constitutional-duty
23 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6811 | Gifford Johnson, III v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | circuit-court-split constitutional-duty ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence schulp-claim sixth-amendment | 1. WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S APPLICATION OF SCHULP'S CLAIM WAS UNREASONABLE WHEN THE NEWLY PRESENTED EVIDENCE WAS NOT HEARD AT TRIAL… |
| 25-6736 | Tarra Anne Perez v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-compact constitutional-duty government-branches judicial-protection liberty treason | 1. Whether the Constitution remains enforceable when all three branches of government fail to protect the People against actions amounting to treason… |
| 25-6395 | In Re Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez | 2025-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-status writ-of-mandamus | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals violated its constitutional duty by failing to determine the absence of federal subject-matter jurisdiction after the… | |
| 25-7 | Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-standing constitutional-duty elections-clause federal-elections legislative-authority state-officials | Whether individual legislators have Article III standing to sue state and federal executive officials for altering the manner of federal elections in … |
| 24-6970 | Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. | Nevada | 2025-04-11 | Denied | IFP | appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court | Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been protected harp actice that the Competent federal CoA purel had exercised p… |
| 24-6307 | In Re Bryan Lee Gregory | 2025-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review subject-matter-jurisdiction | DOES THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM OWE MR.GREGORY AND THE UNITED STATES CONST A DUTY UNDER ARTICLE 1 SECTION III E/TOO HAD REVIEW AND REACH T… | |
| 24-6199 | Leon Paul Kavis, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-consultation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-duty flores-ortega ineffective-assistance trial-counsel | Could reasonable jurists debate that trial counsel's duty to consult with a defendant on whether to file an appeal pursuant Rose v. Flores-Ortega, 528… |
| 23-1374 | Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Denied | Amici (2) | civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation | (1) Whether a jail intake officer with no responsibility for classification or cell assignments nevertheless had a clearly established constitutiona… |
| 23-680 | In Re Frander Salguero | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2) | brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-duty due-process false-evidence judicial-power mandamus mandamus-petition napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct | This Court has jurisdiction over the filed and pending certiorari petitions Salguero v. California, No. 23-610, (.Brady issue) & Salguero u. Court of … | |
| 23-609 | Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | 1. Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when… |
| 22-1235 | Brandon E. Ogbolu v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-duty disability-discrimination due-process emotional-distress felony-conduct pro-se public-interest standing sua-sponte | 1. Whether lower courts have a constitutional duty to sua sponte assess all unlawful conduct and harm to the public interest present in cases brough… |
| 22-1028 | Loy Arlan Brunson v. Alma S. Adams, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process electoral-process national-security oath-of-office standing treason | "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." Marburv v Madison . 5 US 137 (1 Cranch) (1803). If it i… |
| 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… |
| 21-6388 | Calvin Roach v. Donald W. Washington, Director, United States Marshals Service, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process federal-law legal-interpretation military-law military-oath oath-of-office retiree-obligations standing | Whether military retirees are bound by their Oath to protect the United States Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies Whether military ret… |
| 20-7865 | Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire | 1) Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of ju… |
| 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… |
| 20-6028 | Carmencita Maria Pedro v. City Fitness, LLC, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty due-process equal-protection evidence-fabrication forgery judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct rule-of-law standing | 1. If United States District Court Judges are: (a.) unable to "decipher "ox discern the falsity, inauthenticity, illegitimacy and invalidity of The FO… |
| 20-5961 | Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation | Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel failed to conduct an independ… |
| 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… | |
| 19-6409 | Sean Reilly v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-duty contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misunderstanding plea-bargaining sixth-amendment written-plea-offers | Whether counsel for the accused has a constitutional duty under the Sixth Amendment to document and present the client plea offers (contracts) in writ… |
| 19-6110 | Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York | New York | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived … |
| 18-5417 | David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court | Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via, the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution? Plaintiff… |
| 18-114 | G. Russell Rollyson, Jr., in His Official and Individual Capacity v. Jeffrey O'Neal, et ux. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Dismissed | constitutional-duty due-process notice notice-requirements property-rights qualified-immunity service-of-notice state-auditor statutory-interpretation tax-deed tax-lien tax-lien-purchaser | 1. Whether a Deputy State Auditor is entitled to qualified immunity because no previous court had interpreted the State's statutory scheme as imposing… |