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25-6730 Daniel Carlos-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling recidivism supreme-court-review Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998).
25-6715 Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano…
25-899 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. O. Doe, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-30 Pending citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law statutory-construction Whether President Trump's Executive Order No. 14,160, 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (Jan. 29, 2025), which identifies circumstances in which a person born in the …
25-6655 Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana Indiana 2026-01-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation federal-question ineffective-assistance state-court strickland-standard 1. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals, as a state court of last resort, has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with two d…
25-6595 Hugo Ivan Macias-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure prior-convictions sixth-amendment stare-decisis The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. "[F]act[s] that increase[]…
25-6490 Gary Crawford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felony-regulation firearms-possession historical-tradition second-amendment I. Consistent with the Second Amendment, may Congress bar all felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), as five circuit courts have…
25-6482 Arianne Alexys Myles v. Florida Florida 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath rule-of-lenity 1. What were the Framers' of the Florida Constitution trying to do when they wrote Article I, Section 17 that prohibits "indefinite imprisonment "? 2…
25-723 Rowland Marcus Andrade, et al. v. Internal Revenue Service Fifth Circuit 2025-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction article-iii constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power statutory-construction 1. Should the district court have held an evidentiary hearing to address Petitioners' allegations that pieces of paper purporting to be summonses lack…
25-6342 Sergio Zamora-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing precedent-review sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. "[F]act[s] that increase[]…
25-675 Lawrence Rudolph v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c…
25-615 Shane Vinales, Individually and as Next Friend of L. V. and S. V., et ux. v. AETC II Privatized Housing, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-enclaves legal-borrowing legislative-authority military-servicemembers state-law Whether federal law on federal enclaves borrows current state law, rather than state law only as it existed when the enclave was created.
25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure I. DID THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT MISAPPLY HECK V. HUMPHREY. II. DOES THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT'S ERROR UNDERMINE THE BILL OF ATTAINDER PROHIBITION III…
25-6055 Tamori Morgan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arms-classification constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-prohibition Whether a handgun and handheld pistol that fire automatically constitute "arms" under the Second Amendment's plain text, thus requiring the government…
25-545 Julia M. Robinson v. FedEx Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law judicial-review monetary-relief Why didn't The Northern District and The Appeals for The Eleventh Circuit court in Atlanta Georgia follow and properly apply The law, The Constitution…
25-5885 Vasquez D. Hayes v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-principles constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legislative-intent statutory-construction (1) Isn't it true and/or fact, the due process embodied in the Constitution is guaranteed to criminal defendants? (2) Isn't it true and/or fact, no j…
25-456 Capital Health Regional Medical Center, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2025-10-15 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process economic-burden government-regulation physical-taking property-rights This case presents two important questions concerning protection of private property rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments. These questions…
25-5875 Christopher Deonta Hemphill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP circuit-court-reasoning constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-possession rahimi-precedent second-amendment 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the reasoning of the Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), in decidi…
25-5836 James Shelly Taylor v. Texas Texas 2025-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-provisions trial-rights Question not identified.
25-420 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) case-law constitutional-interpretation federal-rights fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-doctrine Do Fifth Amendment requirements apply to actions determining facts or applying judicial doctrines and caselaw affecting protected rights? Does a peti…
25-421 National Association for Gun Rights, et al. v. Ned Lamont, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Connecticut, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-07 Pending Amici (2)Relisted (3) common-use-test constitutional-interpretation firearms-regulation gun-rights heller-precedent second-amendment Whether a ban on the possession of AR-15-style rifles and firearm magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds—both of which are possessed by mil…
25-5808 In Re David C. White 2025-10-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation dam-removal judicial-discretion loper-bright pro-se-litigation 1. Shall any hydroelectric dam be removed in the United States without express consent of Congress, when the simple, scientific solution is dam mainte…
25-365 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. First Circuit 2025-09-29 Granted Amici (24)Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-364 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Pending Relisted (2) birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation executive-order fourteenth-amendment immigration-law The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that those "born * * * in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," are…
25-5611 Daquan Carey v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation district-court judicial-discretion sentencing-authority sentencing-requests Whether a district court's sentencing authority is constrained by the parties' sentencing requests under Article III, Section 2, of the United States …
25-5596 Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words - (frivolous) - as noted in Webster's Third New International Dictionary…
25-243 Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-03 Pending constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte…
25A252 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action Question not identified.
25-5510 Monte Barry v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-29 Denied Relisted (4)IFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte…
25-5495 Perteacher Drone v. Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights judicial-accountability procedural-fairness Should the Court provide the plaintiffs attorney? Is there not a guaranteed right to counsel in cases regarding indigent people? Without the benefit …
25-5485 Taylor Dan Truex v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied Relisted (4)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction firearm-prohibition historical-tradition second-amendment statutory-analysis Below, petitioner challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a fi…
25-5476 Leigh Valorie Ford v. Florida Florida 2025-08-27 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath life-sentence rule-of-lenity 1. What was the Framers' of the Florida Constitution trying to do when they wrote Article I, Section 17 that prohibits "indefinite imprisonment "? 2.…
25A188 Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-08-15 Presumed Complete bank-fraud constitutional-interpretation ex-post-facto financial-institution prosecutorial-misconduct subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25-177 Vito Manente v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation internal-revenue labor-taxation sixteenth-amendment sovereign-person The U.S. Const., art. 1, sec. 2, cl. 3 states that "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States ..." The U.S. Const…
25-5344 Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement DOES THE COURT'S DECISION IN ERLINGER V. UNITED STATES , 602 U.S. 821 144 S.CT. 1840 _ L.ED.2D_(2024) REQUIRING THAT A JURY PASS ON THE THREE SEPARATE…
25-166 Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure jury-size jury-trial-right nonunanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether the Court should overrule Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78 (1970).
25-5318 Deago Lee Eddings v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge constitutional-interpretation felon-possession firearm-restriction historical-tradition second-amendment Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte…
25-163 Corrigan Clay v. United States Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause missouri-v-holland optional-protocol 1. Whether the Foreign Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize private, non-commercial conduct that occurs entirely abroad. 2. Whether Misso…
25-5315 Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP aedpa-deference article-iii circuit-court-review constitutional-interpretation federal-courts habeas-corpus Whether Article III courts unconstitutionally abrogate their duty to interpret the federal Constitution when deferring to state courts under 28 U.S.C.…
25-5248 In Re Quay Phipps 2025-07-31 Denied IFP article-i-powers congressional-power constitutional-interpretation habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction tenth-amendment 1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including habeas corpus, due to the government's lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Article I, S…
25-5245 Zachary C. Crouch v. Tennessee Department of Human Services Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law supremacy-clause The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to federal laws of fraud and theft. This is a…
25-5133 Alexander P. Bebris v. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children District of Columbia 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation federal-authority foia-applicability incorporation-status law-enforcement-powers statutory-mandate 1. Does an entity, regardless of its method or location of its incorporation, become an "authority" of the United States when; (1) the majority of fun…
25-5092 Hussein S. Yousif v. Susan Larson Christensen, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review rule-41 Does Logic disqualify Judicial actions? Statutory provisions Is the first and the fourteenth Amendment meaningless in the Constitution for a Citizen …
25-42 Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response Waived certiorari constitutional-enforcement constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether this Court still faithfully upholds the core values enshrined in the Constitution, or whether constitutional enforcement has been reduced t…
25-20 Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure 1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis…
25A8 Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-trial jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Question not identified.
24-1329 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Second Amendment Foundation, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-30 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (2) age-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-interpretation founding-era-law gun-rights second-amendment The federal government and 32 states establish 21 as the minimum age for certain gun rights. Since United States v. Rahimi, five courts of appeals hav…
24-1277 Pamela L. Bickford v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2025-06-16 Denied administrative-procedures constitutional-interpretation election-law hava-compliance state-legislature voting-rights Whether the failure of the Alaska Legislature to establish "state-based administrative procedures" is a violation of the Constitution of the United St…
24-1282 Robert Menzer v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute full-faith-and-credit ninth-circuit void-judgment 1. Does the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution and 28 U.S.C. § 1738 require a court to conduct an independent analysis of whether a judg…
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (IC…
24-1252 Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency Oregon 2025-06-06 Denied civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights 1. Under Oregon law, in a contested civil forfeiture trial, property may be forfeited only if a jury finds that a person was convicted of a crime, tha…
24-1253 Darrell E. Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Moneena Williams, Deceased v. Promedica Health Systems Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law circuit-split cms-rule constitutional-interpretation healthcare-compliance medicare-regulations Whether this Court should consider whether the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") Rule, namely, 42 C.F.R. §483.70(n), is constitutional …
24-7354 Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah Utah 2025-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis In Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83 (2020), this Court held: "stare decisis has never been treated as "an inexorable command. " And the doctrine is "a…
24-7308 Zachary C. Crouch v. Braden Goddard, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-infringement due-process federal-law sovereign-immunity state-law The questions presented for review include whether state sovereign immunity can be and should be applied to unofficial acts and federal laws of copyr…
24-7264 Michael Lee Sharpe v. Texas Texas 2025-05-21 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation felony-conviction firearms-possession individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Whether the Second Amendment guarantees an individual who has been convicted of a felony offense the unencumbered right to possess firearms, or on a c…
24-7208 Cornell Slater v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals opinion is in direct contravention of this Court's holdings in Peugh v. United States, 569 U.S. 530, 541 (2013); and Rosa…
24-7085 Howard Jefferson Atkins v. Guy Bousch, Warden Tennessee 2025-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process juvenile-jurisdiction legislative-intent separation-of-powers state-courts Did the Tennessee Supreme Court violate the Separation of Powers doctrine (United States Constitution Amendment XIV §1) and United States Supreme Cour…
24-1115 Reuben D. Walker, et al. v. Andrea Lynn Chasteen, as Clerk for the Circuit Court of Will County and as a Representative of All Clerks of the Circuit Courts of All Counties in Illinois, et al. Illinois 2025-04-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-deference state-immunity supremacy-clause takings-clause In January of 2025, the Illinois Supreme Court in Walker v. Chasteen, 2025 IL 130288, based exclusively on a state immunity statute, held that courts …
24-7075 Christopher E. Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenge circuit-split constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent second-amendment 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.…
24-7033 Aqudre Quailes v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied IFP as-applied-challenge bruen-framework constitutional-interpretation firearm-regulation historical-analogues second-amendment Following this Court's holding in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), courts must engage in a history-based analysis when dec…
24-6893 Jonathan Taum v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment hudson-v-mcmillian prison-guard prisoner-rights 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it disregarded Petitioner Taum's argument that Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1 (1992) was wrongly decided and should…
24-6783 Mitchell Dinnerstein v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship-rights constitutional-interpretation equal-protection originalism title-seven title-six I do not believe that Judge Kirsch or the Solicitor General have the power to correct the false interpretation and abuse of Title 6 and Title 7. Only …
24-6693 Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece…
24-6686 Deonta Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt…
24-926 John R. Stensrud, et al. v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority New York 2025-02-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation expert-evidence federal-law just-compensation legal-preemption state-regulation This case is the consequence of the state courts' elevation of a state regulation over federal law. Thus, the question presented is: whether a state r…
24-6622 John Bradley v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause article-two constitutional-interpretation federal-judiciary judicial-designation separation-of-powers 1. Under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, principal federal officers, including United States District and Circuit Judges, must be nominated…
24-6507 Deonta Lowe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation felon-rights heller-precedent law-abiding-citizens second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. …
24-840 Andrew Sablan Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-legislation rational-basis-test territorial-clause territorial-rights us-cnmi-covenant Is the application of federal legislation to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the US-CNMI Covenant properly evaluated by means o…
24-796 Missouri, et al. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-review standing state-sovereignty tenth-amendment Under Missouri law, state officials cannot use state resources to enforce certain federal laws. In response to a suit filed by the Federal Government …
24A734 Sierra Health and Life Insurance Company, Inc. v. Sandra L. Eskew, as Special Administrator of the Estate of William George Eskew Nevada 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation insurance-coverage state-supreme-court tort-law Question not identified.
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran…
24-6386 Richard Edward Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-income-tax sixteenth-amendment tax-law territorial-jurisdiction 1) The lower courts, the Plaintiff, and the Plaintiff attorneys disregarded and evaded establishing proof of the requisite territorial jurisdiction on…
24-786 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-01-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law The Elections and Electors Clauses of the U.S. Constitution vest the power to set federal election rules in the legislature of each state. Exercising …
24-6314 David C. Lettieri v. City of Binghamton, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-interpretation imminent-danger judicial-strike legal-standard procedural-review 1. What is considered "imminte danger?" 2. Is Neitze v Williams, 490 U.S. 319 incorrect? 3. What is constred as a strike?
24-712 Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy A century ago, many courts declined to enforce arbitration agreements, concerned that arbitration as a non-judicial process could bypass essential jud…
24-6214 Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom 1. When a person's religion requires them to be a steward of the earth and protector of all of God's creations (i.e. where possible to preserve it and…
24A620 Narey Perez-Quibus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete bruen-standard constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation rahimi-exception second-amendment Question not identified.
24-659 Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law constitutional-interpretation income-tax tax-deficiency territory-clause uniformity-clause In light of this Court recent holding in Moore etux v. United States (2024), that income taxes are indirect taxes subject to the Constitution 's Unifo…
24-654 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for "petty offenses."
24-6142 Warren Lee Weisman v. Charles E. Clark Washington 2024-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias linguistic-drift There can be only one correct judicial interpretation of the original intent of the Constitution. Courts have departed from this one correct interpret…
24A580 Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. Raymond Lofstad, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation fishery-management regional-council significant-authority Question not identified.
24-646 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Caroline Cartwright, et al. New York 2024-12-12 Denied ballot-access constitutional-interpretation election-law qualifications-clause residential-address twelfth-amendment 1. Does N.Y. ELEC. LAW §§ 6-140(1)(a), 1-104(22), acting in tandem, and as applied to presidential and vice-presidential candidates, violate the Quali…
24-613 Frederick Lewis Washington v. Sunflower County, Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2024-12-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review public-employee-speech summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent 1. Should this Court summarily reverse when a court of appeals defies clear, unmistakable decisions of this Court? 2. Should a judge or a jury deci…
24A540 Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an…
24-6006 Michael Tyrone Young v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-interpretation controlled-substances felony-disarmament gun-rights second-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual with nonviolent felony convictions for distributing controlled…
24-6009 Christian Guadalupe Contreras-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5977 Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction ARE ALL JUDGES IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES BOUND TO FOLLOW ALL THE ARTICLES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES? CAN AND STATE COURT DEP…
24-5942 Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights If the filer enrolled freedyipm rf (Ihero^ nUilsn Tribe Is (LOMldereJl. an JT^duu'i iO;f£m ?£> fhedMT^ of t&s (kwh adr^ Co^fTro -fjuork, 5^7 US (2a^i)…
24A466 Eric Manuelian v. Jennifer Starr, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Trustee of the Laura Kirkland Trust dated 3/10/05 and in the Capacity as Trustee of the Starr Trust, et al. Florida 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation dissolution-of-marriage full-faith-and-credit interstate-recognition state-court-jurisdiction trust-litigation Whether the Florida Courts violated the Full Faith and Credit Clause, Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution with regard to his mothe…
24-5937 Randy Price v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bruen-test constitutional-interpretation en-banc-review firearm-regulation second-amendment statutory-construction The narrow question presented is whether Second Amendment protected "conduct," for purposes of Bruen's step one, consists of anything other than an in…
24-5922 Christopher Gabriel Allen-Shinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation guilty-plea judicial-precedent procedural-standard seven-factor-test withdrawal Whether the seven-factor test for withdrawing a guilty plea mandated in United States v. Carr , 740 F.2d 339, 343- 44 (5th Cir. 1984) complies with …
24-5913 Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements 1. Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defe…
24A408 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (5) ballot-access candidate-eligibility constitutional-interpretation election-law state-supreme-court voting-rights Question not identified.
24-5783 Genaro Alberto Nunez Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent legal-standard supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-368 Levi Rudder v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied article-v constitutional-interpretation first-amendment judicial-review separation-of-powers unenumerated-powers (This is believed to be a case of first impression, according to Mr. Rudder's extensive research there has never been a challenge that has raised a ci…
24A299 Martin Gonzales v. New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation criminal-convictions double-jeopardy incidental-restraint kidnapping state-law Question not identified.
24-5611 Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions 1. Whether federal courts of appeals exceed the "judicial power" assigned under Article III of the Constitution when they issue non-precedential decis…
24-5605 In Re Shannon Clark 2024-09-20 Denied IFP all-writs-act constitutional-interpretation equitable-remedy federal-court-procedure judicial-power mandamus Pursuant to Article III, § 2 of the United States Constitution and Fed. R. Civ. P. 79(a)(1)(A), does not The All Writs Act (28 USCS § 1651(a)) invests…
24-5559 Daniel Salgado-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review L. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, an…
24-5565 In Re Francisco Nunez Carrillo 2024-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy punishment-limits single-act-doctrine statutory-construction Cbas, *, iMf.pUotooS ftose.oo'V'of' v)'wVte. V*- dooWe. (feWVions of fV>«- OruteJt sbjfts Consfi+v/Vi'on ooj Artick. 2 S lo c£ "flne_ Af« ConsVv-W^ocv…
24-5543 Jose Luis Sarmiento v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine constitutional-interpretation notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review L Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and…
24-5523 Calvin Carnell Edwards, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference constitutional-interpretation government-branches judicial-review sentencing-guidelines Is this Court's three-part test, expressed in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), applicable only to agencies located in the Executive Branch, or do…
24-5461 Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in this Court's unanimous …
24A227 Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause Question not identified.
24-5362 Gumaro Maldonado-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review L. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, an…
24-5317 Jose Jimenez-Maria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation judicial-precedent precedent-overruling supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5288 Edgar Alonso Esparza-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation judicial-review sentencing-precedent supreme-court-review L. Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment be…
24-5295 Thomas Dean Jones v. California California 2024-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction 1) When He eachhtnel Comecton thik Prtaed ae loualrban, anther popes | Th, Congress, ues The Pasor-ot The brantoc tested a Conventions. of the Bop © …
24-5253 Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack Second Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association Question not identified.
24-5255 Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-93 Christopher Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police v. Madison M. Lara, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR 2nd-amendment age-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-law founding-era gun-rights historical-analysis historical-evidence rahimi second-amendment Do firearms laws that restrict the rights of 18-to-20-year-olds comply with the Second Amendment?
24-5110 Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5060 Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Pennsylvania 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia mandatory-minimum parole parole-review second-degree-murder sentencing-guidelines sentencing-statutes After being rebuked for forbidden cruelty by this Court's own landmark 1972 Furman decision, Pennsylvania's sentencing statutes enacted in response to…
24-5024 Timothy John Miers v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o…
24-5033 Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-5019 Daniel Salgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-rule certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure-sentencing notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment supreme-court-review L Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? I. Should this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment bel…
24-3 City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, City Council v. Rama, Inc., dba Discount Liquor Tennessee 2024-07-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-function alcohol-license constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legislative-body separation-of-powers Whether the action of the Tennes see Court of Appeals ordering a legislative body performing an administrative function violated separation of powers …
23-7843 Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7787 Enrique Martinez-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure historical-analysis notice-clause prior-conviction-exception recidivism sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-notice-clause L Can the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical practic…
23-7788 Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1331 William Christopher Schroeder v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response Waived congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution Representation in the House is not determined by population. U.S. Census Bureau Apportionment Tables show the gap between the states with the largest …
23-7730 Thomas Richardson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority From whence does the Supreme Court's authority to create exceptions to the plain text of the Constitution derive? Did the decisions in New York v. Fe…
23-7692 Angel Jesus Paniagua v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. …
23-7655 In Re Jovon Montell Hollowell 2024-06-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts government-powers individual-rights jurisdiction legal-precedent standing tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty 1: Can a non-Article VI covet proceed without the consent of the occus wl? 2: Are the Courts allowed to overrule the Constitution? 3: Are the Courts…
23-7599 Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7603 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. James Corrigan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-determination civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel-of-choice due-process fraud fraud-statute judicial-review misconduct transcript The brid' Court Lomenitted FRRUD On) THE COURT 4 when The Cour f Change the Priel transeriptS of phe porobsen oO li hedrad 46 Caonsel Len fekourecf an…
23-7466 Beatrice M. Uwamariya v. Enias Baganizi California 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process extradition federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing state-officers supreme-court-orders unauthorized-practice-of-law 1. Honorable Chief Justice Guerrero, of the California Supreme Court, Case S 283118, and the 3 Judges Panels, of the State of California, Riverside Co…
23-7455 Britt Jarriel Hammons v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-statute-922g1 gun-possession-rights individual-rights second-amendment standing treason How can the tenth circuit have a ruling on the same subject matter as the Supreme Court & other circuits courts & has a ruling that is in conflict wit…
23-7404 William Maxwell v. United States Third Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud I. The Supreme Court in Ciminelli, Bruen, Rahimi, Cleveland, Kelly, and Fischer, issued (or will issue) post conviction/post Maxwell's Third Circuit P…
23-7374 David Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent I. Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a…
23-7378 Frederick Herrod v. Members of the 79th Congress Fifth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adjudication appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus liberal-construction motion necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se pro-se-litigant speech-and-debate-clause 1) If the Congressional command of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 24(a)(5) requires that certain submissions MUST BE INCLUDED with a motion, is a…
23-7366 Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7341 Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-30 Denied IFP appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error.
23-7318 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Question not identified.
23-7303 Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing WHETHER THE EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U…
23-1124 Judson Hawkins, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Ohio 2024-04-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-agency constitutional-interpretation due-process procedural-rights property-rights substantive-rights (1) Does the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a substantive right to prevail agai…
23-7225 Leroy Hoyle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-authority federal-statute firearm-regulation firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment framework of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. II. …
23-7183 In Re Joshua George Nowland 2024-04-10 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason Question not identified.
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7083 Orlando Kim Ferguson, II v. Missouri Missouri 2024-03-27 Denied IFP article-i-section-19 constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process missouri-constitution oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct retrial 1. Is the Missouri Constitution Article I; Section 19; limiting Double Jeopardy rights on retrial following intentional prosecutorial misconduct under…
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7015 Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing Question not identified.
23-1010 Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms-ban firearms-regulation gun-rights military-weaponry second-amendment standing takings Whether Illinois' categorical ban on millions of the most commonly owned firearms and ammunition magazines in the nation, including the AR-15 rifle, v…
23-6974 Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6948 Erick Wanjiku v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-bias jurisdiction legal-standards state-court vagueness-doctrine peKWcwv) pqpse U*cl&r Uk?er4 i'w-k^pre^fi o<^S LrVrcj<=tVe5 W OtovJ' ot U)v4+ ^of VUW:> V- Ker^iev; 404 U*s 513 (b7^) +U16 fW'Ko.o +Ui5 (WV Vo Chfevoh…
23-6956 David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied IFP collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction Wwl £x/er Wt CJ3A CctrViflca^€_ .cf . ciO{)ta\a\jo\\A^ ] uoVxoa TdWr r i cA <d\ud^»£_ l&LKeA do or cdejnM o (jOA \a -VW AoA&me\/d vind^r fed. 12.. H …
23-6941 Ricardo Fortino Martinez-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation due-process jury-trial legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Can Almendarez-Torres be squared with the history undergirding the Sixth Amendment; and if not, should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres?
23-6881 Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).…
23-943 Samuel T. Russell v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied 11th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-tradition matthew-15-6 state-sovereignty Is it a civil right for citizens to complain against their own state; whereas Amendment 11 does not justify the traditions of the Courts when these tr…
23-914 Diane Zilka v. City of Philadelphia, Tax Review Board Pennsylvania 2024-02-23 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (3) commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation interstate-taxation out-of-state-tax state-tax tax-burden tax-credit tax-scheme taxpayer-burden Whether the Commerce Clause requires states to consider a taxpayer's burden in light of the state tax scheme as a whole when crediting a taxpayer's ou…
23-6803 Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled?
23-910 Ivan Antonyuk, et al. v. Steven G. James, In His Official Capacity as Acting Superintendent of New York State Police, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-22 GVR Amici (6)Relisted (2) 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process gun-rights historical-analysis judicial-review original-meaning second-amendment standing temporal-analysis 1. Whether the proper historical time period for ascertaining the Second Amendment's original meaning is 1791, rather than 1868; and 2. Whether "the …
23-6780 George A. Teacherson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence due-process founding-documents judicial-review legal-hermeneutics originalism textual-analysis Must any court fully address the actual wording of the founding documents, originalism of Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United S…
23-879 Caleb Barnett, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearms firearms-ban gun-rights second-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Illinois' sweeping ban on common and long-lawful arms violates the Second Amendment.
23-6714 Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6689 Guy Mena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment assault-rifle assault-rifles common-use constitutional-interpretation dangerous-and-unusual-weapon high-capacity-magazine high-capacity-magazines methodology second-amendment statutory-construction weapon-classification Whether 26 U.S.C. §5861(e) comports with the Second Amendment? Subsidiary question: whether this Court should hold the instant Petition pending the r…
23-838 Brian D. Swanson v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived 17th-amendment ballot-legality civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law elections equal-suffrage seventeenth-amendment standing statutory-violation The Seventeenth Amendment deprives the States of their equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring their consent under Article V of the Constitution, beca…
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…
23-6572 Mark E. Sells v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-precedent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-law judicial-review statutory-law Question #1: Did the Federal District Court and United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, violate Article I, Article 4, Article VI, of the United …
23-6576 Caitlyn Williams and Tamarae Larue v. Missouri Missouri 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compulsory-education constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process legal-vagueness school-attendance statutory-construction vagueness Whether the language "on a regular basis" in the compulsory school attendance law is impermissibly vague in violation of due process guarantees.
23A682 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. California 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
23-755 Andrew S. Clyde, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. v. William McFarland, in His Official Capacity as Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-12 Denied congressional-immunity congressional-rules constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations judicial-review jurisdiction legislative-immunity legislative-procedure separation-of-powers speech-or-debate-clause twenty-seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Speech or Debate Clause creates a jurisdictional bar to judicial consideration of whether internal congressional rules or practices vio…
23-6464 Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness Question not identified.
23-6440 Ismael De Jesus-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process notice-and-comment sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the U.S.S.G Commentary being issued on a High in § 2L1.1 is unconstitutionally vague when it was never subjected to notice and comment to the …
23-719 Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. Colorado 2024-01-04 Judgment Issued Amici (78) 14th-amendment ballot-access constitutional-interpretation disqualification election-law insurrection insurrection-clause oath-of-office presidential-election presidential-eligibility state-election-law Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot?
23-725 Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. v. Phillip Truesdell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response Waived buck-v-kuykendall certificate-of-need constitutional-interpretation dormant-commerce-clause ground-ambulance-services healthcare healthcare-regulation judicial-precedent sixth-circuit stage-lines (1) Whether the modern case law approach controls a court's analysis of the dormant Commerce Clause and repudiates the holding in Buck v. Kuykendall, …
23-691 Samuel Ghee v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-immunity official-liability standing stare-decisis state-law willful-misconduct The Georgia Constitution, section VII, paragraph VII, whether qualified or judicial immunity, does not immune willful misconduct and failure to prefor…
23-6246 In Re Tonya Knowles 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power impeachment impeachment-power presidential-election presidential-transition separation-of-powers 1. Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Execu…
23-6252 Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6240 Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a …
23-566 Thomas Massie, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Member of the United States House of Representatives, et al. v. Mike Johnson, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, et al. District of Columbia 2023-11-27 Denied article-i article-i-sections-6-and-7 article-one-provisions congressional-compensation congressional-immunity constitutional-interpretation legislative-procedure pay-claims speech-or-debate speech-or-debate-immunity twenty-seventh-amendment 1. Whether Speech or Debate immunity precludes any and all claims by a Member of Congress against congressional administrative officials who administe…
23-6075 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy constitutional-interpretation due-process effective-counsel identity-rights judicial-defect judicial-review jury-selection mandamus presumption-of-innocence selective-prosecution Is Not having actual availability of Effective Counsel and actual Presumption of Innocence, particularly in cases deriving from previous judicial defe…
23-6041 Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-511 Terrence R. Bell v. Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. Texas 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consumer-protection due-process equal-protection federal-trade-commission property-rights standing 1. Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, erred in its interpretation and application of Amendment XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitutio…
23-5979 Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment protects the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. In Apprendi v. New Jersey, t…
23-5917 Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5920 Leopoldo Ramirez-Moreno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-authority firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce scarborough state-affairs united-states-v-lopez Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because the firearm crossed state lines at some point before the defendant …
23-5859 Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed…
23-5839 Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5798 Edgar Eugene Oliver v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Florida 2023-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review offender-review separation-of-powers state-agency-power supreme-court-authority DOES THE FLORIDA COMMISSION ON OFFENDER REVIEW, HAS THE FREEDOM TO DISOBEY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE…
23-5813 Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage Petitioner was convicted of two Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) violations requiring "damage" to protected computers. At trial, the government's e…
23-5804 Joseph Alexander Clarke v. Kimberly M. Esmond Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-limits legal-procedure maxims-of-law pleadings standing supreme-court-review Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Fail to Effectually Duties When on the File of the Record and Fail to Administer Justly the Mass of the Case…
23-5777 Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-370 Paul Erlinger v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were "committed on occ…
23-5715 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights Question not identified.
23-361 Brian D. Swanson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory In the decision below, The Eleventh Circuit summarily affirmed the dismissal of petitioner's income tax refund suit, which challenged Puerto Rico's st…
23-5679 Joshua Stephenson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
23-5684 William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis Question not identified.
23-5657 Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts Question not identified.
23-299 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings 1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common …
23-296 Michael L. Kiser, et al. v. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al. North Carolina 2023-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights supreme-court-review takings takings-clause 1. Is a state supreme court able to "side-step" the just compensation requirement of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by simply removing pre existi…
23-279 Couy Griffin v. New Mexico, ex rel. Marco White, et al. New Mexico 2023-09-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process enforcement first-amendment fourteenth-amendment insurrection judicial-authority standing I. Whether Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution exclusively reserves the power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment,…
23-5632 Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5606 Samuel Valencia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 GVR Relisted (3)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on …
23-5590 In Re Jamar L. Williams 2023-09-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-proceedings Question not identified.
23-5537 Euphrates Earl Bean v. Virginia Virginia 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights contracts due-process equal-rights judicial-review standing takings vested-rights If J fife. 3 no-tic a of pap -le Ilin&JrAe, an "ckXiaahon of contracts"-inferred ?H Vou OLr\ appeal is ibe.re.'3 ^)iJ It Courts V16 kfe drticlz XS&cf…
23-5511 Jay F. Elhage v. United States Second Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution Whether, despite years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the Court should now hold that Congress has no authority to criminally punish under the Comme…
23-5487 Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
23-5468 Brittney Coleman v. Island Express Helicopters, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aircraft-operation civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation judicial-decision-making legal-competence negligence pilot-certification pilot-competency procedural-review reasonable-care THE PILOTS UNREASONABLE JUDGMENT OF DECISION IN THE COURT OF FLYING THE PILOTS PREJUDICIAL DECISION CONCERNING COMPETENCY THE PILOTS COMPETENCY THE…
23-5451 Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5363 Kyle Richard Bishop v. Georgia Georgia 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standing Question not identified.
23-5360 Gregory Lynn McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation felon-in-possession firearm-regulation historical-tradition individual-rights lifetime-ban second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the felon-in-possession of a firearm statute, which did not exist in 1791, and which applies to all felonies and provides for a life-time ban,…
23-127 Leonard Cooperman v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation disciplinary-proceedings due-process free-speech public-sector-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Is the "conduct unbecoming " standard for subjecting an employee to disciplinary proceedings unconstitutionally vague, and therefore violative of t…
23-5235 Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5241 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment judicial-conflict legal-precedent standing 1. Whether there is a conflict between Kimmelman v Morrison holding that the Fourth Amendment is not a trial right in criminal prosecution and Ex-Part…
23-5210 Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-70 Traffic Tech, Inc., et al. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied anti-waiver-statute choice-of-law constitutional-interpretation due-process employment-rights full-faith-and-credit interstate-commerce state-sovereignty Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Due Process Clause require a State, which has its own Anti-Waiver Statute, to uphold a sister State's…
23-5136 Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing Question not identified.
23-5097 Allen Auten v. California California 2023-07-13 Denied Response RequestedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing 1. Has the California Supreme* Court (CSCC) prejudicially abused its dis cretion by repudiating United States Supreme Court (USSC) controlling author…
23-5104 Annelies Aiking-Taylor v. Oliver Serang Montana 2023-07-13 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-judgment prevailing-party supremacy-clause takings Did the Montana Supreme Court violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by disregarding the definition of "prevailing party" as decided by the US Su…
23A31 Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F…
23-5087 Michael R. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-interpretation dost-factors due-process first-amendment free-speech miller-standard obscenity obscenity-test 1. Should the six factor analysis set forth in United States v. Dost, 636 F. Supp. 828 (S.D. Cal. 1986), aff'd sub nom United States v. Weigand, 812 F…
23-5035 Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5001 Emmanuel Antione Hemphill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech individual-rights judicial-review legal-procedure standing state-law statutory-interpretation takings 1) bu Ute UaU. SW& um/ tftro Dwwft wnin. ix Wiib* ^ ocsui -nu. CkMM C.V wwX.'&a'l. 2) Oui ■"%& iWiWA CJBIXOiV C^ AtfA.\C,\C\L Miio^A nb&r-^ Uwi/ Df…
22-7902 Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-1242 Jon McClelland v. Dr. Jack Chapman, M.D. Colorado 2023-06-27 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract due-process judicial-immunity property property-interest state-law 1. Is a Complaint a cognizable 'three-party ' Contract (simple or specialty, and ultimately of record, i.e. judgment), between the State and the pa…
22-7854 Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7849 Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure damages due-process free-speech judicial-discretion legal-standards religious-claims standing state-court-review Question not identified.
22-7698 Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum? Is the United State…
22-7689 Jose Guadalupe Romero Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7665 Demarkus Antonio Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-errors constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing An ftetd of oinjyncJ &Uon V^ofwej \a Afetc^ o^r OK©' 'mw\omnAAm ) Xa <Vb£(i <rf -Wfc onbr^ 9 \n n^be) 0^ foxkm\ LonsV'AAi on C-dux-V^\a rvfefea\ o£ &…
22-7562 Joseph Tetak v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue deference-standard federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-precedent stare-decisis state-supreme-court subjective-objective-analysis Does the doctrine of stare decisis prevail on a state supreme court's determination of a constitutional issue in the same manner as this Court's deter…
22-1119 M. B. v. D. L. New Jersey 2023-05-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process family-law grandparent-visitation judicial-precedent legislative-authority parental-rights state-sovereignty troxel-v-granville Should this Court's decision in Troxel et vir v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000) be reversed and the issue of grandparent visitation be returned to the …
22-1088 John T. Morris v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response Waived accumulated-knowledge article-1-section-2 constitutional-interpretation election-integrity first-amendment frequent-elections political-rights redistricting voter-participation voting-rights 1. Are frequent elections implied in Article 1, Section 2 Clause 1 of the United States Constitution that were meant by the Framers of the Constitut…
22-7495 Rudolfo Gill v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-precedent standing takings Question not identified.
22-7479 Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7449 Robert Richard Spurling, III v. Arizona Arizona 2023-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law jury-instructions retroactive-application sexual-abuse state-courts statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation Does a state court's decision that a state statute prevents the state courts from conducting analysis pursuant to the United States Supreme Court prec…
22-1054 Robert E. Bennett, et ux. v. City of Kingman, Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights regulatory-takings section-1983-claim takings takings-clause vested-rights Did the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court Err when they Cited Penn Central v. New York City and failed to address Lucas v. South Caro…
22-7403 Anthony Carl Eccarius v. Mendocino County Social Services Ninth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP 10th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equity federalism judicial-review legal-standing power-in-equity standing tenth-amendment 1) Shall the People exclude a single citizen's 10th Amendment power in equity?
22-7372 Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey, III v. United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty-remedy removal-proceedings state-court-proceedings Question not identified.
22-7352 Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing In Henderson v. United States, this Court held that "it is enough that an error be plain at the time of appellate consideration" to meet the second pr…
22-7287 Rodolfo Tovar-Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied IFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-7298 In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr. 2023-04-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing Question not identified.
22-7220 Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7188 Brian Douglas Rambo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-underpinnings due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas habeas-corpus no-evidence no-evidence-claim sufficiency-of-evidence Is there a conflict among the federal courts on whether Jackson vs. Virginia, sufficiency of evidence standard, abrogated Thompson v. City of Louisvil…
22-7115 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. Massachusetts 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-support-enforcement congressional-research-service constitutional-challenge constitutional-interpretation federal-matching-grant federal-reimbursement federal-reimbursements open-ended-program reimbursement-rate state-matching-grant In the context of the federal CSE 1 reimbursement program, the Massachusetts Legislature enacted an ambiguous interpretation 2 by implying a possible …
22-7025 Kevin Ariel Garcia-Archaga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p…
22-890 Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied Amici (4) commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process interstate-sales judicial-precedent out-of-state-sales precedent state-courts state-taxation supreme-court-precedent In McLeod v. J. E. Dilworth Co., 322 U.S. 327 (1944), this Court held that a state may not tax sales that occur outside its borders, even when the pur…
22-6903 William Landry, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-03-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment indigent-defense sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-constitution statutory-interpretation "The Petitioner respectfully ask '* When the [Fjramers of the Oklahoma State Constitution, created and enacted Article I. £ 3. [Unappropriatedpublic l…
22-6906 Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment 1. Did the lower court err in granting Correctional Defendants' motion to dismiss? 2. Did the lower court err in granting Defendant Wexford's motion …
22-6867 Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony L. Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Cr…
22-805 BG Gulf Coast LNG, L.L.C., et al. v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Amici (1) commerce-clause congressional-consent constitutional-interpretation harbor-navigation maritime-law port-fees takings tonnage-clause user-fees The question presented is whether the Act permits localities to charge fees for incomplete and unusable increments of a harbor navigation project.
22-800 Charles G. Moore, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-23 Judgment Issued Amici (51)Relisted (2) apportionment apportionment-requirement article-i congress-power congressional-taxation constitutional-interpretation income-tax realization realization-doctrine sixteenth-amendment Whether the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.
22-6820 Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence The rights to compel favorable witnesses and present a defense are fundamental to our system of justice, and predate our constitution. Yet these right…
22-6806 Torrey Dewayne Walker v. Micha Neal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals circuit-court-conflict civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-appellate-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction DOES THIS COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO GRANT CERTIORARI WHEN THERE'S A CONFLICT BETWEEN DECISIONS OF STATE AND OR FEDERAL COURTS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS, CO…
22-6764 Michael Ray Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lafler-v-cooper overruling padilla-v-kentucky statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether United States v. Granados , 168 F.3d 343 (8th Cir. 1999), Has Been Overruled by Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), and Lafler v. Co…
22-6689 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency federal-deposit-insurance-corporation foia-request freedom-of-information-act insurance-coverage separation-of-powers Are the separation of powers violated by the sweeping construction of FDIC insurance as a substantive jurisdictional element in eight federal courts o…
22-6679 Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings Ay€. c^ncf ard CTlrcuii" decisions \v\ron-Pl \ el~ -Yhe. wVcYv dismissed7"Ct~ oiec\S\oov'f prev se - K\ ■Tlicr 6v/ifk •f <4e.c\Sior^ (ajKicU dIHeJ lau…
22-6648 Glen Plourde v. Redington-Fairview General Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-misconduct judicial-overreach legislative-authority separation-of-powers standing state-statute state-supreme-court torture 1. "The Maine State Supreme Court has issued an edict in Saunders v. Tisher that conflicts with and usurps Maine Revised Statute Title 34-B § 3861 and…
22-682 Tiange Huang, et al. v. Ngoc Bach Phan, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response Waived article-i article-iii constitutional-interpretation judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers statutory-construction Article I of the United States Constitution provides all legislative Powers therein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. Do Art…
22-668 Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination 1. Should any law repugnant to the U.S. Constitution (the Supreme law of this land) prevail? 2. Has this Court ever extended liability to individual …
22-647 Ross Anthony Scott v. Texas Texas 2023-01-11 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights defendant-silence fifth-amendment liberal-construction prosecutor-comment prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination In considering whether a prosecutor's comment on a criminal defendant's failure to testify infringes on the defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege agai…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. IS THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING ITS PROCEDURAL BAR RULES IN MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTIT…
22-6376 Marcus Joseph v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitrary-suspension civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus proportionality-review sentencing-guidelines state-court Question not identified.
22-6326 Mark A. White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process illegal-detention judicial-error mcmillan-v-pennsylvania sentencing-factors sixth-amendment substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Justices of the 1986 Supreme Court "deviation " from clearly established law and the original meaning of the Constitution violated the…
22-547 Randall E. Rollins v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law executive-action federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-policy judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers treason 1. Did the court below err in not considering the overriding emergency issue that the United States of America is currently being invaded by illegal…
22-540 Paul Anthony Riojas v. Department of the Army, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court-standards civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review military-court-review military-justice service-member standard-of-review In Burns v. Wilson, 346 U.S. 137 (1953), this Court addressed the scope of review the civil courts must apply when considering a service member's habe…
22-6292 Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony Our constitution codifies the ancient right of confronting one's accuser. Relying on Ohio v. Roberts, this Court has held a procedure which eliminates…
22-6255 Deonte Courtez Gates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circuit-court-conflict constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-law juvenile-defendant relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines L. Whether the relevant conduct sentencing guideline is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment as applied to conduct committed by a juvenile defe…
22-6267 Mack Doak v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who…
22-6220 Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-6157 Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review WHy Have All other Courts ignored the Plea bargain (1 Process And Procedures Afforded to me, As my Faulf 1is Mot raiseing the issue earlier? 2. Why wa…
22-6098 Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-11-18 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis Question not identified.
22-6040 William H. Wyttenbach v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP article-iii-court civil-procedure conclusions-of-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process findings-of-fact fourth-circuit-court jurisdiction rule-of-law Question: Has the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court and the lower court violated all three foundational corner stones of Rule of Law; Jurisdiction, Fin…
22-6043 Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5989 Michael Edward Bowman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process jury-trial ninth-circuit religious-freedom-restoration-act tax-return Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly ignore the express language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and deny Mr. Bowman his right to a jury trial…
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution by allowing mail-in voting from anywhe…
22-387 James Edward White v. Michigan State University Unemployment Compensation Division Michigan 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-rules justice legal-counsel ninth-amendment right-to-petition 1. Does the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantee rights to: a. Correction of mistakes as expeditiously as practical after disco…
22-5874 Dustin Nguyen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process final-order judicial-jurisdiction rules-of-construction void-judgment Forthright observance of rights presupposes their forthright definition. Judges must make clear and understandable the reasons for deciding as they do…
22-5869 Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-362 Matt Huffman, President of the Ohio Senate, et al. v. Meryl Neiman, et al. Ohio 2022-10-18 GVR Relisted (2) congressional-elections congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-review ohio-supreme-court proportional-representation redistricting state-constitution state-legislature 1. Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional…
22-5720 Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco…
22-5740 Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
22-5713 In Re Roy Allen Nichols 2022-09-29 Denied IFP article-iv article-vi commerce-clause congressional-power constitution-cession constitutional-interpretation enumerated-powers federal-lands legislative-jurisdiction morality-legislation 1). Which Article in the U.S.. Constitution specifically provides for cession of lands from any of the several 50 Union States to the United States? …
22-5685 Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit 1. Is the Sixth Circuit Courts narrow interpretation of this Courts holding in Bounds wrong and denies Hill meaningful access to the Courts? 2. Is Th…
22-5700 Eric E. Johnson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-protections X IktHd cffafe? toujjr&f debuaL optetjfkc C^u^fHidioml fyklHt df[e apt tffipcal? ik dittzd 7 viol&hok, krd'-Hte /7/rd/ hiM^udupertkofi diet C^iptdHttd…
22-5663 Danny Terron Roney v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-rights due-process legal-procedure property sovereign-rights standing takings witness-testimony 1.) Who owns the Dollar General Scores corporation? 2) Did the AUSA investigate who owns that franchise that was claiming to have been robbe^? 3) Wh…
22-269 Dawn Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response Waived appointments-clause article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law federal-courts federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-decision judicial-review separation-of-powers Is the application of Fed. R. App P. 2, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case at hand Unconstitutional and violates …
22-258 Wayne B. Holstad, et al. v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review statute-of-limitations takings 1. The Petitioners have argued that due process requires that there be a statute of limitations applicable to the claims made by the Department of Lab…
22-5592 Harry Sharod James v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2022-09-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation court-authority due-process federal-courts jurisdictional-challenge legislative-power state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Does Substantive and Procedure Due process of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments as required on all Courts to establish Subject Matter Jurisdiction …
22-229 In Re Brian D. Swanson 2022-09-12 Denied 17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five 22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di 1. Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of the Co…
22-5430 Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION ERRED. PEPPER V. UNITED STATES, IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT PRECEDENT OF UNITED S 1108-111S(6T…
22-5405 Perry Sawano v. Colorado Colorado 2022-08-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review 1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing court…
22-5392 Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed: to disregard the US Supreme Court 's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, t…
22-5367 Derrick Lee Hinton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation federal-jurisdiction federal-power first-amendment free-speech government-criticism judicial-review legal-precedent native-american-rights sovereignty-doctrine tribal-sovereignty Question not identified.
22-151 Lasean Dejong Houston v. Estate of Lasean Dejong Houston, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied barbary-treaties civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equitable-claims fiduciary-duty fiduciary-relations indigenous-status standing treaty treaty-rights trust 1. Show good cause whether petitioners equitable primary rights are not destroyed by any People bound by oath to be Persons worthy of trust, who presu…
22-5306 Micky Rife v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-i article-i-powers congress congressional-power constitution constitutional-interpretation criminal-penalties necessary-and-proper-clause treaty treaty-enforcement Does the Necessary and Proper Clause contained within Article I of the Constitution provide an independent basis for Congress to create criminal penal…
22-5222 Travis Lee Combs v. Washington Washington 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings Question not identified.
22-5169 Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings Question not identified.
22-65 Michael Van Cleve v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process resource-diversion standing standing-doctrine statistical-information statistical-policy three-judge-panel In August 2020, I brought a challenge to the government's application of the 1997 Office of Management and Budget race categories to the 2020 U.S. Cen…
22-5151 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS HELD.THAT A STATE LAW'S REVIVAL OF AN EXPIRED LIMITATION PERIOD UNDER ITS STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS VIOLATES THE EX POST FACT…
22-29 Richelle D. Wallace v. City of Hampton, Virginia, et al Virginia 2022-07-11 Denied actual-malice constitutional-interpretation curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech libel-law new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) federalized a large swath of libel law holding that the First Amendment mandates proof of actual malic…
22-5014 Willie Johnson v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP case-law civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation dismissal district-court due-process election federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-standards standing ud A DisErict of Socoth The Distrnt Coyst dshe t uManibest 9 bobelle Disoeserd ofthe/ews Exrol1ny Bx Setern8 9 Mobios for BeliNsex, nssban bo Wis MEsi…
21-1592 Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers 1. Whether Congress, in crafting 42 U.S.C. § 1230a7b(b) and related provisions, violated Article I, § 1 of the United States Constitution by improperl…
21-8238 James Seeley v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8206 Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD? II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO…
21-8152 Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o…
21-1565 State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, et al. v. I. Beverly Lake, et al. North Carolina 2022-06-15 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contracts-clause due-process employee-rights government-benefits government-employees legislative-reservation statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation When a state legislature expressly reserves the right to amend a statute providing benefits to government employees, does that reservation bar a claim…
21-8059 Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8069 Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search I. QUESTION ONE: U.S. CONSTITUTION 1\J AMENDMENT RULE 10. Rules of the United States Supreme Court at (C); Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State…
21-1509 Ryan Costello v. Carol Ann Carter, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-06-01 Denied 2-usc-2a(c) congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-remedies legislative-impasse partisan-gerrymandering state-court-discretion state-courts Do the Elections Clause and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) constrain the remedial discretion of courts when they impose congressional maps in response to a constitu…
21-8000 Elijah Johnson v. California California 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment How does this Court's "inconsistent verdicts" jurisprudence reconcile with the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee: May a reviewing court uphold a ge…
21-7989 Peter Vu v. San Francisco Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-review pleading-standard prison-litigation-reform-act stare-decisis u.s-constitution Is the Iqbal & Twombly fact-pleading standard applied and extended in the Ninth Circuit through the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") in Hebbe v. …
21-7975 Amir Karim Beigali v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924-c consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum section-924c sixth-amendment supervised-release DOES THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION PROHIBIT SECOND OR SUBSEQUENTLY SECTION 924 (c) (1) (C)(i) AND ITS CONSECUTIVE MANDATOR…
21-1478 Nicholas Honchariw v. County of Stanislaus, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation due-process finality-requirement finality-ripeness knick pakdel ripeness-doctrine supreme-court-precedent takings takings-claim williamson-county Whether Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S.Ct. 2162 (2019) and Pakdel v. City and Cty. of San Francisco, 141 S.Ct. 2226 (2021) have sanctioned a pervas…
21-7965 William F. Kaetz v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-breach constitutional-interpretation government government-advocacy mass-tort oath-of-office social-contract totalitarianism Is it Unconstitutional and a Mass Tort to us all having Socialists in government advocating and supporting Totalitarianism?
21-7935 Jason K. Feister v. Florida Florida 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers THE ISSUE BEING PRESENTED IS WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS.
21-1454 The Ohio Adjutant General's Department, et al. v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-17 Judgment Issued Amici (7) civil-service-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-structure federal-agency-regulation federal-executive-agency federal-labor-relations-authority labor-practices militia-clause state-militias 1. Does the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which empowers the Federal Labor Relations Authority to regulate the labor practices of federal agencies…
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to the following issue: Whether Miss.…
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers 1. What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution th…
21-7788 Karen Marie Isaacson v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP barrier civil-rights constitutional-interpretation economic-barrier federal-regulation intra-state-activity northeastern-florida-chapter precedential-standing standing standing-doctrine Does enforcement of a federal regulation penalizing an intra-state activity constitute a barrier as per Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated…
21-1408 Peter Efo v. Diane Fondjo Maryland 2022-05-02 Denied 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-order damages due-process employment-law labor labor-rights restitution thirteenth-amendment Whether a Court Order for refund of paid labor cost for work ordered by an employer and was completed by a laborer violates the U.S.C. Amendment XIII …
21-1394 John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin…
21-7738 Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7678 Robert Elton v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-04-21 Denied IFP arizona-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure edwards-v-vannoy federal-preemption indian-country judicial-jurisdiction mcculloch-v-maryland preemption state-court-powers tribal-sovereignty 1. Whether a State's contortion of Edwards v. Vannoy (2021) to delimit Indian Country powers into new rules of criminal procedure can be permitted to …
21-1354 Bast Amron LLP v. United States Trustee Region 21 Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-18 GVR bankruptcy-administrator bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-trustee bankruptcy-uniformity chapter-11-bankruptcy congressional-power constitutional-interpretation fee-disparity judicial-districts Whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act violates the uniformity requirement of the Bankruptcy Clause by increasing quarterly fees solely in U.S. Trustee …
21-7639 Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the 1) Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, AND 2) Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues Herein were correctly interpr…
21-7622 Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7602 Karyn Kelley v. Mary Feeney New Hampshire 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-court supreme-court-review tribunal-judgment Whether The State of New Hampshire Supreme Court erred when affirming the tribunal court's judgment that violated the requirement for Due Process unde…
21-7560 Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1311 Rinaldo Pierno v. Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC Second Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-courts article-three circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-power judicial-precedent non-precedential-decisions precedent In the year 2000, Judge Richard S. Arnold in the Eighth Circuit noticed something was not quite right in the United States federal appellate courts. A…
21-7439 Curtis Henry Johnson v. Paul Benton Mississippi 2022-03-23 Denied IFP article-1-section-8 constitution constitutional-interpretation indian-affairs land-occupancy plenary-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-courts treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, it gives Congress plenary powers to deal with Indian affairs. Congress can limit, modif…
21-7435 Ronell Williams v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discretionary-sentencing jones-v-mississippi juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion youth-characteristics Does this Court's decision in Jones v. Mississippi, 593 U. S. ___, ___, 141 S. Ct. 1307, 1320, 209 L. Ed. 2d 390 (2021) mandate that states must stric…
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the "Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives . . . prescr…
21-1250 Jamal Darius Parker v. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions equitable-remedy equity equity-doctrine fiduciary-duty judicial-discretion procedural-rights treaties treaty-law Whether the lower court's and agent's who are people bound by oath to be Persons worthy of trust, decision to dismiss petitioner claim is not contrary…
21-7367 Adam Shane Swindle v. S. Ma'at Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation court-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pandemic-review record-review -fa be ■U- he y>un<^bej QlC\ Covid /7df iv*^ K* SK ould (Ama or 0<Xjsr\ V-i7t>t-V^eci ? 'p'C© Vc' ^ "l 1_S>V yc>vjW £Kp, ( (Xtk 4-^eti ck'td Ooir Com^…
21-7266 Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction ne…
21-7140 Taquan Rashe Gullett-El v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction international-law jurisdiction-challenge pro-se-petition sovereign-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-1123 William K. Harrington, United States Trustee, Region 2 v. Clinton Nurseries, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-14 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law judicial-districts quarterly-fees uniform-laws 1. Whether Section 1004(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017, Pub. L. No. 115-72, Div. B, 131 Stat. 1232 (28 U.S.C. 1930(a)(6)(B) (2018)), which…
21-1078 Office of the United States Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-02-04 GVR Relisted (2) bankruptcy-act bankruptcy-administrators bankruptcy-fees bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-trustees congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation judicial-districts quarterly-fees uniform-laws 1. Whether Section 1004(a) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017, Pub. L. No. 115-72, Div. B, 131 Stat. 1232 (28 U.S.C. 1930(a)(6)(B) (2018)), which…
21-7050 Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Granted Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion 1. At oral argument, did the three Justices at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit say that this case has "profound legal and Constitutiona…
21-6989 Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review Testinny y Exprt winses My lawer ad 1. Rule 702. Police OFFicer. (14thAmendment) 2. Luminol testing. DNA was never found on me or victim. 3. Rule 1…
21-7011 Jabari J. Johnson v. Kathleen McGuire, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction ninth-circuit standing supreme-court takings Issueland abise their descrefion res SSUE Or was the Distrct Court Ciearly errncouls? Court ofappeals iludament incorcect and if so what other actons …
21-6916 Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230 1. The opinion contained in Malwarebytes v. Enigma and an obiter dictum in Biden v. Knight imply that* current- caselaw associated with 47 U.S. Code §…
21-6895 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction Whether a sworn and verified criminal complaint can be commenced under Illinois law (Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 38, Para. 109-3(C)) without violating the Fou…
21-6799 Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution 1) Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict accordance with the Texas Co…
21-6775 Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro…
21-930 Xiu Jian Sun v. Barack Hussein Obama District of Columbia 2021-12-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law divine-law due-process free-speech government-accountability judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus religious-petition standing The complaint of the plaintiff, -god's servant, Xiu Jian Sun, the spiritual Adam respectfully shows and alleges as follows 1. The Lord god of hosts J…
21-6684 Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. Nevada 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court Question not identified.
21-6645 Robert Brandon Bilus v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction plea-bargaining precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that misapplies the precedent of this Court and as a result, violates the Sixth Amendment to the Unite…
21-6591 Daniel Spottsville v. Georgia Georgia 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review jurisdictional-limits standing state-court-jurisdiction state-court-procedure takings Question not identified.
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w…
21-6530 Tyreese Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason…
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and asjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invo…
21-822 Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission Alaska 2021-12-03 Denied Response Waived campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing Petitioners are Alaskan citizens who challenged the Alaska Public Offices Commission's ("APOC's") refusal to enforce Alaskan law regulating contributi…
21-6457 Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
21-6408 James A. Harnage v. Janine Brennan, et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion plea-agreement settlement-agreement state-action 1. Whether A state violates The Express Terms of A settlement Agreament By Failing To Inform The Decison Maker of Ther Authorlty To Grant Approvals Th…
21-6387 Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida Florida 2021-11-23 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr…
21-6263 Gary Aaron Coble v. David Anderson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-review self-incrimination supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Question not identified.
21-6162 Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation 1. Sheer this Cowal skaisld issue this kt of Contionani LAdhetee the lonler Couets in Tennessee exceeded the jueisdidtion conteaeed and acted illegall…
21-6168 Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
21-6103 Moses D. Estrada v. California California 2021-10-27 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship collaborative-discovery constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rights right-to-counsel victim-rights Question not identified.
21-620 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention The question presented is whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies when a state has indicated it will disregard the Supremacy Clause of the Con…
21-6058 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-judiciary fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-review legislative-review separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-sovereignty Does due process pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment protect an individual's right to express lawful speech free from state action and deliberate ind…
21-583 Stephen Brint Carlton, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-precedent judicial-review reproductive-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent texas-law Whether the Court should overrule Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
21-5994 Choo Washburn v. John Nunez, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process erie-doctrine personal-property property-rights real-property takings 1. Does the meaning of the word, "PROPERTY" that is in the "Due Process Clause" and "Taking Clause", in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of th…
21-5961 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-10-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-waiver appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process garza-v-idaho ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure To clarify if what the United States Court held in Garza v. Idaho, 586 U.S. 10 (2019) applies to Ohio App. R. 26 (B)(1) which requires a defendant to …
21-5952 Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (1)IFP 18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional, because it cannot be interpreted, faithful to its plain text and consistent with congressional…
21-5922 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-petition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process individual-rights judicial-review statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 1. Should this Court grant writ of Certiorari addressing constitutional issues, correcting a miscarriage of justice that occurred when lower Court unc…
21-5800 Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho Idaho 2021-09-28 Denied IFP atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning Did Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning?
21-5663 Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty 1. The declaration of Independence says that United States Citizens have the right, the duty, and the privilidge to alter, and abolish laws 'and to fo…
21-317 Dean Koch v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 bostock-v-clayton-county civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-of-1871 constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment judicial-doctrine qualified-immunity statutory-construction 1. Does the Decision of the Sixth Circuit herein violate the canons of statutory construction especially those enunciated in Bostock v. Clayton County…
21-5388 Wilbert Kelly, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-restriction burden-of-proof constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process legal-standing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence public-official sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-jurisdiction Have The PElitioner Beon Reovided With Fundamental Due Process According To The United Stales Constilulions By His Slate CauFts?
21-206 Mourice Neal v. City of Detroit, Michigan Michigan 2021-08-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-compliance constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-oath judicial-power legal-jurisdiction standing state-law-conflict statutory-interpretation 1. United States constitution is the supreme law governing this land correct? 2. All judges in every state is bound by oath or affirmation federal an…
21-5244 Burudi Jarade Faison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause commerce-jurisprudence congressional-power constitutional-interpretation federal-sentencing firearm-possession overrule precedent scarborough-v-us tenth-amendment us-v-lopez If the current precedent case law for commerce jurisprudence, i.e, U.S. Lopez 514 US 549, conflicts with another currently applied case decision, i.e,…
21-5264 In Re Melvin Dinkins 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1651 28-usc-3730 administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction qui-tam standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause What are the "usages and principles" of law, in this case 28 USC 3730 (b)(1) - when legislature proclaims "A person may bring a civil action for the p…
21-5157 Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Third Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken…
21-5113 Michael Anthony Almendarez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied IFP article-vi constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process state-court-records united-states-constitution Is a judge categorically in excess of jurisdiction to enter an order if said judge refuses to obey the interplay between Article VI, cl. 2 of the Unit…
20-8460 Marcus Snipes v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC…
20-8294 Markeith Loyd v. Florida Florida 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure history-based-re-evaluation jury-rights legal-precedent lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-mccree sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether this Court should recede from Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 (1986), as part of its ongoing history-based re-evaluation of the Sixth Amendme…
20-8253 Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause 1. Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intel…
20-8210 Anthony A. Patel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-authority executive-power judicial-authority judicial-independence martial-law presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court-justices 1. Can the Executive Branch of U.S. Government impose martial law upon all courts in America so that judges follow the law? 2. If federal judges do n…
20-8198 In Re Khayree Smith 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery (negro, black,colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act reinstates such persons as chattel propertv and reopens the institution o…
20-8183 Themba Bernard Sanganza v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Third Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitution-supremacy constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federalism governmental-branches judicial-review legislative-precedence separation-of-powers state-sovereignty 1. Does the Constitution takes precedence before an other form of legislation? 2. Are the branches of the Government of the United States of America …
20-8078 Calvin Lamont Mack v. Florida Florida 2021-05-20 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy enhanced-compound-felony federal-question judicial-discretion legal-precedent legislative-intent same-element-offenses state-court-review supreme-court-discretion WHETHER THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WAS,. 1. VIOLATED UNDER THE DOUBLE -JEOPARDY CLAUSES AS A RE SULT OF THE SENTENCE PURSOANT TO ARTICLE I S…
20-8061 Jermaine Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-19 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights In acustedial myicrragod POLY oohed reling SC case) peers a distinguishes the proper pro cade real saleguarce Vig gare OY & request to remain 83 levy …
20-1588 Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act 1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the …
20-1589 Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law 1. Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 106…
20-7994 In Re Lee Robert Scott 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-authorization civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct judicial-misconduct legal-immunity procedural-protection standing state-prosecution Question not identified.
20-7948 Ernest H. Baker, III v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-action civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech judicial-review precedent religious-freedom standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7950 Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was …
20-7910 Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status I. Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United Stat…
20-7900 Monique A. Lozoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute 1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution…
20-7857 Benjamin Ayala v. New York New York 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction double-jeopardy dwelling-entry fifth-amendment multiple-convictions single-entry state-court-conflict uniform-decision 1. Whether petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated when he was convicted of multiple burglaries based upon a single e…
20-7747 Anthony A. Patel v. Charles Robinson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ninth-circuit political-discrimination standing 1. Does Article III of the U.S. Constitution belong to the legal profession or to the American people? 2. Do Americans still have the inherent and un…
20-7677 Juan Manuel Fuentes-Morales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-speech constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt victor-v-nebraska Whether the Fourth Circuit's reasonable doubt charge conflicts with Victor v. Nebraska; and whether circuits can prohibit counsel from discussing reas…
20-7714 Dario Reyes-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants Whether resident undocumented immigrants are part of the people whose right to keep and bear arms for individual self defense the second amendment pro…
20-7547 Saloman Martinez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O…
20-1344 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Response Waived 16th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process income-definition irs standing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent tax-law taxation 1. Can the IRS/United States government/Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis ) on t…
20-7493 Jose Luis Sanchez, Jr. v. Donald Holbrook, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-act article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-courts federal-judicial-power federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-power state-court state-court-review Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2254(d) of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), prohibiting federal courts from granting a writ of habeas c…
20-1269 Amanda Kay Renfroe, et al. v. Robert Denver Parker, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-doctrine qualified-immunity separation-of-powers standing I. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY VIOLATES THE SEPARATION OF POWERS, IS REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND IS VOID. II. IS A FACTUAL REASONABLENESS FOR A JURY TO…
20-7339 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error 1o Whether Petitioner's trial Counsel sleeping during the Commonwealth's witness directexamination is a critical stase of the triali Whether it consti…
20-1159 Vermont National Telephone Company v. Vermont Department of Taxes Vermont 2021-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-communications-commission federal-license nonbusiness-income situs situs-principle state-taxation whitney-v-graves Whether the Vermont Supreme Court erred in holding that a federal license, that can be used only in one state, lacks a situs in that state under Whitn…
20-7205 Leonardo Franqui v. Florida Florida 2021-02-22 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction 1. Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to be conducted in order to assess a capital defendant's intellectua…
20-7099 Brandon Lamonte Sorenson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses promulgation-of-guidelines sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction Whether enabling the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to expand the guideline definition of "controlled substance offense" to add inchoate offenses n…
20-7086 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence…
20-7049 Edwin Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment age-based-sentencing brain-development constitutional-interpretation criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole rehabilitation In Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455, (2012), this Court held mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile homicide offenders violates the Ei…
20-1025 Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality 1. WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT MUST BE REINSTATED BASED ON THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, FLORIDA CONSTITUTION, STATUTES, AND FLORIDA RULES OF COURT? …
20-969 Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (6) 1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political…
20-6894 Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions To Sever a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To …
20-6852 Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit Article I § 17 of Michigan 's Constitution states in part, The right of all individuals, firms, and corporations, and voluntary associations to fair …
20-6860 Antonia W. Shields v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 28-usc-453 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Respectfully, does the federal government give unequal right to a free United States citizen and give unequal right to the United States Constitution …
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (" Court) said they reviewed "an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo, " di…
20-882 Donald J. Trump, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, et al. Wisconsin 2021-01-04 Denied Response Waived absentee-ballot article-ii constitutional-interpretation election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review laches legislative-intent state-courts voter-fraud wisconsin-legislature 1. Whether it violates Article II of the Constitution, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments, for state courts, on review of a post-election …
20-6765 Kevin Wayne Dickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-sufficiency standard-of-review state-court-review Did the Fifth Court of Appeals commit error for concluding that Appellant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was not debatable among jurists wh…
20-855 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Amici (3) certification certification-doctrine constitutional-interpretation due-process horne-v-department-of-agriculture maryland-constitution personal-property property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling that this Court's holding in Horne that appropriations of personal property and real property must be tr…
20-853 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-28 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic…
20-845 Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-23 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived article-ii constitutional-interpretation due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority mail-ballot presidential-election Article II of the Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint [electors for President and Vice President] in such Manner as the Legislature t…
20-6653 Scott P. Roeder v. Kansas Kansas 2020-12-18 Denied IFP abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process judicial-review personhood roe-v-wade standing Whether the notion of overturning Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), includes other possibilities besides leaving abortion up to the states? Whether t…
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Wktikar or got e latk) o courts *UM 17¢ 5ftvid ;101WA -crow iikip5114 avvi pro-i-gtkivi 4'1Q unctibiitu hand i wtpositiovi aid. ethei aloso (de. staii…
20-802 Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law 1. Are Pennsylvania state LAWS constitutional? If the answer is yes, are they being applied and are they applied equally? 2. Is the double jeopardy c…
20-803 Morgan Joseph Langan v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived article-iv constitutional-interpretation due-process federalism judicial-sovereignty legislative-act property-rights republican-government separation-of-powers takings vested-rights Does the State of Arizona possess the transcen dental sovereignty to take away petitioner 's vested rights in private property by a mere legislative a…
20-774 Georgianna Parisi v. Dayton Bar Association Certified Grievance Committee, et al. Ohio 2020-12-07 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-records due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent open-records separation-of-powers state-constitution state-legislature state-separation-of-powers The Ohio Supreme Court (hereinafter referred to as OSC) violated both the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions by utilizing Superintendence Rules 44-47 which s…
20-6455 Patricia A. Wade v. Trustees of Indiana University, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process employer-liability judicial-review monetary-damages sovereign-immunity standing state-sovereign-immunity takings Unlike employees of local governments and private entities, employees of state entities are excluded from recovering monetary relief when injured by t…
20-725 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine Pennsylvania 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived amendment-xi civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process existential-threats judicial-bias originalism pro-se-access systemic-bias systemic-justice The questions posed in the preceding course of appellate actions should be regarded as if entered here in their entirety. Does Judge Colville's eleva…
20-6419 Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Dismissed IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-6345 Thomas Reid DeCarlo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-constitution judicial-review legislative-acts legislative-process separation-of-powers Question not identified.
20-6332 Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpret the Sixth Amendment in holding Petitioner "cannot demonstrate prejudice under Strickland", when …
20-546 Michigan v. Laricca Seminta Mathews Michigan 2020-10-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should this Court grant certiorari to resolve the split in the United States Courts of Appeals and the state appellate courts regarding whether Mirand…
20-6101 Rachel Mae Skidmore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g)(1) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments?
20-6005 Victor Brancaccio v. Florida Florida 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5932 In Re Maurice Johnson 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment african-american-rights citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-personhood reconstruction slavery slavery-abolition states-rights I. What branch of law Authorized the STATES to apply Abolished Slaves labels (Negro, Black , Colored or African-American), To any person of AFRICAN de…
20-5913 Bradley M. Cox v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony 1. When the rebuttable presumption of detention exists how much or what quality of evidence is sufficient to rebut it? 2. Is the presumption of innoc…
20-5914 Clifton Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg …
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether, under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), lower courts may disregard, violate or change the plain language of the judicial review pro…
20-5869 Michael Robert Everett v. Florida Florida 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law DURING THE CHARGE IS RECLASSIFIED FROM ONE VARYING DEGREE OFFENSE TO ANOTHER, DOES THIS FINDING RENEW THE BURTON V. STEWART, FERREIRA V. SEC'Y DEP'T O…
20-414 Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections 1. Whether the severance and invalidation of administrative patent judges' tenure protections is consistent with congressional intent. 2. Whether inv…
20-330 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-14 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar…
20-272 Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers Maryland 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio…
20-273 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-02 Dismissed administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office 1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the United States Patent and Tra…
20-5537 Anderson Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-31 Denied IFP aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar…
20-5502 Kareem K. Kirk, Sr. v. Janet Richardson, et al. Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation district-court-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-competence judicial-discretion judicial-duties motion-for-rehearing unelaborated-decision [1] HOW? COULD JUDGE ELIZABETH G, RICE OF THE 13th JUDICAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION,FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE WRIT…
20-5485 Maurice Moss v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5486 Spencer E. Miles v. Florida Florida 2020-08-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5456 Lorenzo Robertson v. Ozell Pace, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-procedures judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-construction Question not identified.
20-5416 Roosevelt Cure, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-08-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-issue federal-habeas-review federal-review florida-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
20-5329 Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness 1. When the Washington State Constitution, Article I, section 26, says, "No grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any county, except the superior j…
20-131 Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia Following a precedential decision sustaining an Appointments Clause challenge, does a court have discretion to apply the decision in pending cases whe…
20-122 Eric E. Taylor v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-08-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5-usc-3331 certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1) Whether or not it being due-process of law and equity for this appeal to issue forth in this court pursuant rule 11 of this court pursuant the due…
20-5277 Joseph Thompson, Jr. v. Houma Terrebonne Housing Authority, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation discrimination due-process employment federal-review jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-construction supreme-court-procedure (1) Is Joseph Thompson Jr. Being denied his 13th, 14th, 15th The United States District Court For Eastern District of Louisiana, and United States cou…
20-102 Christopher Hadsell v. Barry Baskin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction rooker-doctrine separation-of-powers state-court-judgments state-courts Congress has the sole power to govern the federal courts' original and review jurisdiction of state-court judgments. Does Rooker's usurpation of Congr…
20-5207 William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ? …
20-5070 Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia Virginia 2020-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim…
20-5090 Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a…
20-5092 Sebastian Cortez-Hernandez v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-construction supreme-court X,\Nf(\e,46e.r 4(\e. ra(lwc> Adu aLma. C-£>a<*t (5 C^feixrf^ €-S$-Gic\i>Cf S'GxeC^ VclW T'e.VfOG r&s vA -Vfi<L 0^$°_ SS^V^-3 5M.p ,<'0'r>e-^-O{i rf. …
20-5026 James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio…
20-5021 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts judicial-opinion legal-standing petition-review pleadings procedural-complexity standing WHETHER PETITIONER'S COMPLAINT CONTAINS SUFFICIENT FACTUAL MATTER TO SURVIVE A MOTION TO DISMISS; AND WHETHER UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS ARE DEEMED AS BINDI…
20-5028 Richard Charles Lussy v. Wade J. Dahood Montana 2020-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech jury-trial legal-procedure ministerial-oath oath-of-office standing stare-decisis Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad behavior-after-petitioned speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montan…
19-1452 Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments 1. Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States, cites…
19-1446 Bing Charles W. Kearney, Jr., et al. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations due-process federal-appellate-courts federal-courts fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court judicial-review legal-doctrine right-for-the-wrong-reason statutory-interpretation The possibility for federal appel late courts to abuse the "right for the wrong reason" rule, as the rule was promulgated by this Court in Helvering…
19-1450 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment bill-of-rights case-law civil-rights congressional-authorization constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-law-violations federal-rules-of-law founding-fathers state-sovereign-immunity When the lower Courts overlooked the Framers' written intent of the 11th Amendment (which plainly reads that States cannot be sued by "(1) Citizens of…
19-8853 Alan Rene Sajous v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-significance due-process federalism judicial-review legal-meaning legal-validity national-principles rule-of-law standing Does the Constitution mean anything in the United States of America anymore?
19-8788 Travis Job v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which provides an exception to the rule of A…
19-8755 Levi West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-8637 Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-08 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should overrule the " legislative override " exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.
19-1314 Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille New Hampshire 2020-05-26 Denied constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights 1. Whether in regards to a contract for rental housing between a long-term resident of an extended-stay hotel property and the extended stay hotel pro…
19-1294 Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath Kentucky 2020-05-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing 1) Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and Andy Beshear, who were shown by a preponderance of the evide…
19-8441 Richard John Vieira v. California California 2020-05-12 Denied IFP attorney-general-duty constitution-violation constitutional-interpretation federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-authority judicial-misconduct judicial-oath legal-accountability oath-of-office prosecutorial-discretion state-law California's Constitution (Art. VI. §14) clarifies A COMMAND upon the Judicial Branch as follows: "Decisions of the Supreme Court and courts of appeal…
19-8287 Muhammad Toure v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-question judicial-review jurisdiction precedent-analysis standing statutory-interpretation (1) AGAINST FED.R.CIV.P 12(b)(6) AND 12(e)(6), WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF A COURT'S DISCRETION IN UPHOLDING A PLEADING THAT STATES A CLAIM FOR RELIEF IN LIG…
19-8265 Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor Question not identified.
19-1184 Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law Petitioners are sidewalk counselors who engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations with women visiting an abortion clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
19-8068 Daniel B. Boudette v. Tammy Boudette, nka Tammy Oskerson Montana 2020-03-23 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law enforceability foreign-judgment full-faith-and-credit judgment-enforcement originating-state sister-state-judgment state-law time-limit time-limitation 1. Does a state's enforcement of a sister state's judgment beyond the time limit when it is enforceable in the originating state contravene the Full F…
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason 1. Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case specif…
19-7842 Manetirony Clervrain v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-ambiguity administrative-law alien-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration immigration-law plra standing statutory-interpretation trade-secret I. When considering whether agency expertise could be brought to bear on the questions presented in the "Bennett " decision, the United States Court o…
19-7732 Jerad Hanks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute…
19-7717 Tarvis M. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-20 Denied IFP bail certiorari-petition civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process excessive-bail federal-statute fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge lower-court-conflict pretrial-detention standing supreme-court supreme-court-review Question not identified.
19-1019 Texas, et al. v. California, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-14 Judgment Issued affordable-care-act affordable-care-act-aca congress congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation due-process health-insurance individual-mandate severability standing tax 1. Whether the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase minimum essential coverage is severable from the remainder of the ACA. 2. Whether the …
19-7635 Timothy Courtney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de…
19-7497 Richard Silvestri v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force In the second resolution in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson and the State of Kentucky construed the United States Constitution insi…
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…
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent 1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 109 S.Ct. 1038 103 L.Ed. 2d (1989); Caldwel…
19-7381 Percy Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal …
19-7172 Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District …
19-7152 Allan M. Leavitt v. Cynthia A. Phillips, et al. Massachusetts 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract-enforcement contract-law declaratory-judgment due-process interstate-dispute judicial-procedure massachusetts property property-rights property-rights-deprivation standing state-interest vermont 1)Did Massachusetts deprive a Vermont citizen the fundamental right to property without a compelling state interest by refusing to enforce its substan…
19-6986 Jarvis H. Neely v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 5th-amendment circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review jurisdiction pension-regulations property-rights standing statutory-analysis takings Whether sua sponte dismissal of the complaint lacking grounds frivolous harmful and a basis in reality proper was under 28 U.S.C. 1915.
19-6980 John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas Kansas 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers Whether this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the…
19-6922 Charles Edward Bates v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing 1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond …
19-6938 Gabriel Garcia-Solar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP congress-power congressional-power constitutional-interpretation extraterritorial-jurisdiction felonies-clause felony-definition foreign-nationals high-seas maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act nexus-requirement nexus-to-us sentencing-discretion 1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70503 et. sec., which criminalizes foreign drug trafficking offenses committed aboard ve…
19-749 William S. Ritter v. John R. Tuttle, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-judicial-recognition new-york pennsylvania res-judicata sealed-documents Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution (Article IV, Section l) attach to an order of a New York Appellate Court that …
19-6855 Jose Luis Morales v. G. D. Lewis, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-discretion res-judicata supreme-court supreme-court-directives I. Is it an abuse of discretion when the federal courts do not follow directives from the United States Supreme Court on how to apply res judicata? …
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Where the tril judge failed to revew evidence of trial coursel's gross misconduct of Fraud identical to the issues addressed in this Court's decision …
19-6873 Anthony Dale Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process federal-rights individual-rights judicial-review standing state-court supreme-court-precedent 1. Is i a epe heaen d oton ai Or whole on the Court's failure to rule withinm a neasonable time? Constitutonal rigpt to Due Procss and Acess To Courts…
19-6777 Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida Florida 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure HAS THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IMPLEMENTED PRATICES FOR FLORIDN'S JUDIUAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRADICTS THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS T LTH AND IT AMENOMENT RGHIS F…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner asks did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and u…
19-6692 Kenneth Robert Simpson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion parole revocation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction supervised-release Question not identified.
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado 2019-11-18 Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-607 Woodcrest Homes, Inc. v. Carousel Farms Metropolitan District Colorado 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (1) 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking private-benefit property-rights public-use takings Is the Fifth Amendment's restriction of eminent domain to "public use[s]" satisfied even if a condemnation is undertaken "for the purpose of conferrin…
19-6564 In Re Wei Zhou 2019-11-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 civil-procedure constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-courts judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power judicial-proceedings jurisdiction-decline legal-interpretation mandamus statutory-interpretation statutory-jurisdiction Does the Constitution of the United States permit any court of the United States to decline the exercise of jurisdiction given by any law of the Unite…
19-562 Brian Burke v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2019-10-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation defamation due-process fair-labor-standards-act first-amendment leave-to-amend pleading-standards pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-statute title-vii unconstitutionality Pleading standards generally and/or for Title VII and/or 42 U.S.C. 1983 and/or ADA, with regards to pro se parties If a Defamation per se claim is bl…
19-6412 Dennis Jones v. Arizona Arizona 2019-10-28 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure The State's Court of last resort decided an important Federal Question in a way that conflicts with the right to counsel in a criminal case, where (a)…
19-6373 Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington Washington 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code 1. Did The Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington Error by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the Pu…
19-6358 In Re Morris J. Warren 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, …
19-487 Kevin W. Culp, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7) 2nd-amendment concealed-carry constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection firearm-rights illinois non-resident-licensing second-amendment standing state-restrictions Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms requires that the State of Illinois allow qualified non-residents to apply for an Illinois co…
19-6220 Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 GVR IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.…
19-6167 Thaddeus Saunders v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP art-iv-section-1 article-iv constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process full-faith-and-credit judicial-precedent miller-v-alabama people-v-house public-acts Whether the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution should apply to the rulings in Miller v. Alabama, 567 US 460 (2012), People…
19-6158 William A. White v. Todd Sloop, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process first-amendment free-speech hate-speech judicial-circuit-split judicial-interpretation prison prison-regulations religion 1) In ruling that the statement that Judaism is a "doctrine of hate", with to "violence and murder" nothing more, is so equivalent that literature mak…
19-6078 Terreall McDaniel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela…
19-6009 John Robert Demos v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-20 Closed IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability diplomacy diplomatic-immunity extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-nationals foreign-sovereigns human-rights international-diplomacy international-law original-jurisdiction self-executing standing treaty APPeRTAiNiNG To Atiens, FoReiGNERS, NATIONAIS, SubJECIS OF A FOREIGN COUNIRY, PRoTecTed PeRSONS, 2. Is Demos A BRiistiCiTizeN, oRAU.s. CTizeN? As DeM…
19-372 William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ". …
19-5987 Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington Washington 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state 1. Can the Washington State Courts refuse to adhere to this Courts holding in North Carolina v. Pearce? 2. Since Washington State's Sentencing Reform…
19-5971 Darlene Schmidt v. Gary R. Herbert, Governor of Utah Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court appeals-procedure cause-of-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation corporate-governance dismissal due-process facts judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction misrepresentation standing 1. Does appeals court 's dismissal finding 2 reliefs but no known cause show the appeals court is misrepresenting the facts? 2. Did the appeals court…
19-5924 James Hennessee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-5875 Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5850 Yurie Yamano v. Hawaii State Judiciary, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-rules due-process judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity rules-of-court separation-of-powers standing stare-decisis 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following questions for which the five judges on the State of Hawaii Supreme Court bench are exhibiting and c…
19-5822 Ronald Tuttle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing supervisory-powers supreme-court-review the-supreme-court Decide An Important Fedaral Qvestios In A WAy THAT Conflicts With Relevant Decisions af Supreme Souct? D Did The Vaited States CourtofAppeals for The…
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations 1. Legal Issues. Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and in…
19-275 Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights 1. Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to "equal and universal suffrage"? 2. Do we have the right to be governed by whom we el…
19-5709 Sam Newman v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine 1. Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995), barring the "illegal use of a weapon," is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. …
19-5714 Dianne Michele Carter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-supremacy due-process federal-rules internal-revenue-code judicial-procedure legislative-interpretation separation-of-powers service-of-process standing takings 1. If the courts are to regard the Constitution and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, is it the Constitution, and n…
19-5685 Larry Brandon Moore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-i bill-drafting congress-authority congressional-power constitution-article-1 constitutional-interpretation law-making-authority legislative-delegation positive-law prior-laws statutory-codification third-party-codification title-18 title-18-usc Does Article I of the U.S. Constitution confer on Congress such authority as to have enacted 62 Stat 683 et seq into positive law thereby enacting, sp…
19-201 Roger S. Hanson v. Jennifer Allert California 2019-08-16 Denied attorney-fees california-evidence-code civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-code-1402 property-rights property-titles real-property standing (1) Whether the ruling made by the state trial court granting the motion under California Evidence Code 1402, removing Respondent from the litigation,…
19-5485 Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona Arizona 2019-08-06 Denied IFP arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent The Decision Of The Arizona Supreme Court Violates Brown -v- Plata 131 S. Ct. 1910(2011)
19-5372 Mary Katherine Day-Petrano v. Charles D. Hall, et al. Florida 2019-07-29 Denied IFP ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-fees bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-amendment retroactive-application standing statutory-construction takings "REGISTRY." LUST MAINTAINED BY THE CLERK OF THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT UNCONSTTUTONAL AMERICANS WITH DISABLLITIES AET? 2) DiD DESIGNATIRON UNDER FLORI…
19-5358 Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one…
19-5283 Kyle Jason Korte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law 1. Does the "good faith exception" outlined in Illinois v. Krull 480 U.S. 340 (1987) extend to circumstances where the statute, rather than being "sub…
19-5238 Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law 1.) Should Pläntiff and the Seneral Paublic fntenest be permitted to furoue Relief from violations of the Fon toin np thouge the Federal Couts gdition…
19-66 George Q. Ricks v. Idaho Contractors Board, et al. Idaho 2019-07-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law employment-division-v-smith first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause generally-applicable neutral-law neutral-laws religious-exemption religious-exemptions religious-freedom stare-decisis Whether the Court should revisit its holding in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), that the Free Exercise Clause generally requires no…
19-5094 In Re Donna Sneller 2019-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii article-iii-courts civil-rights congress congressional-power constitutional-interpretation due-process government-structure judicial-jurisdiction judicial-power jurisdiction legislative-power separation-of-powers standing supreme-court tribunals Can the Congress only create tribunals inferior to the Article III section 1 one supreme Court? Is there, within the phrase "The Supreme Court and al…
19-4 Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert…
18-1575 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-25 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-state-relations judicial-duty property-tax real-property standing state-government supremacy-clause takings treason Whether the Supremacy Clause will be given its controlling effect in this extraordinary instance? Whether judges of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma hav…
18-9749 Gamaliel Japhia Joseph El v. All Local Law Enforcement in General Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied IFP citizenship civil-rights constitutional-interpretation contract contract-law due-process indigenous-rights involuntary-servitude motor-vehicle-statutes right-to-travel standing travel 1. Is Title XXIII MOTOR VEHICLES of the Florida Statutes binding on or applicable to a private natural person who is an aboriginal indigenous inhabita…
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest 1. DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ABUSE ITS DISCRETIONARY, BROADLY-BASED AUTHORITY OF INTERPRETATION, THUS, VIOLATING PE…
18-9532 Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 14, despite the 1…
18-9499 Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar 1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999 under manttory sentencing Gidelines"…
18-1464 Milos Jiricko v. Frankenburg Jensen Law Firm, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-oath due-process judicial-review legislative-statute medical-malpractice standing supreme-court-review takings 1. Whether the US Supreme Court can apply a blind eye to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Utah State Medical Malpractice statute, Code 78B-3401,…
18-9415 Michael Don Neely v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled …
18-9378 In Re Tae Hon Chon 2019-05-22 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio…
18-9380 Miguel Daniel Leal v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel marital-communications-privilege marital-privilege ninth-circuit-review sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights state-courts supervisory-power supreme-court-dicta Is United States Supreme Court dicta which interprets the U.S. Constitution authoritative and controlling on Federal and State Courts, or may Federal …
18A1210 Marshall Martinez v. Todd Thomas, Warden Arizona 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-interpretation incarceration jurisdiction legal-status thirteenth-amendment Question not identified.
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18A1198 Lynn Lumbard, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-20 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation federal-claims property-rights ripeness state-court-remedies takings-clause Whether the Court should reconsider the portion of Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-96 (1985), requi…
18-1421 Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando Second Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the deferential review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) by setting aside a state murder conviction based on its…
18-9231 Matthew Leachman v. Texas Texas 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation continuing-jeopardy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-conviction indictment indictment-strategy retrial retrial-rights In a retrial comprising "continuing jeopardy," where the original felony conviction has been overturned, may a State break the original indictment int…
18-9188 Eric Thorton Von Hall v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court appellate-procedure article-iii article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mistake-of-law party-presentation party-presentation-principle Whether Article III of the Constitution and the party presentation principle foreclose appellate court judges from relying on an argument not presente…
18-9101 Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9006 Donald Ray Boles v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which created a carve-out to the rule later adopted in Apprendi v. New…
18-8887 Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex post facto clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due process at …
18-8899 Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article VI, §2) require the Judge(s) (both State & Federal) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA (as well as an o…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004).
18-8862 Roderick White v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e…
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional ARE THE LOWER COURT ABUSING THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 TO IGNORE FRAUD ON THE COURT? ARE THE LOWER COURTS USING THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1925 AS AN ALTERN…
18-1281 Hayes B. Milliman v. Timothy L. Randall California 2019-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) bankruptcy bankruptcy-law congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-question markham-v-allen probate-exception state-probate-court trust trusts wills What is the scope of the probate exception to federal jurisdiction? Did Congress intend the probate exception to apply where a federal court is not a…
18-8670 Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment 1. Does Alabama's insistence that a judge, not a jury, can weigh the mitigating and aggravating factors and sentence a person to death directly confli…
18-8671 Glynndeavin Von Fox v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation federal-consent federal-preemption federal-questions international-law judicial-access judicial-review medical-access senate-ratification separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction treaty-power us-constitution Can a State Court answer federal questions of an International Country in Japan, regarding judicial access to documents, or medical access to document…
18-8572 Christopher Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-27 Denied IFP community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings 1. Whether there i8 wilthin the minimum requirements of due process, a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in olation proceedings, …
18-8412 Lamar Perryman v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment cherokee-nation-v-georgia civil-rights constitutional-interpretation eleventh-amendment johnson-v-mcintosh native-american-rights non-intercourse-act sovereign-immunity treaty-law worcester-v-georgia 1. Does Title 25 U. S. C. Section 177 (Non-Intercourse Act) and this Court's decisions in Johnson v. MIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcestor…
18-8432 Kelly Foust v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme in which a jury's death verdict is a mere recommendation and in which a death sentence may not be imposed unless a ju…
18-8379 John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas Texas 2019-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements BECAUSE SANE NURSE EXAMINATIONS HAVE EVOLVED INTO A DUAL MEDICAL AND FORENSIC PURPOSE, HAVE THE STATEMENTS OBTAINED BECOME 'TESTIMONIAL' FOR PURPOSES …
18-8339 Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co…
18-8336 London Ettione Dunbar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-precedent miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review stare-decisis SHOULD THIS COURT GRANT THIS PETITION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S REFUSAL TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IS AT CONFLICT WITH THIS …
18-8241 Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition 1. Does the o criminal seriousness charges obviate the states' governments' obligation the to uphold Constitutional rights of the accused? 2. I's the…
18-8228 Daryl Bocook v. Gary Mohr, Warden Ohio 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-precedent forensic-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-conflict legal-principles precedent-conflict standing state-court-dismissal supreme-court-review The state courts sua sponte dismissal of my petition was A departure from the Accepted And usual course of Judicial proceedings including claims of Ex…
18-8188 Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution WHETHER THE PLEA AGREEMENT AFFIRMED BY THE LOWER TRIBUNAL VIOLATED THE CONTRACT AND DUE PROCESS CLAUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
18-8197 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law Whether Texas Penal Code Article 42.082 BEVACCP, as interpreted by the Texas Court in EX PARTE KUESIER, 24 SW3d 247 (2000), is unconstitutional. The …
18-8200 Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings Assuming the Circuit Courts Application oF The June 15, 1989-Amended PArole Statute in Texas, By The 71 sT Legislature, strategicly Dismantling The SA…
18-8148 Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne…
18-8093 John Ferreira v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta…
18-8048 Darnell D. Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release Relying on historical practice dating back to English cases in the seventeenth century, the courts of appeals had consistently held that relying on a …
18-7923 Derrick Jones v. James M. LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto fair-notice judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure retroactive retroactive-application sentencing-provision substantive-rule-change Could jurists of reason debate whether Louisiana may, consistent with the Due Process Clause's fair notice requirement, judicially invent a new proced…
18-1052 Zenaido Renteria, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied article-iii circuit-split constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights continuing-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process reasonable-foreseeability sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Constitution limits venue in criminal trials to those places where the defendant could reasonably foresee that an overt act would occur…
18-7887 Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent, in their ruling in Parker v. Commissioner 7724F.2d469fliQ'L), becomes unassailable in holding that the Supreme Co…
18-7827 Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti…
18-7830 Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution Question 1. To determine "same offense" in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by…
18-7832 Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing they roled that the three strickes proursion under 28 U.S.C.S Pauperis regardin Petitoners civil rights complaint alleging he was blatantly deried the…
18-7767 Joshua Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-05 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents texas-court-of-appeals Whether the interpretation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments by the Texas Court of Appeals is in conflict with preceden…
18-7712 Andre Mims v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138…
18-7686 In Re Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey 2019-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge mandamus-prohibition national-importance separation-of-powers standing 1. Are the issues Presented important and beyond the fucticular Facts and Parties involved ? a. Does there exist a Conflict between Courts of appeals…
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Question not identified.
18-7555 Doiakah Gray v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-prisoners habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent state-prisoners statute-of-limitations statutory-construction 1. Are State prisoners governed by Dodd v. United States, 545 U.S.353 (2005) which governs the activation of the limitations period for newly recogniz…
18-952 Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, Jr. v. Colorado Colorado 2019-01-24 Denied Amici (1) apprendi-precedent apprendi-v-new-jersey colorado-sentencing colorado-sentencing-system constitutional-interpretation jury-determination legal-elements sentencing-factors sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-precedent united-states-v-gaudin Whether the rule of United States v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995)—namely, that the Sixth Amendment requires juries to find not just historical facts bu…
18-950 LaTasha Freeman v. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC, et al. Texas 2019-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review legal-uncertainty political-question political-question-doctrine private-defendants private-plaintiffs split-of-authority standing state-law-tort tort The question presented is whether, and if so under what circumstances, the political question doctrine bars ordinary state-law tort actions brought by…
18-7441 James L. Wheeler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process haines-standard haines-v-kerner judicial-review liberal-construction pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-fairness standing 1) Was the lower Court's Action in failing to allow Liberal Construction of Petitioner's claims in conflict with this Court's holding in Haines v. Ker…
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WIT…
18-7242 Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-07 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016).
18-7206 Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente, 412 U.S. 218, 222 (1973) on the ground that that it is inconsistent with the reaso…
18-7180 Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap…
18-819 Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin Illinois 2018-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…
18-820 Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal Whether lower courts can blatantly disregard U.S. Supreme Court, Eleventh Circuit and sister circuit precedent law, ignore landmark cases, disrespect …
18-7168 Michael Deontray Williams v. J. Soto, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ninth-circuit non-capital standard-for-granting-coa substantive-innocence-claims supreme-court-precedent The only question in deciding whether to grant a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") is whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district c…
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute I. Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, Such As: (1) A Vague Statute …
18-7080 Yusufu Danmola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitution-law constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-enforcement separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation uniform-commercial-code Is the Court Allowed to Enforce a Law not in Pursuance with the Constitution? Are The People Prohibited Liberty Of Usage of the Uniform Commercial Co…
18-7042 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation contracts-clause due-process federal-precedent plea-agreement retroactive-application retroactive-legislation state-plea-agreements supreme-court-precedent What is the proper application, if any, of the Contracts Clause to a plea agreement contract, and did Texas misapply the Federal Contracts Clause to P…
18-7013 In Re E. Edward Zimmermann 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congress constitution constitutional-interpretation federal-authority federal-government interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce legislative-interpretation regulatory-scope state-governments state-powers Does Article One of The Constitution of The United States (The Constitution) say, "We the people grant to ... The Congress of the United States the co…
18-717 PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation (a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud…
18-6860 Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state Was Perkins v State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? See Johnny Ray McCloud's 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. Does the Young …
18-6862 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law (1) When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals. See: Carpenter v. United States,…
18-6771 Johny Gardner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.
18-6671 Jimmy David Malone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta…
18-6515 Kevin Wayne Vanover and Meredith Ann Yates v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment,constitutional-interpretation,histor civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process firearm-rights founding-era government-power historical-evidence historical-intent individual-liberty military-force right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing takings Since the courts and the legislature once recognized the Second Amendment was to protect the right of the people to be prepared to resist abuse of gov…
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation 1. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THE ISSUE " A HABEAS CORPUS IS AN APPROPRIATE VEHICAL FORSECOND OR SUCCESSIVE PETITION. THE DISTRICT COURT FOUND THIS ISSU…
18-6429 Victor Dewayne White v. Ector County Appraisal District Texas 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion california-v-larue civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-discretion due-process federal-law judicial-ruling jurisdiction legal-procedure standing state-courts subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Texas Courts abuse thier descretion when they ruled contrarily to established Federal Law, or as now Rule contrary to this Honorable Court's R…
18-6395 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation 1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior…
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
18-6121 Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced …
18-5976 In Re Jaame Amun Re El 2018-09-14 Denied IFP administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta? Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations? Can a Federal prisoner seek rel…
18-312 David R. Smith v. Tennessee National Guard Tennessee 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation employment employment-law preemption reemployment-rights state-law statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause time-limitation title-38-usc-4301 uniformed-services-reserve-reemployment-act userra-act Does a state law that sets a time limit on when an action may be filed under the Uniformed Services Reserve Reemployment Act, Title 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301,…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders for disclosure of …
18-5812 In Re Richard DeCaro 2018-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception Whether the Court should overrule the "separate sovereigns" exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.
18-5741 George O. Riley v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure common-law constitutional-interpretation judicial-rulemaking motion-to-dismiss pleading-standard pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment twombly Whether the heightened pleading standard adopted in Tellabs/Twombly/Iqbal violates the Seventh Amendment to The United States Constitution by defying.…
18-5764 Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga…
18-5693 Arlow Antone Kay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United …
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, ALL OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS, FEDEE…
18-5496 Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California California 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged wi…
18-5361 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Travis Trani, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation pro-se-prisoner-litigant If a defendant is convicted of a lesser included offense of a higher level charge, does the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit retrying…
18-5363 Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim…
18-5385 Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights I. Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state resp…
18-108 David Duncan v. GEICO General Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation due-process erie-doctrine erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins federal-case-law federal-common-law federal-courts judicial-precedent procedural-law substantive-law supreme-court-precedent Whether federal courts are wrongfully developing and applying federal case law in derogation of the U.S. Constitution and the established U.S. Supreme…
18-5146 Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment I. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), this Court invalidated, as inconsistent with the requirements of substantive due process, Texas's blank…
18-18 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (5) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech government-speech monument public-display reasonable-observer religious-symbol standing war-memorial Whether the Establishment Clause requires the removal or destruction of a 93-year-old memorial to American servicemen who died in World War I solely b…
18-5050 James E. Whitney v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process government-authority judicial-independence jurisdiction legal-standing separation-of-powers sovereignty standing I) Is the living breathing sentient mortal sovereign of the world-of man government constructs know as the United States or a sub-servant and subjugat…
18-6 Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al. Oklahoma 2018-06-29 Denied civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation constitutional-sovereignty due-process federal-power federalism federalism-principles government-structure legal-remedy separation-of-powers state-jurisdiction state-sovereignty union Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereig…
23A423 R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. Ninth Circuit Denied constitutional-interpretation disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se Question not identified.
25A693 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Question not identified.