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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…