| 25-6683 |
Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard |
1. Over thirteen years after Roderick LeShun Rankin was convicted of three murders and sentenced to death, the pastor of his deceased brother Rodney d… |
| 25-6306 |
Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation |
Whether a prisoner arrested and housed in Oakland County Jail, 1201 N. Telegraph Road, Rawlins, Michigan 48341 as a pretrial detainee on an unrelated … |
| 25-486 |
David Perez v. City and County of Denver, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedies due-diligence eeoc-complaint fraud-of-court pro-se-litigation title-vii |
On June 3, 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the precondition in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requiring employees to file a charge with … |
| 25A282 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack due-diligence habeas-corpus innocence-claim successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 25A281 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
collateral-review due-diligence federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2255 successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 25-80 |
Studco Building Systems US, LLC v. 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
|
actual-knowledge due-diligence financial-institution fund-transfer privity ucc-article-4a |
An FBI report found that the funds stolen in internet scams were usually "sent directly to a financial institution ... which directly contributed to t… |
| 25-5097 |
Michael Bell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Giglio in his initial § 2254 motion, should a second-in-time mot… |
| 24-7352 |
Robert Allen Benney v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-doctrine constitutional-rights due-diligence equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-doctrine |
Since Youngblood & Brady are doctrines governing evidentiary preservation and focus on the prosecutions conduct, should courts be allowed to impose a … |
| 24-7163 |
Jose Nieves Briones v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-diligence habeas-corpus supreme-court-jurisdiction time-bar |
QUESTION No. 1: DOES THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAVE JURISDICTION
TO REVIEW THE DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY A COURT
OF APPEALS … |
| 24-584 |
Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
aedpa due-diligence factual-predicate federal-review habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
A person in state custody has one year to file a habeas petition. Usually, that one year runs from "the date on which the judgment became final by the… |
| 23-6785 |
Raleigh G. Rogers v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
North Carolina |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure class-action class-actions contact-information due-diligence due-process notice opt-out rule-23 service-by-publication service-of-process |
Is it Substantial Harm to the Public to allow the Defendant in a Rule 23(b)(3) "opt-out " class actions to withhold contact information it maintains i… |
| 23-5033 |
Rick John Morales, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-diligence expert-witness government-action speedy-trial trial-procedure trial-scheduling witness-appearance |
Whether sending an email asking if there is a "better" date for an expert witness qualifies as the Government's requirement to act with "due diligence… |
| 22-7234 |
Gerald Wayne LeBeau v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus procedural-ruling standing |
QUESTION ONE: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN DENYING LEBEAU'S EQUITABLE TOLLING?
QUESTION TWO: WAS THE COURTS PROCEDURE RULING PROPER IN D… |
| 22-6798 |
Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression |
1. Whether, to establish "suppression" under Brady
v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the parallel
"cause" to excuse procedural default of a Brad… |
| 22-6741 |
Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct self-help |
1). Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he could not have obtained the independent ef… |
| 22-6011 |
In Re Dale Richard Pate |
|
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-relief appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure discretionary-powers discretionary-review due-diligence exceptional-circumstances statute-of-limitations writ-of-certiorari |
I. DID RESPONDENT USURP THIS COURT'S APPELLATE JURISDICTION?
II. IS USURPATION OF APPELLATE JURISDICTION AN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCE WHICH WARRANTS T… |
| 22-5037 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the actions of the defense rather than the government, effectively limi… |
| 21-1428 |
Donald L. Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure self-help |
Whether, to establish a violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), a defendant must show that he could not have obtained the suppressed, excu… |
| 21-7636 |
Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence |
Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def… |
| 21-1305 |
Melchor Munoz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the revocation of a criminal defendant's citizenship is mandatory as a result of a plea to a criminal conviction but (2)… |
| 21-1070 |
Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing |
The Arizona Appellate Court, misstated issues of material fact; b) there is a fundamental error in the opinion of the court of Appeals, which misrepre… |
| 21-970 |
Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections v. Karl Fontenot |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split due-diligence due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations |
In 1988, an Oklahoma jury convicted Karl Fontenot in the abduction and killing of Denice Haraway. The chief evidence against Fontenot was his own conf… |
| 20-5360 |
Reinaldo Dennes v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence brady-violation cause-and-prejudice circuit-split cullen-v-pinholster due-diligence due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus napue-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Given the extreme facts of this case, should this Court finally turn to footnote 10 and Justice Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster… |
| 20-160 |
Ahmed Halim v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence good-faith government-discretion housing-regulations official-good-faith standing state-variance takings |
What are the limits on due diligence?
Do government officials act in good faith all the time?
Can the government punish the petitioner for reasons B… |
| 20-5032 |
Daniel Lewis Lee v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-claim due-diligence federal-inmates habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel savings-clause sixth-amendment structural-bar |
1. The savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) provides a residual habeas forum for federal inmates in cases in which a § 2255 motion is "inadequate or … |
| 19-1094 |
James Milton Dailey v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-diligence exculpatory-evidence giglio-claim giglio-v-united-states jailhouse-informant jailhouse-informants materiality materiality-standard perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a defendant advancing a Brady claim must demonstrate that he or she could not have uncovered the suppressed evidence through the exercise of d… |
| 19-7267 |
Piper Lakay Ellis Snowton v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-diligence due-process equitable-doctrine fraud fraudulent-concealment judicial-bias procedural-technicalities standing veterans-affairs |
1. whether With the facts and circumstances surrounding case No. 3:18-cv-2900-S-BN from the united states district court, northern district of texas, … |
| 19-6612 |
Jerome Small v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion brady-claim constitutional-procedure due-diligence judicial-discretion pcra-court-discretion plea-agreement prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct timeliness |
Is their four (4) prongs to establishing a Brady claim ?
Is the burden on the defense to scavage for Brady material to
show due diligence ?
Is a Br… |
| 19-6438 |
Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in the Arizona Revised Statute ("A.R.S." 812-542) applies to a federal action in a distric… |
| 19-6362 |
Fernando Nunez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
ARE CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS' REQUIRED TO PLEAD AND PROVE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT UNDER BRADY v. MARYLAND, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), AND ITS… |
| 19-6081 |
Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Is this instant case before the Court to answer the question left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991)… |
| 18-8888 |
Nexis Rene Gomez v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-diligence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit erred in finding that petitioner did not showed that jurist of reason would find it debatable whether the district court abused … |
| 18-8917 |
Gilbert Demetrius Aguilar v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2107 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-ineffectiveness due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
(1):In light of MENDEZ V.KNOWLES,535 F3.d 973(9th Cir.2008)1 day late tiling of habeas pitition.and ditterentcoUrts:t may be more or less open to gran… |
| 18-6609 |
Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Office of Personnel Management |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-immunity due-diligence due-process federal-tort-claims-act government-liability jurisdiction negligence statutory-interpretation |
When harm occurs and there is no resolution under current statutes and guidelines that regulate that agency, the following questions present themselve… |
| 18-6591 |
Leslie Chin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i… |
| 18-565 |
CITGO Asphalt Refining Company, et al. v. Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split due-diligence guarantee guarantee-of-safety maritime-law safe-berth safe-berth-clause ship-safety voyage-charter |
Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship's safety, as the Third Circuit below and … |
| 18-6336 |
Chamontae Walker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty |
This petition raises an issue on which courts are divided: is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty disclose evidence favorable to the… |
| 18-6090 |
Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation |
DID THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT AND COMMON PLEAS COURT ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION BY DENYING WILLIAMS AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO REVIEW THE MERITS OF H… |
| 18-5886 |
Dwight Mitchell v. Wilson Taylor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 due-diligence due-process fraudulent-concealment lower-court merits rule-12-motion rule-12-motion-to-dismiss statute-of-limitations term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
Was it proper for the lower court to throw out a properly plead 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cause of action for events in 2013 on a Rule 12 motion to dismiss wit… |
| 18-5185 |
Tamara Zivot v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. |
California |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-guarantee defendant-not-served due-diligence due-process household-member personal-jurisdiction service-of-process state-court statutory-mandate substitute-service |
1. Is the constitutional guarantee of due process in order to confer personal jurisdiction over a defendant denied to a person when the evidence prese… |