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25A661 Oregon, et al. v. Paul Maney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-04 Application communicable-disease covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment prison-conditions qualified-immunity Question not identified.
25A431 Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., a Wyoming Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al. v. Alberto Carvalho, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of the Los Angeles United School District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-19 fundamental-rights medical-treatment substantive-due-process vaccine-mandate Question not identified.
25-5524 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Kemsey Bowles, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 dna-evidence habeas-corpus legal-research pro-se procedural-time-bar Should pre se, incaccecated Habeas Corpus petitioners be Procedural ly time-bacced when The multi- yeac COVID-19 Pandemic created "Extenocdinary Cireu…
24-1186 Alvin Boone, et al. v. Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response Waived covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health religious-exemption workplace-safety 1. Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent…
24-1169 Amanda Jackson v. Methodist Health Service Corporation, dba UnityPoint Health - Central Illinois Seventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response Waived covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health state-agencies workplace-safety Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent th…
24-6685 Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Ms. Kory, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP covid-19 eighth-amendment injunctive-relief mootness prisoner-rights pro-se-complaint 1. Was the exposure to COVID-19 sufficiently serious enough to trigger an Eighth Amendment protection? 2. Does the permanent loss of the sense of sme…
24A670 Pierre Kory, MD, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied covid-19 first-amendment government-regulation medical-speech physician-speech strict-scrutiny According to the district court and the Ninth Circuit, all speech between a doctor and a patient is unprotected by the First Amendment because it is a…
24A440 John Stockton, et al. v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied constitutional-protection covid-19 first-amendment government-censorship physician-speech strict-scrutiny 1. Is Respondents' enforcement program of investigating, prosecuting, and sanctioning Washington physicians for their public speech on COVID-19 patent…
24-438 Benjamin S. Goldberg v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights covid-19 emergency-orders fourth-amendment mask-mandate state-action I. Did the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Respondent Governor Ralph Northam's COVID-19 e…
24-5653 Aaron Abadi v. Marina District Development Company, LLC, dba Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, et al. Third Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act cdc-guidance covid-19 direct-threat disability-rights public-accommodations In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, government agencies and private corporations implemented mask mandates in public accommodations, following CDC g…
24-5369 Tommy T. Branch v. United States District of Columbia 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 imprisonment legislative-response rehabilitation sentencing-disparity term-reduction Question not identified.
24A150 GHP Management Corporation, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete covid-19 eviction-moratorium fifth-amendment municipal-code regulatory-taking takings-clause Question not identified.
24-73 Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic by …
24A59 Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-search covid-19 fourth-amendment government-mandate medical-testing qualified-immunity This case presents important constitutional questions concerning whether weekly government mandated medical testing of public workers violates the wor…
23-7793 Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate Has the Lower Federal Trial Court known as U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit Court i…
23-1291 Gazul Producciones SL Unipersonal v. Sheddf2-FL5 LLC Florida 2024-06-11 Denied corporate-disclosure covid-19 foreclosure general-appearance non-litigation-counsel pandemic-procedure service-of-process waiver zoom-hearing Whether a Spanish entity waived service of process when its non-litigation counsel was ordered by the trial judge to appear at a Zoom foreclosure hear…
23A1048 Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-23 Presumed Complete covid-19 criminal-procedure preservation public-trial right-to-access sixth-amendment The circumstances under which Rule 51 triggers a criminal defendant's obligation to object to a violation of his or her right to a public trial, and s…
23-7454 Jennifer L. M. Sendzul v. Jay C. Hoag, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals-court civil-rights covid-19 district-court due-process indigent-rights judicial-access judicial-discretion remote-proceedings writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate when a district court denies any other form of meaningful access other than in-person for scheduled hea…
23A942 Angelia and Kelvin Smith v. Snug Owner, LLC Texas 2024-04-19 Denied covid-19 eviction jurisdiction pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-7232 Quotez Tyvick Pair v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process federal-courts judicial-procedure pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. CAN A UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT'S GENERAL ORDER SUSPEND RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? 2. DID THE COVID-19 PAND…
23-1117 James A. Crowe, et ux. v. Savvy IN, LLC Indiana 2024-04-15 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure covid-19 due-process mail-notification property-rights signature-protocol tax-sale During the COVID-19 pandemic under the United States Postal Service's altered signature accountable mail policy to accommodate health concerns, when t…
23-1083 Shula Waxwoman, fka Shlomit Ruttkamp v. The Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Connecticut 2024-04-04 Denied constitutional-protection covid-19 due-process equal-protection eviction-stay foreclosure foreclosure-moratorium fraud-misrepresentation judicial-procedure property-rights state-of-emergency Is the lifting of the COVID-19 State Foreclosure Moratoriums and Stays Governor's Tenth Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation of May 21, 2020, …
23A872 Emanuel Mois v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied §-2255-motion covid-19 extraordinary-circumstances legal-access pandemic-limitations procedural-ruling Question not identified.
23A743 Darryl Puderer v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-09 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 habeas-corpus law-library prison-conditions pro-se Question not identified.
23A678 Jerome Yelder v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete covid-19 decision-order extraordinary-relief judicial-proceedings pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
23A620 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-04 Presumed Complete access-to-courts covid-19 first-amendment incarceration legal-mail prison-law-library Question not identified.
23-722 Ralph Diaz, et al. v. Patricia Polanco, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process ninth-circuit prison-conditions qualified-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly denied qualified immunity to prison officials in these cases by defining the relevant law at a high level of gene…
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…
23-630 James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go …
23-501 Norman A. Mallory v. Rocky Mountain Human Service SSVF Tenth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied civil-rights covid-19 equal-protection public-accommodations racial-discrimination veterans-affairs I Isn't this race discrimination, when a black elderly veteran applied to a veterans program for some help during the covid-19 pandemic and was treat…
23-490 Enrique Jevons, as a Managing Member of Jevons Properties LLC, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived covid-19 declaratory-judgment eviction-moratoria fifth-amendment just-compensation regulatory-taking standing takings-clause 1. Because the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands just compensation for governmental takings, including temporary ones, did the Ninth Circu…
23-5658 James Kevin Ball v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 covid-19-delay criminal-defendant-rights district-court due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-provision jury-trial-suspension jury-trials ninth-circuit-review speedy-trial Whether a district court may continue to rely on emergency circumstances to delay a trial under the ends-of-justice provision at 18 USC. § 3161(h)(7)(…
23-5441 Mika 'ya Ali Shakur v. Sergeant Thompson Fourth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-civil-procedure prison-healthcare serious-medical-need 1. On February 1, 2021, PLAINTIFF an inmate in the custody of VADOC, was denied his eigth amendment right to a "serious medical need" in of recieving …
23-5414 Joseph D Gilberti, Jr. v. The Pentagon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-theory covid-19 due-process free-speech government-corruption legal-fraud standing takings water-resources Why did the lower Courts with the entire US Media, CDC hide this US Resource and faked a Pandemic, knowing the Covidl9 Mask was printed on the $20bill…
23-89 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights covid-19 covid-emergency-powers due-process emergency-powers federal-civil-procedure individual-capacity-suit mootness mootness-doctrine standing state-official-immunity Whether a case involving COVID-19 emergency powers is moot, even though the same emergency powers can be reinstated at any time for COVID-19 or any ot…
23-5202 Aaron Abadi, et al. v. Transportation Security Administration District of Columbia 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-authority air-carrier-access-act congressional-intent covid-19 health-regulations major-questions-doctrine pandemic-response statutory-interpretation transportation-security tsa-authority The Transportation Security Administration "TSA " was created by 1) Congress after the terrorist attacks on September 11 to protect the American peopl…
23-60 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Feds for Medical Freedom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-07-21 GVR Relisted (9) administrative-law civil-service-reform-act covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order federal-employee federal-employment mootness preliminary-injunction Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment and remand with i…
23-5 Breon Powell v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability court-closure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus 1. Did Circuit Court of Appeals err and thereby abuse its discretion and commit error in denying due process to Appellant Powell when it denied a Cert…
22-1225 Jason Payne v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-21 GVR Relisted (8) administrative-law civil-rights civil-service-reform constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-vaccination executive-order judicial-review mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing 1. Whether the judgment below should be vacated and the case remanded for dismissal as moot under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (195…
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Like millions of other Americans, petitioner's normal daily living activities were interrupted and upended when COVID-19 shutdowns spread across the n…
22-7617 David Anthony Battle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. Whether the district court failed to make proper ends of justice findings to justify a sixteen month delay in the trial based upon pronouncements c…
22-1115 Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California California 2023-05-15 Denied bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant a public trial. In Presley v. Georgia , 558 U.S. 209 (2010) (per curiam), this Court held that exc…
22-880 Ohio v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Amici (3) american-rescue-plan constitutional-limits covid-19 covid-relief federal-spending-clause intergovernmental-immunity jurisdictional-challenge spending-clause state-sovereignty state-standing tax-mandate The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the American economy. In response, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which offered $195 billion i…
22-6931 In Re DeAnn Graham 2023-03-06 Denied IFP civil-rights court-administrative-errors covid-19 covid-19-leave due-process federal-law ffcra postal-service-interference unemployment unemployment-discrimination writ-of-mandamus This case is before the Court on a Writ of Mandamus, the Court of Appeals " and the Northern Indiana District Court 's order their motions to dismiss …
22-6711 Antonio Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process fair-trial national-emergency WHETHER MR. WALTON WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL AND DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IN…
22-6675 Barrett S. Tunsil v. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP civil-rights covid-19 due-process equal-protection free-exercise pandemic Question not identified.
22-694 Jermaine Andra Whitaker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prison-access prison-law-library statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the 11th circuit Court erred in determining that the covid-19 pandemic, which led to the quarantine of the Wheeler Correctional Facility fo…
22-6585 Tennessee, ex rel. David Jonathan Tulis v. Bill Lee, Governor of Tennessee, et al. Tennessee 2023-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-restrictions due-process executive-orders free-speech press-freedom religious-liberty standing Can Tennessee courts lawfully deny relief to press member petitioner where the governor and a local official by executive orders and directives chill …
22-6478 Hanan Shiheiber v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. California 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chase chase-bank covid-19 estoppel fdic fdic-dissolution federal-law mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-foreclosure-crisis washington-mutual The fraud of various banks that occurred during the mortgage foreclosure crisis was exacerbated during the COVID-19 epidemic. This case presents the …
22-6325 Travis Ray Thompson v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied IFP administrative-grievance civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-prison due-process due-process-protections exhaustion exhaustion-requirement imminent-danger-exception plra prison prison-litigation-reform-act Whether the Eastern District abused its discretion finding Petitioner was not entitled to an "imminent danger" exception to the PLRA, 42 USC § 1997e(a…
22-6234 Rex Gainey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-law covid-19 covid-19-impact district-court-discretion habeas-corpus prison-law-library pro-se-petitioner statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Should district courts adopt an approach that allows for the holistic consideration of all the circumstances accompanying a petitioner's late filing w…
22-6086 Dale McCoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-quarantine due-process equitable-tolling federal-bureau-of-prisons fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment section-2255 Whether the unforeseen and unexpected quarantining of the Peti- oner, by the Federal Bureau of Prisons; due to the COVID -19 Pandemic, justifies "Eq…
22-461 Scott Troogstad, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-mandate due-process employment employment-condition first-amendment religious-exemption substantive-due-process vaccination-mandate vaccine-policy I. Whether the City of Chicago violated substantive due process in requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their emplo…
22-438 Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause 1. Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims for ordering the shut-down of their …
22-5971 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process judicial-precedent prison-law-library prison-litigation prisoner-rights standing Petitioner submits this writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court concerning the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columb…
22-5967 Hunter Halver Brown v. Alabama Alabama 2022-11-01 Denied IFP covid-19 covid-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process evidence interstate-agreement-on-detainers restitution speedy-trial trial-timeline I- Whether Hunter Brown's Covington, County, Al. Charges in CASE NO. :CC-20-303. should've been dismissed pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Deta…
22-5934 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release constitutional-due-process covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act health-conditions judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-modification sentencing-reform sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-5853 Steven Trapp v. Erica Huss, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied IFP civil-rights complaint-dismissal constitutional-violation covid-19 departmental-memorandum due-process pleadings sixth-circuit standing I. Should this court grant this writ of certiorari where the sixth circuit court err in not overturning the district court 's dismissal of petitioner …
22-5808 Zachary Spada v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions damages-claim due-process exercise-opportunities inmate-rights institutional-liability mootness mootness-doctrine standing 1. Whether an inmate that was confined at a correctional institution during the COVID- 19 Pandemic has a right to sue for damages for the denial of ex…
22-333 U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response Waived causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act (1) Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception, 29 U.S.C. § 2102(b)(2)(B)? (2) What causal connectio…
22-5701 Terry Wayne Cope v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing A. Does the precedent that "a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine does not pr…
22-5544 Jason L. Sanders v. Matt Macauley, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process medical-care prisoner-rights Question not identified.
22-5321 William S. Divine v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation 1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19 safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of §2…
22-5253 Dennis Charles Helmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice-reform first-step-act medical-care sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines 1.) Whether the District Court erred when it denied relief to Petitioner 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion based upon the applicability of 18 U.S.C. 3…
22-5192 Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief Question not identified.
22-5049 Percy Love, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP artuz-v-bennett covid-19 covid-19-exception diligence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-tolling-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statutory-interpretation Whether an extension to file a 2255 petition is "properly filed" under Artuz v. Bennet? Where petitioner was pursuing his rights diligently during th…
21-8265 Michael S. Gorbey v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
21-8274 Melvin Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-hearing virtual-proceedings In light of the reduced reliability of virtual procedures employed during the pre-vaccine period of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the "reasonable probabi…
21-8257 Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-due-process section-2255 statutory-interpretation Can the Court omit exculpatory facts to deny a citizen his one year guaranteed by 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(l) when the government by locking down the defend…
21-8213 James York v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion administrative-remedies asthma compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-corrections sentencing-factors Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. York's Motion for Compassionate Release?
21-7926 Jonathan D. Stephen, Jr. v. Palestine Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation covid-19 due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing state-officials Why did Ashton Rodriguez $ Zachary smith ofte Palestine Police Dept. aCt Under color ofstate law, custom, or usAge, subjeets qnother to the depriation…
21-7806 Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP covid-19 executive-privilege glomar-response grand-jury mandamus marbury-vs-madison public-interest supreme-court-rules 1. Whether, pursuant to S.Ct.R. 11, see also 28 U.S.C. § 2101(e) 1, upon application for prejudgment relief, in "a case pending in a United States cou…
21-1358 Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma, Inc., dba Goodwill Career Pathways Institute v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company Tenth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure covid-19 covid-related-claims direct-physical-loss erie-doctrine federalism insurance insurance-coverage state-law state-law-interpretation Whether federal courts are violating Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), as well as principles of federalism, in uniformly refusing to seek a…
21-7635 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-orders content-and-viewpoint-discrimination court-jurisdiction covid-19 covid-19-continuance due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority public-debate unconstitutional viewpoint-discrimination Are the administrative internal court operation orders in response to the covid-19 pandemic an act that lacks authority, jurisdiction, due process, a …
21-1339 Carlton Richard Nebergall v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied Response Waived closing-arguments covid-19 covid-19-context deliberation-pressure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion Did the trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury by creating a substantial risk that one or more jurors felt…
21-7547 Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro…
21-7498 Eric Lloyd Hermansen v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP atypical-hardship civil-rights constitutional-protection covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus health-complications prisoner-rights Are State prisoners protected under this Court's decision in Helling v. McKinney from being forcibly subjected to its unknown health complications/ ex…
21-1259 Jay J. John v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied adversarial-system civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-procedure district-court due-process judicial-inquiry judicial-neutrality legal-contention motion-standard standing 1. Must a district court decide a motion based on those judicial inquiries framed by the movant and his adversaries by applying the legal contentions …
21-7269 Joseph Peter Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion covid-19 criminal-history downward-variance drug-offenses juvenile-offenses sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines stash-house-robbery Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred affirming the district court's abuse of discretion in overruling petitioner's objections to the PSI Report …
21-7187 Paul E. Jozwiak v. Raytheon Missile Systems, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP alternative-service civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-restrictions due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure jurisdictional-authority magistrate-judge service-of-process This Case Raises Federal Questions Under Article III, Section 2 Of The U.S. Constitution Which Provides That Federal Courts Are To Hear Cases "Arising…
21-1143 Dr. A., et al. v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Amici (12)Relisted (10) administrative-rule covid-19 covid-vaccine-mandate employment-division-v-smith free-exercise free-exercise-clause medical-exemption religious-exemption secular-conduct vaccine-mandate Using its emergency regulatory powers, New York has imposed a COVID vaccine mandate on healthcare workers, but provided no religious exemption. Worker…
21-7138 Roy Franklin Echols, Jr. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure covid-19 due-process federal-employers-liability-act fela fourteenth-amendment standing summons-service 1. Did the United States District Court Error by denying the January 13,2020, initial No.1 CSX Transportation Corporate Headquarters Address -ho exped…
21-6655 Henry Trevillion v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-pandemic equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure judicial-review lockdown statute-of-limitations IS PETITIONER HENRY TREVILLION ENTITLED TO AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING REGARDING HIS CLAIM THAT THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS SHOULD BE EQUITABLY TOLLED BECAU…
21-6577 Christine Kay Ostopowicz v. United Healthcare Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delays disability-discrimination due-process medical-evidence mental-health postal-delays procedural-fairness remote-plaintiff united-healthcare Why was my case previously denied by other courts without medical expertise, medical records or reports being taken into consideration even when supp…
21-6565 Edmond Maynor v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 due-process lockdowns standing takings Question not identified.
21-6308 Iona Sanders v. Christwood Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-seven civil-rights covid-19 due-process jury-trial medical-records-privacy pandemic-jury-trial race-discrimination recusal-motion standing summary-judgment 1. Whether a pandemic overrides Amendment VII, which states, "the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, " when the district court judge stated, "…
21-717 John Does 1–3, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) covid-19 covid-19-mandate free-exercise free-exercise-clause healthcare-workers preemption preliminary-injunction religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii "[E]ven in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten." Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 68 (2020). More…
21-698 Butler County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process government-response mootness-doctrine pandemic-response pandemic-restrictions standing takings voluntary-cessation Whether the doctrine of mootness applies; Whether the "voluntary cessation" exception or "capable of repetition yet evading review" exception to moot…
21-6205 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-impact crime-of-violence deportation due-process immigration immigration-law In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni…
21-6060 Ance Payton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
21-5992 Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served -1-he. Scolcnce 4he Tudge (kiitheia Moo fez) eae d vivre Aan 4-14e Guedelmes Rom mord-)15- 4's on error sloe broke 4-he )sol rules -(4/Jere_ 7) -tkie …
21-5947 Jorge Petter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals covid-19 due-process fifth-amendment filing-deadlines incarcerated-filers pandemic-response standing-order No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in…
21-5807 Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony 1. Did the district court err when it allowed testimony via two-way interactive video on foundational or "factual scenario" grounds over confrontati…
21-5721 In Re Michael Wappler 2021-09-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison-conditions IS PETITIONER WHO HAS TWICE SUFFERED COVID-19 INFECTIONS WITH RELATED DUAL-PNEUMONIA WHO IS AMONG A GROUP OF PRISONERS IDENTIFIED BY THE CDC AS A VULN…
21-284 In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd 2021-08-27 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk I. This Court has long held that it, "has power to issue a mandamus, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, and that the writ will lie in a pr…
21-5478 Ulises Alvarado v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release Is it a violation of due process for a defendant to have his supervised release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c…
21-5355 Jung Won Yun v. Chung Cha Kim, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied IFP civil-rights covid-19 due-process fee-waiver language-barriers legal-documents litigation pro-se standing supreme-court translation Question not identified.
21-173 Marilyn Tillman-Conerly v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived agency-closure alternative-service civil-procedure covid-19 due-process good-cause judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-rules service-of-process 1.) Whether the Ninth Circuit Court abused its discretion by finding and deciding that the District Court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing P…
21-5068 Leonard Griffin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
21-5071 Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California California 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice Question not identified.
20-8471 Angel Morales v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process petition-clause standing Due to the covid-19 pandemic, since March 2010 inmates have not had access to a type writer or the library, and there has been times where we only com…
20-8420 Jimmie O'Neal v. Jay Christensen Ninth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay district-court-merits due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness standing A/. IN THIS CASE OF PETITIONERS PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI, PETITIONER REQUEST REVIEW OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION THAT DENIED …
20-8340 Reginald Charles Harvey v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights compassionate-release covid-19 due-process prison-reform Question not identified.
20-8250 Nathaniel Howard Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process federal-prisons legal-resources prison-access prisoner-litigation Whether the petitioner was denied due process of law during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the fact that all federal prisons were closed to all incoming…
20-8115 Christopher Scott Merrill v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 42-usc-1983 civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Whether prisoners can challenge unsafe prison conditions causing death and other life threatening conditions by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks using …
20-8085 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 covid-19-pandemic extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions prisoner-relief sentencing sentencing-modification Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Barnes' Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
20-7962 Wesley Brian Earnest v. Keith W. Davis, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims covid-19 dna-evidence equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-grounds a. Should courts Procedurally time-bar a pro se inmetes habeas Corpus then a priser official with a sericus health illness, such as COVTD ~ 19, is Tes…
20-7563 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1651 actual-innocence cares-act certificate-of-appealability covid-19 federal-court-authority prison-conditions prisoner-rights sentence-execution QUESTION ONE: WHETHER A FEDERAL COURT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AN ORDER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND/OR STAY OF EXECUTION OF THE REMAINING UNLAWFUL SEN…
20-1290 In Re Adesijuola Ogunjobi 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights class-action covid-19 covid-19-challenge doj-officials due-process intervention-motion loan-blocking standing statutory-relief The global community is facing the most egregious crime ever committed against humanity as in the invention or fabrication of Coronavirus aka COVID-19…
20-7385 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial where the government has failed to establish, and the lower courts' findings are unsupporte…
20-7389 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Becky Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability covid-19 covid-19-impact due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD OF REVIEW TO PETITIONER'S APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ("COA") ON PETITIONE…
20-7390 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence administrative-law constitutional-vagueness covid-19 covid-19-restrictions deportation due-process immigration immigration-law In light of the recent binding precedent of this court, dated April 17, 2018, in Session v. Dimaya, 200 L. Ed 2d 549, 138 S Ct. 1204, affirming the Ni…
20-7342 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2021-03-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions SHOULD THE COURT ISSUE AN EMERGENCY WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REQUIRING RESPONDENT'S TO RELEASE PETITIONER DUE TO THE FACT COVID-19 AND ITS VARIANTS PRESE…
20-1157 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, Riverside County, et al. California 2021-02-23 Denied civil-rights covid-19 disability disability-rights due-process health-status judicial-discretion mortality-risk public-health standing writ-of-certiorari "Did the lower court of appeal have broad discretion to not address the alleged bias and summarily deny the writ of mandate during the current pandemi…
20-6849 Casey Rafael Tyler v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process health-safety inmate-rights institutional-policy prison-conditions DOES LAWFUL IMPRISONMENT IMPOSE A LEGAL Duty om the prisoner to try surviving '~The General Population ^ so that he can oe Lawfully ordered 'to go i…
20-6587 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-12-09 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-risk due-process habeas-corpus humanitarian-parole immigration immigration-detention medical-vulnerability public-health Question not identified.
20-6375 Molika Akwo Nweme v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights covid-19 due-process prison time-extension Question not identified.
20-688 Orlando Cordia Hall v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-11-19 Denied access-to-counsel clemency clemency-process covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process execution-notice federal-death-penalty-act right-to-counsel ultra-vires In light of these facts, the question presented is whether the government should be allowed to move forward with Petitioner's execution on November 19…
20-689 Michael Lee Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Response Waived bail-reform-act covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process excessive-bail internet-offenses internet-related-offenses presumption-of-detention pretrial-detention This Court has not assessed the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3141–3150, governing pretrial release for persons accused of federal crimes, sin…
20-639 Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Amici (6)Relisted (2) covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny 1. Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause. 2. Whether the Governor's favoring of secu…
20-6095 Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).
20-482 Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. v. Adams & Boyle, P.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-order executive-order medical-procedures mootness munsingwear-doctrine standing Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the Sixth Circuit's judgment and remand with ins…
20-5673 In Re Ricardo Watkins 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cares-act civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-management due-process home-confinement medical-conditions prison-conditions prison-safety WHETHER RICARDO WATKINS SHOULD BE RESEASED TO HOME CONFINEMENT UNDER THE CARES ACT OF MARCH 2020, BECAUSE OF HIS UNDERLYING, DEBILITATING MEDICAL COND…
20-305 Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, et al. v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) abortion abortion-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process executive-order judicial-review mandamus mootness The Governor of Texas, in reliance on the COVID 19 pandemic, issued an executive order that banned nearly all abortions in Texas for at least a month,…
20-5194 In Re Kevin D. Moore 2020-07-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question not identified.
19-8245 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process standing takings Question not identified.
19-8211 Frederick Banks v. Scooter Braun, et al. Second Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus standing Wheter te Dstrict Cort erred in Disming the 2a41 Habeas Corpus under 28 UsC 81915(g)? Whether the District Court erred in dismising the dd4 Habeas Co…
19-7495 Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety Question not identified.