due-process-clause

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25-994 Beverly Hennager v. Mary E. Deardon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of M.K. Jennings South Carolina 2026-02-19 Pending access-to-courts appellate-review due-process-clause equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires enforceable constitutional safeguards in state judicial systems where (1) judges bot…
25-983 Société Générale De Banque Au Liban, S.A.L. v. Ester Lelchook, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Martin Lelchook, et al. Second Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending asset-acquisition due-process-clause forum-contacts general-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction Whether the Due Process Clause allows courts to exercise personal jurisdiction by imputing an unaffiliated nonparty's forum contacts to a defendant wi…
25-973 Ray Leonerdirt Díaz-Santiago v. José Sánchez-Acosta, et al. First Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending due-process-clause fifth-amendment government-contracts promesa property-rights ultra-vires 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in holding that Petitioner's contractual and constitutional rights were discharged under PROMESA's Title III Plan o…
25-6844 Shannon Simpson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-02-18 Pending IFP due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment impeachment-silence right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest:…
25-6838 Rustin Perot Wright v. Ashley Brooke Womack Texas 2026-02-18 Pending IFP due-process-clause electronic-service jurisdiction notice-requirement nunc-pro-tunc void-judgment The State of Texas long ago implemented an electronic court filing system, and mandates its use in all cases, even by pro se litigants. Hence, all par…
25-6834 AmadaSophia Komorebi v. Andrew Katkin California 2026-02-17 Pending IFP child-custody due-process-clause home-state-jurisdiction interstate-family-law parental-kidnapping-prevention-act visitation-rights 1. Whether the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, permits a State court to deny home-State priority jurisdiction by treati…
25-6833 Israel Romero v. Charter Communications, Inc., et al. South Carolina 2026-02-17 Pending IFP appellate-procedure class-of-one due-process-clause equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment Whether South Carolina courts erred in applying "double standard" in a "class of one" in violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of …
25-6825 Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-17 Pending IFP 28-USC-1915 appellate-procedure due-process-clause factual-record-development frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis 1. Whether a court of appeals may dismiss an appeal as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) based on a record that was truncated at the screening …
25-6820 Troy LaFrost Decker v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2026-02-13 Pending IFP due-process-clause fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment warrant-issuance Whether a state court's failure to address a pro se pre-trial motion raising violations of mandatory warrant issuance and probable cause determination…
25-422 Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-08 Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote?
25-5463 Trent Nelson v. URSA Major Corporation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process-clause federal-court-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation 1. Do a Pro Se litigant have constitutional provision in federal court? Violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments, "Due process clause". Ensures that t…
24A1157 Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete due-process-clause habeas-corpus immigration-detention mandatory-detention noncitizen-detention removal-proceedings Question not identified.
24A801 Michael Anthony Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-02-19 Presumed Complete arbitrary-government-interference due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberties jurisdictional-dismissal right-to-be-heard Question not identified.
24-6084 Christopher Roalson v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-preservation forensic-evidence Whether allowing an expert witness to discuss other test results or testimonial statements if the testimonial statements were not themselves admitted …
24-609 James L. Martin v. David H. Nixon Delaware 2024-12-04 Denied civil-judgment due-process-clause escheat fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment takings-clause Do the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause protect a civil judgment creditor, in a state court, from eschea…
23-7840 Douglas Lemon v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation disclosure-of-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence-disclosure fitness-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment (1), He was not given a fair Fitness Evaluation Nor Hearing, Due Process Right, U.S. Constitution, Amendment, 14th, ILL. Const. ( 1970 ) Art; 1 § 2; d…
23-7677 Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman Tenth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation It is a public record that petitioner is the only taxpayer in New Mexico who was deprived of property but denied due process evidentiary hearing when …
23-7671 James Chamblin v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied IFP amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin…
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion? Does the defendant suffer double jeop…
23-1146 Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Minnesota 2024-04-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info…
23-1021 Kari Lake, et al. v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii-standing civil-rights due-process due-process-clause election-controversy election-integrity jurisdictional-amendment national-security standing voting-machine-tampering voting-machines 1. Whether an Article III case or controversy existed at all relevant times and still exists. 2. Whether petitioners may amend their allegations of j…
23A335 Simeon Bozic v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-10-13 Presumed Complete due-process-clause evidence-of-innocence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief shinn-v-ramirez Question not identified.
23A323 Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. New Jersey 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest Question not identified.
23A258 Tracy Nixon v. General Motors Corporation Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Presumed Complete due-process-clause fifth-amendment long-arm-statute personal-jurisdiction registered-agent service-of-process WHETHER MOVANT PROPERLY PROCEDURALY BY STATUTE SERVE THE DEFENDANT COMPLAINT AND SUMMONS UPON DEFENDANT WHERE THERE IS COMPLETE DIVERSITY BETWEEN PLAI…
23A177 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete compelled-medical-procedures due-process-clause family-court medical-treatment parental-contact parental-rights Question not identified.
23A143 Javier Martinez v. Lowell Clark, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Presumed Complete dangerousness-determination due-process-clause immigration-detention judicial-review mandatory-detention mixed-questions-of-law-and-fact 1. The Ninth Circuit concluded - over the dissent of eleven judges who disagreed with the decision not to reconsider the decision en banc - that the j…
23A121 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane 1. This case presents the question whether the Due Process Clause forbids the imposition of retroactive liability for conduct in violation of a statut…
23A70 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, et al. v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process-clause foreign-manufacturer fourteenth-amendment nationwide-market nicastro personal-jurisdiction This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, not a petition for certiorari itself. The document does not…
23A63 Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-07-24 Denied brady-violation due-process-clause habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence Whether the prosecution violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by withholding material…
22-6966 In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer 2023-03-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-decisis constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause final-decisions grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment jurisdiction statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
22A722 J.R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-02-07 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof due-process-clause impartial-judge involuntary-commitment psychiatric-hospitalization trial-court-role Whether the Due Process Clause allows a trial court to combine the roles of prosecutor and judge in proceedings for the involuntary commitment of a pe…
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid…
22-396 Christa Fischer, et al. v. Federal Express Corp., et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bristol-myers bristol-myers-squibb collective-action due-process due-process-clause fair-labor-standards-act opt-in-plaintiffs personal-jurisdiction service-of-process Whether a federal court has the authority, absent general personal jurisdiction over the defendant or the defendant's consent, to maintain a Fair Labo…
22-5922 Andrew S. Andersen v. Jennifer Shaffer, Executive Director, California Board of Parole Hearings Ninth Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied IFP beliefs-thoughts civil-rights due-process due-process-clause first-amendment free-speech government-benefit parole parole-regulations speech-suppression turner-test 1) when a plaintiff alleges that he or She was denied a valuable governmental benefit based on his or her beliefs and thoughts and that the receipt o…
22-308 Ramin Seddiq v. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, et al. Virginia 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict liberty-interest statutory-disclosure statutory-entitlement virginia-freedom-of-information-act 1. Does the Virginia Freedom of Information Act afford the citizens of Virginia with a statutorily created liberty interest for Fourteenth Amendment p…
21-1377 The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2022-04-25 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived cover-up due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause punitive-damages retroactive-legislation sexual-abuse-claims statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause allows retroactive legislation that was enacted with an avowedly punitive purpose, imposes additional punitive lia…
21-1356 M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. West Virginia 2022-04-18 Denied Response Waived best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in…
21-203 John A. Mandacina v. Frederick Entzel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response Waived brady-claim brady-rule due-process due-process-clause evidence-withholding federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation 1. Did the court of appeals correctly conclude that petitioner's Brady claim fell outside the scope of the "savings clause" of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e). 2…
21-5124 Derrick Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause evidence-fabrication government-misconduct habeas-corpus miller-el-standard standing Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability had not "made a substantial showing of the denial of a const…
20-1792 Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-1426 Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s…
20-6415 Larry Antonio Burleigh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion carjacking categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability collateral-review due-process due-process-clause fourth-circuit inchoate-crime johnson-ii mandatory-sentencing Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of his motion to vacate his firearm convictions and mandatory se…
20-6039 Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds Does United States Postal Service Form 3811 Domestic Certified Returned Receipts demonstrating properly and timely filing of State and Federal Habeas …
20-468 Xpedite Systems, Inc. v. John J. Ficara, Acting Director, New Jersey Division of Taxation New Jersey 2020-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived apportionment commerce-clause deference due-process due-process-clause interstate-commerce revenue-reapportionment state-taxation tax-apportionment This Court has long held that State taxation of interstate commerce is only permissible where, among other factors, the tax is fairly apportioned to t…
20-5580 Kyle Phillips v. Florida Florida 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri…
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
19-1345 Jon Butcher v. Cady Vishniac Massachusetts 2020-06-05 Denied Response Waived defamation defamation-law due-process-clause first-amendment gertz-precedent gertz-v-robert-welch private-concern private-figure republication republication-doctrine 1. Does either the First Amendment or this Court's holding in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 341 (1974) impose any limitations upon common…
19-7574 Luis Beltran v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i…
19-7435 In Re Robert N. Brooks 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-clause fdic-insured fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment indictment-clause notice-clause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a manifest miscarriage of justice occurred on the face of Count One's conspiracy indictment to commit bank fraud in violation of the Grand Jur…
19-7126 Ronald Damon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of …
19-6917 In Re Sherri Jefferson 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination For fifty-three years under this Court's precedent in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967,) lawyers cannot be disbarred for exercising their privileg…
19-6635 Matthew Paul Borowski v. Kimberly Bechelli, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment judicial-remedial-structure judicial-remedies section-1983 section-2 standing ziglar-v-abbasi Is the judicial remedial structure created in Ziglar v. Abbasi constitutional under Article III, Section 2? Is the judicial remedial structure create…
19-6437 Lee E. Peyton v. California California 2019-10-31 Denied IFP confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment This Petition presents an issue of fundamental importance to all defendants facing criminal prosecution in California: whether the Sixth and Fourteent…
19-393 Estelle Stein v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure district-court due-process due-process-clause evidence evidence-submission federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure summary-judgment After a court of appeals vacated summary judgment in its favor, the Government filed a new summary judgment motion against a defendant taxpayer, with …
19-5970 Murad Razzaq v. Kansas Kansas 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime?
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review 1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe…
19-5644 Keith Stuart Cumbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure does-judicial-confession double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-confession legal-assistance legal-assistance-clause sixth-amendment without-prior-appointment-of-counsel without-waiver Despite lower court COA denial, should this Court consider, or remand for consideration, habeas claims: a. Does judicial confession in this case, with…
19-5404 Steven Hoff v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-first-degree-murder due-process due-process-clause evidence-code general-intent intent jury-instructions mistake-or-accident premeditation uncharged-misconduct uncharged-offense I. Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury is instructed that it can consider evidence regarding an uncharged, general intent offense in determ…
19-127 Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process due-process-clause emancipation local-government medical-providers minor-children parental-rights welfare-payments There are no U.S. Supreme Court cases on whether parental Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental c…
19-5212 Larey Douglas Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-amendments due-process due-process-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness state-court-proceedings state-habeas Did the AEDPA's 28§2254(e) legislation do away with Supreme Court precedent regarding the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause's entitlement to a full an…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court 1) Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process exis…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 50-51 (…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury (1). A Petitioner Rights to have a Witness in his favor is protected by the "Due Process of Law Clause" and the Fifth ,Sixth, Fourteenth, amendment. S…
18-9330 Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-9197 Earl Moore v. Stephen Kallis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender crime-of-violence descamps-v-united-states due-process due-process-clause mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states retroactivity saving-clause section-2241 stash-house-robbery statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states Earl Moore Found himself in the sights of what has become known as a sting operation. That is, Moore was sitting at home in great need of resources to…
18-8932 Vickie L. Sanders v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation 1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti…
18-8841 Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-access due-process due-process-clause employment-discrimination federal-employment-discrimination in-forma-pauperis pro-se-plaintiff property-right retaliation title-vii-litigation Whether or not the Due Process Clause also includes a substantive component that provides heightened protection for a property right of action vested …
18-1278 Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause STATE REGULATORY POLICE POWER 1. Whether the Due Process and Takings Clauses are violated when a state official utilizes a state regulatory police po…
18-8459 Wayne A. Bisso v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment blockburger-test common-law-marriage double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause estate-inheritance fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-theft property-rights Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a surviving spouse, who is factually and actually innocent, from being convicted a…
18-8348 Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review 1. The prejudice component of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), presents a mixed question of law and fact. Id. at 698. When a district co…
18-1026 William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by restraining free market trade and competition withou…
18-7489 Jurijus Kadamovas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied IFP 18-usc-1203 bond-v-united-states capital-case due-process-clause federal-authority hostage-taking international-terrorism recusal-standard statutory-interpretation treaty-power (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1203 should be interpreted in accordance with its underlying treaty and the principles in Bond v. United States, 572 U.S. 844 …
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment The first question for the Court is, in light of the Guidelines' development into the de facto range of punishment in all but a very small percentage …
18-6773 Tito Knox v. David Plowden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings Question not identified.
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP? IS THE DUE P…
18-538 Wendy A. Nora v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation Wisconsin 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process due-process-clause exculpatory-evidence fair-hearing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment lawyer-discipline petition-for-redress petition-rights procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a lawyer can be disciplined based on evidence known by the state to be false and when the state suppresses exculpatory evidence. Whether the …
18-532 Sixty-01 Association of Apartment Owners v. Penny D. Goudelock Ninth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived assessment-discharge bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-discharge chapter-13 chapter-13-bankruptcy community-association community-association-assessments due-process due-process-clause federalism fifth-amendment property-ownership ripeness-doctrine takings takings-clause 1. Does the Bankruptcy Code discharge community association assessments that accrue after the filing of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy even if the debtor ret…
18-402 Anna Pezhman v. Chanel, et al. New York 2018-09-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment court-denial due-process due-process-clause fraud fraud-motion judgment judgment-set-aside legal-pertinence misconduct misrepresentation motion-to-set-aside-judgment When dealing with a motion to set aside a judgment based on fraud, misconduct and misrepresentation, must a court proffer reasons for its denial or ca…
18-322 Steven A. Miner v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Illinois 2018-09-12 Denied attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline burden-of-proof clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process due-process-clause first-amendment misappropriation personal-relationships private-relationships professional-misconduct 1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against a lawyer must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and there is no positive evid…
18-5732 James LaConte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process-clause florida-robbery florida-robbery-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation victim-resistance violent-felony Whether Florida's State § 812.13 robbery offense that includes "as an element" the common law requirement of overcoming "victim resistance" is categor…
18-5470 Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with …
18-5384 Wendell Rivera-Ruperto v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP 8th-amendment due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment government-manipulation mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-manipulation sting-operation sting-operations Whether the Eighth Amendment forbids the creation of a de-facto mandatory life without parole sentence through stacking 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) charges for…
18-5275 Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment 1 Does Federal Courtdeferenceto an ex parte Judical Order, adapted from the Respondents Consolidaded Motion For Summary Judgment, resul incluims that …
18-84 ConAgra Grocery Products Company, et al. v. California California 2018-07-18 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) causation century-old-conduct civil-procedure due-process due-process-clause first-amendment injury massive-liability no-proof-of-injury public-nuisance retroactive-liability speech-liability 1. Whether imposing massive and retroactive "public nuisance" liability without requiring proof that the defendant's nearly century-old conduct caused…
24A1025 Rufus Rivers, et al. v. James Smith, Jr. South Carolina Presumed Complete due-process-clause gratuitous-possession judicial-creation-of-lease-terms landlord-tenant-relationship mutual-assent-and-consideration wrongful-eviction Question not identified.