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25-6257 Eric L. Ramos v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial supreme-court-review Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States Sup…
25-5585 Arseles D. Miller v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendment court-of-appeals habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-due-process statute-of-limitations Whether a 2254 application is second or successive if it challenges a new judgment for purpose of §2244(b). Whether a new judgment, resulting from re…
24-1017 Jonathan Lindsey, Michigan State Senator, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-amendment elections-clause federal-elections legislative-power state-legislature The Elections Clause expressly requires federal election regulation by the States, namely that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections …
24-5966 Joey Deal v. Hector Rios, Warden New Mexico 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari constitutional-amendment due-process legal-precedent state-petition supreme-court-review Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Deal's State Petition for Certiorari contrary to the United State's Constitution, Amendments V, and X…
24-5155 Bradley W. Berry v. Donnie Bordelon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-amendment federal-case-law federal-court-of-appeals griffith-v-kentucky judicial-review retroactivity state-constitution 1. Whether the decision by the federal court of appeals is correct as applied to the Petitioner regarding a certificate of appealability. 2. Does the…
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial 1- Does l8 U-S.C.A. § 3161, [speedy trial], apply to all state(s) within the Union, through the United States Constitution, Article III, cl. 2, § 3 an…
23-7428 Robert Pann v. Julian Ulmer Florida 2024-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment default-judgment due-process garnishment jurisdiction notice-requirement procedural-due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-garnishment IS NONRESIDENT, PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT XIV PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED; A; WHEN RESPONDENT'S GAVE SIXTEEN HOURS NOTICE FOR FINAL J…
23-1084 Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) blaine-amendment constitutional-amendment equal-protection nonpublic-schools political-disenfranchisement religious-animus school-choice school-vouchers Following modest legislative victories in the 1960s in favor of parochial-school parents and their children, antireligious groups mobilized voter anim…
23-6917 Saladin Thompson v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process habeas-corpus meaningful-access state-agent Did the actions/omissions of State agents deny petitioner of meaningful access to the habeas courts, in violation of the 1st and 14th U.S. Constitutio…
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification 1. Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal I,…
23-6433 Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-08 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c…
23-6380 Noel Austin v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2023-12-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process federal-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-barriers standing state-law supreme-court-review 1. ) Whether this Honorable United States Supreme Court, pursuant Article III, once raised, is duty=hound to address the lower state court's deliberat…
23-103 Bruce Ellis, et al. v. City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Relisted (2) attorney-general-certification civil-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process federal-question federal-rule-civil-procedure solicitor-general takings vagueness-doctrine 1. This Petition presents a Federal Question that could have and harmonize conflicting decisions in the Federal Circuit Courts and could establish pre…
22-6482 David John Thistle v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-v article-v-violation civil-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment domestic-terrorism due-process election-tampering federal-officers When Federal Elected or Appointed Officers of Federal or State Governments within the United States are aware of the unauthorized illegal changes to A…
22-6170 Andrea Peterson v. HVM L.L.C., et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-rules disability-rights discovery due-process equal-protection legal-representation standing Whether a person(s), who lacks the financial resources to hire an attorney, and because of their handicap, disability cannot comply with a court rule(…
22-5101 Sonya Owens v. Reliance Partners, LLC District of Columbia 2022-07-13 Denied IFP bill-of-rights constitution-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process federalism personal-rights property-rights separation-of-powers stay-at-home-orders supremacy-clause (1) Does Congress or the President have authority to change or amend the Constitution without ratification of % of the States ' Legislatures? (2) Are…
21-7106 Leonard Nyamusevya v. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, et al. Ohio 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure justiciable-controversy mortgage-foreclosure ohio-state-law standing "Would the U.S. Constitution not limited to the 5th and the 14th Amendments and Article IV, Section 4(B), of the Ohio Constitution divest the Franklin…
21-892 Micah James Patterson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights?
21-412 Samantha V. Roussell v. Bank of New York Mellon Florida 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-tampering foreclosure foreclosure-fraud impartiality judicial-review mortgage-settlement national-mortgage-settlement Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Fourth DCA ") violated the due process protections of the 5…
20-7638 Cesar Gomez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury harmless-error indictment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct 1) In adopting the 12th Court of Appeals opinion, who used the State's 'harm analysis'' standard, did the U . S . Dis t. Court apply the harmless- err…
20-7133 Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects 1. Authority to File The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States: Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses heretofo…
20-7064 Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification 1. Since the N.C. Constitution guarantees indictment by a grand jury for felony charges, does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plveiff. D…
20-6823 Robert Buttery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute, Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2950.04, violates a defendant's due process and jur…
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause In Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 560 U.S. 702 (2010), the Court was unable to resolve whether …
19-1389 Texas Democratic Party, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Granted Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived age-discrimination constitutional-amendment constitutional-law due-process election-law mail-in-ballot mail-in-voting standing twenty-sixth-amendment voter-access voting-rights Does Texas's limitation of the right to cast a no excuse mail-in ballot to only voters who are "65 years of age or older on election day," Tex. Electi…
19-7885 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-amendment court-jurisdiction disqualification due-process foreclosure impartiality judicial-impartiality motion-for-rehearing timely-filing Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a…
19-6861 Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 148 Amendments to the …
19-6137 William Trampas Widmyer v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights police-interview right-to-counsel self-incrimination Were the Petitioner's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when Petitioner's Police interview was used in trial although Petitioner requested Coun…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5203 In Re Angel Ruiz-Rivera 2019-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment debt-issuance due-process federal-law government-debt judicial-authority judicial-discretion legal-interpretation puerto-rico-government referendum standing statutory-interpretation takings IS JOINT RESOLUTION 87*121 OF AUGUST 3, 1961 BY THE U.S. CONGRESS AND THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF P.R. APPROVED THEREIN AND RATIFIED BY 82 % …
19-5157 Ronald Ray Horner v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8 circuit-court-jurisdiction constitutional-amendment due-process enrolled-bill-rule enumerated-powers expansion-of-legislative-power house-concurrent-resolution-219 legislative-power standing stare-decisis 1) Usss-ues concerning Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America: a) Can Congress pass legislation that broadens and …
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-1452 Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1653 and 15(c) F.R.C.P., to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the pra…
18-8947 Michael-Francis Palma v. Harris County Appraisal Review Board Texas 2019-04-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process property-rights state-judiciary statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process NOTE: In order to simplify and facilitate the courts understanding, items highlighted in yellow and the chart contained herein concerns case #2. All o…
18-8778 Fred Huffman v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-justice ex-post-facto-law judicial-vindictiveness redress-of-grievance retroactive-sentencing time-bar Absent a constitutional amendment promulgated by the U.S. Congress, under what circumstances {if any} does a legislative body have a lawful right to a…
18-7955 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT "NON-VIOLENT" OFFENDERS, SO STIPULATE EARINGS, AN PAROLE CONSIDERATION FOR WHO RECIEVE A DETERMINATE SENTENCE, DO NOT NEED A …
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California 2019-01-16 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7173 Karen Lofgren v. Todd Hardin Washington 2018-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process family-law incarceration incarceration-impact parental-rights troxel-v-granville visitation-rights Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children becau…
18-375 Daniel H. Alexander v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC Florida 2018-09-21 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-amendment disqualification due-process evidence-fraud foreclosure fraud judicial-review mortgage-foreclosure national-mortgage-settlement Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protections of the 5th …
18-222 EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings 1. Given the clear error standard for reviewing factual determinations made by the PTAB1, is it error for the PTAB to not adhere to the Fhillips claim…