constitutional
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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… |
| 23-6641 | Cedric A. Gray v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning prophylactic-procedures prophylactic-rule self-incrimination text-history-tradition | Should this Court overturn the prophylactic procedures announced in Miranda v. Arizona and return to an interpretation of the Fifth Amendment which is… |
| 23-6632 | Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence | I. Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will dete… |
| 23-5906 | Carey Ackies v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance procedural-prerequisites sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED ALL PROCEDURAL PREREQUISITES NECESSARY TO FILE COA? 2. WHETHER ACKIES HAS SATISFIED THE STANDARDS OF STRICKLAND V. WA… |
| 23-33 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. | California | 2023-07-11 | Denied | antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law corporate-influence familial-status housing-discrimination political-influence standing | SHOULD THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, lst-7th-14th AMENDMENTS, U.S. FAIR HOUSING ACT, U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT, UNITED STA… | |
| 22-1248 | Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | administrative-procedure constitutional executive-order greenhouse-gas procedural-injury regulatory social-cost sovereign-interests standing standing-doctrine statutory | 1. Whether the Petitioning States' alleged harms to their proprietary and sovereign interests (as well as a completed procedural injury) are sufficien… | |
| 22-1125 | Don Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | actual-malice constitutional defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure summary-judgment | (1) whether the actual malice standard imposed on public figure plaintiffs in defamation cases should be replaced; and (2) whether the framework for s… |
| 22-7096 | Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-6535 | Murphy Alex Begay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness | Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor… |
| 22-352 | Missouri v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | american-rescue-plan-act article-1-section-8 constitutional constitutional-challenge standing tax-mandate tenth-amendment treasury-interpretation | In response to the pandemic-related economic downturn, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4. AR… |
| 21-918 | Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | compelled-subsidies constitutional constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech government-speech johanns-precedent johanns-v-livestock-marketing-association private-speech | 1. Whether otherwise unconstitutional compelled subsidies of private speech are "government speech," free from First Amendment review, because Congres… |
| 21-6518 | Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory | Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject? |
| 21-5918 | Susan Lloyd v. Joshua Thornsbery, et al. | Ohio | 2021-10-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-integrity oath-of-office state-judges | 1. Are retired state judges constitutional? 2. Is a litigant given a fair trail by jury when judge has no oath of office, irrelevant facts are focuse… |
| 20-8464 | Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointment-clause article-i congressional-intent constitutional constitutional-challenge enrolled-bill enrolled-bill-doctrine field-v-clark judicial-review patent patent-trademark-judges | Whether Arthrex a hoax does not control be foreclosed from deciding appointment clause problem instead is Field v. Clark 143 US 649 (1892) that contro… |
| 19-954 | Brian E. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-xvi civil-rights constitutional constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation due-process income-tax ninth-circuit standing statutory tax tax-law | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit commit reversible and plain Constitutional error by recharacterizing, without evidence, Petitioner's right to refute Commissi… |
| 19-6032 | Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole | Missouri | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations | WHETHER THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION, Art. 1, Sec. 9, cl. 3, IS VIOLATED WHEN A NEWLY MODIFIED STATE PAROLE REGULATION IS APPLIED. II… |
| 18-8877 | Reginald Knox v. Unknown Parties | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional constitutional-error court-rules district-court due-process federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-certiorari standing statutory-provisions writ-of-mandamus | Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if the District Court committed a Constitutional error by dismissing Petitioner's Writ of Mandamus as … |
| 18-8455 | Marc Shiroma v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness | 1. Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crim… |
| 18-7717 | Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission | Whether the trial court committed plain error pursuant to Rule 52(b) by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the preamendment 1B1.3 version of t… |
| 18-7447 | Christopher E. Lemon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement. |
| 18-5848 | Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas | Texas | 2018-08-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings | [SEE APPENDIX D] WHO IS UNABLE HIMSELFWITH HOBEOS CORPUS POSTCONUICTION PETI TION TO THE COURTS ).-- CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HELP BY ANOTHER INMATE "W… |
| 18-251 | Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. | Massachusetts | 2018-08-28 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower | Whether Massachusetts' post-employment retaliation statute violates the principles of equal protection, due process and free speech? 2. Must the stat… | |
| 18-237 | Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation | 1. Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Cr… |