HomeServices of America, Inc., et al. v. Scott Burnett, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | arbitrability-determination arbitration arbitration-delegation circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation dispute-resolution federal-arbitration-act nonsignatory nonsignatory-liability standing | The signatories to a contract agreed to arbitrate any claim or dispute arising out of the contract and delegated to the arbitrator the power to determ… |
| 23A726 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-832 | Moshe Porat v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Relisted (5) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-6661 | Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP | 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias. 2. Whether the Un… |
| 23-825 | Salvatore Delligatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23A704 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-conviction prescription-law ruan-precedent standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6600 | Richard Daniel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split covered-offense discretionary-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion sentencing-package-doctrine sentencing-reduction | Where a defendant was sentenced for multiple offenses, some of which are now covered by § 404 of the First Step Act while others are not covered, does… |
| 23-6602 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 23-803 | Shannon Donoho v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (4) | child-pornography circuit-split due-process federal-criminal-statute lascivious-exhibition minor-protection secret-recording sexually-explicit-conduct visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce a depiction of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), b… |
| 23-799 | Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration | Second Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split comparative-efficacy electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems ends-products fda-regulation marketing-authorization reliance-interests youth-access | Whether FDA's denial of Petitioner's marketing applications for flavored ENDS was arbitrary and capricious where FDA based the denial solely on a prev… |
| 23-795 | Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation | Second Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights | The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim… |
| 23-6545 | Stephen Christopher Plunkett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing | A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit completely flout this Court's precedent as set forth in Buck v. Davis . 580 U.S. 100 … |
| 23-6552 | In Re Vincent Pisciotta | 2024-01-24 | Denied | IFP | arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation | Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con… | |
| 23-6546 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23-788 | Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the… |
| 23-776 | Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A… | |
| 23-767 | Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary | Federal courts do not hear divorce disputes. That is because our system of federalism retains for the states special expertise in domestic matters. Th… |
| 23-764 | Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly | Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing? |
| 23-6489 | Robert E. Harrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6494 | Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 | This petition is concerned with the denial of a new trial motion under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, filed well after the … |
| 23-6499 | Pete Manning v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law time-of-consequences time-of-conviction | In federal sentencing, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines typically call for a higher advisory Guidelines range if the defendant has been convicted of a p… |
| 23-6503 | David Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech fundamental-rights pretrial-claims prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-vindictiveness standing | When a defendant presents strong circumstantial evidence of possible vindictiveness beyond mere correlation, can a presumption of vindictiveness arise… |
| 23-6480 | Joseph D. Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-defense entrapment-defense entrapment-doctrine exceptional-national-importance first-amendment government-manufacturing government-manufacturing-criminals predisposition | Whether this Court's review of the entrapment doctrine is necessary to: (1) resolve the circuit split that has created no less than four disparate te… |
| 23-754 | Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment | 1. Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? 2. Does a Court of Appeals impermiss… | |
| 23-752 | Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor… |
| 23-6461 | Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6451 | Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | IFP | abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review | 1. Are a district court's findings that a habeas corpus petitioner's attorney abandoned him "from the beginning" and "for the entirety of [his] state … |
| 23-748 | Langston Austin, et al. v. Glynn County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | 11th-amendment circuit-split eleventh-amendment eleventh-circuit employment-law fair-labor-standards-act individual-liability public-officials state-officials | This case presents a clear conflict among the circuit courts regarding the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et… | |
| 23-741 | Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law | Whether the cross-appeal rule, which prohibits the granting of a remedy in favor of an appellee absent the filing of a cross-appeal, is jurisdictional… | |
| 23A634 | Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-734 | Jody Rose, Administratrix of the Estate of Kyree Devon Holman, Deceased v. PSA Airlines, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-remedies erisa fiduciary-duty monetary-remedies statutory-interpretation | Are non-tracing monetary remedies (e.g., surcharge) available under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) to ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries asserting brea… | |
| 23-6421 | Remberto Rivera v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6424 | Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1591 18-usc-1594 circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy mandatory-minimum sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | When two Sex Trafficking statutes combine into a single Count, does the penalty for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 1594(c) which h… |
| 23-6413 | Donald Bill Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering | 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d… |
| 23-720 | Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation | Plea agreements often include a general waiver of the right to appeal. Circuits are divided over whether the inclusion of such a term bars a defendant… |
| 23A608 | J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6397 | Jaime Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 23-6382 | Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6361 | Victor Grant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-drug-schedules serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(i), incorporates the federal drug schedules t… |
| 23A591 | Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | article-ii circuit-split constitutional-error guilty-plea maritime-drug-law subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 23A592 | Republic of Hungary, et al. v. Rosalie Simon, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | burden-of-proof circuit-split expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law property-tracing | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6347 | Trayone Lefferio Bell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-loss administrative-deference circuit-split federal-sentencing-guidelines fraud-guidelines intended-loss kisor-v-wilke loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the intended loss commentary to the fraud guidelines § 2B1.1(b)(1) violate this court's decision Kisor v. Wilke, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019). |
| 23-6332 | Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error? |
| 23-6336 | Javier Garibay Mendoza, aka Javier Garibay Mendoza-Romero, aka Jose Mendoza-Romero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-obligations procedural-requirements sentencing-guidelines upward-variance | Under Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 50 (2007), a district court imposing an outside-Guidelines sentence "must consider the extent of the deviati… |
| 23-677 | Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc., et al. v. Anastasia Wullschleger, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-question jurisdiction post-removal-amendment removal removal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction | This Petition presents two separate but related questions concerning the ability of a plaintiff, in an action properly removed to federal court pursua… |
| 23-6305 | Brendan Hunt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat | A jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a "true threat" takes it outside the First Amendment. The consequence is that the stat… |
| 23-658 | Medical Transportation Management, Inc. v. Isaac Harris, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification commonality federal-rules-of-civil-procedure policy-uniformity rule-23 significant-proof uniform-policy | Where class certification is based on allegations that a defendant's policy or practice has injured class members, what constitutes "significant proof… |
| 23-661 | Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation-doctrine delegation-of-arbitrability gateway-questions nonsignatories nonsignatory third-party-beneficiary | When an arbitration agreement delegates gateway questions of arbitrability to the arbitrator, may a court still interpret the agreement for itself to … |
| 23A561 | Anne Davis, on Behalf of Braeden Davis v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2023-12-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split disabilities-education idea individualized-education-program placement stay-put | Whether and to what extent a school district has obligations under the stay-put provision when a student's existing placement becomes unavailable. | |
| 23A550 | Karyn D. Stanley v. City of Sanford, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination employment-discrimination post-employment-benefits title-i | Does Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability with respect to benefits earned during an emplo… | |
| 23-6244 | Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-635 | Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure | 1. Has a claim been "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never … | |
| 23-638 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations | Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 23-639 | Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas | This case implicates two persistent conflicts of authority with regard to how courts are to determine whether a person suffers from an intellectual di… | |
| 23A538 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud | Whether deceit aimed at influencing a victim's spending decision, without contemplating economic injury, is property fraud under the mail and wire fra… | |
| 23-625 | Tel James Boam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 23-6203 | Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo | Petitioner ask this Honorable Court to resolve the Circuit split, whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establish… |
| 23-6210 | Andrew Pierson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience | 1. Whether exceptions exist for the general proposition that the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not apply to foreign searches and seizure. An… |
| 23-622 | Dale Thrush v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion | 1. Whether this Court should adopt an objectively reasonable approach when evaluating whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supporte… |
| 23-615 | John Felix Castleman, Sr., et ux. v. Dennis Lee Burman, Chapter 7 Trustee | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-conversion chapter-13 chapter-7 circuit-split debtor-rights homestead homestead-exemption property-rights valuation | Whether, when a debtor in good faith converts a bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 after confirmation of a Chapter 13 plan, the post-petition, pre-conversio… |
| 23-6177 | Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact | Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did… |
| 23-591 | Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts ' adherence to issue preclusion doctri… |
| 23-596 | Yoseph Yadessa Kenno v. Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion newly-discovered-evidence pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-59 rule-59-motion spoliation-of-evidence | 1. Whether the Lower Courts violated Supreme Court precedents governing pro se pleading by construing my pro se Rule 59(a) motion expressly seeking a … |
| 23A510 | Larry Coates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | auer-deference circuit-split kisor-deference sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity stinson-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 23A509 | Melynda Vincent v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | bruen-test circuit-split constitutional-history firearm-possession non-violent-felony second-amendment | Whether the federal ban on felons' possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), is consistent with the Second Amendment as applied to non-violent f… | |
| 23-6157 | Mario Alberto Netro-Perales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law circuit-split deference federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states | 1. The circuits have split over the extent of deference that is to be given to the commentaries to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines after the decisio… |
| 23-6151 | Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines | This Court's precedent precludes the use of clearly erroneous facts to influence a criminal defendant's sentence. Here, the district court assumed the… |
| 23A496 | Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Presumed Complete | aedpa circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus merits-review state-court-decision | Question not identified. | |
| 23-583 | Amina Bouarfa v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-30 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (3) | administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review nondiscretionary-criteria revocation visa-petition | Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria. |
| 23-577 | Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Surface Transportation Board, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-11-29 | Denied | administrative-law circuit-split court-of-appeals deference hobbs-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-question kisor-v-wilkie legal-background procedural-background statutory-provisions surface-transportation-board | The Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board) is authorized by statute to exempt certain transactions involving rail carriers from the antitrust law… | |
| 23-578 | Christopher Kinzy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-579 | Shenzen Sanlida Electrical Technology Company, Limited, et al. v. Whirlpool Corporation, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunctive-relief notice-requirement personal-jurisdiction preliminary-injunction rule-65 | Should the district court consider personal jurisdiction when issuing a preliminary injunction order under Rule 65? | |
| 23A483 | Salvador Magluta v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Presumed Complete | acquitted-conduct circuit-split compassionate-release sentence-modification sentencing-guidelines solitary-confinement | Question not identified. | |
| 23A476 | Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split eighth-circuit legislative-privilege mandamus subpoena-power voting-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 23A478 | Rufus E. Dennis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor | Question not identified. | |
| 23-568 | Robert Bartlett, et al. v. Muhammad Baasiri, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-1603 circuit-split complaint-filing-time dole-food-precedent dole-food-v-patrickson foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity instrumentality-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination standing | Whether a defendant's status as an instrumentality of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1603(b)(2) "is determined at the time of the filing of the com… |
| 23-570 | Jacqueline Avery v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | administrative-regulations benefit-claims circuit-split claims-procedure erisa essential-purpose judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation substantial-compliance | Under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1133, employee benefit plans must, in accordance with th… | |
| 23-572 | Dustin Williams, et al. v. Randall McElhaney | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights extracurricular-activities first-amendment free-speech parent-speech-rights qualified-immunity school-rules | Where a parent who has voluntarily agreed to be bound by team rules for their minor to play in an extracurricular academic setting including rules tha… | |
| 23-6118 | T'Shaun Omar Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance federal-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-construction legal-definition state-law statutory-interpretation vehicle-for-review | In the absence of an explicit definition, is the definition of "controlled substance" in the federal sentencing guidelines controlled by federal or st… |
| 23A474 | Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Presumed Complete | administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets | Question not identified. | |
| 23-565 | Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party | What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act? | |
| 23-552 | Ambassador Animal Hospital, Ltd. v. Elanco Animal Health Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split fax fcc-regulation hobbs-act junk-fax-prevention-act marketing telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement | Defendants sent brochures to Ambassador's fax machine inviting the veterinarian to call a salesperson and RSVP to attend a free educational dinner pro… |
| 23-555 | Louis A. Wilson v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-11-22 | Denied | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons habeas habeas-corpus non-retroactive-law sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction u-s-sentencing-commission | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), can non-retroactive changes in the law constitute "extraordinary and compelling reasons" authorizing a district court… | |
| 23-6092 | Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder | Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6099 | Carlos Noe Gallegos v. Texas | Texas | 2023-11-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split citizenship-denaturalization denaturalization guilty-plea habeas-corpus immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel naturalized-citizenship padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky prejudice-standard | 1. Should the Court resolve the circuit split regarding whether Padilla applies to denaturalization consequences flowing from a guilty plea? 2. Did t… |
| 23-6082 | Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery | Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps by ignoring Borden and expanding "robbery" (as enumerated as a "crime of viole… |
| 23-6087 | Ronell Whitehead v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | IFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23-6063 | Kieffer Michael Simmons v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment judicial-immunity subpoena witness witness-subpoena | 1. Whether Simmons should have been entitled to judicial immunity for his subpoenaed witness, who would have offered exculpatory evidence at trial. 2… |
| 23-6065 | Tyrone Kevin Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(o) actual-innocence circuit-split criminal-procedure hobbs-act jurisdiction post-conviction post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit's wanton disregard for Taylor and its progeny in erecting an illogical and legally erroneous barrier to relief for § … |
| 23-537 | Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement | Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree… |
| 23-6048 | Elvis Redzepagic v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-517 | Jeffrey Pratt v. Tony Helms, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Camden County, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-courts circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claim federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-misconduct johnson-v-city-of-shelby meritorious-claims pleadings-doctrine | 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit, in contravention to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the precedent set forth by this Court in Johnson v. City o… |
| 23-521 | Denise Fisher v. Jodi M. Moore, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity state-action state-created-danger | Whether the Court should hold that it was clearly established by November 2019 that the Due Process Clause prohibits state officials from knowingly pl… |
| 23-515 | Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Utrecht-America Holdings, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-rights rule-12(b)(6) rule-56 summary-judgment | Is the Seventh Circuit correct in its view (contrary to that of other courts of appeals) that a district court may, in response to a motion made pursu… | |
| 23A435 | Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications | Question not identified. | |
| 23A421 | Magellan Technology, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration | Second Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law arbitrary-and-capricious circuit-split evidentiary-standards fair-notice fda-regulation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-506 | Occidental Exploration and Production Company v. Andes Petroleum Ecuador Limited | Second Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Granted | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirement evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-precedent second-circuit | Whether an arbitrator's failure to disclose a relationship evinces evident partiality if it shows the arbitrator "might reasonably be thought biased,"… |
| 23-509 | John Doe v. Rollins College | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split doe-v-purdue procedural-deficiencies sex-discrimination summary-judgment title-ix | 1. Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits as to the proper test for sex discrimination under 20 U.S.C. § 1681 in Title IX of the Ed… |
| 23-6005 | Ehab Sadeek v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden | In the admitted absence of established circuit precedent, was it plain error for the appellate court to affirm Petitioner's 405-month sentence based o… |
| 23-495 | Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act | Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. … |
| 23-479 | Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | circuit-split contract-law federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-transportation residual-clause seamen-railroad-employees statutory-interpretation transportation-worker-exemption transportation-workers | Does the residual clause in Section 1 of the FAA exempt a class of transportation workers that directly transports passengers across state lines, but … | |
| 23-5967 | Andrew Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-7 circuit-split civil-procedure due-process exemption-law settlement-valuation standing trustee trustee-conflict | Does the U.S. Trustee Program create conflicts of interest vis-a-vis the debtor in chapter 7 cases where the judge, trustee, and trustee's lawyer are … |
| 23-5962 | Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation | Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 23-476 | Centinela Skilled Nursing & Wellness Centre West, LLC, et al. v. Shalimah Abdullah, as Legal Representative and Successor-in-Interest of Eric Holloway, Deceased, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23A404 | Lisa Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split court-order exculpatory-evidence judicial-process prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-463 | Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy | In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this court held that laws that "defin[e] regulated speech by particular subject matter" are "obvious[ly]" content-based an… |
| 23-5939 | Brett Northington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation | Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5946 | Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence | L. As held by other Circuits, the physical restraint enhancement in US.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone, and the Ele… |
| 23A394 | Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court | Question not identified. | |
| 23A393 | Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 23A391 | Bernard Gadson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5913 | Julio Rolon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-5893 | Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement? |
| 23A379 | Tug Hill Operating, LLC v. Lastephen Rogers | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Presumed Complete | arbitrability arbitration-agreement circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act non-signatory | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5875 | Andres Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | IFP | agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-5869 | Craig Martin Shults v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard mutually-exclusive severance standard zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states | Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid "irreconcilable and mutually exclusive" standard for severance survives this Court's decision in Zafiro v. United St… |
| 23A367 | Joseph Randolph Mays v. T.B. Smith, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment prison-officials race-discrimination | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5858 | Anthony Schneider v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor | A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). The f… |
| 23-424 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Jennifer Miller, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | circuit-split delivery-drivers employment-contract federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce local-deliveries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in f… |
| 23-5846 | Jong Whan Kim v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts indictment mens-rea plea-hearing rule-11 | Is it error for a district court to rely on a defendant's pre-hearing review of the indictment to inform him of the nature of the offense? |
| 23-5852 | Kareem Davis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence modified-categorical-approach racketeering statutory-interpretation | Is murder in aid of racketeering ("VICAR murder'), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), an indivisible offense requiring a categorical analysis bas… |
| 23A356 | Laura Barbour Bowes, as Executor of the Estate of Eva Palmer v. Liberty University, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting circuit-split employment-discrimination McDonnell-Douglas ministerial-exception prima-facie-case | Question not identified. | |
| 23-414 | Devon Archer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence | 1. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 permits a district court to order a new trial "if the interest of justice so requires." The district court he… |
| 23-417 | Ron Rutledge v. Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County, Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure employment-discrimination evidence honest-belief-defense mcdonnell-douglas mcdonnell-douglas-test pretext-analysis summary-judgment | 1. Does the honest belief defense violate the axiomatic law of summary judgment requiring the evidence and inferences to be viewed in favor of the non… | |
| 23-5815 | Emily Claire Hari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic | Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5790 | Brock Brian Beeman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice | Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5793 | Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention | Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention, as this Court held in Brendlin v. California, or… |
| 23-5786 | Mark Andre Green v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court borden-precedent borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence legal-analysis sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Texas state law aggravated assault by injury can be considered a crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines in light of this Court's… |
| 23-390 | Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effects-clause foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation u.s.-jurisdictional-requirements | Whether, to establish a "direct effect in the United States" under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(2), a plaintiff must make an extratextual showing that either the… | |
| 23-392 | Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix | Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause dictate a single national policy that prohibits local schools from maintaining separate bathrooms base… |
| 23-5779 | Donovan Romo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23A318 | Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Presumed Complete | breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary | Question not identified. | |
| 23A319 | Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-10-12 | Presumed Complete | appellate-waiver circuit-split material-support-for-terrorism military-commission-review military-commissions-act plea-agreement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5755 | Dewayne Joseph v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split discretion discretionary-relief fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether district courts have an obligation to calculate revised guidelines to reflect the retroactive effect of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 as … |
| 23-5761 | Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court | First Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle … |
| 23-365 | Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al. v. Douglas J. Horn | Second Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-damages civil-rico economic-harm personal-injury rico rico-act statutory-interpretation | Whether economic harms resulting from personal injuries are injuries to "business or property by reason of" the defendant's acts for purposes of civil… |
| 23-367 | Starbucks Corporation v. M. Kathleen McKinney, Regional Director of Region 15 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the National Labor Relations Board | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (16)Relisted (2) | administrative-law circuit-split federal-district-courts national-labor-relations-act national-labor-relations-board preliminary-injunction unfair-labor-practices | Whether courts must evaluate the NLRB's requests for section 10(j) injunctions under the traditional, stringent four-factor test for preliminary injun… |
| 23-5713 | Delvarez Long v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states | In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act bars federal courts from imposing or lengthening a pris… |
| 23-5706 | Darrell Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution | The question presented here is, "can the courts prosecute (indict, try and sentence) indigent Companies without legal representation?" Without legal r… |
| 23-5691 | Ricardo Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5698 | Roy Christopher West v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity | 1) Whether the Sixth Circuit's Threshold Determination of No Compelling Reasons Under the First Step Act of 2018 for Compassionate Release is Erroneou… |
| 23-5672 | Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants | Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-337 | Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law circuit-split competition-analysis judicial-review less-restrictive-alternative procompetitive-justification restraint-of-trade rule-of-reason sherman-act | This case presents two critical questions regarding the legal standards governing the Rule of Reason, which determines the outcome of nearly every She… | |
| 23-324 | Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate than t… |
| 23-322 | Affordable Care, L.L.C. v. Raeline K. McIntyre, DMD, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-award arbitrator-bias bias circuit-split confirmation disclosure-requirements discovery evident-partiality judicial-review reasonable-impression | 1. Where an arbitrator and opposing counsel fail to disclose significant connections, does a party just have to show the "reasonable impression" of bi… |
| 23-305 | Larry Rice v. Interfood, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 12(b)(6) circuit-split civil-procedure contract-breach dismissal federal-jurisdiction merits missouri-law redressability standing summary-judgment | I. Whether a federal court can rule on the merits of a complaint or counterclaim without first ruling on standing. II. Whether the court can decide t… |
| 23-306 | The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | actual-loss avoided-costs circuit-split damages defend-trade-secrets-act federal-statute misappropriation trade-secrets unjust-enrichment | Whether a plaintiff may seek avoided costs as a measure of unjust-enrichment damages if and only if the plaintiff has suffered a "compensable harm bey… |
| 23-308 | Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights | Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 (1976), is permissible only when… | |
| 23A265 | Jaswinder Singh v. Uber Technologies, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Presumed Complete | arbitration-exemption circuit-split federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether rideshare drivers are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any o… | |
| 23-281 | Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review | Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion of de novo? |
| 23-286 | Windsor Oakridge Healthcare Center, LP, et al. v. Valerie Turner, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-287 | Vernon Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Debra Ann Blackmon, By and Through Her Guardian ad Litem, Latasha Bracks | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | Does the PREP Act completely preempt state law claims against a covered person relating to the administration or use of a covered countermeasure, such… |
| 23-288 | Novato Healthcare Center, LLC, et al. v. Angelina Martinez | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-291 | Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention | Whether Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioner's constitutional challen… |
| 23-292 | Riverside Healthcare and Wellness Centre, LLC, et al. v. Latifa Khan, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to Nafiu Khan, Deceased | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-294 | San Pablo Healthcare & Wellness Center, LLC v. Lynetta Westbrook | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights covered-countermeasure emergency-preparedness federal-jurisdiction federal-removal preemption public-health public-health-emergency removal willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-295 | San Marino Gardens Wellness Center, LP, dba Pasadena Park Healthcare and Wellness Center v. Susan Olmes, Individually and as Heir and Successor in Interest to the Estate of Michael Olmes | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split complete-preemption covered-countermeasure federal-jurisdiction federal-removal PREP-Act public-health-emergency willful-misconduct | "[W]hen a federal statute wholly displaces" a plaintiff's "state-law cause of action through complete pre-emption," the defendant may remove the case … |
| 23-267 | Marilyn Williams v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure final-decision interlocutory-ruling rule-41 rule-41(a) voluntary-dismissal | Does an interlocutory ruling that dismisses some (but not all) of a plaintiff's claims with prejudice become an appealable "final decision" if the pla… |
| 23-268 | Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. | Texas | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split disability-discrimination fair-housing-act knowledge-element reasonable-accommodation statutory-interpretation | Whether an FHAA reasonable-accommodation disability claim under 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3) is barred if the defendant does not know or could not have reas… |
| 23-5619 | Jordan Winczuk v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-259 | Lewis County, Kentucky, et al. v. Julie Helphenstine, Administratrix of the Estate of Christopher Dale Helphenstine and Guardian of B. D. H., the Minor Son of Christopher Dale Helphenstine | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment objective-knowledge pretrial-detainee prison-officials qualified-immunity separation-of-powers | Whether a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference must prove the defendant actually knew of a significant risk of harm, as six circuits hav… |
| 23-5601 | In Re Michael Kenny Carter | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5602 | Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs… |
| 23-5603 | Gilbert Edwin v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure hostile-work-environment interlocutory-orders law-of-case law-of-the-case racial-discrimination reconsideration rule-54(b) rule-54b time-limitations workers-compensation | This appeal presents this Court with an opportunity to resolve an conflict in the Circuits concerning the construction of Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), namely w… |
| 23-5566 | Scott A. Anthony v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 23-5572 | Joseph W. Fischer v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-09-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split congressional-inquiry congressional-investigations criminal-procedure mens-rea obstruction-of-justice statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering | Did the D.C. Circuit err in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ("Witness, Victim, or Informant Tampering"), which prohibits obstruction of congressional i… |
| 23-240 | David L. Smith v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-relief disgorgement due-process judicial-review rule-60b4 sec-enforcement standing takings void-judgment | Is Petitioner entitled to collateral relief from an extra-legal "disgorgement" order, which the SEC had no power to obtain, and the district court had… |
| 23-227 | Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights | 1. Whether words printed on clothing are pure speech, and thus presumptively entitled to First Amendment protection—as the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Ci… |
| 23-236 | Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Judgment Issued | administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction | In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danco's drug Mifeprex for termination of early pregnancy based on the agency's expert judgmen… | |
| 23-5556 | William L. Gladney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23-5562 | Paul Dubois v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure court-conflict criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-law judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-review standing | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES OF APPEALS HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ON THE SAME JUDTIC… |
| 23A235 | Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Presumed Complete | 17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property | Question not identified. | |
| 23-217 | E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Faustino Sanchez Carrera, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | burden-of-proof circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence employment-law fair-labor-standards-act flsa-exemptions overtime-pay preponderance-of-evidence wage-exemption | Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of an FLSA exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence—… |
| 23-219 | Sherman Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… | |
| 23-5546 | Richard Sansbury v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement | The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-5539 | Trezjuan Thompson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents | 1) How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifie… |
| 23-213 | Brian O'Grady v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-liability negligence subject-matter-jurisdiction wildland-fire wildland-fire-response | In Rayonier, infra, this c ourt held that the Federal tort c laims Act (F tcA) "makes the u nited States liable ( with certain exceptions which are no… |
| 23-5535 | Michael Rocky Lane v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim brady-rule circuit-split clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | I. Whether The Circuit Courts Have Decided An Important Question Of Federal Law That Should Be Definitively Settled By This Court? II. Whether 28 U.S… |
| 23-204 | WY Plaza LC v. Safeway Stores 46 Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Denied | affirmance affirmance-standard alternative-bases alternative-grounds appellate-procedure brief-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-waiver waiver | Whether an appellee is obligated to raise all alternative bases for affirmance in its answer brief, or risk waiver of those alternative bases, in cont… | |
| 23-196 | Jade Mound, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | budgetary-considerations circuit-court-conflict circuit-split discretionary-function-exception failure-to-warn federal-tort-claims-act government-liability latent-danger public-safety warning-duty | When the government is alleged to have tortiously neglected to warn the public of a known, latent danger, whether the de minimis cost of posting such … | |
| 23-5490 | Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth | (1) Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule; and if so, (2) What it is the appropriate method to deter… |
| 23-186 | Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 | Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the… |
| 23-5462 | Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package | 1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat… |
| 23A182 | Bruce R. Sands, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-28 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split conditions-of-confinement deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment habeas-corpus section-2241 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-175 | City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Judgment Issued | Amici (109)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-citations constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment homeless-rights homelessness public-camping | Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Ei… |
| 23-5439 | Steven Huffman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states circuit-conflict circuit-split force-clause marks-rule marks-v-united-states mental-state reckless-assault violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five members of this Court vacated a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Cri… |
| 23-5437 | Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness sentencing-guidelines sophisticated-means substantive-reasonableness upward-variance | 1. Whether the Appellant is deprived of Due Process and fundamentalsairness where the district court applies a sophisticated means enhancement based u… |
| 23A165 | Arun Kumar Bhattacharya v. State Bank of India | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split commercial-activity-exception direct-effect foreign-relations foreign-sovereign-immunities-act sovereign-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5397 | Emanuel Beach v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23-5389 | Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument | Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-156 | Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (9) | bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration | Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech. |
| 23-147 | Leander Mann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | aedpa-statute circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus habeas-petition statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether equitable tolling stops the clock on the AEDPA statute of limitations during periods of extraordinary circumstances, as the Second and Elev… | |
| 23-5369 | Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation | In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922… |
| 23A133 | Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Presumed Complete | bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search | 1. Because recognizing a Bivens action "is 'a disfavored judicial activity," it is settled that no Bivens claim may lie where "there is any rational r… | |
| 23A123 | Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal | Question not identified. | |
| 23A122 | The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Presumed Complete | avoided-costs circuit-split Defend-Trade-Secrets-Act remedial-damages trade-secret-misappropriation unjust-enrichment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-131 | Falkbuilt Ltd., et al. v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | alternative-forum circuit-split civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens gulf-oil-corp-v-gilbert international-comity international-litigation jurisdictional-dismissal multi-defendant-case piper-aircraft-co-v-reyno | Whether, in a multi-defendant case, district courts are legally prohibited from dismissing any defendant under the doctrine of forum non conveniens un… |
| 23-5338 | Keith A. Penn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | IFP | attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5345 | Henry Robledo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation | Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 23-5331 | Al Douglas Wordly v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 23-5332 | Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure | How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn… |
| 23-120 | United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint | Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c… |
| 23-122 | Wilmington Trust, N.A., et al. v. Marlow Henry, on Behalf of the BSC Ventures Holding, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan | Third Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure effective-vindication erisa federal-arbitration-act individual-arbitration statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), prohibits individual arbitra… | |
| 23A113 | Carolyn Frost Keenan v. River Oaks Property Owners, Inc. | Texas | 2023-08-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split deed-restrictions disability fair-housing-amendments-act property-owners-association reasonable-accommodation | Question not identified. | |
| 23A110 | Taylor J. Matson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Presumed Complete | attempted-child-enticement circuit-split evidentiary-standards expert-testimony jury-trial law-enforcement-agents | Question not identified. | |
| 23-111 | United States, ex rel. Howard Beck v. St. Joseph Health System, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions rule-59 timely-appeal | Whether a court-created exception barring successive post-judgment motions can deprive a court of appeals of jurisdiction over an appeal that is timel… |
| 23-108 | James E. Snyder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9) | 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation | Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any… |
| 23-109 | Janis Wolf v. Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, LLP | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies credit-transaction debt-collection deferred-payment fair-credit-reporting-act homeowners-association | This case asks whether a typical HOA assessment qualifies as an FCRA "credit transaction" that authorizes an HOA to obtain a homeowner's credit report… |
| 23-5276 | German Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-88 | Jerry L. Brown v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence resentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-reduction | Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting resentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 23-5236 | Marvas Aurelien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses | I. Whether the "controlled substance" definition in United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) incorporates the federal drug schedules in effect at… |
| 23-5228 | Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness | Where a district court exercises its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act to deny a sentence reduction to a defendant with a "covered… |
| 23-80 | Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation | Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to the… |
| 23-5188 | Mark Anthony Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s… |
| 23A71 | Direct Energy, LP v. Matthew Dickson | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury-in-fact ringless-voicemail telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-communications | 1. This case presents an important question of Article III standing—namely, whether a plaintiff can establish a concrete injury in fact by identifying… | |
| 23-67 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-68 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law | 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-63 | San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | 15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law | Question 1: In trademark disputes, the alleged infringing party often seeks declarations that the mark of the opposing party (i) is not infringed and … | |
| 23-5172 | Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights | Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-5174 | Dionte Houff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-statute jurisdiction plea-agreement retroactive-application statutory-and-constitutional-issues supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-appeal | Can a plea agreement that contains a waiver of appeal bar a direct appeal of a conviction and/or sentence based on a statute that this Court later rul… |
| 23A57 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eighth-amendment-sentencing federal-standards jerome-presumption sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-50 | Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 | To make out a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must show that legal process was instituted without pro… |
| 23-51 | Neal Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14) | circuit-split employment-contract employment-contracts federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce railroad-employees seamen statutory-interpretation transportation-industry | To be exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, must a class of workers that is actively engaged in interstate transportation also be employed by a com… |
| 23-5148 | Bernard Edmond v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-factors first-step-act resentencing retroactive-application sentencing-disparity | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THIS APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND RESOLVE A SPLIT BETWEEN THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURTS AND APPLY RETROACTIVELY… |
| 23-5149 | Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief … |
| 23-5130 | Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation | 1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? 2) Should … |
| 23-5139 | Jacinto Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another? |
| 23-5114 | Leroy C. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance eighth-circuit-interpretation federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under § 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded state schedul… |
| 23-5105 | Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony | Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t… |
| 23-5109 | Carl Lindsey v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus key-witness overwhelming-evidence post-judgment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-immunity witness-credibility | I. Carl Lindsey was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death based on the critical testimony of Kathy Kerr, the lone witness to testify t… |
| 23-5099 | Dustin Jolly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 23-5072 | Dorothy Pearl Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 23A29 | Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Presumed Complete | capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice | Question not identified. | |
| 23-30 | Argent Trust Company, et al. v. Robert Harrison | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration circuit-split civil-procedure class-action erisa federal-arbitration-act federal-law individual-arbitration statutory-claims statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether a participant in a plan governed by ERISA who asserts statutory claims under that statute can be compel… |
| 23-5076 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force | Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-27 | Michael Harper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states | Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… | |
| 23-15 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the issue of trademark infringement was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and t… |
| 23-5012 | Matthew Nix v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court | 1. Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate r… |
| 23-5020 | Christopher Delgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard | Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is "inextricab… |
| 22-7890 | Christopher Ochoa v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th … |
| 22-7894 | Frankie Shearry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-1249 | Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law | Under 15 U.S.C. § 1065, certain trademarks are incontestable. All Circuits considering the issue, except the Eleventh, do not presume that an incontes… | |
| 22-1240 | Nicolas Tashman v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-27 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights employment employment-discrimination respondeat-superior statutory-interpretation supreme-court tortious-acts | 42 U.S.C. § 1981 guarantees that "[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to… | |
| 22-7872 | Carmelita Barela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | borden-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence force-definition hobbs-act mens-rea stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | The circuit courts have held unanimously that Hobbs Act robbery qualifies categorically as a "violent felony" and "crime of violence." Therefore, all … |
| 22-7862 | Lazaro Veliz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness | Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-1231 | Laird J. Heal v. Wells Fargo, N.A., as Trustee for WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Services 2006-PR2 Trust, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-estoppel motions-to-strike standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether the motions to strike under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(2) were decided correctly or if the First Circuit should apply a different legal standard as co… |
| 22-7839 | Christian Ruben Tirado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-question gang-paraphernalia supervised-release vagueness-doctrine | Is a special condition of supervised release that prohibits a supervisee from possessing any of a laundry list of items "known to represent associatio… |
| 22-7818 | Marshall M. Cohen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2256 child-pornography circuit-split creator's-intent federal-criminal-law four-corners-of-image intent-context lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation | Whether lasciviousness under 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v) may be found by examining the context in which the image was produced or the creator's intent, … |
| 22-7802 | James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-7806 | Travis Charles Werkmeister v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-trafficking federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea methamphetamine-importation scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should grant the Writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the two level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 (b) (5) contains… |
| 22-1216 | Dwayne Ferguson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-1218 | Wendy Smith, et al. v. Keith Spizzirri, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | arbitration-agreement circuit-conflict circuit-split dismiss district-court-procedure federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion section-3 statutory-interpretation stay | Whether Section 3 of the FAA requires district courts to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or whether district courts have discretion to dismiss whe… |
| 22-7792 | Diante Turman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing 22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in | Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission require judges to impose criminal sentences that take account of a penalty range advised by the Sentencing… |
| 22-7783 | Pinkney Clowers, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi circuit-split concepcion-v-united-states criminal-enterprise drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | When a jury convicted Pinkney Clowers of continuing a criminal enterprise, 21 U.S.C. § 484(b) mandated a life sentence because his offense involved at… |
| 22-1210 | Colgate-Palmolive Company, et al. v. Rebecca McCutcheon, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | actuarial-assumptions benefit-determination circuit-split deference erisa erisa-plan-administrator-discretion extrinsic-evidence judicial-interpretation plan-administrator statutory-and-regulatory | This Court has repeatedly held that when an ERISA plan expressly confers upon the plan administrator discretion to interpret its terms, that interpret… | |
| 22-1192 | Headstream Technologies, LLC v. FedEx Express | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | airline-deregulation-act circuit-split contract-formation intentional-fraud package-delivery preemption service-preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims summary-judgment | To foster economic competition among airlines, Congress in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits States from enacting or enforcing any law re… |
| 22-1200 | Lee Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states | Do the courts of appeals, under Young v. United States, 315 U.S. 257 (1942), have an "independent obligation" to craft and consider forfeited legal ar… | |
| 22-7755 | Jerome Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-sentencing-guidelines mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines state-drug-laws | Does McNeill require courts to define "controlled substance" under §§ 4B1.1 and 4B1.2 of the federal sentencing guidelines by consulting superseded st… |
| 22-7756 | Andre Zeno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum | Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7747 | Samuel Wilson, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness | Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or … |
| 22-1190 | Lavelle Hatley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split extortion hobbs-act robbery takings violent-felony | Under the mandated categorical approach, a prior conviction falls within the Armed Career Criminal Act's ("ACCA") definition of "violent felony" only … |
| 22-7716 | Minnela Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7717 | Christopher A. Bernard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness | This Court in Holguin-Hernandez held that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appella te review to the substan… |
| 22-1178 | Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10) | administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing | Individuals are sometimes removed from the No Fly List during ongoing litigation about their placement on that list. The Fourth and Sixth Circuits hav… |
| 22-7709 | Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7682 | Tyrin Gayle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity | I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief? II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7690 | Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7692 | Gregory Allen Oaks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault-offense circuit-split drunk-driving fourth-circuit mens-rea reckless-mens-rea violent-felony | In Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), five Justices of this Court agreed that offenses with a reckless mens rea do not qualify as a "vio… |
| 22-1165 | Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, et al. v. Moab Partners, L.P., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11)Response Waived | circuit-split item-303 item-303-disclosure material-fact private-right-of-action sec-regulation-s-k sec-rule-10b-5 section-10b securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 | Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding —in conflict with the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits—that a failure to make a disclosure required und… |
| 22-7650 | Nolan Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7635 | Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-7627 | Denis Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | Whether the "reason to believe" standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the … |
| 22-7628 | Robert Earl Gorham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a state court adjudication of the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is "c… |
| 22-7629 | Jose Luis Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | 1. Whether police may enter and perform a "protective sweep" of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sug… |
| 22-7584 | Kahliq Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-1111 | Chryssoula Marinos-Arsenis v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Relisted (3) | agency-guidance circuit-split contract-violation due-process false-claims-act government-payment implied-certification materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims Act is viable, and if so, whether it requires that the Defendant(s)… |
| 22-7528 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution sixth-amendment sovereign-delay speedy-trial state-prosecution | After indicting Mr. Garcia on federal charges, the government delayed bringing him into federal custody for 23 months as it waited for the completion … |
| 22-7517 | Phillip Daniel Love v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split district-court-explanation holguin-hernandez-v-united-states mitigating-arguments mitigation-arguments preservation-of-error rita-v-united-states sentencing-arguments sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | When a district court rejects a party's nonfrivolous sentencing argument, the court is required to explain why. Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 3… |
| 22-7518 | John William Iron Road v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award | Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-1085 | GCIU-Employer Retirement Fund, et al. v. MNG Enterprises, Inc., dba Digital First Media | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-sale circuit-split civil-procedure contribution-history employee-retirement-fund pension-fund successor-liability withdrawal-liability | Whether a predecessor's contribution history is properly included in the withdrawal liability assessments of its successor. |
| 22-7471 | Renzo Alegre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment internet-access sex-offenders supervised-release | Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) — which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter… |
| 22-7458 | Roger Wayne Battle v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7464 | Montez Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7439 | Julio Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guideline-interpretation ransom-crime sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in on the same conflict with the decision of other Courts Of Appeals important question of … |
| 22-7436 | Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text | When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7435 | Alex Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require a trial court to instruct, or refuse to instruct, the Jury on the fundamental meaning of "B… |
| 22-1055 | Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud | The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com… | |
| 22-1043 | Joshua Louis Rupp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split due-process government-inducement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Sixth Circuit split with the Second, and erroneously departed from this Court's jurisprudence, when it refused to honor the spirit of the … |
| 22-7376 | Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction | The miscarriage-of-justice gateway excuses a habeas petitioner from complying with certain procedural hurdles like AEDPA's statute of limitations if, … |
| 22-7361 | Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice. |
| 22-1025 | Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing | 1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened. 2.… |
| 22-1015 | Leon A. Brown, IV v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-courts burns-v-wilson circuit-split exculpatory-evidence military-habeas-corpus military-justice-act military-justice-act-of-1983 uniform-code-of-military-justice | L. Whether the Court should overrule Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953), where its validity has been undermined by a circuit split in its applicatio… |
| 22-1016 | Cardone Capital, LLC, et al. v. Luis Pino | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bespeaks-caution-doctrine circuit-split forward-looking-statements risk-disclosures securities-act seller-liability | It is a bedrock principle of the Securities Act that investors are responsible for bearing the risks of investments about which they are adequately wa… |
| 22-7308 | Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni… |
| 22-1006 | Prime Insurance Company v. Darnell Wright | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split federal-preemption financial-responsibility interstate-transportation intrastate-journey motor-carriers statutory-interpretation transportation | Whether a trip of an empty truck between two locations in the same state qualifies as "transportation of property … between a place in a State and … a… |
| 22-1008 | Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15) | administrative-procedure-act adverse-effect adversely-affected agency-action agency-rule circuit-split legal-wrong standing statute-of-limitations | Petitioner Corner Post, Inc. is a convenience store and truck stop in North Dakota that first opened for business in 2018. In 2021, Corner Post sued t… |
| 22-1010 | Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo | 1. Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory an… |
| 22-1011 | Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing | Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause, which presumes that information from a purported victim is inherently reliable, violate… |
| 22-7289 | 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 … |
| 22-999 | Janice C. Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cigna Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1291 appellate-review case-by-case-balancing circuit-split final-judgment interlocutory-orders merger-rules post-judgment-proceedings postjudgment-proceedings pragmatic-finality | May litigants wait until the end of postjudgment proceedings to appeal, with the scope of appeal including all related postjudgment decisions, or is t… |
| 22-7263 | Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-7237 | Eric Grzywinski v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen… |
| 22-7241 | Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah | Utah | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-7194 | Monquel Dejuan-Lee Paulk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split duenas-alvarez generic-crime realistic-probability sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-taylor | I. Is the reasoning of Taylor irrelevant to deciding whether an overbroad state crime qualifies as an ACCA predicate, as the Sixth Circuit held below?… |
| 22-7210 | David McCall, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason sentence-reduction sentencing-law | Whether a district court may consider the disparity in a sentence when the applicable sentencing law has changed, when the disparity is of a degree wh… |
| 22-7169 | Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-31 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review | Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi… |
| 22-946 | Martin Jay Manley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response Waived | borden categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility extreme-recklessness fourth-circuit mathis use-of-force vicar-statute violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of other circuits, in holding that for purposes of applying the categorical approach t… |
| 22-7095 | Efrain Avila-Flores v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | IFP | 8-usc-1326d administrative-procedure circuit-split due-process fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness immigration-law removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether a failure to advise an unrepresented alien in removal proceedings about relief for which he is apparently eligible, is a defect that can rende… |
| 22-935 | Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements | Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement, as the S… |
| 22-7069 | Sandy Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conditions-of-release due-process federal-supervised-release liberty-deprivation sex-offenders | In the context of federal supervised release, whether an absolute lifetime ban on communication with minors, with no exception for supervised contact … |
| 22-926 | U.S. Bank National Association v. Windstream Holdings, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine separation-of-powers | The lack of statutory and constitutional basis for the equitable mootness doctrine, combined with its demonstrated potential for abuse, require it to … |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-7053 | Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense | Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 22-7059 | Aaron M. Haynes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history-points criminal-justice federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-912 | James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (4) | circuit-split common-law common-law-backdrop federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar res-judicata statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar, 28 U.S.C. 2676, which this Court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-… |
| 22-914 | Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Denied | Relisted (5) | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal court may assume "hypothetical" subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging… |
| 22-906 | Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures | 1. Should the "actual malice" standard for state law defamation claims by "public figures" imposed by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (19… |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-886 | Blenheim Capital Holdings Ltd., et al. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split commercial-activity contract-law foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity fsia international-law jurisdictional-immunity military-procurement weltover | Is a foreign government's procurement of goods for a military purpose, through a contract with a U.S. company, commercial activity within the meaning … |
| 22-6990 | Scott Ray Bishop v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process presumption-against-waiver right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | In Von Moltke v. Gillies, this Court laid out a series of advisements that a defendant must understand before a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to… |
| 22-875 | Michael Meyers v. David Gomez, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-rationale strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | When faced with a Sixth Amendment claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, a court must determine whether counsel's performance "fell below an obj… |
| 22-6982 | Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard | WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT… |
| 22-6936 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance murder-conviction ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy state-court statutory-interpretation | 7W Ccur-f of far W. Ekv^J-U\ ^-ff'rr/vei -W, of Mo^-'cwvj -fr /wo d rfr^ ^ -f,'osjC (KrC^ ? oC feJrr4-,'0Ki€r /y of (JfJ *T4-f ^ <*f £b~f)r'g}tWold?ts… |
| 22-6945 | Derrick Owens v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines | Did the district court err by finding that Mr. Owens is a Career Offender pursuant to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines because the Indiana cocaine convi… |
| 22-828 | Roger E. Pace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Courts interpret statutes by applying Congress's plain language. In the First Step Act, Congress modified the federal sentencing statute to say that a… |
| 22-817 | Jeannie Parker v. United Airlines, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | cat's-paw circuit-split employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interpretation independent-investigation proximate-causation staub-precedent summary-judgment tenth-circuit-standard | Whether the standard for proximate causation applied by the court of appeals below, and in other Tenth Circuit cases, conflicts with this Court's deci… |
| 22-809 | Texas State LULAC, et al. v. Lupe C. Torres, in Her Official Capacity as the Medina County Elections Administrator, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | causation circuit-split first-amendment government-act injury mens-rea self-censorship standing | 1. To have standing to challenge an unlawful government act, must a plaintiff show that the act is the sole cause of its injury, as the Fifth Circuit … |
| 22-6866 | Antonio Rosello v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate… |
| 22-6844 | Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6845 | Jesus Lopez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process? |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), … |
| 22-6834 | Michael Laury v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance crackhouse-statute drug-activity drug-distribution purpose purpose-element statutory-interpretation title-21-section-856 | 21 U.S.C. § 856 (A)(2) makes it unlawful to manage or control any place, whether permanently or temporarily, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employ… |
| 22-6836 | Robert Speed v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico-statute statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether RICO is a § 924(c)(3)(A) "crime of violence," is the statutory definition of "racketeering activity" divisible, such that a court… |
| 22-793 | Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1… | |
| 22-795 | Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation | 1. Whether , in this denial of benefits case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. , the cour… |
| 22-785 | Theryn Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity | When, if ever, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires vacatur of a criminal conviction based on the government's refusal to seek immun… |
| 22-6798 | Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression | 1. Whether, to establish "suppression" under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the parallel "cause" to excuse procedural default of a Brad… |
| 22-6784 | Jerry Don South v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed? … |
| 22-6777 | Fharis Denane Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | To search a target's phone, does probable cause and good faith require a nexus between the target's phone and the crime demonstrated by case-specific … |
| 22-6739 | Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity | 1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal – whic… |
| 22-747 | Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-02-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within? |
| 22-751 | Charles C. Liu, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-09 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split disgorgement equity-practice joint-and-several-liability mandate-rule net-profits procedural-requirement profits-based-remedy third-party-funds | 1. Whether the decision of the Ninth Circuit requiring petitioners to disgorge funds they raised and disbursed to unrelated third parties, but never p… | |
| 22-744 | Joseph C. Sheehan v. Breccia Unlimited Company, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split debtor-property in-rem-jurisdiction international-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction property-estate | Whether the United States Bankruptcy Code's grant of world-wide jurisdiction over a debtor's property permits a federal court to exercise in rem juris… | |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6719 | Michael Anthony Conage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-738 | Robert A. Mangine v. Shannon D. Withers, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-3582 career-offender circuit-split habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice savings-clause sentence-reduction sentencing-error sentencing-errors statutory-rights | Whether and under what circumstances relief is available under § 2255(e) for federal prisoners challenging errors in their sentences; and Whether the… |
| 22-6680 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment | No: 1 )Was the Court of Appeals wrong for failing to dismiss the defective indictment that created a split in circuits where the the Fifth and Ninth… |
| 22-6683 | Terrell Javon Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-schedules eighth-circuit federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense fourth-circuit sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense tenth-circuit third-circuit | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sch… |
| 22-714 | Harry C. Calcutt, III v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | administrative-law agency-deference agency-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-remand remand removal-restrictions standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943) and its progeny required the Sixth Circuit to remand the case to the agency after determining that… |
| 22-716 | Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement | Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use… |
| 22-720 | Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Amici (4) | administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation | What is the proper test for determining whether the "diligent prosecution bar" under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde… |
| 22-710 | James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less sea… | |
| 22-713 | Shannon Gladden v. The Procter & Gamble Distributing, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | bostock bostock-interpretation but-for but-for-causation circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination evidence-evaluation motivating-factor pretext pretext-analysis | 1) Does the but-for reasoning referenced in Bostock apply to McDonnell Douglas pretext analysis?: In the decision below, the Eleventh Circuit appears … |
| 22-6656 | Randy Lee Stapleton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice motion-to-withdraw | After learning of the objective evidence (body camera video footage) documenting an unlawful warrantless search and seizure, the defendant moved to wi… |
| 22-707 | Barry J. Cadden v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse… |
| 22-6653 | Jayson Montgomery v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | IFP | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent | To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful… |
| 22-6628 | Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6634 | Rafael Espino v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability deliberate-actions due-process global-tech-appliances knowledge-standard mens-rea subjective-belief willful-blindness | The majority of federal statutes require a defendant to act "knowingly" to incur criminal liability, meaning that the defendant must have actual knowl… |
| 22-6640 | Eugene Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split controlled-substances-act drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense prior-state-drug-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-693 | Michael Johnson v. Susan Prentice, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | circuit-split civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment exercise-deprivation prisoner-rights solitary-confinement | Whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security ju… |
| 22-6591 | Alecia Trapps v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under § 4B1.1(a) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines conflict with a rule that at lea… |
| 22-6600 | Eric Banks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute… |
| 22-6587 | Vernon White v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 22-6581 | John Krasley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts | The Third Circuit, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the scope of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), and its prohibition against propensity evi… |
| 22-6564 | Sohiel Omar Kabir v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-conspirator control-over-co-participants criminal-enhancement leader-organizer-enhancement leader-role ninth-circuit second-fourth-sixth-eleventh-dc-circuits sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Does the aggravating role enhancement for "leader[s]" or "organizer[s]" of concerted criminal activity in section 3B1.1(c) of the United States Senten… |
| 22-653 | Melvin Ray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure different-location guideline-commentary judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states | Under § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("U.S.S.G "), a four- level increase applies to a defendant 's offense level, " if a… |
| 22-6543 | Miguel Angel Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 22-652 | Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property | Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted. Whether untaint… |
| 22-6531 | Timothy Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the ruling in GARZA V, IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiffs Constitutional guarantee? A. Pending judgement (Writ of Cert.) in S… |
| 22-6536 | Antoine D. Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-6540 | Brandon Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6520 | Tiffany Franklin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-position-of-trust circuit-split criminal-sentencing fiduciary-duty position-of-trust sentencing-enhancement ussg-3b1.3 ussg-guideline vault-teller | This is a case of first impression of whether a two-point enhancement for the abuse of position of trust under USSG § 3B1.3 should apply to a vault te… |
| 22-6521 | William Randall Brannan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue | This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue. |
| 22-644 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | auer-deference career-offender career-offender-enhancement circuit-split crime-of-violence judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie seminole-rock sentencing-guidelines | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that commentary by the United States Sentencing Commission interpreting or explaining… |
| 22-647 | Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas | Texas | 2023-01-11 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination | In considering whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege agai… | |
| 22-631 | Highland Capital Management, L.P. v. NexPoint Advisors, L.P., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court chapter-11 circuit-split debt-discharge discharge reorganization-plan statutory-interpretation third-party-liability third-party-releases | Section 524(e) of the Bankruptcy Code states that the "discharge of a debt of the debtor does not affect the liability of any other entity on, or the … |
| 22-6466 | Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-615 | Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony | A police shooting case where the defendant officer has killed the only other witness to the incident presents difficult questions. The circuits are di… | |
| 22-609 | Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation | In the context of electronic communications, a series of statutes give companies permission to access their users' private correspondence, remove impe… |
| 22-6446 | James Thomas Burke v. Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | IFP | case-dismissal circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure justice-stevens standing statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent time-barred | #1. Whether Hardin v. Straub , 490 U.S. 536, 109 S.Ct. (1998), 104 L.Ed 2d 582, 57 USLW 4554 is relevant pursuant to United States Supreme Court, Jus… |
| 22-6432 | Edward Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault categorical-approach circuit-split federal-sentencing generic-offense model-penal-code taylor-v-united-states | Whether the Fifth Circuit's exclusive reliance on the MPC misapplies the categorical approach announced by this Court in Taylor v. United States, 495 … |
| 22-6402 | Jesse Johnson, III v. California | California | 2022-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | When a defendant alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to properly advise him regarding the consequences of rejecting a plea offe… |
| 22-589 | Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Cla… | |
| 22-583 | Evan Greebel v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation | Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's… |
| 22-6379 | Leetavious Gaines v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion district-court-discretion first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 22-573 | BRFHH Shreveport LLC, dba University Health Shreveport v. Willis-Knighton Medical Center, dba Willis-Knighton Health System | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust-law circuit-split motion-to-dismiss plausibility-standard pleading-standards rule-12(b)(6) section-1 sherman-act twombly | May a Section 1 claim be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), consistent with Twombly, based on evidence suggesting an alternative, non-con… |
| 22-564 | Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force | After initially fleeing from police who suspected him of speeding, petitioner encountered a roadblock, pulled his car over, exited, and lay face down … |
| 22-568 | Jeffrey A. Cochran v. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | artful-pleading circuit-split class-action federal-preemption material-fact material-facts misrepresentation securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act securities-regulation slusa | 1. Whether SLUSA bars a state-law class action "alleging a misrepresentation or omission of a material fact" when the complaint contains no such alleg… |
| 22-556 | N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (12) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e… |
| 22-559 | Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI… |
| 22-552 | Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine | 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid… |
| 22-6318 | Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6312 | Kristian Jones v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing | This case involves an important issue in which there is a split of authority in the lower courts regarding whether there is a reasonable expectation o… |
| 22-542 | Tavaris Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-sentencing generic-burglary intent-requirement specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a State's no-intent burglary statute qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act. |
| 22-6306 | Marion Joseph Hare v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? (2… |
| 22-6281 | Juan Carlos Bastide-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1229 circuit-court-rulings circuit-split immigration-law notice-to-appear removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the United States' initiating removal proceedings against a noncitizen with a "Notice to Appear" that fails to include the date and time of th… |
| 22-6264 | Randall Eddie Mellon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference circuit-split judicial-review relevant-conduct seminole-rock-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1998), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now Auer deference, applies to interpretive or explanat… |
| 22-531 | Alan Wofsy, et al. v. Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | circuit-split copyright-infringement creativity fair-use first-fair-use-factor originality-standard reproduction-rights scholarly-work third-fair-use-factor | Petitioner Alan Wofsy reproduced documentary photographs of Pablo Picasso's artwork for inclusion in a comprehensive, annotated series of reference bo… | |
| 22-512 | Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation | Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p… |
| 22-502 | Spring Valley Produce, Inc., et al. v. Nathan Aaron Forrest, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split civil-procedure debtor-liability discharge fiduciary-capacity fiduciary-duty paca perishable-agricultural-commodities-act statutory-trust | May a debtor in bankruptcy discharge liability for unlawfully violating a nonsegregated statutory trust? |
| 22-509 | J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations | Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for… |
| 22-6130 | Darvill Jimmy Joseph Bragg v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior state conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal … |
| 22-480 | City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a… |
| 22-6117 | Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 22-6128 | Christopher Erwin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | 1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b… |
| 22-471 | Consumer Data Industry Association v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split consumer-reports fair-credit-reporting-act federal-preemption federal-regulation preemption state-law statutory-interpretation uniform-standards | Whether FCRA broadly preempts state laws "relating to" the "subject matters" expressly described in 15 U.S.C. §1681t(b)(1), or narrowly preempts state… |
| 22-6106 | David Shane Paquette v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement | Whether an appeal-waiver provision in a plea agreement is enforceable when the agreement provides the defendant with no benefit. |
| 22-6107 | Jarmal Williamson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination | Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as… |
| 22-6109 | Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit… |
| 22-6059 | Maurice Oparaji v. Municipal Credit Union | Second Circuit | 2022-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process electronic-fund-transfer-act rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 standing summary-judgment supplemental-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the district court erred in dismissing Oparaji's complaint under Fed. R. Civil P. 12(b) (6), alleging that .Oparaj i sets no factual allega… |
| 22-6062 | Thomas Walter Gillen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-riot-act circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-appellate-courts first-amendment free-speech severability statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the difference of opinion between the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit as to the constitutionality of "organize" within the context of … |
| 22-6076 | Joseph Rauber v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-statute statutory-interpretation | The federal sentencing statute contains a "safety valve" that protects defendants from mandatory minimum sentences if they meet certain criteria. 18 U… |
| 22-456 | Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver | Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a… | |
| 22-435 | Renetrice R. Pierre v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | article-iii-standing circuit-split emotional-distress fair-debt-collection-practices-act intangible-injuries intangible-injury psychological-harm statutory-right | Whether a plaintiff who suffers emotional or psychological distress and confusion from a debt collector's unlawful attempt to collect a debt has Artic… |
| 22-6001 | Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts | Whether, after enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3) as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a State can forfeit the affir… |
| 22-419 | Cedric Chanu v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud | (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev… | |
| 22-402 | James Vorley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… | |
| 22-5930 | Davon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni… |
| 22-392 | Bel Air Auto Auction, Inc. v. Great Northern Insurance Company | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response Waived | abstention appellate-procedure certification circuit-split civil-procedure deference erie-doctrine federal-courts interlocutory-appeal judicial-deference state-courts state-law-certification | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violate the principle of Erie v. Thompkins by denying Bel Air's motion to defer its ruli… |
| 22-5902 | Monica Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5904 | Matthew S. Becker v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review standards threshold-determination | WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD CLARIFY AND RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE STANDARDS TO BE UTILIZED WHEN DECIDING THE THRESHOLD DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO… |
| 22-383 | CMB Monaco, fka Compagnie Monegasque de Banque v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-injury due-process extraterritorial-application foreign-plaintiff intangible-property rico rico-act standing | Whether a foreign plaintiff with no alleged connection to the United States may nevertheless allege a "domestic" injury under RJR Nabisco sufficient t… |
| 22-5895 | Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits | Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra… |
| 22-5897 | Unises Chapotin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1) Whether the residual clause in Section 4B1.2 of the previously binding United States Sentencing Guidelines is void for vagueness pursuant to Johnso… |
| 22-374 | Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-21 | GVR | Relisted (5) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard | Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 22-5877 | Onterrail Remond Altman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions eighth-circuit federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-5878 | William D. King v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reason judicial-decisions judicial-discretion legal-developments sentence-modification statutory-interpretation | When, whether deciding if a defendant has presented an "extraordinary and compelling" reason for a sentence modification under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(… |
| 22-366 | County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 | Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to… |
| 22-5859 | Marcal Fraction v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 22-354 | Lorenzo Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing | The first question presented, on which the circuits are now divided, is whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement fro… |
| 22-346 | Robert Anderson, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Infinity Business Group, Inc. v. Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 11-usc-544 bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee circuit-split creditor-recovery creditors in-pari-delicto section-544a state-law state-law-preemption trustee | Whether a bankruptcy trustee seeking recovery on behalf of creditors under 11 U.S.C. 544(a) is subject to the debtor's knowledge. |
| 22-340 | Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-331 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion | Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101… |
| 22-5788 | Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-324 | Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (3) | blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action | Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a… |
| 22-317 | Jay Nygard, et ux. v. City of Orono, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-enforcement due-process facial-challenge municipal-ordinance pre-enforcement pre-enforcement-challenge vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. Can a homeowner prevail on a Papachristou-based pre-enforcement challenge to a municipal permitting law? 2. Can a criminally enforceable city ordi… |
| 22-5734 | Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation sua-sponte | When a petitioner files a proper application for a certificate of appealability, a single judge grants a defective certificate without objection from … |
| 22-309 | City of Salinas, California v. New Harvest Christian Fellowship | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-challenge land-use-regulation religious-land-use rluipa zoning zoning-ordinance | The "equal terms" provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) states that "[n]o government shall impose or … |
| 22-293 | Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Amici (5) | circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity | Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der… |
| 22-5691 | Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib… |
| 22-285 | B-21 Wines, Inc., et al. v. Hank Bauer, Chair, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split commerce-clause interstate-commerce nondiscrimination-principle public-health-and-safety retail-distribution retail-wine-distribution twenty-first-amendment wine-shipping | Does the nondiscrimination principle of the Commerce Clause apply to and invalidate North Carolina's law allowing only in-state retailers to ship wine… |
| 22-5677 | Michael Louis McCarron v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-268 | City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment | Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab… | |
| 22-5637 | Dwayne Stone v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether crimes of physical inaction have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5625 | Orville Tucker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors circuit-split compassionate-release guideline-range non-delegation-doctrine sentencing-commission sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did Congress, in 28 U.S.C. § 994(t), delegate complete authority to the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "define" an exclusive list of "extraordinary … |
| 22-252 | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. v. DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | federal courts sitting in diversity should apply under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins forum-selection-clause forum-selection-clauses procedural-law state-law substantive-law | Whether, under Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), federal courts sitting in diversity should apply federal or state law to determine t… | |
| 22-5599 | Denzell Russell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? 2. Have the courts … |
| 22-242 | Cyrano R. Irons v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5569 | Dylan Darelle Scott v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-227 | Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Brian W. Coughlin | First Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | abrogation bankruptcy-code circuit-split indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty | Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. |
| 22-5549 | Emmanuel Maxime v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause | Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes "cause" to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica… |
| 22-220 | Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives | The Railway Labor Act ("RLA") prohibits carriers from interfering with their employees' "choice of representatives." 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third. Union Paci… |
| 22-209 | Transamerica Retirement Solutions, LLC v. Gloria A. Addison, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | cafa circuit-split class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction local-single-event local-single-event-exception mass-action statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase "an event or occurrence" in CAFA's local single event exception means what it says—"a single happening"—as the Ninth Circuit holds,… | |
| 22-210 | Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment | Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment. |
| 22-5532 | Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation | Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-5535 | Eric Kamahele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions united-states-v-taylor | Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-5538 | Kepa Maumau v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause hobbs-act intangible-property statutory-interpretation | Insofar as Hobbs Act robbery has historically been understood to reach threats to harm intangible property, is it categorically a "crime of violence" … |
| 22-205 | Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a federal court, assessing the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case based wholly on circumstantial evidence, must apply the "rule of… |
| 22-5455 | Tyrone Woolaston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation | Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense that a defendant is entitled to present to a jury when it is undisputed that the Government tra… |
| 22-195 | Thomas J. Dart, et al. v. Salvatore Ziccarelli | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment-law family-medical-leave-act interference-claim standing statutory-interpretation | Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, employers may be subject to civil liability if they interfere with their employees' exercise of the ri… |
| 22-193 | Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act employment-discrimination job-transfer material-disadvantage materially-significant-disadvantages statutory-interpretation title-vii | Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to discriminatory employer … |
| 22-5477 | Tracey L. Brown v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this … |
| 22-185 | Mandy Mobley Li v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | District of Columbia | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act agency-action circuit-split internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation tax-court-jurisdiction tax-relief-and-health-care-act-of-2006 united-states-tax-court whistleblower-award | 1. Whether threshold rejections of whistleblower award requests are immune from the judicial review process established through the Administrative Pro… |
| 22-186 | Troy Mansfield v. Williamson County, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Amici (6) | brady-violation brady-vs-maryland circuit-split criminal-justice due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the due process right recognized in Brady requires the disclosure of exculpatory evidence (or at the very least, evidence of factual innocence… |
| 22-187 | County of Orange, California, et al. v. Kathy Craig, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-court section-1983 state-law survival-claim survival-claims | Under controlling Supreme Court authority, must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on "loss of life" damages in survival claims pursued via… |
| 22-178 | Robert R. Cushing, Individually and in His Capacity as the Minority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, et al. v. Sherman Packard, Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | First Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | ada circuit-split civil-rights legislative-immunity official-capacity rehabilitation-act | What is the scope of the "extraordinary character" exception to legislative immunity? Does legislative immunity insulate state legislatures and/or le… |
| 22-5460 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau… |
| 22-5461 | James Keith Russey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity sentencing-guidelines state-law | Whether the categorical approach requires courts to define Sentencing Guidelines terms like "controlled substance" uniformly, as three circuits have h… |
| 22-175 | Steven M. Recht, et al. v. Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General of West Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split commercial-speech disclaimer-requirements due-process first-amendment legal-advertising misleading-advertising professional-regulation speech-restrictions | Applying a version of commercial-speech doctrine that heavily deferred to legislative choices, which ignoring other requirements in this Court's decis… |
| 22-5429 | Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility | Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether … |
| 22-5437 | Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5440 | Joseph Griego v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states-v-taylor | Petitioners Griego and Romero ask this Court to address whether Hobbs Act robbery is a qualifying crime of violence under § 924(c). The statutory elem… |
| 22-167 | Daniel J. Van Linn v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split evidence-admissibility exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source objective-inquiry reasonable-officer subjective-inquiry | Whether a court seeking to determine if a source of evidence is "genuinely independent" for purposes of the "independent source" exception to the excl… |
| 22-5418 | Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad… |
| 22-5399 | John Afriyie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation | Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to: reimburse … |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-135 | Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction | Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu… |
| 22-5346 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | GVR | IFP | 21-usc-841 circuit-split drug-offense global-tech healthcare-provider jury-instruction ruan-v-united-states scienter-standard standard-of-review willful-blindness | 1. Whether the District Court erred by instructing the deliberate-indifference instruction based upon the facts in this case when it denied defendant'… |
| 22-121 | ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law | Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use… |
| 22-123 | University of Toledo v. Jaycee Wamer | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-rights due-process educational-law liability notice school-liability sexual-harassment title-ix | Can schools be held liable under Title IX for sexual harassment that ceased before they were notified that it happened? |
| 22-124 | Brett C. Kimberlin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split civil-disability civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review standing writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether a petitioner must show he suffers from a "civil disability"—that is, a collateral consequence that causes a substantial and present harm, is s… |
| 22-5303 | George Daniel McGavitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A). |
| 22-111 | United States, et al., ex rel. Thomas Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contracts knowingly-violated legal-interpretation scienter standing statutory-interpretation subjective-understanding | Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 22-5289 | Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Petitioner Phillip A. Brown II respectfully petitions this Court for a Writ of Certiorari to review the judgement of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-5290 | In Re Phillip A. Brown, II | 2022-08-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin… | |
| 22-5293 | Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers | 1.- Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability(C.O.A.), where petitioner sought review… |
| 22-5270 | Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation | What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause? |
| 22-5278 | Jordan Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat… |
| 22-105 | Coinbase, Inc. v. Abraham Bielski | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-jurisdiction arbitration-appeal circuit-split civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel | Does a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration oust a district court's jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending ap… |
| 22-103 | Gavin Clarkson v. Board of Regents of New Mexico State University, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | §1983-claim administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation due-process sovereign-immunity summary-judgment | This petition presents one or more questions of exceptional importance. In particular, the Tenth Circuit conflicts with authoritative decisions of the… | |
| 22-5253 | Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3… |
| 22-99 | Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings | In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings … | |
| 22-93 | Michigan State University, et al. v. Sophia Balow, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | athletic-opportunities circuit-split education-amendments-1972 educational-discrimination equal-athletic-opportunity federal-financial-assistance gender-equity proportionality-test sex-discrimination substantial-proportionality title-ix | Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal… |
| 22-96 | Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. | First Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 22-5226 | Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted … |
| 22-5217 | Ramell Markus v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-sentencing extreme-physical-pain kidnapping objective-standard sentencing-guidelines serious-bodily-injury subjective-vs-objective | Like other Sentencing Guidelines provisions involving violence, the Guidelines for kidnapping offenses (USSG §2A4.1) enhance a defendant's sentence wh… |
| 22-78 | Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Curtis Ulleseit, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-preemption fraudulent-joinder jurisdictional-review preemption summary-inquiry | Whether courts may refuse to perform more than a summary inquiry to determine if defendants are fraudulently joined due to a pure issue of federal law… |
| 22-80 | Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a … |
| 22-69 | Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass, LLC, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split compliance-threshold energy-facility environmental-compliance federal-law placed-in-service renewable-energy tax-benefits tax-incentives | Whether an energy facility is "placed in service" within the meaning of federal law whenever it can produce and sell some electricity without regard f… |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-5150 | Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-21 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal | The Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits require that before the government may introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence to rebut a c… |
| 22-56 | 101 Houseco, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture due-process parklane-hosiery property-rights standing third-party-claimant | This Court has declared that "[i]t is a violation of due process for a judgment to be binding on a litigant who was not a party or a privy and therefo… |
| 22-49 | Efrain Lora v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 22-5109 | Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | IFP | attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it found that Petitioner's "organic" brain dysfunction was not enough of a red flag to trigger a duty for trial coun… |
| 22-5111 | Robert Doyle Harper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver | Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 22-5113 | Jerald Francis Gray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review | What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions, given the important liberty interest at stake and… |
| 22-5107 | Marcus Dwayne Pemberton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines | SHOULD STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREE… |
| 22-36 | Karim Christian Kamal v. Joseph A. Farrow, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | attorney-fees attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process economic-damages fraud national-origin-discrimination rico rico-damages | 1) The Ninth Circuit is in disagreement with the Second and Eight Circuits: Do attorney's fees and court costs incurred as a result of fraud constitut… | |
| 22-5050 | Johnny M. Ruffin v. David Mitchell | Seventh Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility brady-materiality brady-v-maryland circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression impeachment-evidence materiality suppressed-evidence | The Seventh Circuit's Opinion has stretched The United States Supreme Court's Opinion in Brady v. Maryland beyond.its logical bounds when compared wit… |
| 22-18 | Cuker Interactive, LLC v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure case-law choice-of-law circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction forum-state judicial-interpretation substantive-law | Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum State's choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rule… |
| 22-10 | David Fox Dubin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 21-8260 | Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search | raised an objection (trial) my attorney (Detective Sams) was giving The second day into my when the Government's key witness The home before the arres… |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-8277 | Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-1606 | Chase Yarbrough v. Santa Fe Independent School District, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process nonstate-actor state-created-danger | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split on the "state-created danger" theory of a constitutional duty to protect citizens from a nonstate… |
| 21-1608 | McKinsey & Co., Inc., et al. v. Jay Alix | Second Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-claims civil-rico judicial-precedent precedent proximate-causation RICO statutory-interpretation supervisory-responsibilities | Whether lower courts must follow the standard established by this Court's precedent for an element of a plaintiff's statutory claim, even if, in the c… |
| 21-1598 | City of Anaheim, California, et al. v. Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 circuit-split civil-rights federal-court hedonic-damages robertson-v-wegmann section-1983 state-law survivorship-claim wrongful-death | Under Robertson v. Wegmann, 436 U.S. 584 (1978) must a federal court apply a state law prohibition on hedonic damages to a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 survival c… |
| 21-8247 | Johnathan Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims… |
| 21-8236 | Edward Toliver v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application… |
| 21-8229 | Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-1589 | Henry McInnis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-claims first-amendment fraud hospice-fraud medical-certification regulatory-liability social-security-act | Did the lower court err in finding pervasive fraud as to "false" hospice certifications —following the Third Circuit as opposed to the Eleventh Circui… |
| 21-8223 | Fox Joseph Salerno v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 circuit-split custodian federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interstate-compact prisoner-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction | I. Should a 28 USC 224 1 HC (not a 28 USC 2254 HC) be filed in State in which incarcerated or State in which conviction occurred, for a State prisone… |
| 21-8224 | Arthur L. Gurbey v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compelled-self-incrimination criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release | Whether a condition of supervised release impermissibly compels a defendant to answer any questions posed during any examination during the period of … |
| 21-8191 | Michael Christian Tinlin, et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | case-specific-example categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-context criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez overbroad-language realistic-probability-test sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether plainly overbroad statutory language is sufficient to establish a prior conviction is broader than the generic definition of a criminal senten… |
| 21-1576 | Timothy J. Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue | Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Ci… |
| 21-8182 | Reuben Conway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect jurisdiction mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | After Petitioner Reuben Conway was charged, convicted, and sentenced for prohibited person in possession of a firearm, this Court overturned near-unan… |
| 21-8127 | Russell Kimble Jackson, aka Russell Kimble Jackson, V v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-convictions federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 21-8129 | Radu Miclaus v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring | Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8118 | Myron Dejuan Orr v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-U.S.C.-3553(a) 18-U.S.C.-3582(c) 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c abuse-of-discretion circuit-split extraordinary-and-or-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentencing-disparity | 1. Whether the lower courts rulings amount to an An abuse of discretion when failing to consider That a disparity in sentencing amounts to an abuse … |
| 21-1552 | Central Specialties, Inc. v. Jonathan Large | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-official legal-standard qualified-immunity scope-of-authority standing traffic-stops | Whether, before proceeding to the qualified immunity analysis, courts must determine that a government official was acting within the scope of his aut… |
| 21-8099 | Darnell McConnell, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8103 | Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation | Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm." Does the word "for" … |
| 21-8082 | Arthur Houze v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons retroactivity sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | A court may grant compassionate release and reduce a sentence if, after evaluating the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), it finds that extraordinary and… |
| 21-8069 | Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas | Texas | 2022-06-06 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search | I. QUESTION ONE: U.S. CONSTITUTION 1\J AMENDMENT RULE 10. Rules of the United States Supreme Court at (C); Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State… |
| 21-1521 | New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | arm's-length-transaction circuit-split erisa erisa-compliance fair-market-value multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan statutory-interpretation successor-liability withdrawal-liability | "Congress enacted the [Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980] MPPAA to protect the financial solvency of multiemployer pension plans." Bay… |
| 21-8033 | Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co… |
| 21-8034 | Robert Lawrence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eleventh Circuit's decision in United States v. Bryant, 996 f.3d 1243 (11th Cir. 2021) correct in determining that Section 1B1.13 of the United… |
| 21-8022 | William Dew v. S. Columbia Terrace, LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process factual-deficiencies motion-to-dismiss neitzke-v-williams pleadings pro-se sua-sponte | 1. Whether the district court may dismiss a non-prisoner pro se complaint sua sponte basis of factual deficiencies in complaint or must wait until def… |
| 21-8001 | Charles James v. Thomson Sailors Homes, L.L.C., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | IFP | architectural-works circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-scope fee-shifting legal-standard qualitatively-significant-similarity thin-copyright-protection thin-protection | The most important questions for any form of intellectual property are what gets protection, i.e., the subject matter, and the scope of that protectio… |
| 21-7988 | Donald Tarnawa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | 1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re… |
| 21-7994 | Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-7938 | Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 | Through local rule or case law, some federal appeals courts, including this Court, require lower courts to explain their opinions or orders sufficient… |
| 21-7942 | P'erre Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-testing self-incrimination supervised-release | Whether a circuit split should be resolved regarding whether a condition of supervised release requiring submission to polygraph testing violates a De… |
| 21-7928 | Timothy Lindsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion | As required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Lindsey secured prefiling authorization from the Fifth Circuit before filing a successive motion to vacate … |
| 21-7876 | Matthew Alexander, III v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver | When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs… |
| 21-7861 | Omar S. Folk v. Bureau of Prisons, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abeyance case-holding certiorari circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act legal-abeyance procedural-review standing supreme-court | Whether the Pending Supreme Court Case Egbert v. Boule, Case No. 21-147(Cert. Granted Nov. 5, 2021) Should be Held In Abeyance until outcome of Suprem… |
| 21-1436 | Leon Santos-Zacaria, aka Leon Santos-Sacarias v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3) | administrative-exhaustion administrative-law circuit-split exhaustion-of-remedies immigration-law judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1252(d)(1)'s exhaustion requirement is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that may be waived or forfeited. … |
| 21-1431 | Robert M. Kerr, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | GVR | Amici (6)Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-rights due-process medicaid medicaid-act private-right-of-action privately-enforceable-rights section-1983 spending-clause standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Spending Clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under § 1983, and if so, what is the proper framework for deciding … |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-7828 | Kimberly Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-quantity drug-quantity-determination intervening-arrest narcotics-guidelines personal-use sentencing-guidelines | 1. Who bears the burden of proving or disproving "personal use" quantities when making drug quantity determinations for purposes of the narcotics guid… |
| 21-7812 | Delton Eugene Warren v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-signature original-public-meaning search-warrant starr-v-united-states warrant-clause | Whether search warrants must be signed by the issuing judicial officer, or whether the First, Fourth, and Tenth Circuits' literalist interpretation of… |
| 21-1428 | Donald L. Blankenship v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help | Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he could not have obtained the suppressed, excu… |
| 21-1405 | Lester J. Smith v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | Amici (8) | accommodation circuit-court-review circuit-split civil-rights deference penological-interests prison-policy prisoners-rights religious-freedom religious-liberty rluipa | In Knight v. Thompson , the Eleventh Circuit concluded —on remand following Holt v. Hobbs , 574 U.S. 352 (2015) —that the Religious Land Use and Insti… |
| 21-1426 | Kirby Ingram v. Louis Kubik, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Dismissed | ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-disability-law standing statutory-interpretation title-ii vicarious-liability | Whether vicarious liability is available under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., as three courts of appeals … | |
| 21-7783 | Reynaldo Aviles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether, given that there is a split in the circuits on the question, reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent preclud… |
| 21-7769 | Lonnell Tucker v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-1397 | In Re Grand Jury | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Judgment Issued | Amici (16)Relisted (2) | attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose | Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege where obtaining or providing legal advice … |
| 21-7748 | Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release defendant-motion first-step-act sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the expanded compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(1)(A) (2018) triggers any sentencing guideline policy statements when defendant… |
| 21-7753 | Levi Miller v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant | Under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 171-72 (1978), when the police deliberately mislead by omitting material information from an application for a… |
| 21-7697 | Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7711 | Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT … |
| 21-7673 | Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets | Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed? 21 U.S.C. § 853(p) authorizes f… |
| 21-1366 | Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-discipline attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-procedure notice-requirements rule-11 show-cause-order | Whether Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 requires the specific offending statements, if applicable, to be listed in the show cause order to satisfy proper notice re… |
| 21-7657 | Kirk L. Floyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split georgia-burglary-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states shepard-documents violent-felony | The Georgia burglary statute disjunctively lists locations that may be burgled. The text makes plain that the list is not exclusive, Georgia's case la… |
| 21-7624 | Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any person can be charged … |
| 21-1352 | Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review | Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond … |
| 21-1347 | Kevas L. Ballance v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling | When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination… |
| 21-1342 | Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Dismissed | administrative-law circuit-split drug-exclusivity fda fda-regulation lambert-eaton-myasthenic-syndrome orphan-drug-act rare-disease statutory-interpretation | Does the ODA unambiguously foreclose FDA's decades-long, consistent interpretation that the scope of orphan-drug exclusivity is tied to a drug's appro… | |
| 21-7530 | Paul M. Weadick v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent statutory-interpretation witness-tampering | The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent[s] the communication by any person to a [Fe… |
| 21-7524 | Matthew Staszak v. John P. Yates, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 8th-circuit actual-innocence circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus local-rule-47a(a) section-2241 summary-disposition | I. SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THE WRIT WHERE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHT WAS FORECLOSED ON WHEN ON APPEAL FROM THE LOWER COURTS DENIAL OF HIS RIGHT TO … |
| 21-1313 | Martin Gottesfeld v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… | |
| 21-7509 | Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness | Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7482 | Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception | Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi… |
| 21-7477 | Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code | Conflict Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding, citing 338 U.S. 338 (1950), that the Due Process requirement of United States v. Vasquez is no… |
| 21-1297 | Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs | Petitioners, Catholic anti-nuclear activists, engaged in "symbolic disarmament" by damaging and spray painting facilities on a nuclear submarine base,… | |
| 21-1291 | Rodney Muschette v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment | I. Was Mr. Muschette Denied his 5th Amendment Right to Due Process when Admission of 404(b) evidence in violation of the test set forth in this Court'… |
| 21-7458 | Derek Williamson v. Jason Clendenion, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process jury-trial-rights lenient-standard self-defense summary-remand | I. Does the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradict, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardin… |
| 21-7420 | Isiah Pierce v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 | Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003) that ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be litigated in collateral … |
| 21-7443 | Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 21-7428 | Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7434 | Darryl Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-1270 | MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-03-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | and even when a remedy could be fashioned that do such that it is not subject to waiver appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-363(m) circuit-split jurisdictional-limitation lease-assignment remedy sale-order statutory-interpretation waiver | Whether Bankruptcy Code Section 363(m) limits the appellate courts' jurisdiction over any sale order or order deemed "integral" to a sale order, such … |
| 21-1264 | Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law | 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the "appreciable number of consumers" standard to the "l… |
| 21-1266 | Erica Talasek v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-18 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights employee-benefits erisa estoppel misrepresentation summary-judgment | Whether the beneficiary of an employee benefits plan can bring an equitable estoppel claim under ERISA based on misrepresentations at variance with th… | |
| 21-7413 | Brian Folks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence issue-preservation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to recognize error and provide clarity about the prejudice that stems from a prosecutor's repeated requests… |
| 21-7387 | Henry E. Wood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest ha… |
| 21-7391 | Isaiah Ramon Henderson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-1251 | Eric Ibarguen v. New York | New York | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search | Whether, or under what circumstances, social guests are entitled to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches of the home that t… |
| 21-1255 | Acres Bonusing, Inc., et al. v. Lester John Marston, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | absolute-immunity administrative-conduct circuit-split conspiratorial-conduct court-employees functional-approach judicial-immunity ministerial-conduct | In Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219, 227 (1988) this Court explained an absolute immunity is "justified and defined by the functions it protects and s… | |
| 21-1258 | Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, in His Official Capacity v. Texas Entertainment Association, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split jurisdictional-statute public-revenue regulatory-fee revenue-measure sovereign-prerogative sovereign-prerogatives tax-injunction-act uniform-application | The question presented is whether, under the TIA, a state revenue measure is a tax if it raises public revenue, notwithstanding a regulatory purpose, … |
| 21-1241 | Michael L. Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-15 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on one's e… |
| 21-7345 | David Wayne Aring v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | QUESTION ONE Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-7331 | Darregus T. Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION? 5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS! CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7332 | Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power | Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7328 | Glen S. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights | Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants and alleged probation violators about their constitutional right … |
| 21-1218 | Tyler Ayres, et al. v. Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-mootness circuit-split class-action class-members final-judgment intervention-of-right MDL-proceeding mootness multi-district-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction | On remand from an appeal successfully challenging a proposed nationwide settlement, class counsel and his clients stopped representing the class membe… |
| 21-7294 | Daniel Gerard Lacey v. Brian M. Gootkin, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split foreshadowing ineffective-assistance judicial-review jurisdiction legal-doctrine timeliness writ-of-certiorari | Whether this Court should grant certiorari so that it can address and resolve a circuit split between the Ninth and the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circ… |
| 21-7270 | Karo Brown v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-1208 | Eric Andrews v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3582 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act section-924(c) sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-1211 | Constance George v. House of Hope Recovery, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Amici (2) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigant service-of-process service-requirement standing | Whether Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 permits a court of appeals to dismiss an appeal because the appellant did not serve the notice of appeal… |
| 21-7268 | Ross Anthony Farca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d… |
| 21-7259 | Keith Prescott Gace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split d-c-circuit dost-factors federal-criminal-law first-amendment judicial-precedent lascivious-exhibition seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation | As a matter of statutory interpretation, should a jury or court consider the so-called Dost factors when determining whether a visual depiction of a m… |
| 21-1196 | Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. v. Peermusic Ltd., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement extrinsic-intrinsic-test musical-works ordinary-observer-test substantial-similarity | in a copyright infringement case, when deciding whether two musical works are substantially similar, should the courts apply the ordinary observer tes… |
| 21-1192 | Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc. v. John Waters, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | First Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | bristol-myers-squibb circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-civil-procedure personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(1)(a) service-of-summons standing | Whether out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to opt into an FLSA collective action pending in federal court must demonstrate that the forum state's courts … |
| 21-7233 | William Sardinas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | IFP | attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 21-7236 | Joseph Crocco v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-1185 | Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment | This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second … | |
| 21-1178 | Subhadra Gunawardana, et vir v. American Veterinary Medical Association, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | amendment-standard circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-claims dispositive-motion due-process federal-rules procedural-waiver seventh-circuit timeliness waiver | I. This Court has clarified that waiver is the intentional relinquishment/abandonment of a known right. No federal rule specifies deadlines to object … | |
| 21-1169 | Alain Kaloyeros v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | GVR | Relisted (3) | circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, "property" under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S… |
| 21-1170 | Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'… |
| 21-1164 | Larry Steven Wilkins, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing-rule easement-dispute federal-land jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement property-rights quiet-title statute-of-limitations | Whether the Quiet Title Act's Statute of Limitations is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule? |
| 21-7186 | Jon Hall v. Tony Mays, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure brady-duty brady-material brady-v-maryland circuit-split constitutional-obligation evidence-disclosure governmental-entity prosecutorial-duty | In circumstances where the favorable evidence lies in the hands of a governmental entity other than law enforcement or the prosecution, what is the pr… |
| 21-7164 | Charles Pyne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-judge post-conviction-relief subject-matter-jurisdiction unreviewable-determination | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue where there is a conflict in the Circuits concerning the ability to employ Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) b… |
| 21-7157 | Richard Lucas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation | 1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of "cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
| 21-7158 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-7163 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | I Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.C. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the Controlled Substances Act? II. When def… |
| 21-1149 | Phoenix Light SF DAC, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association | Second Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis lexmark lexmark-doctrine merits merits-issues prudential-standing standing | This Court has held that federal courts (1) may adjudicate jurisdictional issues in any sequence they choose and (2) may, under appropriate circumstan… |
| 21-1145 | Molina Healthcare of Illinois, Inc., et al. v. Thomas Prose | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | circuit-split false-claims-act implied-certification implied-false-certification material-noncompliance materiality pleading-requirements pleading-standard rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-compliance | This petition presents the same question as Johnson v. Bethany Hospice & Palliative Care LLC, No. 21-462, and United States ex rel. Owsley v. Fazzi As… |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7134 | Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors | In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
| 21-7136 | Gregory Nesbitt, aka Spooky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds the district court in considering a d… |
| 21-1131 | Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony | The question before this Court is whether, in a civil case involving the killing of a young Black man, whose lawful gun was found twenty feet from his… |
| 21-1132 | Scott Asner, et al. v. George Hengle, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Dismissed | arbitration-agreement choice-of-law circuit-split delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act federal-rights | Can a federal court refuse to enforce the delegation clause of an arbitration agreement on the ground that a choice-of-law provision applicable to the… | |
| 21-1141 | Charles Wade v. Gordon Lewis | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fair-warning medical-treatment prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | Whether this Court's qualified immunity doctrine demands a nearly identical fact pattern before a case can clearly establish the law—as the Eleventh a… |
| 21-7097 | Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases | In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), this Court held that appellate courts must review the substantive reasonableness of all sentences und… |
| 21-7078 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process interstate-commerce judicial-fact-finding racketeering rico-act taylor-v-united-states | Can the government obtain a conviction under RICO without proving that the targeted enterprise's activities actually affected interstate commerce, so … |
| 21-7079 | Reginald Glenn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7070 | Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states | 1. Should courts defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying text? 2. Has the Commission impermissibly exp… |
| 21-7061 | John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel | Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for … |
| 21-7053 | Iramm Wright v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-7044 | Marc Fishman v. Office of Court Administration New York State Courts, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-function americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split court-access disability-discrimination judicial-immunity meaningful-access reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations | This case is of great National and public importance as the holding of the Court of Appeals that the state family court is shiel ded from any claims b… |
| 21-7035 | Seville Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7039 | Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application | 1. Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S… |
| 21-1066 | Washington Bankers Association, et al. v. Washington, et al. | Washington | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split corporate-taxation discriminatory-proxy discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause interstate-commerce out-of-state-entities precedents proxy-discrimination state-taxation | Does a law that is triggered by a proxy for participating in interstate commerce and that burdens out-of-state entities almost exclusively violate the… |
| 21-6972 | Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6952 | Sunrise Lee v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pr… |
| 21-6956 | Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com… |
| 21-6946 | Gregory Lozado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing | Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6933 | Carlos Rivera-Alejandro, aka Homero v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barker-factors barker-v-wingo circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial standard-of-review trial-length | 1. Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a circuit split concerning the standard of review for a constitutional speedy trial claim. 2. Whether the… |
| 21-6934 | Donnie Barnes, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split dost-factors federal-criminal-law lascivious-exhibition model-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether an instruction on the Dost factors authorizes a conviction for production of child pornography on broader grounds th… |
| 21-6929 | Rozelle Summerise v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) … |
| 21-1025 | Ashwani Sheoran v. Walmart Stores East, LP, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure claim-submission due-process false-claims-act fraud pleading rule-9b statutory-interpretation | Whether a circuit split on how to apply Fed. R Civ. P. 9(b) in pleading cases under the False Claims Act requires a more rigorous approach, such as re… |
| 21-1028 | International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review | The district court in this case found, as a factual matter, that Respondent did not suffer prejudice from Petitioner's failure to immediately press it… |
| 21-1019 | The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle, Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split employee-benefits ERISA-preemption healthcare-expenditures ninth-circuit play-or-pay play-or-pay-laws state-and-local-laws state-local-regulation | Whether state and local play-or-pay laws that require employers to make minimum monthly healthcare expenditures for their covered employees relate to … |
| 21-6902 | Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St… |
| 21-6898 | Jasper Stevens, et al. v. Robert S. Whitmore | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 11-u.s.c.-521 11-u.s.c.-554 asset-scheduling bankruptcy bankruptcy-abandonment circuit-split debtor-financial-affairs fresh-start statutory-interpretation trustee-administration | Whether an asset can be abandoned to a debtor where (1) the asset is not administered prior to the closing of the bankruptcy case; and (2) the asset i… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6826 | Todd Stands Alone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation | Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)? |
| 21-6833 | Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity | Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c… |
| 21-6785 | Jarvis Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b | Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr… |
| 21-6786 | Semaji Warren v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 21-979 | Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment | In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'… |
| 21-970 | Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations | In 1988, an Oklahoma jury convicted Karl Fontenot in the abduction and killing of Denice Haraway. The chief evidence against Fontenot was his own conf… |
| 21-6752 | Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | IFP | AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default | 1. Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a pr… |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6748 | Jose Luis Wong v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 21-6750 | Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two… |
| 21-941 | Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-27 | Denied | circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent | Whether a search is "consensual" under the Fourth Amendment when a police officer directly orders an individual he is detaining to submit to the searc… | |
| 21-924 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping | Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |
| 21-908 | Kate Marie Bartenwerfer v. Kieran Buckley | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 11-usc-523 bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud circuit-split civil-liability discharge discharge-exception fraud imputation imputation-liability statutory-interpretation | May an individual be subject to liability for the fraud of another that is barred from discharge in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. (the "Bankruptcy Code")… |
| 21-6692 | Alex D. Ramos v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6671 | Valente Arias-Avila v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review | I. When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), a… |
| 21-6681 | Eric Michael Crapser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: does the Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington… |
| 21-905 | Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-898 | Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure | May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv… |
| 21-6658 | Donald Ray Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-sentencing guideline-commentary judicial-deference judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether federal sentencing courts are bound by the illustrations found in Guideline Commentary? |
| 21-6639 | Jacqueline Giebell v. Heartland Dublin Nursing Facility | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights federal-law nhra nursing-facility nursing-home obstruction-of-justice retaliation trespassing | Was trespassing Ms. Giebell from the Heartland of Dublin Nursing Facility violation of Federal Law, and the NHRA. Was it Retaliation? Does the differ… |
| 21-6643 | Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review | Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o… |
| 21-6625 | Derrick Harrell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-885 | PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Dismissed | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings | Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut… | |
| 21-877 | Ross Thacker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … | |
| 21-6600 | Willis Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 21-6605 | Jermaine Jackson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 21-6578 | Gregory Leri v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-history downward-adjustment drug-trafficking first-step-act safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-minimum | On December 21, 2018, Congress enacted the First Step Act of 2018 (P.L. 115 391). In Section 402 of the First Step Act, Congress amended subsection (f… |
| 21-6585 | Freddy Crespo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's rule that a certificate of appealability cannot be granted where an issue is foreclosed by circuit precedent conflic… |
| 21-6557 | Tekoa Glover v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT MR. GLOVER WAIVED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS BY ENTERING A GUILTY PLE… |
| 21-6575 | Nathaniel Fields v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-10 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a district court … |
| 21-861 | First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company v. Giorgio Armani Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | circuit-split co-fiduciary contribution employee-benefits erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty indemnity statutory-interpretation | Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, a fiduciary can seek contribution and indemnity fr… | |
| 21-862 | Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction | 1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus… |
| 21-843 | Cathy Sellars, et al. v. CRST Expedited, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | circuit-split employer-liability employment-discrimination pay-decrease retaliation sexual-harassment title-vii | (1) Section 703(a) of Title VII forbids an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of sex. An employer is liable for co-worker sexua… | |
| 21-6555 | Malik Saunders v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-offenses culpable-omission culpable-omissions injury-or-death intentional-causation physical-force sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | Whether all criminal offenses that require proof of an intentional causation of injury or death, including those which may be committed by way of culp… |
| 21-6539 | In Re Kenny Blanc | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing | To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 … | |
| 21-6540 | Alfred E. Daking, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split compassionate-release first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-1b1.13 | When Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98 473, Tit. II, ch. II, 98 Sta. 1987; 18 U.S.C. §3551, et seq.) , it provided a … |
| 21-832 | Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove | The question presented is: 1. Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with this Court's decision in Shady Grove? In pa… | |
| 21-820 | Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander | Louisiana | 2021-12-02 | Denied | circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation | Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda? | |
| 21-6491 | Lucas Montagne v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing | 1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? 2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-6466 | Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence | In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen… |
| 21-6480 | Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MISAPPLIED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION OF SANDIN V. CONNER, 515 U.S. 472 (… |
| 21-6461 | Andreea Dumitru, aka Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a aggravated-identity-theft asylum asylum-application circuit-split criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft lawful-authority lenity statutory-interpretation statutory-purpose | The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 21-6418 | Emmanuel Ashemuke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference legal-interpretation plain-meaning plain-meaning-rule sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts should defer to the Commentary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines when it expands the definition of a term used in the text o… |
| 21-6427 | Antonio Lorensito Garrido v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-crimes mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Should this Court resolve a division among the circuit courts regarding whether the two-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2D1.1(b)(5) for the… |
| 21-6376 | Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6383 | Harinder Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation | Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to "conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6396 | Tamara Jeune v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Dismissed | IFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence | How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn… |
| 21-6397 | Viengxay Chantharath, aka OG v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing-law | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), district courts have the authority to reduce a sentence based on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In the F… |
| 21-767 | Clinton Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-761 | OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC v. Sandra M. Peters | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split erisa fiduciary fiduciary-duty party-in-interest prohibited-transaction service-provider tenth-circuit-rule | The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) bars a plan fiduciary from causing the plan to engage in certain transactions with a "party in int… |
| 21-6310 | Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing | In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), the United States Supreme Court held that when extraneous information enters into a jury's deliberati… |
| 21-6332 | Daeron Johnson Merrett, aka Reez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals-court-split buyer-seller-instruction circuit-split conspiracy-distribution controlled-substance drug-conspiracy federal-drug-offenses mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony | A SPLIT EXISTS IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS REGARDING THE GRANTING BUYER-SELLER INSTRUCTION IN THE TRIAL OF FEDERAL CONSPIRACY AND DISTRIBUTION CASES. PE… |
| 21-6276 | Terrell B. Sullivan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie united-states-v-havis united-states-v-winstead | Whether the Eighth Circuit Erred in Holding that Petitioner's Issue on "Certificate of Appealability" Was Not Debatable Among Jurists of Reason, When … |
| 21-6291 | Zoltan Barati v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | case-dismissal circuit-split constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-oversight qui-tam relator sequoia-dismissal | Whether the 11th Circuit can eliminate due process requirements of Qui Tam - relator progressed - case dismissals while other circuits rely on Sequoia… |
| 21-6300 | Ricky Cardenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration | Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-725 | PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Dismissed | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings | Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut… | |
| 21-728 | Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality | The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… | |
| 21-6282 | Tannous Fazah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement | I. In August 2013, petitioner was indicted in federal court, in part, on charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Petitioner was all… |
| 21-6283 | Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force | 1. Federal assault with a dangerous weapon does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. Rather… |
| 21-6259 | Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity | In this case, juror misconduct was proven by the lower court after a juror researched an element of the crime on the internet (Wikipedia) during delib… |
| 21-700 | Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-12 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition | 1. Does a claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for wrongful pre-trial detention caused by the fabrication of evidence accrue upon the … |
| 21-701 | Oakley Grain, Inc., et al. v. M. Randy Rice, Chapter 7 Trustee, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-court circuit-split civil-procedure district-court injunction interpleader standing state-court-lawsuit | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's Order affirming the Bankruptcy Court's ruling that the State Court lawsuit did not … |
| 21-6225 | Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding | 1. Whether the First Circuit misapplied this Court's rulings on RICO Conspiracy by approving an instruction allowing a jury to convict if it determine… |
| 21-6227 | Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison | Third Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Which divided Courts of Appeals are correct: the Eleventh, Fifth and Second Circuits holding that a due process violation occurs when the governme… |
| 21-682 | Mackie L. Shivers, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | circuit-split civil-liability constitutional-violation discretionary-function-exception employee-liability federal-tort-claims-act government-immunity | Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its empl… | |
| 21-683 | John C. Kitchin, Jr., et al. v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act defendant-conduct federal-jurisdiction local-controversy-exception significant-basis statutory-interpretation | Under the Class Action Fairness Act's "local controversy" exception, a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action in which, … | |
| 21-684 | Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims | The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act creates a private right of action for any "consumer who is damaged by the failure of a supplier, warrantor, or service … |
| 21-6178 | Henry Baird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment | WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-6212 | Anthony De La Torriente v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation | The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
| 21-6197 | Lance Arnold Kingbird v. Vicki Janssen, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists similar-facts statutory-interpretation | 1. In deciding whether to issue a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, may a federal court find that "reasonable jurists would not dis… |
| 21-6191 | Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop | The Eleventh Circuit has held that identity-related evidence is not suppressible in a criminal prosecution. However, this precedent relies heavily on—… |
| 21-6166 | Ángel De la Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6171 | Carlos Granda v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default | 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-6136 | Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation | Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute, as three … |
| 21-649 | Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al. | Illinois | 2021-11-02 | Denied | access-to-courts circuit-split civil-rights discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech human-rights-commission religious-freedom standing | 1. Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appel late Court's refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amend ment rights of Pe… | |
| 21-6123 | Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 21-6111 | Jonas Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S CONCLUSION THAT MR. ROSS DISTRIBUTED THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF K.P. IS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS… |
| 21-626 | Boyd & Associates v. Bryan K. White, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act first-to-file-bar jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal medicaid-fraud sebelius-v-auburn-regional-medical-center | The questions presented for review are: A. WHETHER the en banc Court of Appeals and the panel erred in affirming the District Court's decisions dismi… |
| 21-627 | Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation | The Airline Deregulation Act ("ADA") expressly preempts any state law "related to a price, route, or service of an air carrier." 49 U.S.C. § 41713(b)(… |
| 21-6118 | Kevin Folse v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime | New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod… |
| 21-6120 | Javier Perez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants | 1. Whether an undocumented immigran t like Javier Perez, who came to the United States over 15 years ago and de veloped substantial ties to this count… |
| 21-6080 | Carl Henry Olsen, III v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa anti-terrorism-act circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus presumption-against-retroactivity retroactive-application retroactivity second-or-successive-petitions second-petition | If a petitioner litigated a pre-AEDPA federal habeas petition, do AEDPA's new restrictions on second or successive petitions apply retroactively to th… |
| 21-6099 | Sandchase Cody v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing | Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-6106 | Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement | Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh … |
| 21-617 | Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity | Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status, as the Second, Third, and Sixth Circuits have held (subject to legitimate penol… |
| 21-605 | David Lynn Roberson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo | 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the government must prove… | |
| 21-6077 | Torri McCray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct | 1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-594 | Alphabet Inc., et al. v. Rhode Island, Office of the Rhode Island Treasurer on Behalf of the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | annual-filing circuit-split disclosure-requirements forward-looking past-information quarterly-report risk-factors sec-regulations securities-disclosure securities-regulation | Securities and Exchange Commission regulations require companies to disclose in their annual and quarterly filings "risk factors" that may affect thei… |
| 21-6054 | Benjamin Koziol v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-criminal-interpretation criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act legal-precedent leocal-v-ashcroft ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | A. The Ninth Circuit has placed itself in conflict with several other circuits by criminalizing any baseless threat to sue as Hobbs Act extortion. Thi… |
| 21-6062 | Craig Schenvinsky James v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-review sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | I. BECAUSE THERE IS A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL OVER THIS MATTER, CAN THE SENTENCING COMMISSION'S COMMENTS TAKE PRECED… |
| 21-6010 | Robert D. Sutton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres… |
| 21-6020 | Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
| 21-6034 | Clifton James Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act | 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the … |
| 21-567 | Horizon Christian School, et al. v. Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief mootness-doctrine pandemic pandemic-restrictions religious-schools standing takings | 1. To obtain injunctive relief against a state governor during the pandemic—and to satisfy the exception to mootness for a controversy "capable of rep… |
| 21-569 | Gregory V. Tucker v. City of Shreveport, Louisiana, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force fair-warning qualified-immunity section-1983 | Respondents are police officers who tackled, punched, and kicked Petitioner Gregory Tucker after they pulled him over for non-functioning brake and li… |
| 21-5998 | In Re Anthony Terry | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-precedent circuit-split criminal-procedure elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In a previous holding (Borden v United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817 (2021)), this Court determined that a mens rea element of "knowing and purposeful" is re… | |
| 21-5999 | Steven Dewayne Gilbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guideline-interpretation holguin-hernandez procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | 1. This Court in Holguin-Hernandez recently held that a defendant's argument in the district court for a lower sentence preserves appellate review to … |
| 21-6004 | Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety | In determining the propriety of Joinder of offenses and/or defendants under Rule 8 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, there is a profound circuit sp… |
| 21-6009 | Jose Moyhernandez, aka Yindo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation | Whether a sentencing court must consider applicable sentencing factors codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when deciding whether to "impose a reduced sent… |
| 21-6015 | Robert Lee Walden v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida legal-precedent reasonable-diligence unsettled-circuit-law | Equitable tolling is available to excuse an untimely claim for habeas relief if a petitioner shows extraordinary circumstances and reasonable diligenc… |
| 21-5989 | Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review | Based on this Court's harmless error jurisprudence and that of seven other circuits, the government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an e… |
| 21-552 | Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., et al. v. Edward Anderson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | chadbourne-v-troice circuit-split covered-securities in-connection-with merrill-lynch-v-dabit securities-exchange-act securities-litigation slusa statutory-interpretation uniform-standards-act | Whether the Ninth Circuit, in conflict with other Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Troice narrowed Dabit's interpretation of SLUSA's "in co… |
| 21-559 | Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law | This case presents two questions: 1. Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertenc… |
| 21-5978 | Derek Levert Hall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure indigent-defendant pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel waiver | The federal courts of appeals are about evenly split over whether an indigent criminal defendant's waiver of trial counsel requires a clear and unequi… |
| 21-5984 | Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t… |
| 21-551 | John J. Watford v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-5972 | Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim | I. Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course where reasonable jurists — here, the district court and the magistrate ju… |
| 21-5976 | Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant | The Fairfax County Police seized trash from in front of Jude Lovchik's home. The items seized were then submitted to the Virginia Department of Forens… |
| 21-511 | Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (3) | all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation | 1. 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) allows federal courts to issue a writ of habeas corpus ordering the transportation of a state prisoner only when necessary to br… |
| 21-471 | John Doe 1, et al. v. Express Scripts, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (3) | benefit-pricing circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary fiduciary-duties pegram-v-herdrich plan-management price-control pricing third-party-administrator | 1. Does an administrator hired by an ERISA plan act as a fiduciary when it controls prices paid by the plan or its participants (as the Fourth, Fifth,… |
| 21-5883 | Davon Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split collateral-proceeding direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement remand sixth-amendment | The record below raises serious questions about whether Petitioner —an individual whose exposure to lead paint poisoning as a child has had a signific… |
| 21-5843 | Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | 1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a… |
| 21-5805 | Jean Leonard Teganya v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure false-statements obstruction-of-justice perjury sentencing-guidelines significant-further-obstruction | 1. The United States Sentencing Guidelines permit a two-point increase in offense level if the defendant obstructed or impeded the administration of j… |
| 21-5818 | Cynthia Lozano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judgment judgment-amendment legal-rights notice-of-appeal time-to-file | Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly split from the well-established rule of the Court and other Circuits that changes to the legal rights and obligat… |
| 21-5801 | Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error | Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a "miscarriage of justice" allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-5804 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-5806 | Antonio Medina Puerta v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-provisions coram-nobis due-process judicial-impartiality legal-remedy standing witch-hunt | 1. Whether the split in the Circuits regarding tests to grant coram nobis relief should remain unresolved. 2. Whether the test used by the 1st circui… |
| 21-470 | Eric Lee Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er… | |
| 21-462 | Jolie Johnson, et al. v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act fraud fraud-pleading government-claims pleading rule-9(b) rule-9b statutory-interpretation | Whether Rule 9(b) requires plaintiffs in False Claims Act cases who plead a fraudulent scheme with particularity to also plead specific details of fal… |
| 21-5795 | Ethan Guillen v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri | In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o… |
| 21-5778 | Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard merits-analysis merits-ruling standard-of-review | 1. Does a court of appeals violate the threshold certificate of appealability (COA) standard when it adopts the district court's merits rulings as… |
| 21-5771 | Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions | 1. Whether officers had the right to be at Appellant house do to the fact the search warrant for his house was in his Alleged Codefendant's name Dougl… |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-5748 | Kyle Evan Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule knowledge-element plea-bargaining plea-colloquy post-hoc-warrant united-states-v-x-citement-video | 1. The Sixth and Ninth Circuits are split on whether, during a plea colloquy in a child pornography case, the district judge must explain to the defen… |
| 21-428 | Rocket Mortgage, LLC, fka Quicken Loans Inc., et al. v. Phillip Alig, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-21 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights class-action damages due-process financial-injury injury mortgage-lending standing standing-doctrine | 1. Whether basing Article III standing to seek damages on a mere risk of harm, without evidence that the harm ever materialized, is inconsistent with … |
| 21-434 | Mary E. Canning v. Creighton University | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination eighth-circuit jury-consideration material-fact material-facts retaliation standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether the Eighth Circuit improperly borrowed part of the standard in FRCP 50 to review a summary judgment under FRCP 56, where the panel's failure t… | |
| 21-417 | Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility | Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 21-414 | First Midwest Bank, as Guardian of the Estate of Michael D. LaPorta v. City of Chicago, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights legal-causation municipal-liability off-duty off-duty-conduct official-policy section-1983 | Can municipalities evade liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unlawful acts that their official municipal policies undisputedly caused if the municipa… |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | WHETHER A THIRD PARTY POSSESSES AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE SEIZURE OF ANOTHER'S CELL PHONE WHEN THAT PHONE IS PASSWORD PROTECTED, THE OWNER OF THAT P… |
| 21-5633 | Roland J. McLain v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5641 | Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ… |
| 21-388 | John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc., et al. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split equal-access first-amendment forum-analysis government-exclusion press-access press-clause public-forum speech-clause viewpoint-neutrality | Whether the government's selective exclusion of members of the press implicates the equal treatment guarantee of the First Amendment's Press Clause, a… |
| 21-391 | Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent | 1. Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, i… |
| 21-392 | Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc., et al. v. Eric Holcomb, Governor of Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split dormant-commerce-clause governmental-authority highway-tolling interstate-commerce market-participant-exception state-action state-discrimination | The dormant Commerce Clause authorizes judicial intervention to address state discrimination to and undue burdens upon interstate commerce. The "marke… |
| 21-386 | Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-09 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 21-5631 | Elton Vallare v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Dismissed | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5604 | Daniel Chase Harris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3261 18-usc-7 circuit-split civilian-jurisdiction due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-law military-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether U.S. military or civilian courts have exclusive jurisdiction of service members for their overseas conduct on foreign U.S. military install… |
| 21-5620 | Raymond L. Crum v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states | In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319, 321 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 "precludes federal courts from imposing or… |
| 21-5584 | Guerly Alexis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5577 | Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne… |
| 21-5579 | Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review | There is a split between the United States Circuit Courts regarding whether the "inextricably intertwined " standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Ev… |
| 21-328 | Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (2) | arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver | Waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right and, in the context of contracts, occurs when one party to a contract either explicitly repu… |
| 21-330 | Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response Waived | all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty | Federal Circuit and eight United States circuit courts, the Supreme Court must revisit and settle the law and iterate the factors to be considered to … |
| 21-307 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. v. John J. Shufeldt | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split federal-common-law inconsistent-position judicial-estoppel preliminary-motion standard-of-review | 1. Whether a prior court's denial of a preliminary motion based on a litigant's prior inconsistent position constitutes judicial acceptance of that po… |
| 21-309 | Southwest Airlines Co. v. Latrice Saxon | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Relisted (2) | circuit-city-stores-v-adams circuit-split contract-exemption eastus-v-iss-facility-services federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce ramp-agent-supervisor statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are … |
| 21-316 | Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation | This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict. Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant … |
| 21-5511 | Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | IFP | alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5501 | Michael David McCall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | Whether the Texas offense of burglary constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 21-5480 | Charles Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 increased the threshold amounts of crack cocaine – from 5 and 50 grams to 28 and 280 grams – needed to trigger two man… |
| 21-273 | Buck Gene Brune v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing | Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach: a. when the district court accepts the d… | |
| 21-264 | San Diego County, California, et al. v. Ana Sandoval, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-care medical-needs pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity | Under the Fourteenth Amendment, must a pretrial detainee alleging deliberate indifference to medical needs prove that the defendant was subjectively a… |
| 21-5453 | Charles J. Senke v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel strickland-standard substitution-of-counsel | The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a n acknowledged and entrenched circuit split, ruled that the district court's failure to inquire into Sen… |
| 21-5460 | Joe Michael Luna v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 circuit-split clearly-established-law federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decision statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), is a habeas court's review of a state court decision limited to an analysi… |
| 21-5434 | Demontrae Wilson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence | Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission… |
| 21-5413 | Antoine L. Wallace v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | United States Sentencing Guidelines enhance the sentence for drug offenders and gun offenders, if, among other things, they have prior "felony convict… |
| 21-242 | Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages | Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provides "an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action . . . for which any two or… |
| 21-224 | Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review | 1. Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 to decide an appeal from a final judgment that asks the court to reconsider its pr… |
| 21-211 | Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement | When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel… | |
| 21-212 | Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement | Trademark infringement claims are intended to ensure consumers are not confused as to the source of goods; indeed, the consumers' best interests lie a… |
| 21-5352 | Vernon D. Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 21-5345 | Leonard Thurman v. Medical Transportation Management, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-regulations federal-right medicaid medicaid-act section-1983 statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Leonard Thurman filed suit against Respondent Medical Transportation Management, Inc. for failure to provide transportation, which is guara… |
| 21-5332 | Efrain Hidalgo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitute… |
| 21-184 | Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy | Under either step of the Abbasi test, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-187 | Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi | Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 21-5319 | John Louis Devencenzi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carjacking circuit-split crime-of-violence intimidation mandatory-minimum-sentences physical-force residual-clause statutory-interpretation | By its plain language, federal carjacking can be committed by "intimidation." 18 U.S.C. § 2119. This Court recognizes carjacking by intimidation is sa… |
| 21-168 | Dennis De Jesus v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial | When a court erroneously holds that it lacks jurisdiction to decide a matter, can a cursory statement that the court would deny relief on the merits i… |
| 21-171 | Joel Zupnik v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-5305 | Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion | Anyone can go to prison, but not everyone can pay a fine. The district court here imposed a $4,000 fine against Mr. Rosales-Gonzalez, an indigent, non… |
| 21-5307 | Millard Jerome Strickland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Can a prior conviction involving a substance that is not a controlled substance for the purposes of federal law render a federal defendant a "career o… |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 21-5272 | Gary Todd Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing fraud fraudulent-investment-scheme investment-scheme loss-amount loss-calculation loss-to-losing-victims sentencing-guidelines uniformity | 1. When determining the United States Sentencing Guidelines loss amount attributable to a defendant in a case involving a fraudulent investment scheme… |
| 21-133 | Jorge Alejandro Rojas v. Federal Aviation Administration | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law agency-records circuit-split consultant-corollary foia-exemption-5 freedom-of-information-act inter-agency-memoranda judicial-circuit-split statutory-interpretation | Whether the Ninth Circuit, in a sharply divided en banc decision, erred by adopting the consultant corollary and holding that "intra-agency memorandum… |
| 21-5256 | In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | Mr. Harris' habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that have sharply divided the courts below. Eight out of twelve United States of Appeal… | |
| 21-5230 | Maurice Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states | Recently the Court recognized that the elements of the offense of possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), includes that the defendant … |
| 21-5219 | Bryan James Collins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-104 | Robert Timothy Harley v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-possession hearth-and-home second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Can there be a personal, individual as-applied challenge under the Second Amendment to a prohibition on the possession of a firearm for the protection… | |
| 21-5214 | Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 86, which allows … |
| 21-5173 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note attempt-offense auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit Split and decide if a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U. S.S.G. § 4B1.2 is an improper ex… |
| 21-5186 | Mihran Melkonyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1.) Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5153 | Brian K. Rogers v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fifth-amendment polygraph polygraph-examination self-incrimination sex-offender-treatment supervised-release | Are admissions made during a polygraph examination required by sex offender treatment compelled for purposes of the Fifth Amendment when failing the e… |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-84 | Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. v. Victim Rights Law Center, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure government-litigation governmental-litigant intervention intervention-as-of-right presumption-of-adequacy presumption-of-adequate-representation standing title-ix | Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2), an entity that seeks to intervene as of right must establish that none of the existing parties "adequa… |
| 21-73 | Albon Diamond v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-standard | Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding. |
| 21-5144 | Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 21-5146 | Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's us… |
| 21-5128 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud | Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 21-5097 | Johann Brito v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation | A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5112 | David Starks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-58 | Sassine Razzouk v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 21-5091 | Brian Dunkley v. Shawn Phillips, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with decisions of another United States court of Appeals on the same i… |
| 21-51 | Central Payment Co., LLC v. Custom Hair Designs by Sandy, LLC, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification contract-interpretation contractual-rights-and-obligations federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure individualized-defenses rule-23 rules-enabling-act | Whether a class may be certified under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the class claims turn on materially different contractual … |
| 21-5057 | Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or … |
| 21-5060 | Kevin Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes | Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 21-18 | Skyler Thomas Rice v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii circuit-split civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction mootness prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se standing | Whether the court of appeals' judgment should be vacated, where the appeal was moot at the time the opinion issued because Petitioner two months earli… |
| 21-5044 | Ncholeion Kashana Hollie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction abduction-definition change-in-location circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing robbery robbery-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b3.1 | Under Section 2B3.1 (b)(4)(A) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines ("USSG"), courts apply a four-level increase to the offense level for Robbery… |
| 21-10 | Lori Braun v. Brian Burke, Arkansas State Trooper, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process emergency-response high-speed-driving intent-to-harm objective-test police-liability | 1. Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, or i… | |
| 21-5031 | Luis Pitt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bradshaw-v-stumpf circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review kercheval-v-united-states plea-acceptance plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated when the Court of Appeals failed to remedy the District Court's improper acceptance of Petitione… |
| 20-8465 | Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-cfr-1003.14 8-usc-1229 administrative-procedure circuit-split immigration-law immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear statutory-interpretation | Should the Court resolve the circuit split on whether a notice to appear in immigration proceedings must comply with the statutory definition of a not… |
| 20-8448 | Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation | Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, … |
| 20-1817 | Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent | The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma… |
| 20-1808 | Adam E. Billings v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-booker united-states-v-roach | 1. Whether the Sentencing Guidelines §2D1.1 Application Note 4 violates procedural due process. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision in United St… |
| 20-8414 | Cynthia Stiger v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perce… |
| 20-8401 | Tyler Landon Thornton v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession non-state-actor plea-bargaining plea-involuntariness | I. THIS CASE PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESOLVE A CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER COERCION FROM A NON-STATE ACTOR CAN RENDER A PLEA I… |
| 20-8404 | Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 | Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, when they were not parties to the conve… |
| 20-1765 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response Waived | but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli… |
| 20-1771 | Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement | The Third Circuit held that probabl e cause can be based solely on the statements of a victim and an alleged 1 ½ hour investigation that failed to inc… | |
| 20-8352 | David Alexandre v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie… |
| 20-8372 | Martez Howard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 20-8306 | Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent | Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent. |
| 20-8310 | Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | 1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-8322 | Fabian Perpall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind | By pleading not guilty, can a defendant make his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show "state of mind"? |
| 20-1732 | Thomas Bryant, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court first-step-act policy-statement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a def… |
| 20-8290 | Anthony Leon Waits v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court federal-court federal-rule forfeiture forfeiture-judgment indictment indictment-notice statutory-basis | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(a) prohibit a district court from entering a forfeiture judgment when the indictment does not give notice… |
| 20-8275 | Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-1699 | E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether a "bright line" rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures, as the FIFTH Circuit holds, or whether the r… |
| 20-8231 | Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction | 1. Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illega… |
| 20-8201 | Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation | Does a "found in" violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, as the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have held, … |
| 20-8213 | James Atwood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances federal-law sentencing-guidelines state-law | Does the undefined term "controlled substance" in the federal Sentencing Guidelines mean substances controlled by federal law, the federal Controlled … |
| 20-8215 | Aaron Walton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8197 | Samuel Earl Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit's holding in finding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit spli… |
| 20-8202 | Otis Hill v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8204 | Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement | I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor… |
| 20-1673 | Ashley Nettles v. Midland Funding LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | article-iii-standing circuit-split concrete-injury fair-debt-collection-practices-act procedural-rights separation-of-powers spokeo-v-robins | 1. Whether, under Spokeo, it is sufficient for standing simply to allege a violation of the procedural rights created by the Fair Debt Collection Prac… | |
| 20-1653 | Lazelle Maxwell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-sentencing first-step-act legal-developments procedural-history resentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-8162 | Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | IFP | admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge | WHAT IS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE WITH EVIL INTENT DF CEOEL AND PONISH MENT AS TO DELIbELATE INDI FFERENCE? ALSO WHAT IS IMMINENT DANGER? |
| 20-8143 | Merwin Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) | Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-1648 | James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation | The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s the integrity of copyright management information ("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section… |
| 20-1650 | Carlos Concepcion v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10) | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-1651 | Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | (1) Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a diversity-destroying defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thu… | |
| 20-1639 | George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | GVR | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights concealed-carry due-process home-defense right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the holdings of the First, Seventh and D.C. Circuits, that the Second Amendment… |
| 20-8103 | Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver | A. Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions as directed by a court order is a waiver completely precluding review of instructional errors… |
| 20-8116 | Carlos Bayon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion | Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity… |
| 20-8127 | Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence | Once a Fourth Amendment violation is established, does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the "but for" cause of the subsequent … |
| 20-8136 | Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
| 20-8082 | Eric Deshan Adams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split reckless-negligence strict-liability violent-felony | U.S.C. §924(e), the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)? |
| 20-8071 | Delson Marc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1607 | Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen | Michigan | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop | Respondent was stopped for speeding in a residential street within the village, on a road with a 25 MPH sign going the other way, where almost all the… |
| 20-1611 | Healthcare Distribution Alliance, et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split federal-courts fees-vs-taxes opioid-stewardship-act public-benefit regulatory-fee state-law state-tax tax-injunction-act | The Tax Injunction Act (TIA) forbids federal courts from enjoining "the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law" when state-court re… |
| 20-1614 | John D. Leontaritis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof | This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the… |
| 20-1616 | ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect | (1) Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that … |
| 20-1592 | Caitlin McCann, et al. v. Sheila Garcia, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-principles precedent qualified-immunity social-workers standing | 1. Whether a plaintiff satisfies the "clearly established law" prong of qualified immunity by identifying prior authority that articulates general leg… |
| 20-1596 | Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm P.L.L.C. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Amici (1) | attorney-client-privilege circuit-split client-identity confidential-communication irs-audit irs-summons john-doe-summons legal-counsel tax-planning | When the Government is aware of a citizen's confidential communication with legal counsel or the motive for seeking advice, but is unaware of the citi… |
| 20-8020 | Charleston Pierre Wiggins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense drug-distribution guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(b) | I Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the USSG § 4B1.2(b)? II Whe… |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7972 | Gregory L. Roberson, Charles Matthews, and Dorothy Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act first-step-act retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the penalties in… |
| 20-7973 | Zavion Nunley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities | Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose above-guideline-range sentences much more frequently than their peers i… |
| 20-7984 | Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual … |
| 20-1562 | Faye Strain, as Guardian of Thomas Benjamin Pratt v. Vic Regalado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Amici (5) | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jail jail-official medical-care pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees subjective-knowledge | Whether a pretrial detainee can prevail against a jail official who disregarded an obvious risk of serious harm or whether the pretrial detainee must … |
| 20-1566 | David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | adverse-possession choice-of-law circuit-split federal-common-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act state-law stolen-property substantive-law | Whether a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the FSIA must apply the forum state's choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive… |
| 20-7968 | Charles Ahumada v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions | 1. It is settled that criminal defendants have the constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal as of right, up to the point at which an appellate… |
| 20-7957 | Kelley Keller v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | IFP | aedpa circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations | Petitioners who seek to have AEDPA's statute of limitations equitably tolled must show (1) they were diligent in preparing their federal habeas petiti… |
| 20-1552 | Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. | Federal Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing | 1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel petitioner's trademark registration even … | |
| 20-7936 | Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession | The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7944 | Peter Bobal v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment internet-access sex-offender supervised-release | Does the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017) ─ which recognized a First Amendment right to access the Inter… |
| 20-7859 | Denver Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights | This Court has made clear that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of a person accused of a crime to due process and to a trial by an impartial jury … |
| 20-7879 | Vincent Gino Chavez v. Brian Cates, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-case capital-cases circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses noncapital-cases | In Beck v. Alabama, 477 U.S. 625, 638 (1980), this Court held that a criminal defendant is entitled to jury instructions on lesser included offenses i… |
| 20-1488 | Sherwin A. Brook v. J. Lawrence McCormley, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-23 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-magistrates-act judicial-procedure motion-consideration standing state-law-certification | Does 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C) allow a district judge, on de novo review of objections to a magistrate's report, to refuse to consider a motion to cert… |
| 20-1474 | Joseph Colone v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. | California | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure discovery-rules evidentiary-privilege judicial-subpoena judicial-truth-seeking non-governmental-litigant stored-communications-act subpoena truth-seeking | 1. Whether federal statutes must contain express privilege language before courts may decide that Congress intended the statute to create an evidentia… |
| 20-7773 | Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an 1. intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Dist… |
| 20-7778 | Gerald Scott v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7737 | Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-1429 | Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration | The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… | |
| 20-1430 | AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort | Whether a foreign defendant, whose largest business market originates from the United States through website visitors with geotargeted advertising, wh… |
| 20-7701 | Samuel Alex Gann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass | An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7708 | Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Mr. Castro Orellana could not show an effect on his substantial rights on plain-error review even though … |
| 20-7694 | Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-1414 | Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit | This Court has long held that whether a worker is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") turns on the "economic reality" of… |
| 20-1391 | Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods | 1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark? 2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma… |
| 20-1392 | Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger | Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s… |
| 20-7655 | Lisa Bershan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances | Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-7612 | Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop | To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may … |
| 20-1373 | Wanza Cole v. Wake County Board of Education | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights detrimental-effect employment-discrimination protected-status statutory-interpretation title-vii | Does Title VII prohibit discrimination as to all "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment," or is its reach limited to only discriminatory empl… |
| 20-1368 | Cynthia Rollo-Carlson, as Trustee for Jeremiah Flackus-Carlson, Deceased v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-claims administrative-law agency-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure federal-claims federal-tort-claims-act jurisdictional-requirement standing statutory-interpretation | Under 28 U.S.C. §2675(a), is the requirement that an agency be presented with evidence of the claimant's authority to act during the administrative cl… |
| 20-7610 | Jose Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924(c)(3) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951) qualifies as a categorical "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3) because… |
| 20-7599 | Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Third Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera… |
| 20-7572 | Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel | ao\ <x v/\oWo on S»)^VvI.tOWAbec cr dLrnortV c\^aV \o Cocuis^A c^s Acf » ^>y fW^SkAn £>CCceA u^W ia AW SWc tfsdc We,Amen ^U^sVYvwet'TV /'havwc Ac i ct… |
| 20-1349 | Rachel Threatt v. Ryan Thomas Farrell, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure class-action fee-awards lodestar lodestar-method reasonable-fees rule-23h | Whether, and to what degree, a district court must consider counsel's lodestar in awarding "reasonable attorney's fees" under Rule 23(h). |
| 20-7541 | Billian Jo, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Mee Jin-Jo v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC | Second Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure clerk-authority due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion judicial-oversight summary-order | All Circuit Courts have various Local Rules or Internal Operating Procedures (IOPs) that use Summary Orders to reduce judicial workload. The Second C… |
| 20-7491 | Esmervi Carone Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith circuit-court circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-spoliation jury-instructions legal-force pattern-instructions spoliation-of-evidence | I. Whether pattern jury instructions approved by the circuit courts carry any independent legal force? II. Whether federal criminal defendants may re… |
| 20-7492 | Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7497 | Kevin Reid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage | 1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-1296 | Walter Skipper v. A&M Dockside Repair, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defenses circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-amendment scheduling-order summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent | Does precedent in the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which allows defendants to raise affirmative defenses in a motion for summar… |
| 20-1283 | Margaret Temponeras v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term "legitimate medical purpose" does not provide fair notic… |
| 20-7474 | Ezralee J. Kelley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | as four circuits hold as three circuits hold or whether a resentencing court must correct a Gu career-offender circuit-split fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 permits district courts to "impose a reduced sentence" on defendants who committed offenses for which the… |
| 20-7444 | Toddrey Bruce v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop | In Navarette v. California, the Court held that the "absence of additional suspicious conduct"—five minutes of normal driving—did not dispel reasonabl… |
| 20-7446 | Juan Luis Rivera Arreola v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split co-defendant-liability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement reasonable-foreseeability sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade U.S.S.G.-2D1.1(b)(1) | In order to warra nt a two-level enhance ment for possession of a fir earm, pursuant to U.S .S.G. § 2D1.1 (b)(1), is it suffic ient to simply label fi… |
| 20-1267 | Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | District of Columbia | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response Waived | certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court | When the Supreme Court of the United States denies a taxpayer a certiorari writ in a case begun in the United States Tax Court, 26 U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)… |
| 20-7408 | Trystan Keun Napper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7431 | Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing | Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or her self pro se, should no issues conce… |
| 20-7378 | Israel Ernesto Palacios v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | case-law-interpretation circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreshadowing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | This case presents a question on which the circuit courts are split: to what extent must a claim to be "sufficiently foreshadowed in existing case law… |
| 20-7388 | Alejandro De La Torre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D… |
| 20-7394 | Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), witho… |
| 20-7359 | Karen Gagarin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-7333 | Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),… |
| 20-7348 | Anthony Ray Ybarra v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split force-clause mens-rea physical-force violent-felony | New Mexico courts have held the state's aggravated assault statute does not have a mens rea element with respect to the victim. Does a criminal offens… |
| 20-7306 | Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-1207 | Alexander Balbuena v. Brian Cates, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | aedpa amendment appeal appellate-procedure circuit-split federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-petition petition-amendment second-or-successive | Whether a district court filing that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal constitutes a "second or successive" petition under the Antite… |
| 20-1197 | Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Amici (4) | atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing | 1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who: • inc… |
| 20-1205 | Gazelle Craig v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-distribution dispensing distributing medical-necessity prescription prescription-law statutory-interpretation | When Dr. Craig wrote a prescription for a controlled substance that was not medically necessary, did her conduct constitute "dispensing," "distributin… |
| 20-7280 | Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-01 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process federal-courts felony-murder physical-force state-court-interpretation statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether a federal court analyzing a prior state-court conviction to determine whether the offense qualifies as a "violent felony" under the Armed C… |
| 20-7231 | Troy Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice | Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe… |
| 20-7235 | Michael Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7213 | Nathan Ray Dent v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | I. The government concedes that one of the possible predicate offenses used to convict Petitioners under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) —conspiracy—is not a § 924… |
| 20-7215 | Sunni Askari Newell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF FIREARMS … |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7208 | Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District court's denial of a mot… |
| 20-1141 | Doe Company v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure | 1. Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appella… |
| 20-1143 | Denise A. Badgerow v. Greg Walters, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | arbitration-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act federal-question-jurisdiction look-through-approach quezada-v-bechtel subject-matter-jurisdiction vaden-v-discover-bank | Whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitration award under Sections 9 and 10 of the FAA where the only ba… |
| 20-1149 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention | Whether, under Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs, 571 U.S. 69 (2013), a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying … |
| 20-1134 | John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-1139 | Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits | When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, the law speaks of two options. One is for the agency to act anew. … |
| 20-1128 | Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix | Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec… |
| 20-1118 | Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio | RESOLVE CIRCUIT SPLITS WITH RESPECT TO "ROOKER-FELDMAN" FRAUD EXCEPTION Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception … |
| 20-7146 | Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 20-7115 | Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and… |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … |
| 20-1092 | Brandon Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights document-fraud due-process federal-criminal-law fraud free-speech government-securities legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 514(a) prohibits the use of "any false or fictitious instrument, document, or other item appearing, representing, purporting, or contrivin… | |
| 20-1093 | Just Energy Marketing Corp., et al. v. Davina Hurt, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | christopher-v-smithkline-beecham circuit-split employment-law fair-labor-standards-act outside-salesman regulatory-approval sales sales-exemption | Whether, as the Second Circuit held, Petitioners' door-to-door solicitors are exempt "outside salesmen" under the FLSA or, as the Sixth Circuit held, … |
| 20-1104 | Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence | Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have… |
| 20-1106 | Jane Doe v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | administrative-record circuit-split de-novo-review erisa-benefits evidence material-dispute standard-of-review summary-judgment | 1. Whether, on de novo consideration of an ERISA benefits claim, summary judgment must be denied if there is a genuine dispute of material fact. 2. W… | |
| 20-1107 | Roddie Melvin v. Federal Express Corporation | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | age-discrimination circuit-split eleventh-circuit employment-discrimination evidence-standard preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence seventh-circuit standard-of-proof summary-judgment | In evaluating motions for summary judgment under employment discrimination laws, such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, must a court examin… |
| 20-7098 | Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure | Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and several State court… |
| 20-7101 | Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Is a conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) if, acco… |
| 20-7102 | Toheed Ahmed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence seized during and derived from an August 26, 2015 tra… |
| 20-7073 | Donovan Muskett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-consequences due-process fair-warning precedent retroactive-application | In the absence of a circuit split, can a single decision from another circuit afford fair warning that the federal circuit in which an individual resi… |
| 20-1076 | SE Property Holdings, LLC, as Successor by Merger to Vision Bank v. Jerry D. Gaddy | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 11-usc-523-a-2-a actual-fraud asset-transfer bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law circuit-split creditor-rights debtor-protection fraudulent-transfers husky-international-electronics-inc-v-ritz | 1. Does a creditor sufficiently state a claim under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A) to except from discharge a debt "for money, property, services, or an ext… |
| 20-1077 | Amazon.com, Inc., et al. v. Bernard Waithaka | First Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | arbitration-exemption circuit-split civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce national-boundaries state-boundaries statutory-interpretation transportation-workers | Whether the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for classes of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, 9 U.S.C. 1, prevents the Act's appli… |
| 20-1083 | Thomas Rossley, Jr. v. Drake University, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights college disability-discrimination disciplinary-proceedings due-process reasonable-accommodations title-ix university university-disciplinary-proceedings | 1. Does the conflict in fact among the Circuits involving, on the one hand, Doe v. Purdue , 928 F.3d 652 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J.), Doe v. Univers… |
| 20-1066 | Ashlyn Hoggard v. Ron Rhodes, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (8) | case-precedent circuit-split constitutional-rights factual-similarity first-amendment higher-standard legal-standard public-university qualified-immunity | 1. Whether qualified immunity shields public university officials from liability when the reasoning—but not the holding—of a binding decision gave the… |
| 20-7024 | Randy Macario Ancheta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing due-process hobbs-act mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not have as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent force. Hobs Act robbery's p… |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a… |
| 20-1061 | Dantzler, Inc., et al. v. S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | article-iii-standing causation circuit-split federal-court federal-jurisdiction injury judicial-standing standing third-party third-party-action | Is the causal connection required for standing satisfied when it is substantially likely that a third party in the chain of causation will respond to … | |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-1028 | Timothy L. Blixseth v. Credit Suisse | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-reorganization chapter-11 circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process exculpation-clause non-debtor-release subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a nonconsensual exculpation clause in a bankruptcy reorganization plan purporting to release non-debtor third parties from claims by other non… |
| 20-1032 | Petrobras America Incorporated, et al. v. Vantage Deepwater Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitral-award arbitration circuit-split de-novo-review enforcement international-conventions new-york-convention panama-convention public-policy standard-of-review | The Panama Convention and the New York Convention authorize the courts of Contracti ng States to refuse enforcement of an arbitral award where enforce… |
| 20-6957 | Alfred Paul Centofanti, III v. Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split collateral-order district-court habeas habeas-corpus interim-release interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit standard-of-review | Is a district court's order granting or denying an interim release motion in a habeas case an appealable collateral order? |
| 20-6963 | F. Allan Midyett v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-criminal federal-employment indian-employment statutory-compliance veterans-affairs | The question in this case is whether the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs can refuse to comply with provisions of 25 U.S.C. Ch. 36 to t… |
| 20-6971 | Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness? II. Did the district court impose a plainly … |
| 20-6972 | Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 20-6974 | Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae | At Wilson's jury trial the district court allowed testimony that Wilson sold drugs the day before the charged offenses as background evidence that was… |
| 20-6931 | Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6943 | Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing | Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6946 | Barry Cashin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-6953 | Dwyne Byron Deruise, aka Duke v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split criminal-justice-reform discretion discretionary-review first-step-act resentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… |
| 20-996 | Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search | In Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1 (1990), this Court held that a warrantless search of a closed container found in an impounded vehicle is permissible u… |
| 20-1002 | Cody William Cox v. Don Wilson | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fair-warning government-official legal-standard precedent-comparison qualified-immunity | Whether a court may uphold a qualified immunity claim on the ground that qualified immunity had been granted in a prior case in which the "impropriety… |
| 20-985 | Kathryn A. Flynn v. Department of the Army | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-remedies circuit-split exhaustion-doctrine federal-employee federal-employee-rights ninth-circuit protected-activities res-judicata retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act | I. Where a federal employee's administrative complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act identifies the Agency's adverse actions and seeks relief… |
| 20-6863 | Tommy Findley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause | 1. Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable… |
| 20-6841 | Steven Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties | I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6817 | Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome | I. THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S MISAPPLICATION OF THE PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE TO BAR REVIEW OF QUINN'S CLAIM THAT THE P… |
| 20-6792 | Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit | The Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive conspiracy prosecutions when the conspiracy underpinning a subsequent prosecution is part of the same … |
| 20-6813 | Manuel Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest | Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba… |
| 20-913 | Joseph Wilborn v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sixth-amendment state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | During opening statements at Petitioner's murder trial, his counsel promised the jury that it would hear from the only eyewitness. Counsel later reneg… |
| 20-896 | Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-07 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | 1. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKING" EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S WARRANT REQUIREMENT EXTENDS TO THE HOME? 2. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKI… |
| 20-900 | Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island | First Circuit | 2021-01-05 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-902 | Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Amici (4) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-903 | First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity | When governmental regulations upon commercial speech are based upon either the identity of the speaker or the content of the message, does the "height… |
| 20-6773 | Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony | 1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio… |
| 20-6781 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-6783 | Jaelon David Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction administration-of-justice circuit-split federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines location-definition room-or-area sentencing-guidelines victim-movement | I. Whether the forced movement of victims from one room or area to another room or area within the same building constitutes an abduction for purposes… |
| 20-6753 | Andre Martel Winn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery exception—without requiring any factual basis to support it—is contrary to this… |
| 20-880 | Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment | 1. Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to th… |
| 20-886 | Thelma G. McCoy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Amici (3) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship | The Bankruptcy Code permits courts to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy if a debtor can show that repaying it would cause her "undue hardship.… |
| 20-6739 | Larun E. Miller v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-challenge outrageous-government-conduct sixth-circuit-conflict standing statutory-interpretation vagueness | Question not identified. |
| 20-6743 | Neil Dussard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6745 | Demetrius Elishakim Jefferson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3742 404b-evidence attempt-offenses auer-deference circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether this Court should resolve a Split among the Circuit s and find a District Court's use of Application note 1 to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, which purp… |
| 20-875 | Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment | Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine issue … |
| 20-861 | Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor | I. In Burrage U. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), this Court explained that a "but-for" cause is merely one cause, perhaps among several, which is … |
| 20-865 | In Re Todd Britton-Harr | 2020-12-30 | Denied | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release | Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… | ||
| 20-868 | Foxfield Villa Associates, LLC, et al. v. Paul Robben, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split general-partnership howey-test investment-contract investment-contracts limited-liability-company limited-partnership promoter-control securities-law | Paul Robben fraudulently induced Rich Bartlett and his wife Dena along with Ernie Straub ("Straub") to invest in Robben's real estate venture called F… |
| 20-869 | David E. Henry v. Castle Medical Center | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foman-standard foman-v-davis judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-amendment rules-59-and-60 standards-for-amendment | In spite of this Court's long-standing precedent that a post-judgment motion to amend the complaint must be decided under the same standards as a simi… | |
| 20-6713 | Danielle Devona Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation | IS THERE AN ACKNOWLEDGED CONFLICT AMONG THE SISTER CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER SECTION 924(c) CRIMINALIZES TWO SEPARATE OFFENSES (1) "CARRY OR USE" A FIREA… |
| 20-857 | Dale L. Miesen v. John D. Munding, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | circuit-split corporate-governance demand-letter derivative-action derivative-actions diversity-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-requirements rule-23.1 standard-of-review | 1. Whether the plaintiff in a derivative action, brought under diversity jurisdiction, must plead and prove the adequacy of its derivative demand lett… | |
| 20-6688 | Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr… |
| 20-6668 | Christopher Zamarripa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | IFP | ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-interpretation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy procedural-ambiguity | Does a district court's mischaracterization, during the plea colloquy, of an appeal waiver create an ambiguity that must be construed against the gove… |
| 20-6671 | Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation | Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-829 | WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims | Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab… |
| 20-6660 | Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola | I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui… |
| 20-807 | Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation | Two questions are presented: 1. Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations when its train … |
| 20-6605 | Demondray D. Mayo v. Perry Russell, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition reasonable state-court state-court-reasoning statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers | Whether a federal court reviewing a habeas petition incorrectly applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when it rel… |
| 20-794 | Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Granted | Amici (13)Relisted (2) | circuit-split district-court-discretion evidence-gathering foreign-tribunal international-arbitration international-tribunal judicial-assistance private-arbitration statutory-interpretation tribunal-definition | Whether the discretion granted to district courts in 28 U.S.C. §1782(a) to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in "a foreign or internatio… |
| 20-6594 | Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines | WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6599 | Randy Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | IFP | appeal circuit-split criminal-procedure good-faith in-forma-pauperis retained-counsel | If a criminal defendant was represented by retained counsel in the district court, must he show that his appeal is taken in good faith to proceed in f… |
| 20-6585 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights | One and Two In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn… |
| 20-6586 | Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement | 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i… |
| 20-786 | United States, ex rel. Gwendolyn Porter v. Magnolia Health Plan, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act materiality materiality-requirement motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards proof rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 | It is, or at least, was well established that in order to withstand a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a… |
| 20-781 | United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages | 1) Should this Court resolve a circuit split concerning the question as to whether Courts should allow gross trebling damages or net trebling damages … |
| 20-6552 | Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6541 | Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6517 | Elvis Basic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | 1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6539 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6529 | Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 | Jesse Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-755 | Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing t… | |
| 20-745 | Ismael Lechuga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-6485 | Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation | Whether – in a case where (1) the prose cution's theory was based on "shaken baby syndrome" but (2) there has now been a sea change in the medi cal co… |
| 20-743 | DISH Network L.L.C. v. United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Dismissed | circuit-split common-law-agency contract-interpretation contractual-performance-standards federal-communications-commission performance-standards telemarketing telemarketing-law vicarious-liability | Whether vicarious liability must be assessed in light of the four bedrock theories of common law agency, or whether a contractual term imposing perfor… | |
| 20-744 | Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab… |
| 20-724 | Donovan Middleton, et al. v. Complete Nutrition Franchising, LLC, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-discretion motion-to-amend post-judgment-motion rule-12b6 rule-59e standard-of-review | The Eighth Circuit affirmed the District Court's judgment granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss and, thereafter, denied Petitioners' Motion to Alter … | |
| 20-733 | Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the "individualized suspicion" required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots? | |
| 20-6437 | Tommy Pena v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance | Mr. Peña's 360-month sentence was an upward variance of 222 months, or 160%, from the high end of the total advisory guideline range of 123-138 months… |
| 20-6442 | Jonair Tyreece Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a circuit-split crack-cocaine discretionary-reduction district-court first-step-act racial-disparity sentencing-factors | Whether a district court must consider the sentencing factors of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) when determining whether to impose a reduced sentence for a crack… |
| 20-6448 | Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden | Third Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement | The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq… |
| 20-6412 | Robert St. Hilaire v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit, which noted it was deepening a split over the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B), properly construed that Guideline's 4-… |
| 20-6414 | Daniel Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene… |
| 20-6406 | Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness | I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-6407 | Jonathan Wallace Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | assault-definition bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-offense generic-definition legal-interpretation physical-force reckless-causation reckless-conduct | I. Whether a criminal offense defined to include the reckless causation of bodily injury has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use o… |
| 20-699 | Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal | Whether, as the Ninth Circuit has held, a plaintiff has an "absolute right" to voluntary dismissal under FRCP, Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), if no answer or mo… |
| 20-706 | Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness | Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl… | |
| 20-6388 | Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-690 | Michael Sang Han v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-11-18 | Denied | circuit-split income income-classification intent intent-analysis internal-revenue-code james-v-united-states loan loan-proceeds tax-law | May a court consider factors other than the parties' intent in determining whether a transfer of funds constitutes a non-taxable loan under the Intern… | |
| 20-680 | Lee Wendell Loder v. Icemakers, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure debt-dischargeability federal-courts judicial-authority money-judgment nondischargeable-debt | Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdictional authority to render a liquidated money judgment at the same time that it determines a debt to be non… |
| 20-6362 | Victor Manuel Avalos-Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1229 circuit-split illegal-reentry immigration-court immigration-law jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation | Whether an immigration court lacks jurisdiction to issue an order of removal that can later be used as a basis for an illegal reentry criminal convict… |
| 20-670 | Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson, 562 U.S. 134 (2011), diverged from its previous hold… |
| 20-661 | Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire | The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's application of the limitations period in 17 U.S.C. §507 (b) to dismiss plaintiff Christian Charles's … |
| 20-6299 | Brayan Jassiel Leyva-Peraza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split discretionary-review due-process judicial-discretion knowing-and-voluntary plea-agreement supervisory-powers unconscionability | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held the plea agreement in this case was not … |
| 20-6313 | Kevin Merritt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness | 1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-6316 | Mickey Pubien v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-656 | Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review | What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the … |
| 20-659 | Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry | I. Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to … |
| 20-6272 | Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-636 | Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest | 1. Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle h… | |
| 20-602 | Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove | In Shady Grove Ortho pedic Assocs., P.A. v. Allstate Ins. Co., 559 U.S. 393 (2010), this Court held that a valid Federal Rule of Civil Proce dure gove… |
| 20-6212 | Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon… |
| 20-6221 | Miguel Nunez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines | Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-6225 | Michael David Lister v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 20-588 | Lyneal Wainwright, Warden v. Jason S. Sexton | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | aedpa circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas state-proceedings | 1. Can federal courts award habeas relief based on errors in state-postconviction proceedings? 2. If errors in state-postconviction proceedings somet… | |
| 20-564 | Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-575 | Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access | Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-559 | Jane Doe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act feres-doctrine military-service service-academy sexual-assault sexual-harassment sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation | 1. Was Feres wrongly decided and should it be overruled? 2. Alternatively, should Feres be limited so as not to bar tort claims brought by servicemem… |
| 20-6165 | James Edward Sandford, III v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance plain-error-rule rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit sixth-amendment | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to resolve the Circuit split regarding the plain error rule between the Second and Fourth Circuits as it applies … |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 20-6145 | Anthony Quentin Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Dismissed | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-law standing statutory-interpretation | In the extrcordinary ircunstances of this case, lenited states Lourt of Appeals Daniet, 529 4.s, 473, 48y (2000); B4ck 05 Davi5, - 4.5.m,137 80k 759,7… |
| 20-6155 | Jordan Sandoval v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness | (1) Currently, the circuits are split in defining the role of appellate courts in conducting a meaningful substantive reasonableness review of a Defen… |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-544 | Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-10-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3) | agency-practice alaska-native-claims-settlement-act alaska-native-corporations cares-act circuit-split federal-benefits indian-self-determination-act indian-self-determination-and-education-assistance statutory-interpretation tribal-recognition | Whether ANCs are "Indian tribes" under ISDEAA and therefore are eligible for emergency-relief funds under Title V of the CARES Act. |
| 20-549 | John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Is a detainee's first appearance in court a "critical stage" of the proceedings, when bail is set and statutory liberty interests are adjudicated, as … |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-535 | Drew Samuel Bates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court that chooses to conduct a resentencing under § 404 of the First Step Act is prohibited from considering a defendant's current… | |
| 20-519 | State Bar of California, et al. v. Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | 11-usc-523(a)(7) attorney-discipline bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split federal-courts kelly-v-robinson public-protection statutory-interpretation | Whether payments ordered by the California Supreme Court as a condition of an attorney's discipline, imposed to protect the public, are non-dischargea… | |
| 20-499 | Nathaniel Richard Hull v. Jeffrey J. Rockwell | First Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | attachment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split creditor-rights creditors homestead-exemption property-exemption reinvestment state-law | Whether a debtor may keep a state-law homestead exemption inside bankruptcy, notwithstanding that the proceeds would be subject to attachment and exec… | |
| 20-6053 | Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation | Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha… |
| 20-490 | Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations | A state prisoner has one year from the time that "the judgment" becomes final to file a habeas petition. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A). Applying this stat… | |
| 20-495 | Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship | 1. Whether, and under what circumstances, claims arising under federal statute are subject to the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement. 2. Whether… |
| 20-6022 | Anthony Marvin Bruten v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review due-process fair-notice sentencing-enhancement | This case presents a clear circuit split over whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when, after an Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) pr… |
| 20-478 | CBX Resources, L.L.C. v. ACE American Insurance Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice finality finality-trap judgment-finality | Whether the Supreme Court should abolish the Fifth Circuit's judicially created "finality trap" and resolve the conflict among the courts of appeals r… |
| 20-471 | Y. W. v. Patricia Aufiero, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | appeal appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-procedure microsoft-baker-precedent microsoft-corp-v-baker without-prejudice without-prejudice-dismissal | 1. Whether the mere using of the word "dismissed" is enough to make an order final within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1291, where the without prejudice d… | |
| 20-5975 | Nathaniel Ruth v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) include substances that are excluded from the CSA? 2. When defining an operative, bu… |
| 20-457 | MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury | The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 20-5959 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-5936 | Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence | (1) Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG §2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded, indirect conflict with precedent from the Sixth, Eighth, and N… |
| 20-5927 | Gene Michael Diulio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to… |
| 20-5928 | Rick Lee Archer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness | I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges … |
| 20-430 | Justin Marques Henning v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence | Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the… |
| 20-5904 | Tarahrick Terry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)IFP | 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-418 | Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act | The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA"), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat. 2394, prohibits use of an "automatic telephone dialing system" … |
| 20-5864 | Peter George Noe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts finality habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction standard-of-review standing | Did the panel abuse its discretion by denying certificate of appealability when there is a conflict in the District courts on the issue and Jurists of… |
| 20-5852 | Robert Louis Brandon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | 1. Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty … |
| 20-400 | James Avery, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute sentence-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state burglary statute that disjunctively lists places that may be burgled under the statute is divisible for purposes of a sentence enhance… |
| 20-409 | Christopher Michael Marino, et ux. v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code circuit-split discharge-violation judicial-review recurring-issue statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 11 U.S.C. 105(a), debtors may recover attorney's fees incurred on appeal to remedy a discharge violation. |
| 20-5841 | Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Second Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator | Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-401 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha… | |
| 20-402 | Chad Richardson, et ux., Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of L v. Omaha School District | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) | administrative-procedures administrative-proceedings attorneys-fees attorneys'-fees circuit-split civil-rights due-process IDEA idea-statute judicial-review limitations-period | The question presented is: What type of state statute of limitations should courts borrow for attorneys' fees actions under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(8)(B)(… |
| 20-5825 | Larry Lamar Nance v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review | Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority of … |
| 20-396 | Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction | Involuntary bankruptcies are rare - as they should be. They are a last resort after all state remedies have been exhausted, and are not a tool to be u… | |
| 20-5818 | Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit | DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL ("COA") BASED UPON A FAILURE TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF, DESPITE SATISFYING THE REQUIR… |
| 20-378 | North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors | Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that "two other courts" upheld the administrator's int… | |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a … |
| 20-5783 | Chia Jean Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review | The government requested and received a deliberate indifference instruction in the criminal jury charge, over Lee's objection. The Fifth Circuit Court… |
| 20-5785 | Michael Hunter Cook v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure consideration contract contract-law due-process judicial-review standing | Whether, consistent with due process, an appellate court may enforce an appellate waiver unsupported by consideration. |
| 20-5790 | Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Second Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator | Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-371 | Care Alternatives v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clinical-judgment false-claims-act hospice-care life-expectancy medical-certification medicare medicare-claims physician-opinion | Whether a physician's honestly held clinical judgment regarding hospice certification can be "false" under the False Claims Act based solely on a reas… |
| 20-5733 | Clinton Lee Rumley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fourth-circuit-split mens-rea omission-liability recklessness sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | (1) Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is categorica… |
| 20-358 | Randy Henry v. J. Bret Johnson, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-employer government-employment public-concern public-employee retaliation | When a government employee speaks on a matter of public concern, may the government punish that employee (1) if the employee's interest in freedom of… |
| 20-360 | David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. v. Shawn Jensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | attorneys-fees circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights fee-enhancement judicial-discretion lodestar-method prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-litigation statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the PLRA leaves any room for a district court to enhance a fee award in prisoner cases beyond what it statutorily pr… | |
| 20-362 | Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the "book of wisdom" set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co., 289 U.S. 689 (… |
| 20-363 | Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (12) | circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co… |
| 20-5739 | David Rothenberg v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states physical-abuse restitution restitution-calculation statutory-interpretation victim-losses | When calculating restitution for a possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial physical abuse be disaggregated from… |
| 20-5706 | Mark Berg v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling | I. When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party (as… |
| 20-5715 | Martin Rogelio Longoria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | at sentencing may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-procedure government-discretion motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Whether the government, at sentencing, may withhold a motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under USSG § 3E1.1(b) on the… |
| 20-343 | Estate of David Maurice, et al. v. Life Insurance Company of North America | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split erisa-preemption health-plans insurance-policy-interpretation ninth-circuit proximate-cause saving-clause | Whether the court below erred by refusing to apply Kentucky Ass'n of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller, 538 U.S. 329 (2003) to determine whether the Califo… |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 20-348 | Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause | SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-334 | City of San Antonio, Texas, On Behalf of Itself and All Other Similarly Situated Texas Municipalities v. Hotels.com, L.P., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-costs circuit-split civil-procedure cost-award discretion federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation standard-of-review | Whether, as the Fifth Circuit alone has held, district courts "lack[] discretion to deny or reduce" appellate costs deemed "taxable" in district court… |
| 20-5668 | Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing | Along with the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit requires petitioners that qualify for equitable tolling to show diligence during the perio… |
| 20-5670 | Henry Horace Givins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-315 | Jose Santos Sanchez, et ux. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12) | 8-usc-1254a 8-usc-1255 administrative-law circuit-split immigration-law legal-status noncitizen-rights statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status | Whether, under 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(f)(4), a grant of Temporary Protected Status authorizes eligible noncitizens to obtain lawful-permanent-resident statu… |
| 20-319 | Comcast Corporation, et al. v. Viamedia, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) | anticompetitive-conduct antitrust business-justification circuit-conflict circuit-split refusal-to-deal sherman-act trinko | (1) whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a refusal-to-deal claim under § 2 of the Sherman Act may proceed despite the presence of valid b… |
| 20-320 | Jane Doe, et vir, Individually and as the Natural Parents and Next of Kin of Minor Doe v. Jackson Local School District Board of Education, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference deshaney-exception due-process state-created-danger supreme-court-review | 1) Whether DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. created the exception of the State Created Danger Test? 2) What are the elements and facto… | |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5648 | Damien Guidry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5652 | Daniel L. Lopez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations | Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
| 20-5639 | TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence | When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim … |
| 20-294 | Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence … |
| 20-5601 | Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does the conflict of the particularity required in computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 20-286 | United States, ex rel. Stacey L. Janssen, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Megen Corin Duffy v. Lawrence Memorial Hospital | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-claims-act materiality medicare medicare-reimbursement patient-arrival-times quality-reporting reimbursement statutory statutory-quality-reporting | Whether a Medicare provider's knowing falsifications of hospital patient arrival times, known by the hospital to be material to statutory quality repo… |
| 20-291 | Jamell Birt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-penalties statutory-interpretation | Does the term "covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018 include violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) involving crack cocaine to which apply the pena… |
| 20-281 | Waseem Daker v. Clinton Perry, Jr., Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | 8th-amendment circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights solitary-confinement | I. Whether a prisoner may file a habeas corpus petition to challenge his placement on segregated/solitary confinement. II. If so, whether a court con… | |
| 20-5586 | Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
| 20-5588 | Joshua Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split criminal-intent duenas-alvarez facial-overbreadth generic-burglary generic-definition intent statutory-interpretation | Where a state statute explicitly defines "burglary" in a way that does not require proof of an intent to commit a crime, and thus lacks an element nec… |
| 20-5576 | Sarina Ann Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), carries a base offens… |
| 20-255 | Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L., a Minor, By and Through Her Father, Lawrence Levy and Her Mother, Betty Lou Levy | Third Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (36) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech school-discipline school-regulation student-rights student-speech | Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), which holds that public school officials may regulate speech … |
| 20-256 | Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm… |
| 20-5554 | Kenton Dayne Eagle Chasing v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 8th-circuit circuit-split criminal-offense criminal-revocation public-importance sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on a matter of public importance and created a circuit split when it ruled that subject matter ju… |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5527 | Mark Benton v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 aedpa attorney-abandonment capital-cases circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus | 1). When this Court issued Holland v. Florida, 130 S.ct. 2549 (2010), decision, is this Honorable Court intent to apply Hollando to "Capital cases onl… |
| 20-224 | Marion E. Pitch, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony S. Pitch, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-records exceptional-circumstances federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-6 grand-jury-materials grand-jury-proceedings historical-significance inherent-judicial-authority rule-6e-exceptions | 1. Whether the Federal District Court has the authority under case law precedent or the inherent Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act to rele… |
| 20-227 | Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment | In PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, this Court carefully examined the important question of when, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an otherwi… |
| 20-220 | VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application | 1. Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate "actual injury" to state a claim under the Lanham Act. 2. Whether the Ninth Circu… |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5466 | John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel | When a petitioner supplements his Constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence that was not raised in his habeas petit… |
| 20-209 | Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2) | automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act | The question presented is whether this definition encompasses only systems that autodial telephone numbers generated using a random or sequential numb… |
| 20-5433 | Gregory Wind v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind? |
| 20-5385 | Judy Harmon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits | Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of … |
| 20-5348 | Chazdin Miller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5355 | Eddie David Cox v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served? |
| 20-5360 | Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | IFP | brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | Given the extreme facts of this case, should this Court finally turn to footnote 10 and Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster… |
| 20-163 | Brett C. Lillemoe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process economic-harm federal-fraud fraud materiality money-property-fraud second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant may be convicted of federal "money or property" fraud when his alleged deceit was incapable of affecting any economic decisions by… |
| 20-143 | Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts | SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 20-5337 | David Enrique Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure investigatory-proceeding marinello-v-united-states mens-rea miranda-rights miranda-waiver obstruction obstruction-of-justice | 1. In Marinello v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1101, 1109-10 (2018), the Court held that, to prove obstruction, the government must show that the defend… |
| 20-132 | The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law | 1. Originality is the "touchstone," the "sine qua non," and the "premise" of copyright law. An artist may obtain a valid copyright if she meets this "… |
| 20-136 | Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… | |
| 20-128 | Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. | Second Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power | Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L… | |
| 20-5267 | Kolongi Richardson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing federal-conspiracy inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the inclusion of inchoate offenses within the commentary is inconsistent with the text of U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, rendering the commentary not le… |
| 20-5293 | Stanley P. Bates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-sentencing position-of-trust position-of-trust-enhancement procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | When reviewing the interpretation of the "position of trust" enhancement under Sentencing Guideline §3B1.3, does a court of appeals apply a de novo st… |
| 20-5276 | Stafon Edward Thompson v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa circuit-court-division circuit-split federal-courts federal-habeas federal-law-violations habeas-corpus judicial-precedent remedial-authority state-court-remedies state-prisoners | Whether the limited habeas authority of federal courts over state prisoners includes the authority to dictate how state courts must remedy federal law… |
| 20-5224 | Kenneth Clark v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split evidence federal-review habeas habeas-corpus judicial-standard reliability statute-of-limitations | A state prisoner seeking federal habeas review can overcome a failure to comply with the AEDPA's 1-year statute of limitations by establishing actual … |
| 20-5202 | Jerome Collins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-assault categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-prisoners mental-state plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty reckless-endangerment sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the New York offense of attempt to commit a crime qualifies as a crime of violence, and whether varying conclusions from different circuits… |
| 20-89 | Thomas Daniel Rhodes v. Michelle Smith, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 2244(b)(2)(B)(i) circuit-split constitutional-error evidence-as-a-whole evidence-review factfinder-standard habeas-corpus reasonable-factfinder statutory-interpretation | Under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(i), a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application must be dismissed before a hearing on the me… |
| 20-5157 | Denard Stokeling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | 1. Where a defendant pled guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prior to Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2029), and it is undisputed th… |
| 20-5120 | Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation | Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains… |
| 20-27 | Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii | Assuming the other elements of a Title VII claim are present, is sexual harassment (1) unlawful if a reasonable person would conclude, in light of all… | |
| 20-5098 | Mikhail Tsukerman v. Western Community Unit School District No. 12 | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules judicial-discretion procedural-uniformity res-judicata standing uniformity-of-opinion | 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the Courts of Appeals are split (including the United States Court of Appeals for… |
| 20-28 | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, et al. v. Timothy Laurent, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure contract-interpretation equitable-relief equitable-remedies erisa erisa-interpretation monetary-damages plan-reformation remedial-sections statutory-construction | Whether the Second Circuit improperly combined parts of two separate remedial sections under ERISA, interpreting § 502(a)(3) to permit reformation of … |
| 20-31 | Prince McCoy, Sr. v. Tajudeen Alamu | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights eighth-amendment excessive-force hudson-factors prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity | Respondent is a prison guard who attacked an asthmatic prisoner in the face with a can of mace "for no reason at all." The Fifth Circuit held that Res… |
| 20-5094 | Anita Laux v. Mentor Worldwide, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cgmps circuit-split current-good-manufacturing-practices federal-requirements food-drug-cosmetic-act medical-device medical-device-preemption parallel-claims preemption state-law-claims twombly-iqbal | (1) Whether state-law claims against a medical device manufacturer, based on duties that parallel federal requirements, preempted by the Medical Devic… |
| 20-5075 | Jorge Hiram Baez-Martinez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split depraved-heart force-clause mens-rea recklessness violent-felony | Whether crimes that may be committed recklessly with a depraved heart mens rea — as opposed to willfully or intentionally — can qualify as a "violent … |
| 20-5060 | Justin Kirk Graves v. David Shinn, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act choice-of-law circuit-split district-of-confinement district-of-conviction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Ninth Court err in deeming the Fifth Circuit's decision on Texas burglary to be conclusive of whether Mr. Graves could state a claim of act… |
| 20-19 | Gary L. Jackson v. Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy | District of Columbia | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination military statutory-interpretation title-vii uniformed-military | Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16, apply to the uniformed military? |
| 20-10 | Emily Kollaritsch, et al. v. Michigan State University Board of Trustees, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process federal-funding sexual-harassment student-harassment student-liability title-ix | Whether, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits hold, in disagreement with the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, Davis's "vulnerability" prong requires p… |
| 20-4 | Rosanne L. Woodroof v. Joseph F. Cunningham, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-07-09 | Denied | arbitration-contract arbitrator-replacement arbitrator-resignation circuit-split contract-rewrite evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act section-5 | Question 1: Is it a violation of the Federal Arbitration Act for a state court to dismiss an arbitration due to the res ignation of an arbitrator so … | |
| 20-5007 | Anthony Ray Foley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release | 1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 19-8926 | Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review | I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in holding that the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S. … |
| 19-8850 | Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition | 1. Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal h… |
| 19-8900 | Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review | Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute? |
| 19-8893 | Darryl Henry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appeal-waiver circuit-split collateral-relief criminal-sentencing involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-rights statutory-entitlement | Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 19-1442 | Willie Earl Carr, et al. v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | administrative-law-judge appointments-clause circuit-split disability-benefits exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review social-security social-security-act | Whether claimants seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must exhaust Appointments Clause challenges before the Administrative Law … |
| 19-1443 | S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments | 1. Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States, cites… |
| 19-1447 | Yehudi Manzano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus | 1. Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731… |
| 19-8799 | James Johnman, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act | Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8816 | Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | This Court has long held that, for a guilty plea to satisfy constitutional due process requirements, the defendant must have been informed of all elem… |
| 19-8807 | Cassandra Cean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment | Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat… |
| 19-1409 | Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California | California | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity | In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-1401 | April Hughes, et al. v. Northwestern University, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) | breach-of-duty circuit-split defined-contribution defined-contribution-plan erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty excessive-fees fiduciary-duty lower-cost-alternatives prudence prudence-standard retirement-plan | Whether allegations that a defined-contribution retirement plan paid or charged its participants fees that substantially exceeded fees for alternative… |
| 19-8787 | Wayne A. G. James v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver | If an attorney mistakenly remains silent and fails to object to inadmissible evidence, a later challenge is forfeited and subject to review only for p… |
| 19-8770 | Carl St. Preux v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations | As such, the question presented here is whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e), which clearly applies at and during federal sentencing proceedings, usurps and sup… |
| 19-8754 | Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression | I. Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the dis… |
| 19-1390 | Martin Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8735 | Michael A. Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-vagueness due-process liberty post-conviction-relief residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version … |
| 19-8719 | Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-1380 | Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 | Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c… | |
| 19-8698 | Neal Scott Stone v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit | 1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and pr… |
| 19-8710 | William Frazier v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-1365 | Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-1362 | Jason Laut v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands "that a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictmen… | |
| 19-8669 | William M. Tyson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (… |
| 19-8680 | Adrian Zitalpopoca-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 circuit-split comparative-sentencing criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | To avoid "unwarranted sentence disparities," does 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) require federal judges to compare a defendant's sentence to the sentences of … |
| 19-8656 | Michael Jacoby v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice successive-2255 | 1. Whether the Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right was violated from the 10th Circuit's application of the actual innocence & miscarriage of justice st… |
| 19-8657 | Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion | The first question deals with circumstances under which an evidentiary hearing may be warranted, including the level of burden a petitioner must meet … |
| 19-1344 | Lahkwinder Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing | Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the prop… |
| 19-1333 | Monster Energy Company, fka Hansen Beverage Company v. City Beverages LLC, dba Olympic Eagle Distributing | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-awards bias circuit-split commonwealth-coatings disclosure disclosure-requirements disclosure-rule evident-partiality federal-arbitration-act judicial-standard standard standard-of-review | 1. What is the standard for determining whether an arbitration award must be vacated for "evident partiality" under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S… |
| 19-1334 | Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this … | |
| 19-8583 | Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8587 | Reginald Young v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment | In adjudicating a medical negligence claim brought in federal court that is governed by state substantive law, must a district court apply a state law… |
| 19-8588 | Robert Donelson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between… |
| 19-8564 | David Ojeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-vagueness new-york-state-law second-circuit serious-drug-offense stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit misapplied Stokelin~ v. United States, U.S. 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019), in holding that a… |
| 19-8555 | James Troiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine… |
| 19-8548 | Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing | A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la… |
| 19-8523 | Christian James v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of just… |
| 19-8528 | Melvin Russell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split complainant complainant-testimony criminal-defendant evidence-proffering federal-rule-of-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence rape-shield-rule sexual-behavior substantive-evidence | Whether a criminal defendant proffering evidence of a complainant's other sexual behavior under one of the three exceptions to the federal rape-shield… |
| 19-1312 | Weih Steve Chang v. Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware | Third Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 31-usc-3730 circuit-split constitutional-law dismissal-standard due-process federal-statute legal-malpractice legal-procedure qui-tam separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Which one of the two differing standards, the D.C. Circuit's "Unfettered Discretion" standard or the Ninth and Tenth Circuits' "Rational Basis Test… |
| 19-1306 | United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation | 1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses… | |
| 19-8483 | Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo | Does new evidence of actual innocence, discussed in Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), require that it was not available at trial, as interpret… |
| 19-8456 | Thomas Hopes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role | The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that… |
| 19-1291 | Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Amici (7) | affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-prong due-process federal-appellate-courts qualified-immunity standing state-actors sua-sponte | "Since qualified immunity is a defense, the burden of pleading it rests with the defendant." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980). Nonetheless, t… |
| 19-1280 | Idaho Department of Correction, et al. v. Adree Edmo, aka Mason Edmo | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | advocacy-organization-guidelines circuit-split constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment estelle-v-gamble gender-dysphoria inmate-medical-care medical-care prison-healthcare | The Ninth Circuit became the first circuit in the nation to conclude that the Eighth Amendment mandates the provision of sex reassignment surgery when… |
| 19-8449 | Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role | The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that… |
| 19-1267 | Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. v. George Bell, et al. | California | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure control judicial-interpretation legal-standing litigation-control non-party preclusion preclusion-doctrine rigid-test rigid-two-part-test totality-of-circumstances | Federal law permits someone to be subject to preclusion when they have exercised "control" over a lawsuit, even if they were not formally a party to i… |
| 19-8399 | Reshon Tolliver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-1264 | Doncey Frank Boykin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-04 | Denied | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause minimal-contact physical-force robbery robbery-offense state-law violent-felony | Whether a state law robbery offense that extends to mere snatchings—involving only minimal physical contact with the victim—lacks the requisite degree… | |
| 19-1260 | Andrew Demma v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-3553a appeals-court child-pornography circuit-split discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | (1) Whether the discretion recognized under Kimbrough v. United States for a district court to vary based on a policy disagreement applies to the chil… |
| 19-1261 | Trent Michael Taylor v. Robert Riojas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-30 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (4) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment government-officials obvious-violation prisoner-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing | Respondents are prison officials who deliberately left Petitioner Trent Taylor naked for six days in two filthy cells; the first cell was covered from… |
| 19-8380 | Samory Azikiwe Monds v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | admissibility circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule federal-rule prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed, contrary to its purpose and history, as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissib… |
| 19-8366 | Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction forfeiture property-recovery property-rights rule-41g subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. The Eleventh Circuit holds that a notice of appeal is a per se divestiture of a district court's jurisdiction over a motion for return of property … |
| 19-1221 | Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception | To conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border, do government agents need reasonable suspicion that the device contains di… | |
| 19-8261 | Sean Ath v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the "substantial evidence" test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm P… |
| 19-8263 | Larry Wesley Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-1211 | James Christopher North v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | aedpa circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling federal-habeas federal-limitations-period habeas-corpus state-court-proceedings state-habeas statute-of-limitations | Absent relief from this Court, James North will forfeit federal appellate review of his conviction and life sentence because his lawyers forgot to put… |
| 19-8237 | Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights | Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review? |
| 19-8216 | Scott Winfield Davis v. Shay Hatcher, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment youngblood-standard | This is the case for the Court to critically re-examine lost evidence and "bad faith" under Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988) because in appli… |
| 19-8221 | Feuu Fagatele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8187 | Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8171 | Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute | In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue… |
| 19-1184 | Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) | buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law | Petitioners are sidewalk counselors who engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations with women visiting an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. … |
| 19-1186 | Joshua Baker, Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Amici (6) | 42-usc-1396a(a)(23) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split federal-enforcement medicaid-recipients medicaid-rights private-right-of-action provider-qualification spending-clause state-determination statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Medicaid recipients have a private right of action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(23) to challenge a state's determination tha… |
| 19-1176 | Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | circuit-split employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination merit-system prior-salary salary-history seniority-system sex-discrimination statutory-interpretation wage-differential wage-gap | The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority sys… |
| 19-8104 | Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment | 1. Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify… |
| 19-8107 | Raul Guzman-Ibarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law aggravated-felony circuit-split due-process immigration-law immigration-proceedings judicial-review retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Does the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) that expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" app… |
| 19-1165 | Chuck Willis v. Tower Loan of Mississippi, LLC | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitrator-selection baseline-intent-to-arbitrate circuit-split contract-formation contract-interpretation definite-agreement gorsuch-dissent intent-to-arbitrate meeting-of-minds meeting-of-the-minds standard-of-review | In Ragab v. Howard, 841 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir. 2016), the Tenth Circuit determined that two parties did not have a meeting of the minds with respect to … | |
| 19-1146 | Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach | In Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (2004), this Court mandated that a conceptual approach –not a spatial approach –be utilized to d… |
| 19-1138 | DeWayne D. Knight v. Thomas Grossman, Jr. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | balancing-test circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment informed-consent medical-treatment prisoner-rights | Whether a claim for violation of a prisonerpatient's Fourteenth Amendment right to informed consent requires a showing of deliberate indifference and … | |
| 19-1141 | Atlantic Trading USA, LLC, et al. v. BP P.L.C., et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Amici (3) | circuit-split commodity-exchange-act domestic-transaction extraterritorial-jurisdiction location-of-exchange morrison-test morrison-v-national-australia-bank securities-exchange-act stoyas-v-toshiba-corp territorial-application | In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247, 259-60 (2010), this Court severely criticized the Second Circuit's so-called "conduct-and-… |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8004 | Lamarcus Harvey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempted-bank-robbery bank-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence elements-clause intimidation statutory-interpretation | I. Bank Robbery, (the basis for attempted bank robbery) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim, or by presenting to the telle… |
| 19-7955 | Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis | In this case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that an essentiak part of the MDOC's Grievance Process will only benefit a very few litigants … |
| 19-7896 | Nicholas Hughes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p… |
| 19-7857 | Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review | When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f… |
| 19-7865 | Clifford Laverne Mecham, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split constitutional-law eighth-circuit first-amendment free-speech morphed-images second-circuit sexually-explicit-conduct | Whether the First Amendment protects morphed child pornography created without any child's involvement in sexually explicit conduct, as the Eighth Cir… |
| 19-1081 | Arlene Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | circuit-split constitutional-scrutiny discriminatory-purpose dormant-commerce-clause extraterritorial-reach interstate-commerce legislative-intent nonresident-discrimination presumption-of-no-extraterritorial-intent | Under the dormant Commerce Clause framework set forth by this Court, a state law is subject to heightened scrutiny if it either "discriminates against… | |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… | |
| 19-7856 | Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p… |
| 19-7820 | Marcus Derby v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier | In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are … |
| 19-1071 | Gerald Claude Carlson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure delay due-process inconvenience judicial-discretion motion-to-terminate right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review supervisory-powers | 1. Whether the Carlson Court's Memorandum Opinion conflicts with other Ninth Circuit opinions holding that a finding of substantial or undue delay is … |
| 19-7800 | Donald Sheman Bush v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review | Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides that "evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to sh… |
| 19-7748 | Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review | i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others? ii. Whether the United States C… |
| 19-7729 | Aaron New v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split false-claims-act judicial-interpretation legal-standard materiality materiality-standard objective-standard subjective-standard supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-gaudin universal-health-services-v-escobar | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit 's opinion contradict this Court 's holding in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar 136 S. Ct. 19… |
| 19-7713 | Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing | Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 19-7723 | James William Brammer v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari circuit-split criminal-procedure critical-stage motion-for-new-trial new-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari | HI. DOES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT'S RIGHT TO COUNSEL, INCLUDE APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL FOR PROSECUTION OF MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL? 112. IS A MOTION FOR A NEW… |
| 19-7645 | Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent | Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6). |
| 19-7705 | Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver | 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case… |
| 19-7711 | John Patrick Vescuso v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing | When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict… |
| 19-1037 | Sok Bun v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure detainers due-process interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers legal-interpretation motion motions standing trial trial-court trial-motion | Whether a defendant is "unable to stand trial" within the meaning of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, 18 U.S.C. App. 2, § 2, art. VI(a), when he… | |
| 19-1023 | Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel | If a petitioner defaults an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with "some merit," does Martinez v. Ryan allow a federal court to excuse the… |
| 19-7670 | Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Warden | California | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-conviction due-process federal-law habeas invalidated-evidence judicial-review post-conviction scientific-evidence trial | What is the test to determine when due process is violated based on scientific evidence presented at trial which is later shown to be invalid? |
| 19-1007 | Zaid Abdul-Aziz v. National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan | Second Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response Waived | accrued-benefit actuarial-equivalent anti-cutback-rule breach-of-contract circuit-split civil-procedure denial-of-benefits erisa erisa-benefits retirement-benefits statute-of-limitations | Under ERISA, the National Basketball Association's retirement plan has a statutory obligation to continuously recalculate retirement benefits during a… |
| 19-7631 | Regina Wolgamott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi… |
| 19-7637 | Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … |
| 19-7638 | Rodrigo Cruz Perez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment split-among-circuits | Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant who accepts responsibility for an offense receives a two-point reduction on the offense level. U.S.S… |
| 19-7589 | Michael M. Monzel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | 1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-7598 | Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines | When conducting "closer review" of a sentencing decision that was based on the district court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-990 | Southern Illinois Storm Shelters v. 4SEMO.COM, Incorporated | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | business-impact circuit-conflict circuit-split common-law-trademark equitable-multi-factor-test equitable-test prior-precedent senior-user-rights trademark-ownership trademark-territory | In this case, the Seventh Circuit panel refused to apply the equitable six-factor test adopted by the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits to determine c… | |
| 19-7549 | Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-972 | Christopher Edward McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-exhaustion circuit-split disability-rights education-law individuals-with-disabilities-education-act judicial-review non-IDEA-claims procedural-requirements relief-not-available-under-IDEA standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., requires administrative exhaustion when a plaintiff brings a… |
| 19-7512 | Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7520 | Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-953 | Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes… |
| 19-7470 | Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7458 | Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth… |
| 19-939 | Stephen Gustus v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense. | |
| 19-934 | In Re Todd Britton-Harr | 2020-01-27 | Denied | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release | Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… | ||
| 19-927 | Wayne M. Klocke, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke v. The University of Texas at Arlington | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split disciplinary-action educational-programming gender-discrimination title-ix university-discipline university-liability | Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") to provide a remedy to students attending publicly funded educational instit… |
| 19-7388 | Aaron Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif | I. Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an ac… |
| 19-7386 | Jack Dowell v. Richard Hudgins, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence burden-of-proof circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions retroactivity savings-clause suspension-of-writ | Where the district court dismissed Mr. Dowell's §§2241 and 2255(e) habeas petition claiming the savings clause does not apply to Mr. Dowell, in light … |
| 19-920 | Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver | Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7360 | Terry Simonton, Jr. v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-substance federal-constitutional-substance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | Ground I. Did a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in denying Mr. Simonton a Certificate of Appealability by statin… |
| 19-7361 | Edward Shevtsov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard | The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material… |
| 19-7368 | Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud | Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if… |
| 19-7375 | Joaquin Mario Valencia-Trujillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-law contemporary-assessment criminal-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-foreseeability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Whether, Despite Strickland's Contemporary Assessment Rule, Strickland's Test For Determining Whether A Criminal Defendant's Counsel Was Ineffectiv… |
| 19-7380 | Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit | I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v… |
| 19-898 | Kimberly D. Collins v. Gwendolyn Thornton | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure discretion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion service-of-process statute-of-limitations | Some five years ago, in Chen v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, Md., 135 S. Ct. 475 (2014) (mem.), this Court recognized at least a 7-1 circuit spl… |
| 19-894 | Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying | Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi… | |
| 19-7320 | Jurden Rogers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… |
| 19-878 | Guy Gentile v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Third Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | administrative-enforcement administrative-law circuit-split civil-penalties civil-procedure injunctions injunctive-relief penalty-bar securities-law statute-of-limitations | Does the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2462 apply to "obey the law" injunctions and penny stock industry bars pursuant to 15 U.S.C. … | |
| 19-870 | Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code | Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s… |
| 19-7283 | Fairly W. Earls v. Susan Novak, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b-motion | Fairly Earls case raises a pressing issue of National Importance: Whether and to what extent did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Ci… |
| 19-7247 | Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation | A federal prisoner who seeks to challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence usually must do so in a motion under 28 U.S.C. §2255. Under the s… |
| 19-867 | Wexford Health, et al. v. Kareem Garrett | Third Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | administrative-remedies amended-complaint circuit-split exhaustion-requirement judicial-exception prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights prisoner-status procedural-dismissal | If a prisoner fails to exhaust administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit, does Section 1997e(a) mandate dismissal of the unexhausted claims, or … |
| 19-860 | Nikolai Bosyk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search… |
| 19-861 | Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review | Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district… | |
| 19-855 | Lenin Lugo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 | Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in opinion fo… |
| 19-7201 | Casey Lee Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7149 | Guillermo Herrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence | In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), this Court held that Fed. R. Evid. 702 superseded the common law rule governing the ad… |
| 19-7165 | Omar Macias-Macias v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-ripeness circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process finality jurisdiction justiciability legal-challenge standing supervised-release | Does the doctrine of prudential ripeness allow the Court of Appeals to dismiss a defendant's timely direct appeal challenging a supervised release con… |
| 19-839 | Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. | Oregon | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining | The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).… |
| 19-7139 | Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation | I. This Court should grant review to determine whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth A… |
| 19-7126 | Ronald Damon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release | Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of … |
| 19-7127 | Phillip Wayne Tomlin v. Tony Patterson, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts aedpa certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit fair-punishment habeas-corpus retroactivity | Phillip Tomlin's sentence of life imprisonment without parole reflects a breakdown of the Certificate of Appealability ("COA") review process and rais… |
| 19-825 | Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Granted | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (6) | circuit-split district-court enforcement-authority federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunction permanent-injunction restitution section-13(b) statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 13(b) authorizes district courts to enter an injunction that orders the return of unlawfully obtained funds. |
| 19-7076 | Cedrick Ponder v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-7092 | Laforest Carmichael, aka LaForrest Carmichael v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a circuit-split mandatory-revocation sentencing-factors statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Should this Court resolve the current circuit split over whether a sentencing judge must consider the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors when impo… |
| 19-805 | Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution | (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh… |
| 19-7056 | Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure | I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-800 | Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger | 1. Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's… |
| 19-7034 | Charley Joe, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-vagueness eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines unusual-vulnerability vagueness victim-exploitation victim-vulnerability vulnerable-victim | Section 3A1.1(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines provides for a two-level increase where, "the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the o… |
| 19-794 | Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby | A magistrate judge granted Riverside police officers qualified immunity on a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim, finding there was probable cause for the ar… |
| 19-6972 | Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation | The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th… |
| 19-783 | Nathan Van Buren v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (22)Relisted (2) | circuit-split computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime data-protection improper-purpose intent standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access | Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 19-6967 | Michael E. Boyd, et al. v. California Public Utilities Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-authority circuit-split commerce-clause conflicting-circuit-authority declaratory-and-injunctive-relief federal-power-act prevailing-party-attorney-fees public-utility-regulatory-policies-act purpa remedies statutory-interpretation | 1. There is an important issue of law as to the scope of the remedies available for violations of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act ["PURPA"]… |
| 19-778 | Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions | Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction? Are Rule 38 Sanctions for "frivolous appeal" warranted when the appeal earn… |
| 19-763 | Richard C. Angino, et ux. v. TransUnion LLC | Third Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | accuracy accuracy-of-reports attorneys-fees circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights credit-reporting credit-reporting-accuracy credit-reports credit-scores due-process fair-credit-reporting-act standing | 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ACCEPT AND DECIDE THIS CASE THAT AFFECTS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS, VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO APPLIES FOR C… | |
| 19-767 | National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations | Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or … |
| 19-6940 | Kevin James Petroske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 8th-circuit child-pornography circuit-split criminal-intent due-process minor-protection production-of-child-pornography sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-voyeurism | Whether mere video voyeurism – surreptitious videoing of unaware subjects without any posing or manipulation of the video images – of the innocent con… |
| 19-6942 | Savon Germain Carter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution | A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mi… |
| 19-6918 | Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel | 1. The state habeas testimony of Michael Nance's trial counsel established that they inexplicably omitted highly mitigating evidence from Mr. Nance's … |
| 19-6908 | Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6875 | Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty | WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED TO RECOGNIZE (AS HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY TWO CIRCUITS) THAT IT IS A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION WHEN THE PROSECUTION USE… |
| 19-6862 | Dalton Betsinger v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-6824 | Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue | 1. Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SOR… |
| 19-6840 | Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness | Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-706 | Facebook, Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification concrete-injury concrete-interest future-risk personal-information predominance real-world-injury risk-of-harm standing-article-iii statutory-violation | 1. Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a statute protects a concrete interest, without determining that the … |
| 19-709 | Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error | 1. When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a… |
| 19-6819 | Frankie Ovies v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony | 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 19-691 | Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts | WERE PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA'S OVERLY BROAD APPLICATION OF THE "INTRINSIC EVIDENCE" RULE TO PETITIONE… |
| 19-6791 | Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-683 | Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule | Federal prisoners generally may challenge their convictions and sentences only by filing a direct appeal and, if unsuccessful there, one petition for … | |
| 19-667 | Michael Baker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 … | |
| 19-678 | United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-11-26 | Denied | administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… | |
| 19-682 | Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-654 | Kaleida Health, dba Buffalo General Medical Center v. Kathleen Biondo | Second Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process eleventh-circuit gebser-standard gebser-v-lago-vista intentional-discrimination monetary-damages official official-decision rehabilitation-act second-circuit standing | A claimant may assert a claim for monetary damages under the Rehabilitation Act if there was intentional discrimination. Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 18… |
| 19-656 | William Anderson v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-responders first-responders hypothermia hypothermia-treatment qualified-immunity state-created-danger | The Fourteenth Amendment provides that the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny t… |
| 19-658 | J. G., By and Through His Parents, Howard Greenberg, et ux. v. Hawaii Department of Education, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-proceedings burden-of-proof circuit-split florence-county-school-district-four-v-carter individuals-with-disabilities-education-act placement-change private-school-placement public-placement schaffer-v-weast special-education | 1. Whether the burden of proof shifts when the public agency seeks to change the educational placement of a child with a disability. |
| 19-6712 | Adam Scott Caward v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing | Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline… |
| 19-651 | John P. DeRose v. Village of Orland Park, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-requirements rule-11 safe-harbor safe-harbor-provision sanctions service-of-motion | May a party satisfy the safe-harbor provision of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 by informal communications, the rule applied by Seventh Circuit, o… | |
| 19-6675 | Michael Ray Bishop v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense enumerated-offense-clause sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 19-6688 | Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6674 | Margarita Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-6677 | Justin Scott Vasey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6678 | Joseph Van Sach v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6652 | Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | IFP | booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United… |
| 19-6617 | Melissa Morton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver | Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev… |
| 19-6633 | Adrian Ausberry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea recklessness u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(a) u.s.s.g.-4b1.2(a) violent-felony | Before this Court decided Voisine v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2272 (2016), all circuits agreed that an offense that can be committed with a mens rea … |
| 19-6641 | Michael Anthony Clayton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment | Must an Officer Tell a Criminal Suspect in Custody That He Has the Right to Have an Attorney Present During the Interview, in Order to Use the Suspect… |
| 19-616 | W.A., Individually and on Behalf of W.E., et al. v. Hendrick Hudson Central School District | Second Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | circuit-split deference-to-administrative-decisions due-process free-appropriate-public-education idea-fape-private-school-deference-administrative- individuals-with-disabilities-education-act private-placement school-district-obligations special-education-law standard-of-review | 1. When a school district defaults on its obligations to provide a student with a disability a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as guaranteed … | |
| 19-612 | Hassan Abpikar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment | 1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-6601 | Kevin Battle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime | Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 19-6604 | Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | capital-case-appeal capital-punishment circuit-split diligence evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel malice-murder new-evidence new-evidence-of-innocence | In this capital case, Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death as the man who shot a store clerk, Richard Slysz. … |
| 19-603 | Mark Silguero, et al. v. CSL Plasma, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination place-of-public-accommodation plasma-donation-center public-accommodation title-iii | Is a plasma donation center a "place of public accommodation" subject to the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act? |
| 19-570 | Greg Steven Elofson v. Stephanie Bivens, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split clayton-act judicial-economy nationwide-service nationwide-service-of-process process rico rico-statute rico-venue-process standard-oil standard-oil-co venue venue-process | 1. Does the RICO venue and process statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1965, provide for nationwide service of process under § 1965(d), consistent with the Clayton A… |
| 19-560 | Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation | Whether the scènes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the… |
| 19-6410 | Donald W. Rager v. Paige Augustine, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | administrative-remedies circuit-split civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies exhaustion-of-remedies plra prison-conditions prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations tolling | Incarcerated inmate Donald W. Rager (Rager) was physically assaulted by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Lt. Keith Buford on July 13, 2010. Rager filed… |
| 19-6433 | Edward Anthony Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-courts indian-status jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue magistrate-court native-american native-american-law ninth-circuit pretrial-decision standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a district court may, pretrial, decide an Indian status jurisdictional question in light of conflicting Ninth Circuit law that results in a fe… |
| 19-6370 | Troy Bennett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony | I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84… |
| 19-6372 | Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6387 | Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure default default-judgment pleading procedural-rules summary-judgment supervisory-power waiver-of-rights writ writ-of-mandamus writ-of-prohibition | 1. Rule 15(a)(3) provide the time a party must respond. Rule 55(a) authorizes the clerk to enter a default " when a party against whom a judgment for … |
| 19-6358 | In Re Morris J. Warren | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation | DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … | |
| 19-6315 | John David Stahlman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) | 1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T… |
| 19-6334 | Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-508 | AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (6) | administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts | Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th… |
| 19-511 | Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act | Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel… |
| 19-505 | William Rupert v. Susan Bond, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process frcp-12b6 judicial-expediency noerr-pennington personal-jurisdiction rico rico-statute sham-litigation standing | (1) Should the circuit splits over the use of FRCP 12(b)(6) motions (prior to discovery or an evidentiary hearing), to rule upon a disputed issue of f… |
| 19-507 | Publishers Business Services, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | GVR | Relisted (7) | circuit-split disgorgement equitable-remedies equity-powers ftc-act ftc-act-section-13b kokesh kokesh-v-sec monetary-relief separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a district court can award monetary relief under § 13(b) of the FTC Act, consistent with separation-of-powers principles; and 2) Whether a… |
| 19-6306 | Jonathan Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 19-6307 | Andrew Oreckinto v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach | Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6279 | Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force. |
| 19-6280 | Jose Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct | Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal… |
| 19-6295 | Antonio Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appearance-of-partiality circuit-split constitutional-due-process constitutional-review district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing-procedure | Does a broad appeal waiver included in a plea agreement between a defendant and the United States preclude appellate review of the district court's fi… |
| 19-6231 | William Dean Chapman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aedpa aedpa-limitations circuit-split due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing fraud-upon-the-court habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart holland-v-florida kyles-v-whitley lemaster materiality miller-v-united-states plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct raines-v-united-states rule-11 standing strickland supreme-court-precedent | 1) a.Is equitable tolling warranted when access to legal files and resources is severely hampered? Where the 4th Circuit has denied equitable tolling… |
| 19-6277 | Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review | When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its "gatekeeping" role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 19-488 | Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Relisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750… |
| 19-6236 | Christina Marie Eichler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction | 1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users a… |
| 19-6249 | Michael Terrill Faircloth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 affirmative-defense circuit-split criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession innocent-possession safe-streets-act transitory-possession | Whether a felon may assert an affirmative defense of innocent, transitory possession when charged as a felon-in-possession of a firearm under § 922(g)… |
| 19-466 | Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force | 1. Whether in Scott U. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) this Court announced an "exception" to the summary judgment standard in cases commenced under 42 U.… |
| 19-6232 | Jason James Neiheisel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co… |
| 19-457 | Xia Bi, et al. v. Terry McAuliffe, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud fraud-pleading misrepresentation pleading reliance reliance-element rule-9b standing | 1. Whether Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a particularity requirement for pleading the reliance element of common law fraud… | |
| 19-462 | A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress | This is a trade dress case. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court that Plaintiff-Appellee Bodum USA, Inc. owned a trade dres… | |
| 19-6210 | Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SIXTH, FIFTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS ON WHAT IS THE APPRO… |
| 19-6186 | Latroy Leon Burris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning physical-force reckless-injury statutory-interpretation | (1) Does recklessly causing another person to suffer injury necessarily involve the "use of physical force against" that person for purposes of the Ar… |
| 19-6132 | Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing | The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision in a plea… |
| 19-429 | Charles R. Hunter v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2410a asset-depletion circuit-split federal-statute federal-tax-lien governmental-abuse quiet-title sovereign-immunity tax-lien taxpayer-interest third-party-agreement | 1. Whether a quiet title action brought against the government pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2410(a) requires the taxpayer to retain a legal interest in the… |
| 19-435 | SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Third Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation | The Third Circuit, in conf lict with the D.C., Ninth, and Federal Circuits, deferred to an IRS regulation under step two of Chevron even though the ag… | |
| 19-438 | Clemente Avelino Pereida v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | ambiguous-record burden-of-proof categorical-approach circuit-split conviction-record federal-offense immigration-law modified-categorical-approach noncitizen-status removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal conviction bars a noncitizen from applying for relief from removal when the record of conviction is merely ambiguous as to whether … |
| 19-440 | Northern Trust Corporation, et al. v. Lindie L. Banks, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split class-action covered-securities federal-securities-law fiduciary-duty preemption private-securities-litigation-reform-act securities-fraud securities-litigation securities-litigation-uniform-standards-act statutory-interpretation trust-assets trust-law trustee-misconduct uniform-standards-act | For purposes of SLUSA, does a trust beneficiary allege misconduct "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security when the beneficiary… |
| 19-428 | Ryan Courtade v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent | 1. When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a "lascivious exhibition" under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court r… | |
| 19-6114 | Antwoyn Anderson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split elements-clause mens-rea reckless serious-drug-offense violent-felony | I. Whether possession with intent to sell cocaine under Fla. Stat. § 893.13 is a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C.… |
| 19-423 | Brian Kirk Malpasso, et al. v. William M. Pallozzi, in His Official Capacity as Maryland Secretary of State Police | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit typical, law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self defense … |
| 19-413 | Robert W. Mauthe, M.D., P.C. v. Optum, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | advertisement circuit-split commercial-communication commercial-fax fax-advertisement fcc-interpretation legislative-history statutory-interpretation tcpa telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act-tcpa | Did the Third Circuit err by holding that a commercial fax cannot be an "advertisement" as defined by the TCPA unless it promotes a direct sale of the… |
| 19-415 | Oscar Ernesto Melendez v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 8-usc-1255 adjustment-of-status circuit-court-split circuit-split immigration-law lawful-admission national-importance statutory-interpretation temporary-protected-status | Whether a grant of TPS to an alien by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") constitutes a lawful admission into the United States fo… |
| 19-417 | EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C., et al. v. Adam Meier | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | Amici (3) | abortion circuit-conflict circuit-split compelled-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech informed-consent medical-consent physician-autonomy ultrasound ultrasound-law | The Kentucky Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (House Bill 2) requires a physician, while performing a pre-abortion ultrasound, to (i) describe the ultr… |
| 19-6087 | Atif Babar Malik v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure charged-statute circuit-split cotton-precedent criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge scope-of-statute statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-cotton | DO COURTS LACK SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION WHEN THE SCOPE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT FALLS OUTSIDE CHARGED STATUTE? |
| 19-409 | City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival | 1. Whether § 1988 requires the survival of § 1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause… |
| 19-6078 | Terreall McDaniel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6053 | Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297. 2. Whether the… |
| 19-6055 | Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense | I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts … |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6050 | Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-373 | James Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Granted | Amici (7)Relisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-351 | Federal Republic of Germany, et al. v. Alan Philipp, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-09-18 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (9)Relisted (3) | circuit-split comity diplomatic-issues expropriation-exception foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity human-rights-law international-comity international-human-rights international-law property-taking property-takings takings | 1. Whether the "expropriation exception" of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(3), which abrogates foreign sovereign immunity w… |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5908 | Howard Leon Combs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime | 1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… |
| 19-320 | Harold Wade, et ux. v. Kreisler Law, P.C. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure claim-processing federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure functional-equivalence jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules mandatory-claim-processing-rules notice-of-appeal petition-for-appeal petition-for-permission-to-appeal | The "functional equivalence" doctrine of Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178 (1962), Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312 (1988), and Smith v. Barry… |
| 19-323 | Charles V. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-court-ruling circuit-court-rulings circuit-split constitutional-authority constitutional-authority-of-courts federal-law inferior-courts judicial-conflict judicial-hierarchy judicial-review judicial-supremacy legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (or any other inferior court) has the Constitutional authority to rule in conflict with r… |
| 19-5884 | Kevin Carson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth pornography pornography-prohibition supervised-release vagueness | The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lifetime supervised release condition prohibiting Kevin Carson from possessing or h… |
| 19-5891 | Donte Island v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling | Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m… |
| 19-310 | Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement | Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement (i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of … |
| 19-312 | Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Company | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Amici (1) | administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure exclusive-jurisdiction federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fema flood-insurance national-flood-insurance-act private-insurers statutory-construction | Whether Section 4072's provision of "exclusive" federal jurisdiction applies to suits against private insurers. |
| 19-5820 | Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 circuit-court-jurisdiction circuit-split habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence prima-facie-showing reasonable-juror standard-of-review statutory-interpretation successive-petition | 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) permits a court of appeals, when ruling on a motion for authorization to file a successive habeas petition based … |
| 19-287 | Jorge L. Medina v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights false-statement felony-conviction felony-firearm-dispossession firearm-dispossession lending-institution second-amendment second-amendment-rights | Whether the Second Amendment secures Jorge Medina's right to possess arms, notwithstanding his conviction for making a false statement to a lending in… |
| 19-292 | Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure | Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as the Eighth, Ninth, … |
| 19-293 | TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury | Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I… |
| 19-5795 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | WHETHER THE GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE APPLIES WHEN AN AFFIDAVIT SUPPORTING A SEARCH WARRANT HAD BEEN TAINTED BY EVIDENCE OBTAINED … |
| 19-5796 | Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5763 | Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5741 | Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard | In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5722 | Moses Shepard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment | Whether (as the Eleventh Circuit holds), under § 3161(d)(1), a "subsequent replacement indictment " "restarts the clock regardless of how the prior in… |
| 19-248 | Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee… |
| 19-255 | Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-26 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (5) | charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny | 1. Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights. 2. Wheth… |
| 19-242 | Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation | Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job du… |
| 19-233 | Eryon Luke v. CPlace Forest Park SNF, L.L.C., dba Nottingham Regional Rehab Center | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights comparator comparator-standard due-process employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas pregnancy-discrimination pretext prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii | The two questions presented are: 1. Whether the analysis applied by the Fifth Circuit as articulated in the Pre-Young decision of Brady vs. Office of… | |
| 19-229 | C. D., By and Through Her Parents, M. D. and P. D., et al. v. Natick Public School District, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split due-process educational-placement individuals-with-disabilities-education-act least-restrictive-environment mainstreaming mainstreaming-mandate regular-classes special-education supplementary-aids-and-services supplementary-aids-services | When does a school district's decision to educate a child with disabilities outside the regular classroom violate the IDEA's mainstreaming mandate? |
| 19-232 | New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al. v. Robert Shi, as Executor of the Will of Yueh-Lan Wang, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | burden-of-proof choice-of-forum choice-of-law circuit-split civil-procedure conflict-of-laws forum-non-conveniens jurisdiction jurisdictional-doctrine standing venue | Whether a forum resident bears a heightened burden to establish that a suit brought by a foreign plaintiff should be dismissed under the doctrine of f… |
| 19-5652 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline circuit-split force-clause reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do reckless crimes qualify categorically as crimes of violence under the force clause of these statutes and guidelines? |
| 19-5659 | Anthony L. Viola v. Bradley Tate, Warden | Third Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence circuit-split double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct simultaneous-prosecution | A federally funded, multi-jurisdictional Mortgage Fraud Task Force (Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant # 2009-SC-B9-0080) prosecuted 1,000 citizens, i… |
| 19-5660 | Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-08-21 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction | Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta… |
| 19-214 | Michael R. Presley, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process financial-privacy internal-revenue-code notice-requirements preemption right-to-financial-privacy standing summons-enforcement tax tax-investigation third-party-summons | Whether, by holding that the federal Right to Financial Privacy Act was fully preempted by the Internal Revenue Code despite the Tenth Circuit's decis… |
| 19-200 | Billy F. Hawk, Jr., et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 6901 circuit-split commissioner-v-stern creditor-rights federal-tax-doctrine statutory-interpretation strict-liability tax tax-cases transaction-collapsing transferee-knowledge uniform-fraudulent-transfer-act | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the decisions of the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits regarding whether an alleged tra… |
| 19-5570 | Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split dissent double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus issue-being-raised judicial-review | Question One As to the violation of Mr. Barton's right to be free from double jeopardy whether the Eighth Circuit has imposed upon Mr. Barton an impr… |
| 19-5553 | Angela Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards | Whether the widely criticized "inextricably intertwined" or "intrinsic evidence" family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf… |
| 19-5554 | Andres Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment | In determining whether an accused person is in custody for purposes of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 486 (1966), must courts give significant weight to… |
| 19-5563 | Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 no longer provides that the consequence of not timely making a required, pretrial motion is a waiver. Can an app… |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5579 | Sebastian Eccleston v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-delay post-conviction-relief post-conviction-statute statutory-interpretation supervisory-power | In 2016, Sebastian Eccleston, a federal prisoner, filed a motion in the court of appeals requesting authorization to pursue a second or successive pos… |
| 19-5582 | Tuan Duc Lam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search | Once a police officer makes a formal custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to that arrest. See, e.g., Riley v. … |
| 19-5535 | Julius Omar Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error | 1. Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias durin… |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-5451 | Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions | 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) provides the procedures by which inmates request, and federal appellate courts grant, permission to file second or successive 28 U… |
| 19-5472 | Martin Avalos-Rico, aka Rolando Blanco-Garcia, aka Oscar Cruz-Tulum, aka Alejandro Tamayo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split deportable-offender due-process geographic-disparity immigration immigration-sentencing reentry-offense sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act supervised-release | 1. Whether a district court that imposes supervised release on a deportable offender must specifically tie it to a need for deterrence or protection, … |
| 19-5478 | Wilfredo Roy Madrigal v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance of… |
| 19-5447 | Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit-which refused to unequivocally recognize the constitutional right to … |
| 19-164 | David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners. |
| 19-157 | Eric Baggett v. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Response Waived | age-discrimination circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard | Whether the sufficiency of a pleading should be held to a heightened pleading standard requiring facts of each element of the claim when the claim is … |
| 19-5436 | Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-153 | Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners | Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of… |
| 19-146 | Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-review benefits-denial circuit-split disability-benefits disability-standard erisa futility futility-doctrine own-occupation remand retroactive-benefits | Should this Court resolve the conflict among the Circuits about whether it would be futile to require an ERISA plan participant upon remand to retroac… |
| 19-149 | Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to inc… |
| 19-138 | First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson | Third Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver | 1. Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review because it did not raise the issue in the trial court or … | |
| 19-140 | Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction attorney-discipline circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-review remand remand-order removal standing statutory-interpretation | Whether, once an appeal of a remand order has been explicitly authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d), the appellate court has jurisdiction to review the en… |
| 19-5377 | Fairly W. Earls v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 | Fairly W. Earls completed satisfaction of his criminal judgment case raises a pressing issuance of National Importance: Whether and to what extent the… |
| 19-5384 | David Rothenberg v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | causal-process child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution disaggregation paroline-v-united-states victim-losses | When calculating restitution for a mere possessor of child pornography, must the victim's losses caused by the initial abuse be disaggregated from the… |
| 19-5397 | Charles Donelson v. Q. Tanner, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | audit-standard circuit-split civil-rights class-action criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fraud fraud-on-the-market free-speech securities-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings | Whether The Seventh circuit prisoner lawsuit forms for District court create a fraudulent Execution or Information Whether the seventh circuit applic… |
| 19-5401 | Thomas Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-137 | Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-29 | Denied | bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation | A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe… | |
| 19-128 | Charles Daniel Maye v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | access-restrictions authorized-access circuit-split civil-procedure computer-fraud-abuse-act computer-fraud-and-abuse-act cybercrime-law information-access information-use legal-scope standing statutory-interpretation | Whether "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud Abuse Act ("CFAA") is limited to violations of restrictions on access to information, and no… |
| 19-109 | Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof | District courts exercise broad discretion at sentencing. They may take into consideration various factors relating to both the offense and the offende… |
| 19-117 | Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | arbitral-award circuit-split federal-arbitration-act new-york-convention subject-matter-jurisdiction vacatur vacatur-grounds | 1. Whether Section 205 of the Federal Arbitration Act confers subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition to vacate an arbitral award rendered under t… | |
| 19-123 | Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Judgment Issued | Amici (87)Relisted (7) | circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions | The City of Philadelphia chose to exclude a religious agency from the City's foster care system unless the agency agreed to act and speak in a manner … |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5331 | Michael Lee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process flawed-precedent prior-panel-precedent-rule stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal supreme-court-precedent violent-felony | Does the Eleventh Circuit too rigidly apply its "prior panel precedent rule" – effectively denying Eleventh Circuit defendants their statutory right t… |
| 19-5282 | James Odell Baxter, II v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds | Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th… |
| 19-5287 | Robert Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coram-nobis deportation due-process judicial-review morgan-standard sound-reasons united-states-v-morgan writ-of-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously ruled, thereby deepening a conflict among the circuits, that excessive delay precludes federal coram nobis reli… |
| 19-5206 | Christine Sawicky v. AMC Networks Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights copyright-law due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant | How can a plaintiff win a copyright lawsuit when circuit splits exist throughout the 13 appellate courts? Additionally, how can a circuit split exist … |
| 19-100 | Crown Asset Management LLC v. Mary Barbato | Third Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split consumer-protection debt-buyer debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act legal-standing passive-debt-buyer standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a passive debt buyer—an entity that purchases defaulted debts for its own account, refers the debts to third parties who perform collection, a… |
| 19-97 | Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment | This Court has repeatedly instructed that the use of collateral estoppel is limited to situations where "the issues in the two cases are … identical,"… |
| 19-5205 | Zachary A. Smith v. John A. Matthews, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Dismissed | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-motion medical-evidence prisoner-rights pro-se rule-706 summary-judgment | I SHOULD A PRO SE PRISONER BE PERMITTED TO ADMIT MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM A REPUTABLE WEBSITE AS "VERIFYING MEDICAL EVIDENCE" TO OVERCOME A MOTION FOR… |
| 19-5241 | Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler | Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me… |
| 19-5216 | Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states | Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais… |
| 19-5219 | Bobby G. Pullen v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 19-5181 | Lamar Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | GVR | IFP | arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | 1. In Rawlings v. Kentucky, 448 U.S. 98 (1980), the Court upheld, under the search-incident-to-arrest exception, a warrantless search that preceded th… |
| 19-5202 | Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-77 | Caring For Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split conflict-preemption connection-with employee-benefits employer-liability enforcement-remedy enforcement-scheme erisa-preemption express-preemption insurance insurance-misrepresentation misrepresentation plan-terms reference-to state-law-claims | The familiar express preemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") outlaws any state laws that "relate to" an … |
| 19-73 | Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Amici (1) | attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis | 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C… |
| 19-5183 | Miguel Grado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5154 | James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arugments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5161 | Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property | Question 1: The 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (henceforth CoA9) has a long settled screenwriting case law regarding Desny claims o… |
| 19-5162 | Frederick Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release | What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-65 | Jonna Corporation, dba Premier Recycling Company v. City of Sunnyvale, California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading pleading-standards property-rights section-1983 standing | 1. Did Petitioner Premier Recycling adequately plead its Declaratory Judgment claim alleging a violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, pursuant to FCRP 8… | |
| 19-5142 | Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPOALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR ON AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION BY-ENTERING ITS DECISION/JUDGMENT, WHICH IS IN CONF… |
| 19-5128 | Robert Vincent Salcedo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split direct-appeal discretionary-sentencing discretionary-sentencing-authority non-retroactive-amendment nonretroactive-amendment remand-for-resentencing resentencing retroactivity sentencing-guidelines | When a non-retroactive amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines takes effect after a defendant is sentenced but while his direct appeal is… |
| 19-5141 | William Wade v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim… |
| 19-58 | Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process | Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? | |
| 19-5105 | Rudy Espudo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-5115 | Cordero Robert Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit | I. WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISINTERPRETED THE BUT-FOR CAUSATION TEST IN LIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN, AND INAPPROPRIATELY APPLIED THE CONTRIBUT… |
| 19-5125 | Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors | Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-49 | Michael Simons v. Boston Scientific, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split employment-discrimination fmla FMLA-retaliation mcdonnell-douglas pretext pretext-standard prima-facie retaliation summary-judgment temporal-proximity | 1. Whether, in an FMLA wrongful discharge retaliation claim, the McDonnell Douglas three-prong analysis is appropriate, where the Circuit Courts have … |
| 19-5098 | Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states | In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen… |
| 19-52 | Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-41 | Keith A. Tucker, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | circuit-split due-process economic-substance-doctrine judicial-doctrine judicial-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation tax-avoidance tax-law tax-provisions | May the judge-made "economic substance doctrine" be invoked to supplant any tax results that a court deems abusive, even when those results stem from … | |
| 19-5078 | Jamie Neil Capalbo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 19-5083 | Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline –a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiri… |
| 19-5087 | Willie Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law | 1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-30 | Zoe Spencer v. Virginia State University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | bona-fide-job-evaluation circuit-split civil-rights equal-pay-act job-evaluation prior-salary salary-discrimination seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii | Is prior salary a factor other than sex? If so: Whether the Equal Pay Act intends prior salary, as a "catchall exception," to be excluded from bona f… | |
| 19-33 | Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation | The anti-retaliation provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1514A(a), forbids retaliation against an employee because he or she disclosed t… |
| 19-5050 | John Asmodeo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity | Circuit Split Despite virtually identical circumstances between this Second Circuit case and that of Cordero-Rosario , a First Circuit case, the resu… |
| 19-20 | William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing | Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den… | |
| 19-16 | Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (5) | 18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or… |
| 19-5003 | Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release | 1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum. 2. Whe… |
| 18-1593 | Jose Gracia-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | aggravated-felony circuit-split collateral-consequences crime-of-violence criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-consequences mootness retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred as a matter of law in holding that Petitioner's conviction for unlawful entry warranted an… |
| 18-9804 | Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"? |
| 18-9812 | Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon | In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-9805 | Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability | 1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u… |
| 18-9781 | Adam J. Winarske v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation | Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-9790 | Alexander Monzoni v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9796 | Anthony Bernard Jimerson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "controlled substance offense" as defined in U.S.S8.G. § 4B1.2(b) … |
| 18-9762 | Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the… |
| 18-9764 | Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel | 1. Should a petition for writ of certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict between the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal on whether a def… |
| 18-1567 | Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations | I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169… | |
| 18-1554 | Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor. |
| 18-9730 | Gerald S. Lepre, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split custody domestic-order federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-threat personal-liberty suspended-sentence | PURSUANT TO FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS JURISDICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. 2254 (A) FOR STATE PRISONER'S: 1. DOES A SUSPENDED SENTENCE COUPLED WITH AN ACTIVE DOM… |
| 18A1336 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no… |
| 18-9672 | Jill Andras LeBlanc v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-procedure statutory-rights | The right to appeal a criminal sentence is a statutory entitlement under 18 U.S.C. § 3742. But in many federal jurisdictions—including the Eastern Dis… |
| 18-9673 | George Djura Jakubec v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9653 | Todd Ricks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18A1302 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1539 | Domino's Pizza, LLC v. Guillermo Robles | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Amici (5) | accessibility ada ada-title-iii americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split civil-rights digital-accessibility disability-discrimination mobile-app-accessibility mobile-application public-accommodation statutory-interpretation website website-accessibility | Whether Title III of the ADA requires a website or mobile phone application that offers goods or services to the public to satisfy discrete accessibil… |
| 18-1540 | VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response Waived | automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct | The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.… |
| 18-9639 | Dustin E. Ash v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split crimes-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-law-sentencing criminal-sentencing due-process federal-firearms-law federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines reckless-crime reckless-crimes sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 violent-crimes | Whether reckless crimes, like Mr. Ash's Kansas reckless aggravated battery conviction, qualify as crimes of violence under USSG § 4B1.2. |
| 18-9608 | Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18A1285 | Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1276 | Karen Khan v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity | Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Ig… | |
| 18A1277 | Anthony Wayne Bettcher v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split crime-of-violence force-clause mens-rea reckless-offense sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1262 | Alexander Christian Miles v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Presumed Complete | aedpa circuit-split factual-innocence habeas-corpus plea-agreement writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9472 | Reginald Donell Rice v. Carey D. Cockell, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-question due-process federal-law federal-question jurisdiction precedent standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions | A UNITEA STATES COURT oF APPeaLS has dECided an imPOrtant question of Federal Law that hasnot beent,but should be setled hy this CouRT, And has decide… |
| 18-1503 | Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes | This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel … |
| 18-1498 | UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Dismissed | administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review | This Court held in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101 (1989), that a highly deferential standard of judicial review applies to interpr… | |
| 18-9493 | Jose Santillan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-1487 | Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation | In Summers v. Earth Island Institute, 555 U.S. 488 (2009), this Court held that a "vague desire to return . . . without any description of concrete pl… |
| 18-1490 | Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond… | |
| 18-1476 | Randy Lee Carney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn | When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-1468 | United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity | 1. Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigan… |
| 18-9393 | Tarell McIlwain v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | When a police officer makes a lawful custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of the arrestee's person to protect officer s… |
| 18-9398 | Ali Cisse v. New York | New York | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent | Does knowledge of wiretapping establish "consent" to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)? |
| 18-9415 | Michael Don Neely v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 18-1453 | Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning | Before this Honorable Court is the question of when it is appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, in light… |
| 18-1458 | Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos | New Mexico | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | On May 4, 2013, Respondent Debra Gallegos was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Mexico. Petitioner Charles Vernier, a New Mexico State Police Officer… |
| 18-9360 | Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9343 | Joe Carroll Ziglar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States , this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definitio… |
| 18-9330 | Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9299 | Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9315 | Casey Peebles v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 | In Petitioner's jury trial on federal drug offenses, the district court allowed a prosecution witness to testify under Fed. R. Evid. 801(d)(2)(E) to o… |
| 18-1424 | Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus | Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held, in an acknowledged conflict with the Third Circuit, that a district court may deny a request for the issua… |
| 18-9265 | Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | IFP | aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 | 1. Does a district court's denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitute a defect in the integrity of the p… |
| 18-9277 | Melvin Scott Morman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition… |
| 18-1415 | ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver | 1. Whether a collective bargaining agreement ("CBA") that expressly states "[t]he arbitrator shall not have jurisdiction or authority to add to, detra… | |
| 18-1401 | David D. Peterson v. Linear Controls, Inc. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Granted | CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | adverse-employment-action circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-act eeoc employment-discrimination employment-practices statutory-interpretation terms-conditions-privileges title-vii workplace-discrimination | Are the "terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" covered by Section 703(a)(1) limited only to hiring, firing, promotions, compensation, and le… |
| 18-1374 | Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl… |
| 18-1381 | Supply Pro Sorbents, LLC v. RingCentral, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | advertising-space circuit-split commercial-availability fax-advertisement fcc-commentary incidental-advertisement ninth-circuit regulatory-interpretation seventh-circuit standing statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act | Did the Ninth Circuit err by following FCC commentary to hold that an "'incidental [fax] advertisement' 'does not convert the entire communication int… |
| 18-1382 | American Eagle Express, Inc., dba AEX Group v. Ever Bedoya, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split employment-classification federal-aviation-administration-authorization-act preemption presumption-against-preemption state-regulation transportation-of-property | (1) Whether the Third Circuit erred by holding that New Jersey's statutory test for determining employment classification is not preempted under the F… |
| 18-1358 | Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation libel-per-se presumption-of-innocence qualified-immunity retaliation substantive-due-process | Where the Eleventh Circuit found a constitutional violation in a prosecutor's use of libel per se to retaliate against a wrongfully convicted person w… |
| 18-9019 | Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi… |
| 18-1346 | Dale E. Kleber v. CareFusion Corporation | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | age-discrimination circuit-split disparate-impact employment-law griggs-doctrine griggs-precedent griggs-v-duke-power hiring-practices job-applicants national-economy smith-v-city-of-jackson statutory-interpretation | Does the text of section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect outside job applicants, as this Court held when interpreti… | |
| 18-1344 | LaMarcus Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application | Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, as the Ninth Circuit, Colo… | |
| 18-8985 | Michael Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review | Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that "extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances" conflicts with this Court's mandate "that … |
| 18-8965 | Olusola Olla v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness | 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-8931 | Tajie Coleman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
| 18-1328 | Stephen Gilmore, et al. v. Neil R. Holland, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | administrative-law agency-regulation chevron-deference circuit-split cms-regulation emergency-medical-treatment emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act hospital-inpatient-care hospital-stabilization medical-care statutory-interpretation | 1. Should the regulation issued by CMS, 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(d)(2)(ii), be stricken as contrary to the statutory language, which provides that the oblig… | |
| 18-8892 | Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8881 | Garry Coleman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-52-rule-60 coa competency conclusions-of-law due-process federal-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60b-motion | CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ANY FINDINGS OF FACT SPECIALLY AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AS IS REQUIRED BY… |
| 18-1316 | Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim | Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the… |
| 18-1302 | Robertson B. Cohen, Chapter 7 Trustee v. Andrea Chernushin | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-usc-541 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-estate-property-rights bankruptcy-jurisprudence bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split federal-preemption federal-rule-1016 federal-rule-of-bankruptcy-procedure-1016 federal-statute property-law property-rights statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit Opinion renders 11 U.S.C. § 541 subordinate to state property law and contravenes Congressional intent in enacting § 541 … |
| 18-8826 | Omar Christopher Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … |
| 18-8829 | Leonid Djuga, aka Leonid Dzhuga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process involuntary-waiver judicial-integrity judicial-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining statutory-rights | Are broad waivers of appellate rights lawful and, if so, what are the limits on their validity and enforcement? |
| 18-1294 | Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power | This case presents clear conflict on a pure question of law, regarding the Federal Rules of Evidence. According to the Eleventh Circuit, the hearsay s… |
| 18-1291 | Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-courts judicial-review jurisdiction municipal-court private-probation probation-order rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment void-ab-initio | Whether Rooker–Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio. |
| 18-8752 | Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment | (1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver… |
| 18-8738 | Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth… |
| 18-8759 | Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors | Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has held, or wheth… |
| 18-1279 | K. Wendell Lewis, et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | District of Columbia | 2019-04-08 | Denied | 29-usc-1303(f) appropriate-equitable-relief circuit-split disgorgement equitable-relief erisa erisa-title-iv fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty pension-benefit-guaranty-corporation pension-plan pension-plans statutory-interpretation | Does § 1344(c) preclude disgorgement of profits from the Corporation as an appropriate equitable remedy under § 1303(f) for the Corporation's breaches… | |
| 18-8718 | Anthony C. Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness | Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8687 | Melanie A. Ogle v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split credibility-of-witness due-process habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence schlup-gateway | Has this Court amended its previous decision that the Schlup gateway standard (Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298, 327 (1995), does not require absolute cer… |
| 18-8700 | Dorian Givens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release | What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8708 | Charles Clark v. Joe Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 circuit-split controlled-substance-act drug-offense felony-drug-offense habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing-enhancement | Whether the decision handed down in Maths v United States, 136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016) is retroactive in a post-conviction petition, as some courts have sta… |
| 18-1272 | Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings | In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects "the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of co… |
| 18-1269 | Simon E. Rodriguez, as Chapter 7 Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of United Western Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for United Western Bank | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | affiliated-group affiliated-groups bob-richards-rule circuit-split corporate-taxation federal-common-law state-law tax-refund | Whether courts should determine ownership of a tax refund paid to an affiliated group based on the federal common law "Bob Richards rule," as three Ci… |
| 18-1270 | Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure | 1. Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals properly co… |
| 18-1271 | Charles E. White, Jr., et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-fiduciary-duty circuit-split decision-making-process eighth-circuit employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa erisa-fiduciary-duties erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-breach ninth-circuit participant-claims pleading-standards secretary-of-labor twombly-iqbal | In pleading a breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA, is it sufficient for a plaintiff to allege a deficient decision-making process indirectly through … |
| 18-1262 | Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Dismissed | admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof | Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence. | |
| 18-1265 | September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings | What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations? |
| 18-8677 | Patrick Lloyd v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez | Whether Dominguez BenItez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court… |
| 18-8600 | Tony McLeod v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 18-8601 | Tommy Nelson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines firearm-enhancement intent robbery security-guard sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-gordon united-states-v-hill weapon-discharge | This Court should grant certiorari because there is a split in the circuits as to the proper application of a 7 level guideline enhancement for the di… |
| 18-1260 | Jessica Cooke v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | administrative-claims administrative-law circuit-split civil-procedure claim-filing common-law federal-tort-claims-act legal-procedure mailbox-rule standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the common-law "mailbox rule" applies to claims brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2675(a). | |
| 18A988 | Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law post-verdict-motion rule-50-motion | Question not identified. | |
| 18-8589 | Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth… |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | This Court has applied the U.S. v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) good faith exception in a variety of cases to include a knock and announce violation (Hud… |
| 18-8540 | Eric David Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker | Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-1233 | Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness | Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 18-1230 | Juan Zamudio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … | |
| 18-1218 | Buchwald Capital Advisors LLC, Litigation Trustee to the Greektown Litigation Trust v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Dismissed | bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-tribes sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tribal-law | Whether the Bankruptcy Code abrogates the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes. | |
| 18-8445 | Tommy McAdoo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force | The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 18-8465 | Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor | Are Bankruptcy Judges in the Southern District dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause? This is of importance to the public because co… |
| 18-8468 | Alfredo Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors | Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has … |
| 18-8447 | Javis Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca acca-predicate armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split drug-offense elonis-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erroneously concluded in in finding. Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug - offen… |
| 18-8395 | Janet Sonja Schonewolf v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 circuit-split criminal-sentencing prison-sentence prison-term rehabilitation sentencing-discretion sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation tapia-v-united-states | The Sentencing Reform Act requires courts to "recogniz[e] that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation." 1… |
| 18-8429 | Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | IFP | adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness | the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) motion premised, in part, on Ma… |
| 18-1193 | Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether absolute immunity shields a prosecutor's unconstitutional handling of post-conviction DNA testing under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976… |
| 18-8413 | Francisco K. Avoki v. Carolinas Telco Federal Credit Union, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights consumer-protection creditor-notification due-process rescission rescission-right standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation three-year-period tila truth-in-lending-act truth-in-lending-act-tila | Does a borrower exercise his right to rescind a transaction in satisfaction of the requirement of Section 1635 by" [N]oti±ring the creditor" in writin… |
| 18-8416 | Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit | 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging… |
| 18-8417 | Robert Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness | I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of… |
| 18-8391 | Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8394 | Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-1180 | New Vision Home Health Care, Inc., et al. v. Anthem, Inc., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-circuit 6th-circuit administrative-law circuit-split collateral-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction mandamus-relief medicare-administrative-law-judge medicare-appeals-process medicare-contractors medicare-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction tort-claims | 1. Whether a circuit split exists between the Fifth and Sixth Circuits regarding whether federalcourts have jurisdiction to issue mandamus relief toen… |
| 18-1173 | I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Amici (7) | child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement | Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither … |
| 18-1165 | Retirement Plans Committee of IBM, et al. v. Larry W. Jander, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (2) | amgen-v-harris circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty fifth-third-standard fifth-third-v-dudenhoeffer insider-information pleading-standard private-securities-litigation-reform-act prudence prudent-fiduciary securities-fraud securities-litigation | Whether Fifth Third's "more harm than good" pleading standard can be satisfied by generalized allegations that the harm of an inevitable disclosure of… |
| 18-1170 | Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process | Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 18-1162 | P. Swaney, et al. v. Hector Lopez | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights correctional-officers deliberate-indifference due-process medical-care prisoners-rights qualified-immunity | Did the Ninth Circuit err when a divided panel of that court denied qualified immunity to correctional officers notwithstanding Third and Seventh Circ… |
| 18-8331 | Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error | Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d… |
| 18-1154 | Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-court circuit-split employment-law exertion fair-labor-standards-act portal-to-portal-act security-screening work work-definition | The last time this case was here, the Court unanimously held that time spent by employees in post-shift security screenings is not compensable worktim… |
| 18-1156 | Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel | Florida | 2019-03-06 | Denied | appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense | 1) Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2… | |
| 18-1159 | The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Amici (1) | archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection | Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such … |
| 18-1145 | Minerva Dairy, Inc., et al. v. Brad Pfaff, in His Official Capacity as Secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Amici (3) | burdens-on-interstate-commerce circuit-split civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law discrimination disparate-impact dormant-commerce-clause due-process economic-liberty interstate-commerce local-benefits pike-v-bruce-church rational-basis rational-basis-test state-regulation substantive-due-process | 1. Under Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., 397 U.S. 137 (1970), the Dormant Commerce Clause is violated whenever the burden imposed on interstate commerce "… |
| 18-8233 | Calvin J. Reid v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT O… |
| 18-8234 | Jeremy Snider v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 18-8281 | Michael Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit… |
| 18-8292 | Julius Greer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver | What is the correct standard of review for a Speedy Trial Act violation where a motion to dismiss under the Act was filed, but the particular time per… |
| 18-8214 | Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler | 1. Must a court categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez ? 2. If the Court declines to… |
| 18-8238 | Rafael Gomez Uranga v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barker-v-wingo circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-delay government-negligence governmental-negligence gross-negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial united-states-v-doggett | The question presented here is whether a speedy trial delay caused exclusively by the gross negligence of the Government weighs heavily against the Go… |
| 18-8265 | Bradford D Vol Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-843b administrative-law auer-deference categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense notice-and-comment sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sentencing Commission, without Congressional approval or a notice-and-comment period, may add a crime to the Sentencing Guideline definiti… |
| 18-8177 | Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Under this Court's Fourth Amendment decisions, an officer is prohibited from prolonging a traffic stop beyond its original purpose without "reasonable… |
| 18-8202 | Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search | I. Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when t… |
| 18-1128 | Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | 1. Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly … |
| 18-1129 | Cadian Capital Management, LP, et al. v. Terry Klein, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Dismissed | article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rule-civil-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-standing mootness plaintiff-substitution rule-17-substitution rule-17(a)(3) rule-17a3 securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-exchange-act-of-1934 shareholder-action shareholder-derivative-action standing substitution | 1. Whether a shareholder action under § 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78p(b), must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction o… | |
| 18-8160 | Paul Wagner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent mickens-v-taylor ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-interpretation united-states-v-hanoum | This case presents an issue on which the Ninth Circuit's has both (1) entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of two other United States Cou… |
| 18-8162 | Eric V. Bartoli v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis | 1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho… |
| 18-1107 | Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit | 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis… |
| 18-1104 | Nina Ringgold v. Providence Health & Services, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | ada americans-with-disabilities-act associational-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights disability-discrimination injunctive-relief mootness mootness-doctrine rehabilitation-act standing | There is generally agreement among the courts of appeal that under 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act that a non-di… | |
| 18-8076 | Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits? … |
| 18-8110 | In Re LaShawn Anderson | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-18-usc-924-e categorical-approach circuit-split constitutional-review descamps-v-united-states divisibility fundamental-defect habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause sentencing-enhancement | This petition presents two important issues concerning the proper interpretation of the Saving Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e); and the appropriate applic… | |
| 18-8051 | Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-8055 | Kevin Ventura v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 18-8064 | Fernando Luviano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |
| 18-8068 | Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-1086 | Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata | Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated… |
| 18-1094 | Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, et al. v. Joe R. Whatley, Jr., WD Trustee | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | cargo-damage carmack-amendment circuit-split federal-preemption limitations-period limitations-periods notice-of-claim notice-requirements rail-carrier-liability uniform-bill-of-lading | The Carmack Amendment ("Carmack") provides the exclusive remedy for shippers to hold rail carriers liable for damage to cargo. Under the federally req… | |
| 18-8019 | Bryan Austin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split coa congress constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus sixth-amendment | Whether the determination by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to Petitioner's COA application improperly deviated from the mandates of… |
| 18-1078 | James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit | Did the Sixth Circuit misapply this Court's authority and create a conflict among Circuits by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Four… |
| 18-1069 | Diebold Foundation, Inc., Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Second Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | circuit-split commissioner-notice jurisdictional-issue second-circuit statutory-interpretation tax-appeals tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-notice tax-procedure tax-year taxable-year waiver | 1. Whether the Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to consider and determine a liability for an incorrect taxable year when it does not have jurisdiction ove… | |
| 18-7989 | Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-7996 | Emory Watkins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-conspiracy residual-clause statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | (1) Whether the residual clause at 18 USC Sec. 924 ( c) (3) (B) is void for vagueness, a question that divides seven Court of Appeals? 2. Whether the… |
| 18-7977 | James Mowery v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release | I. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), this Court found unconstitutional a criminal statute prohibiting sex offenders from access… |
| 18-1054 | Jason Allen Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions | Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution. | |
| 18-1046 | Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review | When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 18-1048 | GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp., fka Converteam SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitration-agreement circuit-split contract-law equitable-estoppel foreign-arbitral-awards international-arbitration new-york-convention non-signatory treaty-interpretation | Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") permits a non-signatory to an arbitra… |
| 18-1052 | Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur… | |
| 18-1044 | PharMerica Corporation v. United States, ex rel. Marc Silver | Third Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split false-claims-act fraud original-source public-disclosure-bar qui-tam qui-tam-action statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a relator's admission that he, in fact, derived his complaint from public disclosures triggers the Bar, requiring an analysis of whether su… |
| 18-7857 | Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release | Title 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) lists the factors district courts should consider when responding to a defendant's violation of the conditions of supervised… |
| 18-7833 | Jerome Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability | I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe… |
| 18-1036 | Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment | 1. If a client is blameless, is a lawyer's gross neglect of the client's case a basis for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6)? (7-2 … | |
| 18-7779 | Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm | Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
| 18-7800 | Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments | Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen… |
| 18-1013 | Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck… |
| 18-1010 | Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law | The U.S. Courts of Appeals are currently split on whether the federal securities laws impose a duty on corporate issuers to update a statement that wa… |
| 18-7735 | Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question One: WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7720 | Howard Webber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7722 | Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation | Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-7723 | Randy Dempsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7680 | Hector Cirino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 18-7661 | Philip Walter Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-courts circuit-split diligence diligence-standard judicial-procedure new-evidence pace-v-diguglielmo postconviction-motion proper-filing properly-filed relief-standard time-bar untimely | This case presents two questions pertaining to the "proper filing" requirement that were left open by Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408 (2005) and tha… |
| 18-7681 | In Re Erasmo Aguinaga | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause | Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court… | |
| 18-991 | Levi Huebner v. Midland Credit Management, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act least-sophisticated-consumer oral-dispute statutory-interpretation written-dispute | 1. Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692e(8), 1692g(a)(3), is a debt collector required to treat a consumer's oral dispute w… |
| 18-984 | King Mountain Tobacco Company, Inc. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | circuit-split fair-and-equitable-tobacco-reform-act federal-tax federal-tax-exemption federal-tobacco-excise-tax indian-treaty indian-treaty-construction tax-exemption travel-rights yakama-treaty | Although exemptions to tax laws should be express, that tax canon is not dispositive if the words of an Indian treaty or statute "are susceptible of a… | |
| 18-7639 | Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7642 | Kirk Lassend v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony | 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
| 18-7613 | David Ackell v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens | Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate… |
| 18-7614 | Michael Jacoby v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict | The 10th Circuit's application of a reasonable Jurist Standard as a full denial of Jadby's §2255 under the Strickland standard is in conflict with the… |
| 18-7570 | Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion | When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-969 | Gospel For Asia, Inc., et al. v. Garland D. Murphy, III, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Dismissed | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights class-action class-certification due-process fraud interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-injury presumption-of-reliance rico rico-class-action rule-23 standards-for-interlocutory-appeal | 1. Whether a RICO class may be certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) based on a presumption that all class members were injured by … | |
| 18-957 | NextEra Energy, Inc. v. Elliott Associates, L.P., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | 11-usc-363 11-usc-503 bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-sale breakup-fee business-judgment-rule circuit-split debtor section-363 section-503 | Whether a debtor's decision to agree to a negotiated breakup fee as part of a sale transaction should be reviewed by the bankruptcy court under the de… |
| 18-935 | Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (3) | child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction requires that any child wrongfully removed from her country of "habitual re… |
| 18-938 | Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | 28-usc-158 appellate-jurisdiction automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay circuit-split civil-procedure final-order precedent statutory-interpretation | Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1). In diverting from this Court's prio… |
| 18-941 | Carl B. Davis, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Tyson Prepared Foods, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-estate circuit-split courts-of-appeals creditor creditor-rights passive-conduct property-interest property-interests property-of-the-estate statutory-interpretation | By operation of law, when a debtor files a bankruptcy petition, a bankruptcy "estate" is created consisting of all of the debtor's property "wherever … |
| 18-944 | Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | circuit-split conditional-use-permit discrimination equal-terms equal-terms-provision facial-or-as-applied-violation free-exercise nonprofit-organization religious-land-use religious-land-use-and-institutionalized-persons-a rluipa standing tax-revenue zoning zoning-code | What is the proper test for a RLUIPA equal-terms claim. Whether Tree of Life established a facial or as-applied equal-terms violation here. |
| 18-7506 | Jonathan Glen Turner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct due-process manipulative-conduct obstreperous-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether a defendant may waive his Sixth Amendment right to… |
| 18-7507 | In Re Dwight Carter | 2019-01-18 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)… | |
| 18-918 | John Copeland, et al. v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law due-process facial-challenge free-speech johnson-v-united-states salerno-rule sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987), this Court held that to maintain a facial challenge, a plaintiff must establish that "no set of… |
| 18-920 | Margaret Adeline Veltre v. Fifth Third Bank | Third Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | antecedent-debt bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-547 bankruptcy-court chapter-7-bankruptcy circuit-split creditor-rights insolvency liquidation-value preferential-transfer property-transfer property-valuation sheriff-sale valuation | Whether the Bankruptcy Code mandates a Bankruptcy Court determine the value of property transferred to a creditor within ninety days prior to a Bankru… |
| 18-926 | Putnam Investments, LLC, et al. v. John Brotherston, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) | active-management burden-of-proof circuit-split erisa erisa-fiduciary erisa-fiduciary-duty fiduciary-duty index-funds investment-options loss-causation | A fiduciary of an ERISA plan is personally liable for "losses to the plan resulting from" a breach of fiduciary duty. 29 U.S.C. § 1109(a). Fiduciarie… |
| 18-7390 | Martin R. Stancik v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver | Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7377 | Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review | I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WIT… |
| 18-7379 | Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Johnson), this Court declared unconstitutional the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 18-904 | King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction | In light of the Steel Co. rule that jurisdiction must be determined as "an antecedent" matter, what is the proper procedure for handling situations in… |
| 18-890 | David D'Addario, et al. v. Virginia A. D'Addario | Second Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process hemi-group holmes-v-securities-investor-protection-corp probate proximate-causation rico rico-claims standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a beneficiary of a probate estate can establish the direct injury necessary to bring a civil RICO claim when the alleged RICO violation har… | |
| 18-7331 | Ishmael Douglas v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7340 | Eric Dillon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle | SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7296 | Demetrio Cisneros v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness | Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute knowledge of the specific contraband being imported? |
| 18-7311 | Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing | Does The Reasoning of This Court Asserted in Buck v Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct.759 also apply to Civil Appeals? (i.e. when all is before the Court is wheth… |
| 18-875 | Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards | Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals… |
| 18-862 | Michael J. Daugherty, et al. v. Alain H. Sheer, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process motion-to-dismiss pleading pleading-standard qualified-immunity rule-12(b)(6) standing | May a court dismiss a complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failing to plead facts needed to overcome an anticipated qualified-immunity defense? |
| 18-7233 | Hosea Latron Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act assault circuit-split intent physical-force statutory-interpretation threat violent-felony weapon-exhibition | Whether a statute prohibiting an angry exhibition of a weapon in the presence of another without requiring that the perpetrator direct or intend to di… |
| 18-7221 | Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims fo… |
| 18-830 | Township of Millburn, New Jersey, et al. v. Michael J. Palardy, Jr. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-rights connick-v-myers constitutional-rights first-amendment public-employee retaliation retaliation-claim union-association | In Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 (1983), this Court set out a two-step framework for addressing First Amendment retaliation claims by public employee… |
| 18-7201 | Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund… |
| 18-7219 | Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search | Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness. |
| 18-824 | Thomas Rogers, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split constitutional-carry firearm-rights heller-v-dc intermediate-scrutiny licensing second-amendment self-defense | 1. Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense. 2. Whether the government may deny categoric… |
| 18-7176 | Jose A. Garcia-Ortiz v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property pattern-jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense that can be committed by causing fear of har… |
| 18-7187 | Willis Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-27 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 18-7149 | Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers | In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of … |
| 18-7139 | James Castleman Gipson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing | Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-7140 | Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | IFP | chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St… |
| 18-7132 | James R. Bright v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-7150 | Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression | (1) Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later … |
| 18-7159 | Andrew Mark Lamar v. John O'Dell, Colorado Parole Board Member | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure circuit-split circuit-splits civil-rights discretionary-parole due-process liberty-interest parole parole-release-hearings wilkinson-v-dotson | I. WHETVER REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND TME DISTRICT COURT'S RESOLUTION OF PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS CHAIN DEBATABLE OR WRONG WITH RESPECT TO EXTENDIN… |
| 18-782 | William C. Bond v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process leave-to-amend pleading pleading-deficiencies pro-se pro-se-litigant standing | Whether when denying a pro se litigant leave to amend the complaint, a district court must provide a reason for that denial (as held by the Third, Sev… | |
| 18-795 | William J. Bush v. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-records chevron-deference circuit-split de-novo-review due-process foia-request freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-information-act-foia | Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard for agency records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq., that an agency must… |
| 18-7096 | Reinaldo Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | acca acca-violent-felony armed-career-criminal-act battery categorical-approach circuit-split descamps divisibility florida florida-battery mathis mens-rea modified-categorical-approach sixth-amendment violent-felony | 1. Is the "touches or strikes' language in the Florida battery statutes divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013) and Mathis v.… |
| 18-7105 | Tavaris Jemario Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | acca begay-v-united-states categorical-approach circuit-split elonis-v-united-states mens-rea second-fifth-ninth-circuits serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offense… |
| 18-7129 | Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis | Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States (138 S.Ct. 2206, 2217, 2220 (2018)) regarding cel… |
| 18-778 | St. Louis Heart Center, Inc. v. Nomax, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights consumer-protection due-process opt-out-notice spokeo-injury standing statutory-damages tcpa-disclosure telephone-consumer-protection-act | Following this Court's decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), three circuit courts of appeals have held that a failure to disclos… |
| 18-7076 | Evelyn Person v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories | Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-7087 | Daniel Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement. The Te… |
| 18-7036 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-763 | Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review | Whether, to remove a juror for alleged misconduct during deliberations, a district court must determine that there is no possibility that the allegati… | |
| 18-7022 | Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation | What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7000 | Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum senten… |
| 18-6972 | Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6985 | Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-738 | Henry Paul Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review | Whether The Standard That Governs the AEDPA Provisions, 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(1), §2244(b)(2)(B)(ii), and §2244(b)(3)(A), is inapplicable To A Second Hab… |
| 18-6899 | John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors | Where there exists intra and inter-circuit splits among the federal courts of appeals on a question of exceptional importance concerning "structural e… |
| 18-6963 | Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental | Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable… |
| 18-728 | Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | 9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement | Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |
| 18-729 | Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation | Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer. |
| 18-6913 | Lamar Sowell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-provisions force-element lower-federal-courts statutory-interpretation united-states | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6919 | Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat… |
| 18-6926 | James Valentine v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement drug-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY ALLOWING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,… |
| 18-721 | Norman Bloom v. Aftermath Public Adjusters, Inc., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | certification circuit-split civil-procedure discretion diversity-jurisdiction federal-court federal-court-discretion federal-courts legal-uncertainty procedural-standards state-law state-law-certification | Whether the language of a state's certification rule should factor into the federal court's decision to certify a dispositive state law question in a … | |
| 18-716 | Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. v. EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P., et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split conflict-among-circuits conflict-with-other-courts direct-effect foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-corporate-structure international-investment investment-fund investment-loss judicial-restructuring jurisdictional-challenge overseas-conduct sovereign-instrumentality subject-matter-jurisdiction | Respondents invested in a Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in another Luxembourgian subsidiary, which invested in a Brazilian corporation, whi… |
| 18-6894 | David Crosby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct | WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING CONFLICTS WITH THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S AND THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT AS IT CONCERNS IMPROPER VOUCHING. |
| 18-710 | Caner Demirayak v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | accessibility alternate-accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii circuit-split due-process effective-accommodations fact-finding meaningful-access preliminary-injunction public-entity rule-52(a) supervisory-power tennessee-v-lane title-ii | This case presents a split between the circuits and conflict with this Court's decision in Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004), as to the fundament… |
| 18-6875 | Kendall Thrift v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge | Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh… |
| 18-6870 | James Frederick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force | In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole… |
| 18-699 | Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Marjorie Prather | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act government-contractors government-payment materiality pleading-requirements regulatory-violation scienter | This Court has affirmed False Claims Act (FCA) liability, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., under a theory of "implied false certification." See Universal Hea… |
| 18-696 | Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech | 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have reversed itself and exacerbated an unsettled and widening split among the First, Fifth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits by f… |
| 18-6807 | Larry M. Slusser v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights | Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
| 18-682 | Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation | Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. | |
| 18-6830 | Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime | Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-684 | Patti Stevens-Rucker, Administrator of the Estate of Jason White, Deceased v. John Frenz, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process eighth-amendment police-duty-of-care police-use-of-force qualified-immunity tenth-amendment | Are there circumstances in which police officers are constitutionally obligated to help a person injured during arrest, as the Eighth and Tenth Circui… |
| 18-6792 | Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment | The District Court affirmed, and the Seventh Circuit agreed, that both Respondent ('Indiana Bell") and Petitioner ("Fillmore") submitted "sparse" — or… |
| 18-6746 | Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule | Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review. Only the Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-668 | Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th… |
| 18-6763 | Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity | I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL… |
| 18-6765 | Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness | Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to resolve the differences in treatment among the various circuits and to clearly establish when a judgment … |
| 18-6738 | 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… |
| 18-643 | Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure | This Court has deliberately left open whether a U.S Supreme Court decision (as opposed to a Circuit Court decision) is required to "clearly establish"… |
| 18-645 | Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Dismissed | Response Waived | 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) req… |
| 18-6715 | Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing | Whether a drug-detection dog's sniff of the doorway of an apartment constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment when the apartment is located in… |
| 18-6719 | Bobby Kenneth Williamson v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence newly-presented-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act post-conviction-relief-act-petition protective-habeas-corpus-petition schlup-vs-delo statute-of-limitations statutory-exception third-circuit written-notice | (1) Did the Third Circuit err i rendering petitioners's Post Conviction Relief Act Petition untimely and "THE END OF THE MATTER," without, the Pennsyl… |
| 18-626 | Glen St. Andrew Living Community, LLC, et al. v. Marsha Wetzel | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Dismissed | circuit-split discriminatory-intent duty-to-intervene fair-housing-act housing-discrimination housing-provider-liability housing-providers hud-regulation statutory-interpretation tenant-harassment tenant-on-tenant-harassment third-party-liability | This is a case of first impression and national importance affecting the entire United States housing industry. It concerns who can be held liable und… | |
| 18-6693 | Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-615 | Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress | Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? | |
| 18-6662 | Eddie Lee Shular v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split mens-rea sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-construction violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 18-6675 | In Re Ryan Lee Zater | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness | Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth… | |
| 18-610 | TiEnergy, LLC v. Wisconsin Central Ltd. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-09 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure consignee-liability contract contract-law demurrage-charges seventh-circuit shipping-law statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | For a consignee to be liable for demurrage it must agree to be a consignee for the goods being shipped as the liability for such charges is based in c… |
| 18-6618 | Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call | Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case… |
| 18-601 | John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Amici (3) | agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand | 1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6600 | Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-6607 | Scott Peters v. John Baldwin | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment 38-usc-1331 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-discrimination due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims free-speech habeas-corpus Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28-U.S medical-mistreatment retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs | 1.) PlAiNtiff cAuNot Sve tHtE UNited StatEs DepartmertoR veteraNs AFFARS FOR CONstitUtONAL WRONS AGAiNSt HiM FOR DeLiBeRAtE INDIFFERNCE OR 14TH AOMENA… |
| 18-6608 | William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation | Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… |
| 18-6573 | Malik Farrad v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media | Question I - The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication by third parties for social media postings being what they are claim… |
| 18-6588 | Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina | Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6591 | Leslie Chin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure | Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i… |
| 18-6569 | Mark Lee Murray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether ge… |
| 18-6557 | Casey O'Dell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez | 1. WHETHER: THE FED.R.CRIM.P. 11(b)(1)(N) RULE WAS VIOLATED BY THE INADEQUACY OF THE CHANGE OF PLEA COLLOQUY? 2. WHETHER THE DECISION THE THIRD CRICU… |
| 18-572 | Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Dismissed | abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings | 1. Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver? 2. Shoul… | |
| 18-6547 | Christopher Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea physical-force reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, which … |
| 18-563 | Darren Commander v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 26-usc-6672 circuit-split civil-procedure negligence statutory-interpretation summary-judgment tax-law willfulness | Was the Third Circuit's standard for willfulness under 26 U.S.C. § 6672(a) too lax for situations that at best are mere negligence in conflict with th… |
| 18-565 | CITGO Asphalt Refining Company, et al. v. Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd., et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (2) | circuit-split due-diligence guarantee guarantee-of-safety maritime-law safe-berth safe-berth-clause ship-safety voyage-charter | Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship's safety, as the Third Circuit below and … |
| 18-560 | Peaje Investments LLC v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. | First Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | agency-discretion agency-regulation bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-statutory-lien bankruptcy-procedure circuit-court-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals due-process lien-definition property-interest property-rights puerto-rico-law secured-creditor statutory-lien | Petitioner owns bonds issued by Respondent, the Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority ("HTA"). The bonds are secured by a lien on toll revenu… | |
| 18-6495 | Richard Anthony Trent v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split demand-for-certainty divisibility divisible-statute federal-courts federal-statute-interpretation mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach state-law-materials statutory-interpretation | Is the demand for certainty satisfied where, after a survey of relevant, state-law materials, the federal court can only say what is "suggestive" and … |
| 18-6511 | In Re Ken Ejimofor Ezeah | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver-guilty-plea-unite guilty-plea inherent-equitable-authority tenth-circuit united-states-v-galloway united-states-v-hahn united-states-v-mccarthy | (1)WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD EXPAND THE FRAME-WORK DECIDED IN "UNITED STATES V. HAHN",IN THE TENTH CIRCUITS DETERMINATION OF A KNOWING AND VOLUNTARILY… | |
| 18-6467 | Tyrone Pulley v. California | California | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler | Does the rule established in Martinez V. Ryan, 132 S.CT. 1309 (2012) and Trevino V. Thaler 133 S. CT 1911, 1921 (2013) that ineffective state appellat… |
| 18-6481 | Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary | DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP? IS THE DUE P… |
| 18-6459 | Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6461 | Gerren K. Love v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force | If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6415 | Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure | Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-540 | Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (20)Relisted (2) | circuit-split drug-reimbursement eighth-circuit erisa-preemption health-care-law pbm-regulation pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation state-regulation | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that Arkansas's statute regulating PBMs' drug-reimbursement rates, which is similar to laws enacted by a s… |
| 18-6404 | Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness | In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6427 | Jesus Valle v. Rusty Rogers, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | IFP | administrative-segregation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process prisoner-assault prisoner-rights standing state-created-danger | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision denying relief represents a split in the Circuit Courts. Valle, a pro se litigant and prisoner in … |
| 18-533 | Contrice Travis v. Exel Inc., dba DHL Supply Chain (USA), et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-conduct eleventh-circuit higher-management kolstad kolstad-v-american-dental managerial-capacity punitive-damages title-vii | Whether the proper test for imputing a manager's discriminatory conduct is the "higher management" standard advanced by the Eleventh Circuit in Dudley… | |
| 18-535 | Residents Against Flooding, et al. v. Reinvestment Zone Number Seventeen, City of Houston, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure land-use land-use-decisions motion-to-dismiss property-rights rational-basis rule-12b6 standard-of-review substantive-due-process takings | 1. Whether, and to what extent, on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, a court must give deference to a plaintiff's complaint, viewing the government's… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 18-6399 | Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy | 1. IN THIS CASE, THE OFFICER CONDUCTED INVENTORY SEARCH OF A CLOSED CONTAINER WITHOUT A WRITTEN POLICY GOVERNING THE SEARCH OF SUCH CONTAINERS. WHETHE… |
| 18-525 | Fort Bend County, Texas v. Lois M. Davis | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7) | administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-claim employment-discrimination exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite title-vii waivable-claim-processing-rule | Whether Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit, as three Circuits have held, or a waivable claimpr… |
| 18-6363 | Calvin Bernhardt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering | 1. A person can be guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) if he "corruptly persuades" someone else to withhold testimony or an object from an official proce… |
| 18-6366 | John A. Barbosa v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act carachuri-rosendo carachuri-rosendo-v-holder charging-decision charging-document circuit-split judgment maximum-sentence plea-colloquy prosecutorial-discretion record-of-conviction rodriguez-precedent serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense | The Court's decision in United States v. Rodriquez, which it clarified in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, instructs lower courts to look to the record of… |
| 18-6369 | Lashon Browning v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-17 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach certiorari circuit-split illinois-robbery statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 18-486 | Toshiba Corporation v. Automotive Industries Pension Trust Fund, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split domestic-transaction domestic-transactions extraterritoriality forum-shopping legal-interpretation morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit second-circuit securities-exchange-act securities-fraud securities-regulation | In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd., 561 U.S. 247 (2010), this Court held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not apply ex… |
| 18-491 | Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-10-17 | Denied | appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure | Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… | |
| 18-482 | Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi… | |
| 18-6328 | Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states | In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6346 | Mark A. Dubarry v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951(b) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 18-6292 | Anthony Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-provisions federal-criminal-statute force-element statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense has an element of force and thereby qualifies as a "crime of violence" for … |
| 18-6319 | William Shane Reid v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3582 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-denial discretionary-review procedural-reasonableness review-standard sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary denial of a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) whe… |
| 18-481 | Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (20) | circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation | 1.Does the statutory term "confidential" in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, thus requiring the Government to withhold all "commercial or f… |
| 18-467 | Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response Waived | ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent | Fletcher v. Honeywell International Inc. , 892 F.3d 217 (6th Cir. 2018) holds that a "CBA's general durational clause applies to [retiree] healthcareb… |
| 18-6303 | Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-459 | Emulex Corporation, et al. v. Gary Varjabedian, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | circuit-split misstatement-omission negligent-misstatement ninth-circuit private-right-of-action section-14(e) securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-1934 securities-law tender-offer | Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly held, in express disagreement with five other courts of appeals, that Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act… |
| 18-6266 | Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness | When conducting their substantive reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as t… |
| 18-6267 | Denise Robertson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure document-disclosure evidence-review in-camera-review jencks-act palermo-v-united-states reasonable-particularity threshold-showing united-states-v-palermo | 1. Whether, when the defendant and government disagree as to whether a specifically identified document constitutes a "statement" under the Jencks Act… |
| 18-6271 | Sonny Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker | (1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review? (2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6281 | Terry E. Callins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity teague-v-lane timeliness | Did Mr. Callins file his § 2255 motion within one year of "the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court," which … |
| 18-6232 | Dion Dakota Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach categorical-approach-18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation third-circuit vagueness | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? In light of Johnso… |
| 18-6237 | Jacob L. Smith v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance | In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-436 | Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, dba Liberty International Underwriters, et al. v. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Amici (2) | admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split contract-services doiron-factors kirby-test maritime-commerce maritime-contract navigable-waters offshore-oil-and-gas offshore-oil-gas vessel-involvement | The federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1333(1) over a contract dispute if the contract at issue is "maritime." In Norfolk So… |
| 18-417 | W. Scott Harkonen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | actual-innocence circuit-split coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fraud habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief standard writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether a writ of error coram nobis should issue for a petitioner who presents "compelling" new evidence that establishes his actual innocence of the … |
| 18-423 | Christopher Barrella v. Village of Freeport, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure golden-rule-argument jury-instructions liability liability-determination new-trial standing | May a lawyer tell the jury to render the verdict they would want if they were in the shoes of a party or another person with an interest in the case? … | |
| 18-429 | Joseph J. Germinaro, et al. v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-plaintiffs civil-procedure continuity continuity-requirement organized-crime ponzi-scheme racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act | Under Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (also known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")), is there a … |
| 18-6208 | Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants, 18 U.S… |
| 18-6173 | Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 18-6177 | Tony Lipscomb v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illinois-robbery stokeling-v-united-states use-of-force violent-felony | 1. Does Illinois robbery categorically require the use of force and thereby qualify as a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? 2. The S… |
| 18-6184 | Robert Demetrius Barnes v. B. Masters, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure federal-appellate-courts federal-sentencing prior-undischarged-term prior-undischarged-term-of-imprisonment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-5g1.3(c) statutory-interpretation | Whether the word "concurrently" in Section 5G1.3(c) authorizes a sentencing court to run a sentence concurrently from the start of the pre-existing se… |
| 18-6146 | Charles Neuman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 | Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, … |
| 18-6133 | Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power | Question not identified. |
| 18-6119 | Gary Long, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment federal-court-split federal-courts life-sentence sentencing-analysis sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent term-of-years | Whether the district and appellate court failed to conduct the proper analysis of imposing a de facto life sentence on the petitioner? Whether the ci… |
| 18-6120 | Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release | The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6117 | Josette Buendia v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney | In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |
| 18-389 | Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (2) | choice-of-law circuit-split fair-labor-standards-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption gap-filling outer-continental-shelf-lands-act reliance-interests state-law state-law-borrowing statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour-laws | Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circui… |
| 18-6097 | Leonard G. Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony | I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-377 | Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees | 1. Whether states are barred by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from imposing PAC-status, with its resulting entity-based burdens, on gro… |
| 18-373 | Floyd Rose v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… | |
| 18-374 | Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… | |
| 18-6067 | Edward Lee Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release | 1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |
| 18-6069 | Joel Cadena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United … |
| 18-370 | Marlon Haight v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act assault-with-dangerous-weapon circuit-split criminal-sentencing mens-rea reckless statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), a defendant convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) who has three previous convictions for … |
| 18-349 | Darrell Patterson v. Walgreen Co. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | CVSGAmici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hardison-v-twi reasonable-accommodation religious-accommodation title-vii undue-hardship | Title VII prohibits an employer from firing an employee for engaging in a religious practice—here, abstaining from work on his Sabbath—"unless [the] e… |
| 18-6005 | Trayon L. Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure causation-element circuit-split claim-preservation criminal-procedure-waiver-forfeiture forfeiture preservation-of-issues preserved-claim standard-of-review sua-sponte-ruling violent-crime-definition violent-force-element waiver waiver-principles | I. When the government agrees that a claim was properly preserved below, can a court of appeals sua sponte hold the claim forfeited, then dismiss the … |
| 18-5987 | Ajohntae Hammond v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search | When deciding whether a police officer's fear for his safety justified a warrantless search of a person not suspected of any crime, may courts limit t… |
| 18-5995 | Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention | Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged… |
| 18-5967 | Matthew Wade Howard v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te… |
| 18-328 | Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, … |
| 18-329 | Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's opinion in this case causes a circuit split to whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dis… | |
| 18-319 | E. & J. Gallo Winery, et al. v. Refugio Arreguin | California | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | arbitrability circuit-court-split circuit-split class-arbitration federal-arbitration-act gateway-question gateway-question-of-arbitrability oxford-health-plans oxford-health-plans-v-sutter stolt-nielsen stolt-nielsen-v-animalfeeds supreme-court-precedent | Whether a court, or an arbitrator, decides whether an arbitration agreement permits class arbitration. |
| 18-320 | CEH Energy, LLC, et al. v. Kean Miller, LLP, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeals appellate-deadline circuit-split civil-procedure judicial-procedure motion-to-alter new-grounds rule-59(e) rule-59e successive-motions tolling tolling-provision | Rule 59(e) establishes a party's right to file a motion to alter or amend a judgment. Other circuits have held, where a Rule 59(e) motion is filed to … |
| 18-323 | Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,… |
| 18-5945 | David Chiddo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | appeal-from-magistrate circuit-split district-court-order federal-magistrates-act felony-guilty-plea felony-plea judicial-procedure magistrate-authority plea-agreement plea-agreement-stipulation statutory-authority statutory-interpretation stipulated-facts | 1. Does a federal magistrate have authority to accept a felony guilty plea? 2. Where a plea agreement provides that stipulated facts present an adequ… |
| 18-5913 | Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-292 | Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Relisted (5) | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention | May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-289 | Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not… |
| 18-5890 | Mark D. Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime | Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5884 | Matthew Gary Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split generic-burglary intent-requirement judicial-factfinding mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing mathis mathis-peek mathis-v-united-states reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation taylor | 1. Whether the "Mathis peek" used by the court below to guess if a fact is an element or a means of committing an offense violates the Sixth Amendment… |
| 18-5898 | Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION FOR DOWNWARD DEPARTURE IS REVIE… |
| 18-5899 | Rashod Lewis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination | 1. Should certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict amongs t the Circuits on whether a probation er can be ordered to truthfully answer questions po… |
| 18-5876 | Steven Sanford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-272 | Jim Yovino, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools v. Aileen Rizo | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Relisted (6) | circuit-split civil-rights compensation due-process employment employment-law equal-pay-act factor-other-than-sex gender-discrimination prior-salary sex-discrimination wage-differential | 1. The Equal Pay Act permits employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work "where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority … |
| 18-5747 | Javier Amador-Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony | When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on "s… |
| 18-5840 | George Stoney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5838 | Hosea Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony | 1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th… |
| 18-5847 | Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness | I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8… |
| 18-5771 | Jim Walter Qualls, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts felony-case guilty-plea judicial-authority jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-judges plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve a conflict among the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and find that the Tenth Circuit erred in affirming Petitioner… |
| 18-5796 | Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Eric Sellers, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability circuit-split court-of-appeals exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-standard reasonable-diligence | 1. Where multiple judges of a court of appeals consider an application for a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus action, must the court gr… |
| 18-5797 | Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review | The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5773 | Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5775 | William Christopher Hogan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 | Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5776 | Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation | Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed sentencing rec… |
| 18-5781 | Larry Dean Dusenbery v. Ronnie R. Holt, Warden | Third Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-speech due-process federal-prisoner free-speech habeas-corpus religious-freedom section-2241 sentencing-issue standing | SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE SPLIT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER A FEDERAL PRISONER CAN RAISE A SENTENCING ISSUE UNDER 28 U.S.… |
| 18-5782 | Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations | Under U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 14: 1. Does the "Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Which Review Is Sought Conflict with a decision of the … |
| 18-244 | Charles E. Woide, et ux. v. Federal National Mortgage Association | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-interpretation bankruptcy-procedure circuit-split consumer-protection consumer-rights consummation contractual-obligation creditor-defenses creditor-rights declaratory-relief notice-of-rescission regulation-z rescission rescission-notice statutory-interpretation truth-in-lending-act | This Court often has emphasized the importance of statutory interpretation. But a significant split has developed among the Circuits as to whether and… | |
| 18-5725 | Alfred Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure | Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5727 | Andre K. Clarke v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-principles attorney-error buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability circuit-split equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus limitations-period miller-el-v-cockrell | I. Whether Maples v. Thomas, 565 U.S. 266 (2012) requires importation of agency principles into the equitable tolling context, such that it alters thi… |
| 18-225 | Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing | Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even… |
| 18-229 | Ralph Curry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion | Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes… | |
| 18-232 | W. A. Griffin v. Teamcare, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | assignment assignment-of-rights benefit-assignment circuit-split erisa medical-provider medical-providers participant-rights statutory-penalties welfare-benefit-plan welfare-benefits written-assignment-of-benefits | 1. Whether or not ERISA authorizes a participant or member of a welfare benefit plan to assign his or her rights to statutory penalties to a medical p… | |
| 18-5672 | Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts | HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE… |
| 18-5682 | Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions | 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t… |
| 18-5655 | Cory D. Foster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5636 | Edgar Searcy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… |
| 18-213 | H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order | 1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c… | |
| 18-5622 | Susan Elizabeth Walker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2253 breach-of-fiduciary-duty,sec-securities-exchange-c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability,circuit-split,jurisdi circuit-split de-novo-review denovo,circuit-split,uniformity,lawrence-v-dept-of fiduciary-duty hohn-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,circuit-split,un jurisdiction | Should a Certificate of Appealability be granted to resolve a circuit split regarding Jurisdiction established by 28 U.S.C. 1291 and 28 U.S.C. § 2253?… |
| 18-5594 | Cory Devon Washington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional | Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5606 | Hagop Demirjian v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… |
| 18-5562 | Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation | Whether petitioner, who maintains his innocence, was denied due process and a fundamentally fair trial base on victim's false testimony and post-trial… |
| 18-5552 | Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 | Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-5569 | Sean Weisner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2244 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule mental-illness standing time-bar | 1) Does the Classification made by this Court in Coley d. Sattald Jan 8.64. 3134 constitute the Circuit Court as being contrary to Clearly established… |
| 18-5549 | Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition | Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-185 | Connecticut v. Michael Skakel | Connecticut | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Under the first prong of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must a court evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a s… |
| 18-188 | Ivy T. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel | I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-178 | SGK Properties, L.L.C., et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response Waived | americold-realty-trust-v-conagra-foods business-trust circuit-split citizenship comity comity-and-federalism diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine erie-r-co-v-tompkins federal-courts federalism real-party-in-interest unincorporated-business-trust unincorporated-entity | 1. Should the Court resolve the split of authority among the Circuits about whether and when the citizenship of constituent members of an unincorporat… |
| 18-5504 | William Lem Posey, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5516 | Isaiah Galbreath v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric… |
| 18-5483 | Martin R. Vandemerwe v. Steve Langford, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice retroactive-decision savings-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Circuit Split between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and other' listed Circuits(see below) sufficient given it denies defendant's in all … |
| 18-5487 | Angel Soto v. Unknown Sweetman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | IFP | accrual-of-claims administrative-exhaustion circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights claim-accrual judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act statute-of-limitations | Where a federal statute —such as 42 U.S.C . § 1997e(a) —mandates that a plaintiff exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit , does the plai… |
| 18-168 | Bill G. Nichols, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Chesapeake Operating, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | cafa cafa-jurisdiction circuit-split citizenship civil-procedure class-action diversity-jurisdiction domicile domicile-presumption federal-courts federal-jurisdiction removal residency-domicile-presumption residency-presumption standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | When determining the citizenship of a class for purposes of CAFA's home-state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B), does this Court's long-standing re… |
| 18-169 | Lance Laber v. Milberg LLP, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1291 appellate-rights circuit-split civil-procedure class-action class-certification intervention microsoft-corp-v-baker precedent standing united-airlines united-airlines-inc-v-mcdonald | Whether this Court's decision in United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald, 432 U.S. 385 (1977), which allowed unnamed putative class members to intervene for… |
| 18-5460 | David Hill v. Brent Reinke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | IFP | administrative-control-of-facilities baxstrom-v-herold circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process inmate-transfer mental-health mental-health-facility mental-health-facility-transfers prison prison-administration temporary temporary-transfers transfer vitek-v-jones | Can a prison or jail, when transferring an inmate to a mental health facility, avoid the due process protections recognized by this Court in Vitek v. … |
| 18-5426 | Gabriel Rivero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5410 | Charles Podaras v. City of Menlo Park, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure good-faith good-faith-appeal in-forma-pauperis informal-form-brief ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant statement-of-reasons written-reasons | 1/ Whether the Ninth Circuit - acting in contravention of Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; and splitting with holdings of multiple courts of appe… |
| 18-5422 | Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-5424 | Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur… |
| 18-147 | Karen H. Scott v. District Hospital Partners, L.P., et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-08-01 | Denied | ada ada-amendments-act breathing circuit-conflict circuit-split disability-discrimination disability-law disability-rights eeoc-procedure judicial-interpretation life-threatening medical-impairment reasonable-accommodation relation-back-doctrine standing | 1) Did the court of appeals decide that a severe physical condition, one that can prevent breathing and be life-threatening is not a disability under … | |
| 18-132 | Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation | Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Activ… | |
| 18-138 | Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security | District of Columbia | 2018-07-31 | Denied | administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel | Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio… | |
| 18-5391 | Daniel Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-981 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture-liability criminal-procedure dismissed-charges due-process forfeiture-liability honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question I. Does this Court's reasoning of Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1626 (2017), limiting joint and several forfeiture liability to what… |
| 18-5393 | Shane McMahan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-122 | Michael Sinegal v. Dawn Polk | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 1st-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law employment-retaliation first-amendment free-speech political-candidacy qualified-immunity standing | County Commissioner Michael Sinegal terminated Dawn Polk for being a bad employee. The terminationoccurred after she had unsuccessfully run for office… |
| 18-5292 | Armando Angeles v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop | Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5312 | Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | IFP | aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling | Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater… |
| 18-5313 | Joseph Steele v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-106 | John R. Turner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches when the prosecutor conducts plea negotiations before the filing of a formal charge. II. Whe… |
| 18-107 | R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (33)Relisted (14) | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination gender-identity price-waterhouse-v-hopkins sex-discrimination statutory-construction statutory-interpretation title-vii transgender | 1. Whether the word "sex" in Title VII's prohibition on discrimination "because of . . . sex," 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1), meant "gender identity" and in… |
| 18-5321 | Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-5286 | Odere Suleitopa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony | Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon… |
| 18-5269 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-89 | AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation | 1. Whether a state anti-SLAPP provision requiring an award of attorneys' fees and costs to a prevailing defendant applies in federal court—as the Firs… |
| 18-83 | Stephen Busch, et al. v. Tamara Nappier, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | circuit-split delegation-of-authority doubts-against-removal doubts-in-favor-of-federal-jurisdiction facial-challenge federal-jurisdiction federal-officer-removal removal-notice | 1. Whether, in the context of a facial challenge to a federal-officer removal, a court resolves all doubts against removal and in favor of remand, as … | |
| 18-5232 | Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split physical-force robbery-statute sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement state-robbery victim-resistance violent-felony | Is a state robbery offense categorically a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) (an offense that "has as … |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c… |
| 18-72 | DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2018-07-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing | 1. Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to su… |
| 18-5182 | Carlton Butler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits | Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied … |
| 18-5190 | Marco Antonio Garcia-Echaverria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights deportation discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law removal-proceedings right-to-counsel | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—that a non-citizen has no constitutional right to be informed of the … |
| 18-5191 | Jose Paniagua-Paniagua v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-convictions due-process fundamental-fairness immigration-law removal-order removal-proceedings retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether a court reviewing the fundamental fairness of a prior removal order under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(D) can consider the current understanding of the nat… |
| 18-5169 | Clifton B. Davidson v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts administrative-remedies administrative-remedy bounds-v-smith circuit-split declarative-and-injunctive-relief declarative-relief declaratory-relief due-process fiduciary-duty injunctive-relief inmate-trust-funds lewis-v-casey mitchell-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ("The Court") ERR WHEN IT TOTALLY REFUSED TO ADDRESS SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT FOUND IN UNITED STATES V. MITCHELL, 463 U.S. 206… |
| 18-5168 | Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema… |
| 18-40 | Legacy Community Health Services, Inc. v. Charles Smith, Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split federal-grants federally-qualified-health-centers fqhc health-centers managed-care managed-care-network medicaid-reimbursement public-health-service public-health-service-act statutory-interpretation | Whether 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396a(bb)(1)-(5) impose an independent duty on States to fully reimburse FQHCs for all services they provide to Medicaid benefici… |
| 18-5164 | George Adrien Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |
| 18-33 | Subway Sandwich Shops, Inc. v. David Moshe Rahmany, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitration arbitration-agreement arthur-andersen circuit-split civil-procedure contract-enforcement equitable-estoppel federal-doctrine federal-equitable-estoppel federal-policy-arbitration ninth-circuit non-signatory standing | Whether this Court's decision in Arthur Andersen LLP v. Carlisle, 556 U.S. 624 (2009), eliminated the federal equitable estoppel doctrine. |
| 18-5134 | Ronald Raymond Fowlkes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-magistrates-act habeas habeas-corpus magistrate-judge notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-respond plea-bargaining procedural-rules | PURSUANT TO USCS RULE 10(a) AND (c), HAS THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION WHICH CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN DAY v. M… |
| 18-5036 | Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |
| 18-5061 | Travis Horne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu… |
| 18-5003 | Rolando Mulet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-protection criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-enforcement-questioning miranda miranda-rights pre-arrest pre-arrest-silence pre-miranda self-incrimination | Whether or under what circumstances the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause protects a defendant's refusal to answer law enforcement questioni… |
| 23A1158 | Rickey Lynch v. United States | Second Circuit | Presumed Complete | canon-3e circuit-split due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. |