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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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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… |